| Saturday 18th September |
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| A heritage day of events throughout Ewell Village including Bourne Hall, the Watch House and The Grove |
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| Over forty vintage and futuristic vehicles will mark London’s world of wheels, as the Sheriffs and ritually robed Carmen brand each ‘cart’ with a red-hot iron – the origin of vehicle licensing. |
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| Roughly monthly open day at a most unusual museum in an old barn. |
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| A street festival that will host a series of activities, workshops, live music, film screenings and performances. |
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| A weekend festival of talks, performances, workshops, food and music, exploring home and belonging. |
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| Visit the British Museum for a day of performances, workshops, talks, demonstrations and games to celebrate Chuseok – the Korean harvest festival. |
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| Features up to 30 stalls - selling a good variety of Bus and Railway items. |
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| Members of Second Floor Studios & Arts community will open their workspace doors allowing the public to enter, view, and purchase original works of art |
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| Bermondsey Street Festival is an annual celebration of music, dance, arts, cuisine and creativity |
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| Climb the 80 steps to the Ringing Chamber where you can see demonstrations of the ringing of church bells. |
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| Come and visit this green oasis in an urban setting it is a one of the many local green lungs in Forest Hill where you can find some interesting wildlife. |
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| Sunday 19th September |
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| A weekend festival of talks, performances, workshops, food and music, exploring home and belonging. |
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| A note that there will be a flypast over East and Central London, likely to be by vintage aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. |
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| Members of Second Floor Studios & Arts community will open their workspace doors allowing the public to enter, view, and purchase original works of art |
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| Open day with demonstrations, look around a fire engine, and use the fire hoses. |
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| Big garden for London, thickly enclosed by ivy, roses and jasmine, crowded with plants, many unusual |
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| Join Suresh Singh and Bishopsgate Institute archivist Stefan Dickers to reflect on being born and bred in Brick Lane. |
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| Carl Hoffman will talk about his book – Savage Harvest - The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 |
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| Monday 20th September |
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| This talk will explore the quirky, social and scientific history behind this iconic skyline structure. |
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| This talk will explore the quirky, social and scientific history behind this iconic skyline structure. |
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| This lecture looks at new results from the UAE’s Hope mission, China’s Tianwen-1 and NASA’s Perseverence. |
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| Archivist Susan Snell and Prof. Colin Jones, discuss the life and times of pioneering dentist and freemason Bartholomew Ruspini. |
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| There is a web of sites around the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, Cornwall, that are often seen as places where the veil between the worlds is thin. |
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| Tuesday 21st September |
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| This talk will explore the development of the house and its collections. |
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| Examining the old, dark, scary and more serious world of traditional British and Irish peoples who lived alongside fairies, elves, gnomes. |
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| Wednesday 22nd September |
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| Interested in Art History? Discover ways to approach the subject at the British Museum. |
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| The talk will present the work completed on the redevelopment of the Shell Centre in Waterloo. |
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| This lecture will introduce this series about these early missionary projects; why they mostly failed; and why they still matter. |
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| Join us at Stanfords as we welcome the Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Wilson as he talks about his latest book Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention. |
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| A talk on the eventful life and career of the late, great and quintessentially British film star David Niven. |
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| The Age of Genius explores the intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell the story of the 17th century in Europe. |
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| Thursday 23rd September |
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| Occasional open days at the overflow depot where the London Transport Museum stores its trains and most of its unseen collection. |
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| Prof. Pratik Chakrabarti will explore how the complex world of nature came to define the intellectual pursuits of British natural history. |
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| An online event with London mudlark Lara Maiklem and historian Dr Emily Cockayne |
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| Join us on Zoom as Lara and Emily discuss Refuse, Reusue and Scavenging on the Thames Foreshore Lara Maiklem, author of Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames and A Field Guide to Larking: |
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| Now that two decades have passed since the disaster of September 11th, 2001, and a new World Trade Center rises on the site, we can begin to remember what the original was like — “a city-within-a-city” that housed 50,000 employees. |
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| Historian Owen Davies will examine a panoply of macabre medical curiosities. |
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| For one night only, Illuminated River artist Leo Villareal will programme a dazzling light display on nine bridges across the Thames. |
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| Friday 24th September |
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| Occasional open days at the overflow depot where the London Transport Museum stores its trains and most of its unseen collection. |
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| An annual parade by the pupils and marching band of Christ's Hospital. |
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| Listen to Illuminated River lighting designers, Jonathan Gittins and Elga Neimann, discuss the delivery of the world's longest public artwork. |
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| This talk will look at how depictions of African people in British and Irish heraldry have changed over time |
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| Kate MccGwire is joined by Catriona McAra to explore the themes of the feminine grotesque that have come to characterize MccGwire's work |
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| Saturday 25th September |
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| A day of vintage shopping, bringing vintage traders selling fashion, menswear, jewellery, homeware, furniture, posters, maps, vinyl records, collectables and more |
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| A street party to celebrate the opening of the Northern line extension to Battersea. |
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| Occasional open days at the overflow depot where the London Transport Museum stores its trains and most of its unseen collection. |
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| Occasional open day at a railway cutting nature reserve in Forest Hill. |
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| Exhibitions closing shortly |
| The Royal Society of Sculptors annual Summer Exhibition returns, featuring a curated selection of works from members and fellows. (Ends on Sat, 18th Sep) | | Embrace the wonderfully weird world of plant biodiversity through newly commissioned interactive art installations using music, sound and colour. (Ends on Sun, 19th Sep) | | An exciting new force in painting, Michael Armitage draws from Titian, Goya, Manet and Gauguin to explore East African culture and folklore. (Ends on Sun, 19th Sep) | | An exhibition exploring the phenomena of skateboarding and the impact of its culture and communities on the UK over the past 45 years. (Ends on Sun, 19th Sep) | | Made in the spring of 2020, during a period of intense activity at his home in Normandy, this exhibition charts the unfolding of spring, from beginning to end, and is a joyous celebration of the seasons. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | This summer, Kensington Gardens will host Van Gogh Alive, an immersive “experience” based around the life and work of the Dutch artist. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | An exhibition about the 20th century’s most influential floral decorator, Constance Spry. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | Experience colour like never before in an exhibition that celebrates the spectacular shades of the natural world. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | Enjoy works from Quentin Blake from two emotive series, Children and Dogs, and Children, Birds & Dogs. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | The exhibition showcases the people and places in Harrow who have contributed to preserving Harrow’s natural spaces. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | The first major show of art by French post-war painter Olivier Debré in 44 years, bringing together some 30 oils and works on paper. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | This exhibition looks at the Cold War and its effect on cultural practices in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region, which generated one of the most fertile periods in the history of Arab culture and publishing. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | Discover the story of Ai-Da, the world’s first convincing humanoid robot capable of creating artworks. (Ends on Wed, 29th Sep) | | Original artworks and illustrations from his booklets, inspired by the art in the Painted Hall, will be on display. (Ends on Thu, 30th Sep) | | An exhibition exploring the concept of Eden through Art & Islamic Garden Design (Ends on Thu, 30th Sep) | | An analogue journey through unseen footage, unpublished articles and original synthesizers with one of electronic music's pioneering groups. (Ends on Thu, 30th Sep) | | Reverberations is an immersive sound installation, produced by sound artist Wajid Yaseen, that uses transducer speakers to resonate through the bookshelves of one of London’s oldest radical bookshops. (Ends on Fri, 1st Oct) | | Inspired by artist Anna Ray’s Huguenot ancestors who settled in Spitalfields as textile makers in the 18th century, the exhibition, On Tenterhooks explores the past and present of textile making. (Ends on Fri, 1st Oct) | | This exhibition is an intense investigation of a place half-remembered and half-remade by fantasy - both the artist's own and those protruding, live and dead, from the past. (Ends on Sat, 2nd Oct) | | The largest solo museum exhibition to date in London of the internationally recognised French artist JR, featuring some of his most iconic projects from the past fifteen years. (Ends on Sun, 3rd Oct) | | Running parallel to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, this exhibition features more than 200 of the best botanical artwork and garden photography (Ends on Sun, 3rd Oct) | | This new collection focuses on Gail’s monochrome linocuts, which are re-workings of some of her earlier, favourite colour prints. (Ends on Sun, 3rd Oct) |
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