Check out this week's alternative guide to what's on in London. | Yeup - it's late this week, sorry!
Not much on next week alas, but do check out the exhibitions that are closing soon. | = Event is free of charge | | = Pre-Booking required. |
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| Saturday 28th December | | | | Mince pie cruises operate in December, on selected dates before and after Christmas | | | | A regular(ish) event, but highlighting as the backstage tours of the Barbican theatre will run over the Christmas break if you fancy something a bit different | | | | Sunday 29th December | | | | Mince pie cruises operate in December, on selected dates before and after Christmas | | | | They hold regular tours of the grounds on select Sundays throughout the year | | | | Monday 30th December | | | | Mince pie cruises operate in December, on selected dates before and after Christmas | | | | Two steam museums will have their engines working, and are offering a joint ticket with vintage bus ride between them | | | | A regular(ish) event, but highlighting as the backstage tours of the Barbican theatre will run over the Christmas break if you fancy something a bit different | | | | Tuesday 31st December | | | | Two steam museums will have their engines working, and are offering a joint ticket with vintage bus ride between them | | | | A regular(ish) event, but highlighting as the backstage tours of the Barbican theatre will run over the Christmas break if you fancy something a bit different | | | | Wednesday 1st January | | | | More than 8,000 performers, representing 20 nations, will fill the West End with culture, colour, entertainment, and music | | | | Hundreds of trains across the UK will sound their horns and whistles at noon on New Years Day to mark the 200th anniversary of the first passenger railway. | | | | Thursday 2nd January | | | | Friday 3rd January | | | | Explore the history of the British Army through the fascinating lens of facial hair, with National Army Museum expert Julian Farrance | | | | Saturday 4th January | | | | The Christmas holiday in the UK now lasts only two days and three nights, but in Tudor England and Wales everyone stopped work for 12 whole days and had fun along with the religious celebrations | | |
| Exhibitions closing shortly | | Visit The Gingerbread City and discover a sweet futuristic city constructed from gingerbread, candy, and frosting along side real architectural building models, all designed and built by 50+ architect (Ends on Sun, 29th Dec) |
| Explore a never-before-seen collection of original props, vehicles, and costumes (Ends on Mon, 30th Dec) |
| Come and celebrate the story of carnival in Hackney in this new exhibition bringing together this history for the first time (Ends on Tue, 31st Dec) |
| Feeling nostalgic for Christmas presents past? Visit our Time Tunnel to unwrap the gift of memory this winter! Explore your favourite classic and contemporary household packaging, toys, magazines, war (Ends on Thu, 2nd Jan) |
| An exhibition by the award winning photojournalist show casing twenty-five images from across his legendary career (Ends on Thu, 2nd Jan) |
| Photography versus Thatcher: The Photo Co-op Archive, prints and objects, 1979 to 1986 – Photofusion’s origin story tells the story of the early years of the Photo Co-op, the founding organisation (Ends on Sat, 4th Jan) |
| Taiwanese artist Huang Po-Chih uses the personal narratives of workers to investigate globalised trade, with a focus on the textile industry in East Asia (Ends on Sun, 5th Jan) |
| A world of inventive, immersive and multisensory installations and sculptures that weave connections between disparate histories, cultures and traditions (Ends on Sun, 5th Jan) |
| In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings (Ends on Sun, 5th Jan) |
| A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years (Ends on Sun, 5th Jan) |
| Unravel the epic story of birds, discover the secrets to their success and learn some of their surprising and often shocking tactics for survival (Ends on Sun, 5th Jan) |
| Sidney Sime was a painter, illustrator and caricaturist (Ends on Sun, 5th Jan) |
| Explore poetry off the page in Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut solo exhibition, where poems exist as sculpture, objects and textiles (Ends on Sun, 5th Jan) |
| Showcasing over 300 rare prints from 140 photographers, this exhibition is a major presentation of twentieth and twenty-first century photography on loan from the private collection of Sir Elton John (Ends on Sun, 5th Jan) |
| Serial Killer: The Exhibition in London explores the Serial Killer phenomenon from a historical, educational, and scientific perspective (Ends on Sun, 5th Jan) |
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