What’s On

The latest from London — new openings, just-announced events, selling-out shows and everything worth knowing about this week in the city.

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The Revel Puck Circus Little Top from inside, two aerialists suspended above a round stage under a pink neon sign reading The Revel Puck Circus, audience all around

Quentin Blake’s wordless picture book CLOWN is becoming a circus show in Walthamstow this Christmas

A live orchestra playing beneath a large screen showing The Snowman, in the ornate domed hall at Battersea Arts Centre

A cinema screening where the dogs are the audience is coming to Battersea Arts Centre, with a live orchestra

A lone figure walking a curved, yellow-lit corridor deep inside the Clapham South deep-level shelter, bunk alcoves on either side

Hidden London’s first Halloween tour goes eleven storeys under Clapham South, into a wartime deep shelter

Shoppers walking through Camden Market's Hawley Wharf under strings of coloured bunting, brick arches on either side

Camden Market is starting a free vintage car boot sale, every Saturday from 3 October

Tens of thousands of illuminated white roses filling Duke of York Square at night, with Chelsea buildings lit behind

Chelsea’s garden of 30,000 glowing white roses is back, and every rose is dedicated to someone who has died

A young man in a cap and t-shirt appearing to float against a black background, a still from the Ascendance projection

A five-storey building beside a lake in Finchley opens to the public for the first time, for a free festival in November

A couple in vintage dress standing in front of a red classic convertible at the Classic Car Boot Sale

Mods, rockers and a Routemaster bar: the Classic Car Boot Sale takes over King’s Cross next weekend

Diwali - Mayor of London - photo credit © Greater London Authority

Halloween, art fairs and secret gardens: the best things to do in London in October 2026

A woman smiling from the driver's seat of a pink and white classic car surrounded by clothes rails

Things to do in London this weekend: what we’d actually do, 25-27 September 2026

A woman looking through a rail of vintage clothing in the arches at Coal Drops Yard

Things to do in London this week: what we’d actually do, 21-27 September 2026

A Negroni in a ribbed tumbler garnished with an orange wedge and a green olive, beside a small metal pot of olives on a zinc bar top

Negroni Week starts on Monday, but London has been at it all month, and the sixth one is free

Turner's watercolour Dawn after the Wreck, a pale yellow beach under a thin crescent moon with a single dog howling at the water's edge

Not one Georgia O’Keeffe hangs in a UK public collection. The Courtauld is bringing two dozen of them over in 2027

A packed crowd at the Roundhouse facing the stage under a shaft of spotlight, with Limitless Live projected on the wall behind

Little Simz and Kae Tempest played this room early. Eighteen more acts get their turn from October

A 1938 stock Underground train in red livery on the Piccadilly line, its destination blind reading Piccadilly Line Special Uxbridge, coming off a set of points

Churchill’s bunker, Holden’s brick drums and the branch that died at Aldwych: the Piccadilly line turns 120

Promotional still for Everest: The First Ascent showing a present-day visitor in a VR headset standing on a snow slope roped to a 1950s climber in a yellow down jacket carrying oxygen cylinders

Roped in behind Hillary and Norgay for 35 minutes: a Venice-selected Everest VR opens under Camden High Street

Amanda Barrie riding an orange IRN-BRU branded mobility scooter down a London street with a flag shaped like orange pants on the back, as a woman runs after her

£125 if you can catch a 91-year-old on a mobility scooter: IRN-BRU’s getaway grannies hit London on Friday

An ink and gouache drawing of a family crowded round a table loaded with cakes and blue and white crockery

£100 a ticket and everybody wins a painting: comedians are raffling off their own art in Hackney

London Design Biennale

Thousands of fresh flowers, fifteen Dianas and a £34 ticket: Fleurs de Villes opens at Somerset House on Wednesday

A man leafing through records at a Japanese-style listening bar

The man who co-wrote the book on Japanese jazz is DJing in Shoreditch for free, and you are expected to sit down and listen

The counter at Rocola on Mare Street, with high stools along a concrete bar facing the open kitchen under exposed ducting and concrete

Smoked eel boxty and venison heart bottarga: Lawrence Barrow has taken over Rocola until 3 October