Events Around London

With more than six hundred world-renowned musicians and one hundred horses, performing in London’s finest setting, the 2019 Household Division Beating Retreat is a spectacle not to be missed.

Regency-era garden forming part of John Nash’s development. Restored in 2011, the garden retains much of its 19th-century character. One of 130+ gardens taking part in Open Garden Squares Weekend.

Internationally acclaimed wildlife artist and Wild Card winner for Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2019, Hannah Shergold, will exhibit her beautiful original paintings of African wildlife including cheetah, elephants, lions and wolves, as well as UK wildlife such as mountain hares and grouse.

Programme: CPE Bach – Sinfonia No. 2 Corelli – La Follia Telemann – Viola Concerto Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Indulge in the works of four giants of the baroque era - CPE Bach, Corelli, Telemann, and Vivaldi.

This media training is unique and exclusive. You will spend one full day with three media experts and will understand all the secrets of media and publicity. This day will create a huge positive impact in your business.

Shrek’s Adventure! London is opening its doors for an after hours, adults only tour of Far Far Away on 24th May.

This May, a spectacle of colour will arrive at SEA LIFE London when the UK’s largest living coral reef is unveiled in the new Coral Kingdom. Measuring a colossal 40ft long, a unique and specially commissioned tank will reveal an awe-inspiring underwater coral reef habitat.

Come face to face with the capital’s most infamous characters, only at the London Dungeon this May half-term 27 May – 2 June 2019 May 2019: This May half-term, The London Dungeon is daring traitors and miscreants alike to navigate their way through the capital’s most perilous past.

DSWF is a leading conservation charity founded by the acclaimed British artist David Shepherd; one of the worlds’ most well-known conservationists and wildlife artists.

Peers and MPs are putting brawn before brains in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support’s 33rd legendary Tug of War event. A firm favourite in London’s social calendar, this year’s event is taking place on June in the Westminster Abbey College Gardens, and will be compèred by BBC Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar.

Thames Clippers is celebrating 20 years of operation and everyone is invited to join in the fun. London’s leading River Bus service will be giving away 200 gifts – worth a total of over £6,000 - to lucky passengers travelling aboard the speedy catamarans on Friday, 24 May.

Hamlet is back from university; back home to a restless little island hanging on to the edge of Europe. Everything has changed; his country is in crisis; his father murdered; and his uncle, a right-wing strongman, has seized power. Amidst all the chaos his mother has committed the ultimate betrayal.

Having blown Edinburgh’s mind, the multi-award-winning Queen of Weimar punk kabarett Bernie Dieter (star of La Clique) took Little Death Club to Adelaide picking up the ‘Best Cabaret’ weekly award on its way.

Miss Kiddy and the Cads - the UK’s hottest vintage musical extravaganza - returns to The Underbelly Festival for a night of Hollywood glamour, sensational music and extreme vintage decadence. Miss Kiddy turns back the clock on every performance to a time of style and sass..

Will Petruchio jack it all in and stay a bachelor? Will Kate be tamed or tanked? Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® returns to Leicester Square Theatre with their drunken antics and drunken actors to tell the tale of a shrew who turns from tempestuous to tamed, probably.

Feeling different, teased by his friends and not accepted by his family, the Ugly Duckling is sad and lonely. Through a series of adventures he soon learns who he really is and his family realises it doesn’t matter what you look like but how good your heart is.

How to be Human: The Show is coming to London to answer every question you’ve ever had about evolution, thoughts, emotions, the body, addictions, relationships, sex, kids, the future and compassion.

Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce Five Decades of Sculpture, an exhibition of British artist Bruce McLean’s work spanning 1967 to 1994. Five Decades of Sculpture presents some of McLean’s key works, including painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking.

The West End’s newest chamber music series, Piccadilly Chamber Concerts returns in 2019, focusing on ‘The Great Romantics’. Each programme features a great 19th century Romantic masterpiece.

By the 19th century the cult of the artist had been well and truly established, resulting in a great desire by patrons, collectors and fellow artists to record and also own representations of creative genius.

Come along to the museum to meet Miss Nightingale.  She’ll tell you how she got her name, why she fought to become a nurse and how she improved the conditions for soldiers and nurses during the Crimean War. Find out why she became known as The Lady with the Lamp and see the actual light she carried.

Calling all future nurses and doctors, this May half term we will be opening our first teddy bear hospital at the Florence Nightingale Museum plus come and meet Florence Nightingale. Meet Miss Nightingale 25 May Performances at 11.30am, 1.

Come and meet Miss Nightingale and hear all about how she became known as the ‘Lady with the Lamp’. Find out how she became a nurse against her parents’ wishes, why she went to the Crimea War and how she improved the conditions for the soldiers and nurses.

It is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, and issues such as repression, rejection and suicide remain major topics that need to be tackled and further highlighted.

Spencer House is London’s most magnificent eighteenth-century private palace, built between 1756-1766 for the First Earl Spencer, ancestor of Diana Princess of Wales. Diana officially reopened the House in 1991, following the restoration of the State Rooms under the Chairmanship of Lord Rothschild.