Britain's What's On Event Guide
What's On and Things To Do Around Paddington
Today to Fri 20 Jul, by distance, closest first.
Paddington Covers Rock & Pop Legends - June 2018
Paddington Covers is back this summer with a super-hot line-up of your favourite artists’ tribute acts.
The Dolly Show and The Alter Eagles, cover bands for Dolly Parton and The Eagles, will take to the stage for the first time in Norfolk Square Gardens on Friday 29 June.
Norfolk Square Gardens, Paddington
Fri 29 Jun
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Landscape Photographer of the Year - Exhibition
The Landscape Photographer of the Year exhibition tour continues and you can see over 55 winning images from the latest Awards Book, Landscape Photographer of the Year - Collection 11, on display at Paddington station until 24 June. The exhibition will then move to London Charing Cross.
London Paddington Railway Station
Today to Sun 24 Jun
Wimbledon at Merchant Square Big Screen
Wimbledon is back on Merchant Square’s Big Screen on the Lawn.
There’s comfy deckchairs and blankets for you to relax and soak up the sun whilst sitting next to the canal, and a bar serving drinks throughout the event.
The Lawn, Merchant Square, Paddington Basin
Mon 2 Jul to Sun 15 Jul
Barclaycard British Summer Time
Undecided about whether to get that ticket for Saturday night?
Not to fear! StubHub have got it covered. We’re also pretty blown away by the staggering number of UK festivals and music tours on offer this Summer… so we’re making it that little bit easier for you to squeeze that extra gig in your schedule.
Hyde Park, London, LND, GB
Today
Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park - Roger Waters
Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park - Roger Waters. Artists performing: Roger Waters.: Tickets avaiable.
Hyde Park, London
Fri 6 Jul
Antiques Anonymous - Sunday flea market and antiques fair
Antiques Anonymous - Sunday flea market and antiques fair
Central London’s Church Street comes alive for the annual Antiques Anonymous Sunday Shopping spectacular.
Central London’s Church Street comes alive for the annual Antiques Anonymous Sunday Shopping spectacular. Expect a high quality mix of antiques, retro, vintage, decorative, books, vinyl records, interiors and fashion stalls, along Church Street, the antique shops and the legendary Alfies Antique Market and Rooftop Kitchen Terrace will be open throughout this extra special event.
Sun 24 Jun
Into The Woods
The Sondheim classic with a 21st century twist.
Produced by The Cockpit in collaboration with All Star Productions and Trilby Productions
After a sellout production in 2014 at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, we are delighted to bring you this comically dark masterpiece of a musical where well known fairy tales...
The Cockpit, Gateforth Street
Today to Sun 24 Jun
Into the Woods
This May, All Star Productions – Winner of the Best Producer in the Off-West End Awards 2018 – join forces with Trilby Productions to bring their fresh new adaptation of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods to The Cockpit.
The Cockpit
Today to Sun 24 Jun
Jazz In The Round
Organised Noise With Jazz FM’s Jez Nelson.
Every last Monday of the month we gather the finest musicians we can find and throw them together in a barrier busting night of contemporary music.
With Jez Nelson & Chris Phillips from Jazz FM.
The Cockpit, Gateforth Street
Mon 25 Jun
Blue Stockings
Happiness is love, is it? But what if you had to choose?
Between love and knowledge.
Which would you choose? A doting husband or a life of intellectual fire…
and you’re perfectly alone?
1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women.
The Cockpit, Gateforth Street
Thu 28 Jun to Sat 30 Jun
Young Herbert’s Horrors
A swashbuckling pirate adventure with a twist.
Produced and presented by Half Moon presents and Justin Coe
Hosted by The Cockpit
Young Herbert is a little horror.
The Cockpit, Gateforth Street
Sat 30 Jun
Pts Rajan and Sajan Misra - Afternoon Recital
Pts Rajan & Sajan Misra sing rags.
Produced and presented by The Asian Music Circuit
Hosted by The Cockpit
Join us for a recital by legendary vocalists from the holy city of Varanasi who have established themselves as the finest performers of the North Indian style of khyal but also sing exquisite bhajan, thumri...
The Cockpit, Gateforth Street
Sun 1 Jul
The Other Side Of The Sea
A solo opera on language, memory & identity.
Produced by Héloïse Werner
Presented by The Cockpit
The Other Side Of The Sea is a new one-woman opera about language, memory and identity.
The Cockpit, Gateforth Street
Mon 2 Jul
Theatre In The Pound
An evening of fifteen minute performances of new drama, writing, cabaret and all things theatrical.
Theatre In The Pound is an award winning evening of new theatrical shorts at The Cockpit.
The Cockpit, Gateforth Street
Mon 16 Jul
The Portman Marylebone Summer Street Party
On Thursday 19th July, annual calendar highlight, The Portman Marylebone Summer Street Party, returns to Seymour Place and New Quebec Street for the eighth consecutive year.
Seymour Place and New Quebec Street W1
Thu 19 Jul
Waltzes, Madrigals & Summer Songs - Royal Free Music Society Midsummer Concert
For our joyous midsummer concert, the RFMS choir will be performing a wonderful mix of waltzes, madrigals and love songs from across the ages. Many of the pieces, like Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer, draw their inspiration from folk melodies and poems.
St John’s Wood Church, London
Sat 23 Jun
Emergency Exit
Tyburn Gallery is pleased to present Emergency Exit, a solo exhibition by Wallen Mapondera. A multi-disciplinary artist who creates work through painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, Mapondera is best known for his complex wall sculptures which create richly textured abstract surfaces out of textiles and...
Tyburn Gallery, 26 Barrett Street
Today to Wed 4 Jul
The Holme - Open Garden for NGS
4 acre garden filled with interesting and unusual plants. Sweeping lakeside lawns intersected by islands of herbaceous beds. Extensive rock garden with waterfall, stream and pool. Formal flower garden with unusual annual and half hardy plants, sunken lawn, fountain pool and arbour.
The Holme, Regents Park
Sat 30 Jun, Sun 1 Jul, Sat 4 Aug, Sun 5 Aug
Japan House London opens on 22 June with The Flower Procession
Japanese Botanical Sculptor, Azuma Makoto, and his team visit cultural landmarks in London, scoping out locations for the upcoming Flower Messenger procession taking place on Friday 22 June.
Japan House, 101-111 Kensington High St, Kensington, London
Today
Adeline de Monseignat: ’O’
Ronchini Gallery is delighted to present ‘O’ the second solo exhibition of works by the artist Adeline de Monseignat at the gallery.
Ronchini Gallery
22 Dering Street
Fri 6 Jul
Bach to Baby Family Concerts in Notting Hill
Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers.
Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow.
St John’s Church Lansdowne Crescent Notting Hill
Tue 10 Jul
575 Wandsworth Road - House Tours 1 June-31 August 2018
An intimate guided tour of 575 Wandsworth Road is the only way to see this unique home of Khadambi Asalache, a Kenyan-born poet, novelist and civil servant who over the course of a twenty year period he turned his home into a work of art.
575 Wandsworth Road
Today, Sat 23 Jun, Fri 29 Jun to Sun 1 Jul, Fri 6 Jul to Sun 8 Jul, Fri 13 Jul to Sun 15 Jul, Sun 22 Jul, Fri 27 Jul, Sat 28 Jul
Bach to Baby Family Concerts in Kensington
Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers.
Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow.
St Stephens Gloucester Road Kensington
Wed 27 Jun, Wed 18 Jul
500 years of medicine. Today: Are teenagers really irrational?
On the face of it, teenagers can seem as though they behave irrationally and impulsively, taking excessive risks. Yet neuroscience reveals that something much more complex may be going on.
Royal College of Physicians, 11 Saint Andrews Place
Mon 2 Jul
Summer of architecture: four events exploring medicine & architecture
A season of events forming part of the London Festival of Architecture, and the college’s 500th anniversary:
Free London Festival of Architecture Museum Late
Thursday, 07 June 2018: 5-8pm (architectural tours from 6pm)
A chance to explore Denys Lasdun’s 20th century icon after hours and take a guided
Royal College of Physicians, 11 Saint Andrews Place
Sat 7 Jul