What's On Whitechapel

A Festival for the Creative Industries. D&AD Festival is a three-day creative spectacular celebrating the world’s best advertising and design, hosted in the heart of London’s east end. Festival passes are now on sale.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Electric Star Pubs, the original site of the pub group, the Star of Bethnal Green, will be hosting 10 events in celebration. Fancy a pint? Join the mind behind the brewery and be one of the first to preview the new Star Beer, launched in collaboration with Camden Brewery.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Electric Star Pubs, the original site of the pub group, the Star of Bethnal Green, will be hosting 10 events in celebration. Always fancied being the best Gin and Tonic connoisseur?

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Electric Star Pubs, the original site of the pub group, the Star of Bethnal Green, will be hosting 10 events in celebration. To celebrate The Star of Bethnal Green’s 10th Birthday we’re kickstarting the Roasted Sundays At Smokey series.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Electric Star Pubs, the original site of the pub group, the Star of Bethnal Green, will be hosting 10 events in celebration. The cosy walls of London’s favourite party boozer grow ever more enticing as the nights draw in...

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Electric Star Pubs, the original site of the pub group, the Star of Bethnal Green, will be hosting 10 events in celebration. Join us for a karaoke night to relive some of the greatest 90s classics, and together we will hip hop hippity hop.

Breaking the usual conventions, Balance isn’t just your next large-scale fitness and wellness festival, it’s a movement. The festival brings together progressive Londoners, united by their shared values to achieve a healthier way of living: challenge, positivity and a constant thirst to better themselves.

Four day exhibition curated by Classic Football Shirts in support of the Bobby Moore Fund and Football Shirt Friday (Cancer Research UK). With over 500 of the best and most unique football shirts on display and donation points with proceeds going to a great cause.

An Evening with Deva Mahal. Artists performing: Deva Mahal.: Tickets avaiable.

The Grand Union Orchestra tours nationally and internationally, but has always been  based in East London. The regular Bengal to Bethnal Green programme therefore has a special place in its heart!

Korean Cultural Centre UK, Korea Creative Content Agency and Rich Mix are proud to present The K-Music Showcase featuring the award nominated bands 3rd Line Butterfly, Gonne Choi and Billy Carter. Since 2015, The K-Music Showcase has presented exciting Korean bands to London audiences.

Following a highly successful run at Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Theatre Re’s The Nature of Forgetting now launches an exciting international tour. It is a powerful, explosive and joyous piece about what is left when memory and recollection are gone.

Traveling fairs have always had an air of other-worldliness to them. Seen as a venue for the pursuit of pleasure, fairgrounds allowed different aspects of society a place to mingle and participate in a multitude of vices.

The Chang Sensory Trails is a free to enter, event coming to London on the 12th of May, and aims to deliver ‘the unexpected’ by introducing the world to a modern, refreshing take on Thai food, art and music.

Join Owly-cat and fellow family members, Jumblie and Quangle Wangle Quee, in a story inspired by the nonsense world of Edward Lear. The spongetaneous trio travel to the dolomphious land where the bong tree grows, learning all about the creatures who live there and their curious habits.

Get a feel of how to make the hottest hip-hop beats like P.Diddy, Pharell Williams and Kanye West! Not only will you learn how to make a beat, you will also be taken back in time to understand the history of hip-hop music production.

London Speed Dating About Speed Dating in London Events At one of our London Speed Dating events, you will have four minutes to chat to each date, Four minutes is long enough to see if you click with the person you are talking to and whether you would like to see them again and also short enough if you

London Speed Dating How speed dating in London works A great event to go to is Speed Dating in London. How it works is our friendly professional hosts will greet you and they will settle you in by briefly explaining the format of the Speed Dating evening.

London Speed Dating How speed dating in London works A great event to go to is Speed Dating in London. How it works is our friendly professional hosts will greet you and they will settle you in by briefly explaining the format of the Speed Dating evening.

‘Mayday’ distress calls are something the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) charity is used to responding to any time, day or night. 4,800 volunteer crew members from 238 lifeboat stations across the UK and Ireland are on standby to drop everything in an instant to save lives on waterways and at sea.

Series of seven floating barge gardens connected by walkways and bridges. Gardens have an eclectic range of plants for yr-round seasonal interest. Marine environment: suitable shoes and care needed. Small children must be closely supervised.

This new exhibition explores Tower Bridge’s historic connection to Bridge House Estates, the ancient institution that finances Tower Bridge and four other central London bridges.

The healing power of time and nature are captured in stunning landscape images of the battlegrounds of the First World War.

Heading to London for the first and only time, ‘Sublime Symmetry: The Mathematics Behind William De Morgan’s Ceramic Designs’ (11 May - 28 October 2018) is a free exhibition at City of London Corporation’s Guildhall Art Gallery, celebrating the work of acclaimed Victorian ceramic artist William De Morgan.

Split Britches present an up-to-the minute topical interactive show which takes unexploded ordnances as a metaphor for the unexplored potential in us all - particularly elders – and tries to uncover it.

Spectacular show for toddlers returns in 2017. Bring your toddler along to a sound and light show in which they are the participants.

A sensory show with captivating images and intriguing sounds that will keep your little ones rapt. Ages strictly 6-18 months. From the makers of Scrunch and Seesaw, this brand new show is a great first trip to theatre for the really young. Time for a walk, better wrap up warm. Poppers, buttons, zips.

We’re performing our Patchwork Requiem in London as part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival. We’ve woven together a Patchwork Requiem made up of movements from well-loved and beautiful works by the widest range of composers. There really is something for everyone!

We’d love you to join us for this fantastic fundraising Sponsored Walk at the heart of the City of London. This family friendly event will be a fantastic day packed with activities, challenges, pop up exhibitions, musical performances, guided tours and many more adventures along the way!

This two day intermediate to advanced training course will provide delegates with a comprehensive understanding of the new United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requirements, by combining theory with practice and by incorporating interactive learning elements.

SECURITIES FINANCING TRANSACTION REGULATION 26TH APRIL 2018, LONDON, UK

MIFID II: STRATEGIC COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE 27TH APRIL 2018, LONDON, UK

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.

Celebrate the powerful role of inter-generational learning through creative collaboration and freedom of expression. Come and join us to create an imaginary city! Construct large and small-scale buildings using cardboard, wooden bamboo canes and other interesting materials.

Generate meaningful experiences with art and process through playful experimentation with light and shadow. Immerse yourself in a process-driven architectural floor piece that spans the entire space.

Celebrate the powerful role of inter-generational learning through creative collaboration and freedom of expression. Get the chance to experiment with printed texts to create striking designs for urban interventions using the techniques of collage, photo weaving and mosaic.

We all take the simple birth certificate for granted, but there’s more to look at than most of us think. In this talk, Anthony Marr explains the hidden information appearing in plain sight on a certificate and how to fully decode this most basic of family history sources.

In this half-day course, Simon Fowler describes the sources available for tracing family in the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy, for the period before World War I. Simon covers how to find the records, how to read them and how to understand them.

The London Borough of Ealing, covering a large area in West London, was named Queen of Suburbs in 1902. During its history it has incorporated other boroughs, often those with an industrial character in contrast to Ealing’s chiefly residential nature.

In this half-day course, Laurie Page examines the sources and shows how to find ancestral occupations, including examples of records. Laurie describes the history of milling and the different types of mills that existed.

At the Society of Genealogists, we’re passionate about family history. Since we started in 1911, we’ve been collecting family history documents, long before the arrival of local record offices - even typewriters were new.

In this half-day course, get a glimpse into the criminal lives of our ancestors. Antony Marr, a professional genealogist and Pharos tutor, looks at the records of courts, criminals, police, prisons and punishment through the 19th century.

Family Historian is a powerful, award-winning genealogy program, with comprehensive features designed to meet the needs of anyone new to family history research as well as the needs of experts. In this full-day workshop, John Hanson provides an overview of Family Historian version 6.

There’s nothing more exciting for a family historian than to find a document belonging or relating to one of their ancestors. With our extensive and ever growing collections, many more people are making these discoveries. The Society of Genealogists was founded in 1911.

In this one-hour talk, Mike De Lara takes a brief look at Roman law and its effect on Spain today. He then discusses the Golden Age and modern Spanish genealogy.  There are no special entry requirements for this talk and you do not need to be a Member of the Society of Genealogists to attend.

Join this practical workshop to get the best use of The National Archives website. Simon Fowler is a professional researcher, who spends many hours each day trying to make sense of TNA website. He looks at the website’s highlights, including the Discovery catalogue and the research guides.

The Religious Society of Friends began as a movement in England in the mid-17th century in Lancashire. Members are informally known as Quakers, as they were said "to tremble in the way of the Lord".

3TEETH Plus Creepiing. Artists performing: 3TEETH.: Tickets avaiable.

A selection of guest traders from the Asparagus Growers Association will be setting up shop at Borough Market on 3rd and 4th May, selling the very best English asparagus, marking the beginning of the short but sweet growing season of this much loved product.

“Dragons come when you least expect it. You turn round…and they’re there.” Lots of people get them; bad dreams, swirly tummy, feeling prickly. And sometimes they make you feel alone. So, what can a young child with a bad case of the dragons do?