Festivals and events
Film, music and street festivals, fairs and parades.
Canary Wharf Summer Galas
Canada Square Park in Canary Wharf is hosting a free series of live shows this month called the Canary Wharf Summer Galas. Here's the schedule, they say no portable furniture is permitted.
Tin Pan Alley Festival 2007
Denmark Street, just off the Tottenham Court Road end of Charing Cross Road, has for decades been associated with music and musicians and is known as Britain's Tin Pan Alley, with music publishers…
Croydon Summer Festival
Lloyd Park in South London hosts the Croydon Summer Festival this weekend featuring events centred around two of London's largest ethnic groups, with the African Caribbean Family Festival taking…
Rise free music festival
An event sure to attract tens of thousands of people in London this coming weekend is the free music festival Rise:London United Against Racism taking place in Finsbury Park north London on Sunday 15…
Summer Swing at Kew
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in west London is the place to go for plant lovers in the capital with its gardens receiving around 1.5 million visitors a year.
Holloway Arts Festival
The month long Holloway Arts Festival is holding their Big Day Out this Saturday 7 July from 1.30pm-6pm in Whittington Park on the Holloway Road, just down from Archway.
Art Car Boot Fair 2007
If you're not caught up in this Sunday's weekend of sport in the UK what with Wimbledon reaching a climax, the Tour de France leaving London and everyone going Lewis Hamilton crazy at the British…
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
Hampton Court is the former royal palace about 10 miles to the southwest of central London, close to the River Thames about 2 miles from Teddington.
More London Free Music Festival
There's a month of open air free music events taking place this July in The Scoop, the sunken area on the banks of the Thames next London's City Hall.
The Incredible Veggie Show
The Royal Horticultural Halls in central London are holding The Incredible Veggie Show this Saturday 30 June, an event that promise's to tell you 'everything you ever wanted to know about being or…
Bikes only day in central London
Plans have been announced for a cycling event for the general public on the streets of central London where traffic will be banned for the day.
London celebrates Canada Day
1 July is Canada Day but London is holding its Canada Day celebrations this Friday 29 June in Trafalgar Square. The event begins at 12 noon with Dene Drums and runs until 9.45pm.
London Literature Festival 2007
The Southbank Centre is hosting the London Literature Festival 2007 from 29 June-12 July at its venues near Waterloo Bridge.
Music Festival Tickets
Tickets are still on sale for the Tower Music Festival , eleven nights of performances by some big name artists from the world's of rock, pop and opera all happening at the Tower of London, starting…
West End Live
West End Live is a free event organised by Westminster City Council happening this weekend, 23-24 June, in Leicester Square that showcases the best of West End theatre and some of the best tourist…
Greenwich & Docklands International Festival 2007
The Greenwich and Docklands International Festival is an annual showcase in London for some of the world's most spectacular street theatre, music and dance.
Peace One Day concert
Details of the lineup for a special gig at the Royal Albert Hall in September have been released.
Music Day 2007
Exhibition Road in Knightsbridge is home to some of London's most popular museums such as the V&A, Science and Natural History Museums as well as Imperial College, the Royal Geographical Society, the…
Carnival de Cuba
With luck the sun will be shining in London this weekend if only because Southwark Park is hosting the two day Carnival de Cuba , Europe's largest Cuban carnival.
iTunes Festival
London's Institute of Contemporary Arts(ICA) has got together with iTunes to stage the iTunes Festival at the ICA this July.
Marylebone Village Summer Fayre
The Marylebone Village area is one of the surprises you can find just off central London's busy and crowded streets.
Trooping the Colour
Every year on the 2nd or 3rd Saturday in June, the Trooping the Colour ceremony takes place on London's Horse Guards Parade.
City Hall open day
London's City Hall has one of its regular open weekends this week, all though this time its only opening up to the public on Sunday 17 June from 10am-5pm.
Waterloo Carnival and Music Series
As part of the Waterloo Quarter's Carnival and Summer Series every Friday for the next six weeks they'll be free live music performances in the area just south of Waterloo Station.
Household Cavalry Pageant 2007
Next Tuesday 12 June the first ever Household Cavalry Pageant will take place on Horse Guards Parade, a historical and ceremonial display by the two regiments of the Household Cavalry, the Life…
O2 Wireless Festival 2007
The four day O2 Wireless Festival is back in London's Hyde Park next week from 14-17 June.
London Map Fair
The London Map Fair is on this week from 8-9 June at the Olympia 2 exhibition centre in West London.
Spitalfields Festival 2007
Spitalfields is an area of London's East End, east of Liverpool Street and the Commercial Road and today is the start of its three week Spitalfields Festival featuring music and events at a range of…
Camden Green Fair and Bikefest 2007
On Sunday 3 June Regent's Park hosts one othe biggest annual green events in London, the Camden Green Fair and Bikefest 2007 .
BP Summer Series in London
The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden has got together with BP to put on the BP Summer Series , three live transmissions of opera and ballet productions from the stage at the Royal Opera House to…
Africa Day in London
This Bank Holiday Monday, 28 May, there's the first Africa Day celebration in London's Trafalgar Square.
Sorry Day UK 2007
I got an email from the European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights ( eniar ) giving details of Sorry Day UK 2007 .
London African Music Festival
The fifth London African Music Festival takes place this month featuring a whole range of musical styles that represent the estimated one million Africans who live in London.
Covent Garden May Fayre
The 32nd Annual Covent Garden May Fayre and Puppet Festival takes place on Sunday 13 May in St. Paul's Churchyard, opposite the Punch and Judy pub end of Covent Garden Market.
Dulwich Festival 2007
The Dulwich Festival was started in 1993 by a group of local volunteers with the aim of making 'a broad variety of artistic and cultural events easily accessible to all those who live, work, study…
Viva Film Festival
The Curzon Mayfair cinema is holding its Viva Film Festival starting this Sunday featuring some of the best Spanish and Latin films of the last couple of years.
Meltdown Festival tickets on sale
Tickets go on sale tomorrow for this year's Meltdown Festival taking place at the Royal Festival Hall in June.
London International Guitar Festival
The South Bank Centre is holding the International Guitar Festival from 5-7 May 2007 featuring gigs and workshops from some of the best international guitarists.
Breakin' Convention 2007
This coming weekend, 5-7 May, London's Sadlers Wells theatre is holding the Breakin' Convention 2007 , the biggest Hip Hop dance theatre festival in the world.
Vaisakhi festival in Trafalgar Square
Vaisakhi is the Sikh New Year Festival, the holiest time in the Sikh calendar. The actual Vaisakhi day is 13 April but this year the major London celebration is happening in Trafalgar Square, this…
London Guitar Show 2007
The London Guitar Show is on this week from 27-29 April at ExCel London, Europe's largest consumer show for guitars, amplification, acoustics, recording and accessories.
ANZAC Day in London
Tomorrow, 25 April, is ANZAC Day the annual commemoration of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who fought in World War 1 and those Australians and New Zealanders killed in wars since.
Camden Crawl 2007
If you're in London tomorrow night get up to Camden for the second night of the 2007 Camden Crawl where over 80 bands and solo artists perform at 15 venues and a single day all access pass costs…
French Film Festival 2007
The UK's annual French Film Festival takes place across the country in six cities, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Manchester and London from 15 April-6 May (although the London screenings only…
East End Film Festival 2007
The sixth annual East End Film Festival runs this month from 19-26 April. The festival describes its aims as trying to 'showcase a high quality range of new and contemporary films that explore the…
London music festival tickets
The UK now has dozens and dozens of summer music festivals, from monster events like Glastonbury which attract the biggest names to smaller alternative festivals.
The Celtic Heart Festival 2007
The Riverside Studios and Hammersmith Irish Centre are jointly hosting the Celtic Heart Festival of Irish music, film and art this month.
International documentary film festival at the Barbican
The Barbican Arts Centre in the City of London along with the group DocHouse is presenting a series of films this month as part of the Oxdox:MK International Documentary Film Festival .
Jazzwise festival
Music magazine Jazzwise is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a week of gigs in the Jazzwise 10th Birthday Festival at the Pizza Express Jazz Club on Dean Street in Soho.
The Tower Music Festival
Tickets are now on sale for the Tower Music Festival , a series of gigs spread over fifteen nights this summer at the Tower of London and featuring some of the biggest names in rock, pop and opera.
London Festival of Europe
The London Festival of Europe is an event running from 19-31 March that is organised by a cultural group called European Alterities which brings together philosphers, artists and political thinkers…
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival-London
Human Rights Watch organizes a number of film festivals around the world including ones in New York, San Francisco and Toronto.
London documentary film festival
This Saturday 17th March there's the first London International Documentary Festival taking place at the British Museum.
Free beer and wine tastings in London
If you're interested in expanding your knowledge and choice of alcoholic drink past the staple pint of lager, you might like to check out some free tastings going on this month at The Hide Bar in…
The Lord Mayor's Show
One of the quirks of London is that every year there's a huge parade through the streets of the City and I'm guessing about 99.5% of people couldn't tell you the name of the person all the attention…