Fashion, Oscar worthy films, camellias, mid-winter revels, family fun and a birthday party for Rihanna.
All weekend
- London Fashion Week brings the world's most stylish to Somerset House and surrounds.
- Yarnfest spins tales across Shoreditch.
- Innovative scores and new renderings of music make up the ICA Live Weekend
- Oscar season starts at the Tricycle Cinema, Kilburn with a week celebrating their picks of the best submissions for the Foreign Language Film Academy Award®
- Chiswick House's first Camellia Festival begins on Saturday in their newly restored conservatory.
Friday:
- Yuck play Bush Hall tonight
- Museum of London's big Street Photography Exhibition opens today and celebrates with a late. Entry free and it's open till 9pm.
- Ava Vidal plays Soho Theatre tonight and Saturday with "Lessons I Should Have Learned". We hear she's good. Very good. 9.30pm, £13.
Saturday:
- Barbican's Family Film Club shows the Sound of Music with a handy interval midway. Art activities from 10am, film at 10.30am, £5/3.
- Still at Barbican, the LSO Discovery Family Concert takes you into the woods with Peter and the Wolf, "Hedwig's Theme" from Harry Potter and more. 2.30pm, tickets £4 7-12 year olds, adults £8.
- St John's Church, Waterloo Road SE1 (next to IMAX) invites you to a heritage event exploring local history with free soup and face painting and the opportunity to poke around their crypt from 11am to 1pm.
- The Betsey Trotwood 'awayday' takes over Holborn's Conway Hall with Winterlude: a folk and ale fuelled mid-winter revel!. First act 3.30pm, tickets £17.50. A pub priced bar will serve sausages and mead to accompany some excellent music.
- Spoonfed recommends Wiggle at Paramount — that club up top of Centre Point — for "acid house... energy and bounce". Tickets £15 advance, 11pm-8am.
Sunday:
- If you enjoyed Brixton Blog's post about local murals, get yourself to the Dogstar for 12.30 to hear Brian Barnes, who painted Nuclear Dawn, speaking about it 30 years on.
- Strictly Family Ballroom means the Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall with be awhirl with kids and their grown-ups, high on cake and dancing to a swing band. Free entry, 12.30-2pm.
- Say Happy 23rd Birthday Rihanna with a special party at Hoxton's Macbeth. Expect... lots of Rihanna. Free entry from 7pm.
Other good stuff:
- Want gigs? Read Music Choice
- Like literature? Consult the Book Grocer
- Feeling cultured? Absorb Arts Ahead
- Skint? You need London on the Cheap
You can also browse all the latest arts and events features and salivate over our latest food and drink content for gastronomic inspiration.
What did we miss? Let us know in the comments. And have a stonking time.
Photo of seasonal snowdrops at Kew Gardens, where you can also visit the Tropical Extravaganza, by Laura Nolte via the Londonist Flickrpool
