Things To Do In London This Weekend: 5-7 October

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All weekend

Elefest fills Elephant and Castle with art, film, food, skating and gardening (free).
Ether music festival starts at the Southbank Centre — check out our preview and interview with GhostPoet.
It's Family Open Weekend at the London Transport Museum Depot in Acton, Saturday and Sunday 11am-5pm (£10/£8 adults, kids free).
Celebrate the Best of Britannia at the Farmiloe Building, Clerkenwell (tickets from £5).
Have a look at what's going on in your area for Black History Month.
Explore artists' open studios in NW10 and across Lambeth (free).
Drink at the Grape and Grain beer festival in Crystal Palace.
Dance Umbrella starts at Central St Martins with lots of 'brave new dance' - catch free performances of Melt Down in Granary Square on Sunday at 3.30pm, 4.30pm, 5.15pm, 6.00pm.
Check out UrbanPhotoFest.
Wimbledon Book Fest starts on Saturday.
Watch hyperlocal east end film at the 3 Mills Film Festival (tickets £8).
The Bicycle Film Festival screens two wheeled films at Barbican.
And it's the final weekend of Raindance Film Festival.

Saturday:

Last chance to visit Turner's Twickenham Villa, Sandycombe Lodge, before the spring, open from 10am-1pm (£4 entry).
Blackheath Morris Men's End Of Season Tour jigs round Greenwich, starting at Wetherspoons at 11am and finishing at their home pub, The Ashburnham Arms around 4pm.
The Grant Museum of Zoology is now open on Saturdays from 1-5pm (free).
Alpha-ville Presents Unfinity is an eclectic programme of moving image works starting at 4.15pm (tickets £8+bkg).
Across the road at Hackney Empire it's Alpha-ville LIVE exploring the relationship between electronic music and visual performance. (tickets from £17.50).
There are two special showings of Noise of Art's Psychedelic Magical Mystery Tour at Hackney Picturehouse at 8.30pm and 10pm plus appropriate music, DJs and visuals (tickets £12+bkg).

Sunday:

Drop by the London Orchard Festival at Camley Street Natural Park from 10.30am-7pm (free).
Visit Apple Day at Roots and Shoots, Kennington from 11am-4pm (adults £1, kids free).
Join the Hedgerow Harvest in the wildlife garden at the Natural History Museum from 12-5pm (free).

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