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All weekend
- It's a whizz, bang, pop weekend with fireworks displays and bonfires happening in nearly every borough.
- The Natural Circuits Barbican Weekender is two days of free digital fun at your favourite brutalist arts centre and you might even get into the Rain Room if you're patient.
- Whale of a Time festival celebrates the oceans and rainforests at Birkbeck with talks, films, discussions and eco-art (register for free tickets).
- The Ski and Snowboard Show is at Earl's Court 2 (tickets from £18 in advance for adults, kids £5).
- Comica is on, head for Gosh! Comics on Saturday for painting and drawing instore between 1-5pm and to Foyles to talk about sex on Sunday (£8).
- The Affordable Art Fair is on Hampstead Heath (tickets £12). Crawl the best pubs in the area while you're out.
- Whether you like your film Russian, Korean, Czech, African, Azerbaijani, Québécois or Jewish there's a film festival for you.
- Last chance to: see the very fun dance show Flash Mob at the Peacock Theatre, do family adventure The Good Neighbour at Battersea Arts Centre, join the Moscow State Circus on Clapham Common, be horrified in Soho Theatre with Terror 2012 and enjoy diverse horrible and funny Halloweeny things at the 13th Hour Horror Festival.
Saturday:
- The Regent Street motor show parks up over 300 vintage, modern and futuristic cars on the busy shopping street from 10.30am-4pm (free).
- Canary Wharf Ice Rink opens for seasonal skating from 9.45am (one hour session tickets £12.50 for adults, £8.50 children).
- Introduce your little ones to art with a day of Tiny Tate activities at Tate Britain from 10am to 5pm (free).
- Browse the Antiquarian Book Fair at Chelsea Old Town Hall and take a guided James Bond book tour between 11am and 5pm (register for a pair of free tickets)
- Join Rainton’s Pageant and walk from Enfield Town to Forty Hall Estate (Nicholas Rainton was owner of Forty Hall when he was Lord Mayor of London in 1632) to enjoy a “festival of fire and light” between 5-8pm (free).
- "London's cosiest literary night" Bookstock returns to the Green Man pub Great Portland Street and Christopher Fowler of the Bryant and May detective novels is among the writers discussing their work from 7.30pm (tickets £7).
Sunday:
- We Make London wants you to start your Christmas shopping and support local makers and designers at Chelsea Town Hall from 11am to 5pm (entry £2).
- Finish off half-term with the family barn dance at Cecil Sharp House from 3-5pm (adults £5, kids £3).
- Portishead's Dummy is the subject of Classic Album Sunday at the Hanbury Arms, Islington from 5pm (£6 on the door).
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