Festivals
We're going back to Londinium this August
Get ready for serious eating.
Some traders are unsure if they'll come back.
Did we get your favourite?
A history of heartache and hooliganism.
Winter Wonderland goes east.
There's this thing called Euro 2016 or something?
A scary number of events.
Picture-perfect picturehouses.
Alternative ways to spend the last night of the year.
May Day or Doctor Who, cake or canals?
Your guide to the 11th edition.
Why stay in with the Queen and Doctor Who?
Food, booze, vinyl and pants.
St George and the Marathon.
Races, restaurants and a recipe.
You want a festival in London? We got it.
Chocolate, chocolate everywhere.
A few ideas that go beyond swigging the black stuff.
Comedy, classics and romance are all on offer.
'Ave a proper cockney knees-up.
Free film screenings in south London.
2016 is the year of the safety pin.
And it's not just all about the reggae.
Spot of Shakespeare, or swing with style.
Food and beer for veggies, vegans and the v-curious.
Highly recommended family light show.
Independence Day fun around the capital.
Pretty lights all over town.
Missed the whizzbangs? Never fear.
OK, it's a long way off, but this is going to be HUGE.
A visual treat before it closes for development.
Solar-powered cinema and emergency poetry.
Iron Bru sorbet and haggis burgers.
Explore the city with talks, walks and more.
Science, theatre and the obligatory Easter egg hunts
Bit cash strapped? We've things to do for under £5.
First festival of its kind in London.
What's open and what they're serving.
Dinner and dancing, poetry and partying.
Boats, buskers and book launches.
Book ahead for these fashionable events.
Our pick of the best summer shindigs.
South London's answer to the Ally Pally waterslide
Banquet, unlimited drinks and 10% off tickets.
City-sourced food, edible gardens and a chilli festival.
Festival season starts this weekend - ours is a cider please
2014 Proms season goes on sale this weekend.
Plus load of people dressed like PSY.
Crack the codes to the Pharaoh's Chamber.
The costumes, the crowds, the cloudbursts.
Ride round central London without the traffic.
Find your sea legs at Greenwich and Woolwich this Bank Holiday.
Tickets on sale now for Christmassy shows.
Lounge on the grass and listen to jazz for free.
The Year of the Sheep is coming.
Three days of the good stuff in Islington.
Douze points or nul points?
Garner your festive spirit.
Movies for zero pence in unusual locales.
The best (and the more dubious) from May-November.
Free one-day festival with food and choons.
Rare chance to see inside landmark brutalist building.
An idyllic garden and pop-up catwalk.
Nine days of inspiration for the house and garden.
Celebrate the Year of the Monkey with your little monkeys.
Special event celebrates redhead power.
Events kick off tomorrow.
Find the best Super Bowl bash in the Capital.
Climb down a well and explore the Tower of London beach.
This year's programme is out of this world.
Goldfrapp, Russell Watson and Jools Holland hit SE10.
What other festivals could take off?
Victorian street entertainment.
Jarvis Cocker, BBC Asian Network, Attenborough and other classics.
Playground slides, water fountains and a programme of love-based events.
Pink umbrellas and face paint.
Build a massive cardboard house, then knock it down.
Where to dance and drink.
Food, morris men and music.
Welcome in the new year in an old way.
Organisers work on 2014 revamp.
Loads of techy interactive fun.
Festival features a packed programme.
Activities for both romantics and sceptics.
Yes, it's time to battle through Camden's crowds to check out the best new indiepop.
Festival of Arts and Humanities goes subterranean.
Nine days of spectacular free events.
All thanks to Boris Johnson.
Giant installations, design trails and architectural tours.
Halloween is coming sooner than you might think.
Not Tower Bridge. Just no.
5 pairs of tickets and top restaurant vouchers up for grabs - enter the competition now!
Lego dresses, anti-drag queens and freaky street fashion.
From tried and trusted spas to home-made chocolates.
"The most fun anyone can have in a graveyard in Mile End".
20% off on goods and food, plus live events galore.
And get INSIDE the bascule chambers at Tower Bridge.
Dig out your elasticated trousers.
Apocalypse comes to London.
Inaugural festival covers almost every facet of creativity.
Comedians, scientists, rebels, musicians, engineers and more.
A century of fighting for equality.
We help you make up your mind.
Men in clothes walking up and down.
Fury as festival axed at last minute.
Shubbak, Soho, Kilburn, Pop-Up, Watch This Space, London Street Photography, City of London, 1234 Shoreditch, Utopian arts festivals and stacks more.
And its route it along the canals.
Art and theatre underneath the arches.
Plus, you can finally climb the Pagoda!
Literary Footprints Festival returns.
Great British Beer Festival returns to Olympia.
Five storeys of fairytales for grown ups this Christmas.
London's about to get a bit cooler.
Head to The Ideal Home Show between 18 March and 3 April.
Site-specific, quirky and diverse musical experiences.
A village green among concrete.
Some great events for beer-drinkers this month.
Yes In My Back Yard we say.
Late night tipples and turtles.
Quirkier events, ranked by cheesiness.
Plus free film and theatre shows.
Climbing meets cocktails in Clapton.
Here's a time-lapse vid to set the mood.
Plus, how to spot a psychopath.
The Camden Crawl moves from May to brighten up October.
Six weeks of magical miscellany.
Are there really only five months to go?
Fashion talks, exhibitions and craft workshops.
Gardens and flowers galore.
Free concert and funfair in Ridgeway Park.
Christmas may be over, but the merriment continues.
Discover Camberwell's freedom fighters.
There will be (fake) blood.
Glam it up with Hollywood celebs in your home town.
Aerial circus, silent disco and a family rave.
One man in his time plays many parts.
From Jeff Koons to the Pre-Raphaelites.
Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition goes out with a bang.
Immerse yourself in bricks.
Riverside fun with your loved ones.
Free one-day boutique urban festival.
Stuff yourself with fried food.
Our round-up of London's best music festivals and outdoor gigs.
Frisbee, football, fitness and a bouncy cave?
A certain purple cow returns to the South Bank.
Hipsters assemble for three day art festival.
Events popping up all over.
Top programme for festival's 22nd year.
Time to extend your overdraft as festival season gets underway.
Stay fit and have fun in June.
A big, bright new artwork on the river for Totally Thames.
Famous literary faces involved in bookshop's grand reopening.
Learn about alcohol, coffee and magic mushrooms.
Don’t simply read about a festival line-up, hear it announced at an all-night disco party.
Artists include Laura Mvula and Everything Everything.
And get a 20% discount on this festive edition.
Celebrate Brenda or Bagpuss.
Win free concert tickets for a year with Songkick (sponsored post)
From museums by torchlight to a real life satellite.
Get out and discover somewhere new.
Go Gonzo for this underground production!
A four-day festival of art, music and creativity.
Over 200 films to choose from in the capital.
Sunset tours, a Cher-a-like and cheese-tasting.
Hit Streatham High Road for four days of creative goodness.
20% off tickets for Londonist readers.
Beer: like fireworks in your mouth.
An essential part of London's festival season returns with their best line-up yet.
London's favourite food festival returns.
Free family festival at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
The Chap Olympiad, Tedfest and Soho Waiter's Race.
Wrap up and get exploring.
Cycling festival and brewery open day.
Lots of free outdoor events and a giant hat.
The Mauritian Open Air Festival returns.
Over 200 shows from across the arts spectrum.
Greenwich + Docklands International Festival is back.
Spot them at the Ground's upcoming Anniversary Day
And the Academy Award goes to ...
Our picks of the festival.
Design, music, theatre, film, food. If this doesn't impress your date, we don't know what will.
Little bit of something for everyone.
50 questions all about the river.
Festival celebrates the L-bomb.
More than 30 free screenings and special events over 10 days.
Climb a 500 year old tower in London's oldest village.
"Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness."
Camden Rocks, and people roll (home, late).
And drink some damn fine coffee.
Pagoda climbing, barefoot walking, gin-supping fun.
Talks, exhibitions, poetry and film.
Festival weaves a rich tapestry of events.
80 take part in Peter Pan Cup race.
Deloitte Ignite 2014 explores myth.
The faces behind the food festival.
Get that festive feeling.
Catch deadmau5's first ever headline outdoor event and only English festival this year
Get your ska on across town this Easter.
Feast food festival returns to Tobacco Dock.
Filigree, apogee, pedigree, perigee.
Here's what we've picked up.
Find your river legs this September.
St George has a lot to answer for.
What will you guzzle at the foody fest?
We don’t want to wish away summer, but September’s music’s looking pretty good
Sign up to Secret Brixton.
Includes a Toast Temple. Seriously.
Hyde Park’s summer of festivals kicks off with world class rap and dance.
Channel your inner Mary Poppins.
Head to Little Venice for some fab family-friendly fun this bank holiday weekend.
All at the Foyles Storybox children's literature festival
Hither Green Festival animates SE13.
In case you needed an excuse to eat out.
Sigourney Weaver's there too.
Thanks to Busk in London.
One of London's oldest sporting events.
Know your teiglach from your tzimmes.
Tree walks and exhibition.
War stories, London memoirs and something for kids too.
Camden's crowds are no trouble as we hit the streets for the annual Crawl
Films, exhibitions and events every day.
Infectious walks, talks, music and drama.
40 teams will take to the water.
London needs more murals.
Full programme announced today.
"If you went to London you would buy records", Agnes Obel tells Londonist
Head to London's biggest outdoor club to celebrate a decade of disco and dance delights.
What are you waiting for?
A treat for the eyes and ears.
Nothing dampens the Carnival spirit.
Bureaucratic killjoys and the rain could stop Hyde Park from rocking out.
All the London-y films to follow.
Get ready to have the bejesus scared out of you.
Festival season draws to a close with the ultimate showcase of London's underground.
Annual LGBT film festival, newly labelled.
It's time to relax at Olympia London.
The annual travel and holiday show, Destinations, lands in London.
Winter-themed events in a special venue.
Specialists in the area share their knowledge.
Monkeying around for everyone.
Dramatic surroundings for unique music events on The Strand
Here's hoping for a cloudy weekend.
K-Classics and K-Classics-in-the-making.
Crypts and catacombs display great design.
All-day mini-festival takes over a former gasworks with dub beats and deep grooves.
People pretending to do stuff so well that it becomes an art form.
Business advice from creative titans such as Cath Kidston.
What to see at Shakespeare400.
Croydon Heritage Festival is back.
Londonist readers get 20% off tickets.
Don't forget your dancing wellies for some summertime London raving.
Two day music fest packs a serious punch.
Mysterious exhibition comes to east London.
Enormous free festival of South Asia.
Shows for folk from the age of zero and upwards.
Chance to hear from the artists this week.
We're all aboard HMS President this weekend.
Family Open Day on Sunday 22 June.
Now in its fourth year, and much to recommend.
The highlight of the hipster calendar is here, so time to enjoy the buzz bands.
With Christmassy City Cruises.
Month-long festival announced for September.
Retro shopping, dancing and fairground-riding.
Art, comedy, jazz, food and a dog show.
Soapbox science, drawing workshops and more.
Londonist readers get 2 for 1 on tickets.
Explore 200 of London's gardens.
Fancy a blindfold visit to the farm?
And not an elephant in sight.
Chortle Comedy goes all bookish.
Top children's authors and illustrators join in the fun.
Crystal Palace Overground Festival, Sydenham Arts Festival and Streatham Festival, all in June/July.
Plus flint knapping, deer skin tanning and an amazing church organ.
Get tickets to The Other Art Fair.
Celebrating the diverse poetic traditions of London's East End.
A step-by-step online guide is now live.
British horror films get the spotlight in this small but deserving festival.
Dine with the stars or die from the plague. Your choice.
Month of Beauty takes over shopping centre.
Norman Jay-curated festival let loose in September.
Boutique festival returns for magical family fun.
Poetry, rap, music and theatre.
Giving local kebab shops and back roads their due.
Nope, we're not bark-ing mad.
Celebrating the culture from London's universities.
Find the murderer of the Paudaguayan ambassador.
See how the area used to be.
Tickets hotter than the mosh pit at a Hot Hot Heat gig.
Typical, you get in the mood for christmas then it's time to start thinking about summer!
Alternative Thames talks on HMS President.
Gigantic stars take over the Albert Hall in October.
The votes have been counted.
Free interactive event features a month of music, art and performance.
50 fact-tastic questions along the Thames.
Second outing for the successful one-day festival.
Plug pulled on Hyde Park pop festival.
Safar film festival heads to the ICA.
A celebration of magic of the movies and cinema’s most stunning scores.
An abundance of activities for the Square Mile's annual arts festival.
Plus a string puppet exclusive.
Boris Bikes, brawn and superbly silly games.
The inHOUSE Film Festival happens this week.
Al Murray, Alan Davies, Bridget Christie and more.
Totally Thames returns in September.
Paddington Covers festivals are back.
Edward Snowden headlines a visionary festival.
Hey there, Year of the Monkey!
Highlights from a dark and dirty week of events.
Music, art, comedy and aliens.
Ten mini-festivals all across the city.
There's way more to it than Swiss chocolate and cheese.
The finest in contemporary and classic Korean cinema.
Music, talks and pond dipping in Walthamstow this weekend.
Londonist readers get 25% off.
Join the party in Carnaby.
Well, a miniature one anyway.
Indulge in a cornucopia of crafty goodness.
London Literature Festival.
Dark deeds and hidden secrets under Waterloo Station
From the human Jenga to the black pudding.
Comedy, theatre, talks, puppets.
Saluting the lilting Welsh lush.
Cash will be used for paint and equipment.
Stella Duffy explains all.
Also see Joanne Harris, Richard Curtis and Mark Billingham.
Dead Prez and Jazzy Jeff on the bill.
American cult icons Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Grizzly Bear headline.
London becomes the centre of world music for an ambitious musical delight.
We lift the lid on this year’s programme.
Non-painting parts of street art event.
Painting was knocked down for housing.
Part of the Museums at Night festival.
Eye opening movies and more.
Cat in the Hat and co heading your way.
London's 7th Russian Film Festival begins this week.
2014's best new act Gein's Family Giftshop are 2015's main feature.
Somerset House takes centre stage for a magnificant show.
Your month’s cinema sorted.
Storytelling for grown ups and little ones.
Tour the market...without seeing it.
Talks, debates, performances and gaming.
Cyclists celebrate the Mexican festival.
Celebrate the life of the goblin king with your little princes and princesses.
Sadiq, Lumley and a dog turn out to party.
Start 2015 with a shot of the new.
This will not be a quiet event.
60 events, six days - mostly free.
Punk, coffee and a big boozy quiz.
Loads of free outdoor activities.
What will you experience?
A panoply of puppetry, mime and cabaret.
A celebration of growing and greening.
You don't need a garden to get green-fingered in London.
A week-long arts festival in the heart of Soho.
Fantastic lit festival returns to N19.
Stewart Lee, Stephen K Amos and Josie Long at comedy festival.
Join an attempt to make the world's biggest picnic blanket.
Warehouses will turn into artist play-pens.
Kick up your heels at Mint Street Park.
There's more to it than invisible walls.
Nine days of all sorts at Hampstead Garden Suburb.
New show will involve absinthe and other surprises.
We heard rumours of fantastic festivals beyond the M25, it turned out to be true.
SE21 and NW6 debut their book festivals this month.
Music, dancing, cider and unpronounceable words.
Rest Stop tells the tale of a wayward tourist.
Donate your banana guards and fake grapes.
Let face it, it's going to blow.
London university champions fine new sounds.
Rock, raga and a man in a white suit.
Including the demise of Kit Marlowe.
A weekend of music, technology, talent.
Get your glowsticks ready, there's a summer of dance festivals coming your way.
Music, theatre, puppets, stories, art and dancing.
Pop-up department store in a Victorian warehouse.
Two month-long retrospective of filmmaker Derek Jarman begins.
What we'll all be wearing come spring.
The biggest pop-up fashion event in town.
Free skating at Broadgate on Monday.
60 board game competitions and the Decamentathlon World Championship.
The InTRANSIT Festival returns for eighth year.
Laugh away the January blues.
Plus lots of lovely nibbles and drinks.
Rock and roll, jazz and cowboys.
Top tips from the tongue-tastic.
Catwalk shows and a fashion marketplace.
Bombay Bicycle Club talk about their amazing year, and reveal a new song for Reading Festival
Everything including the kitchen sink.
Original gifts and speciality foods on sale at Kensington Town Hall.
Funk, samba, Afrobeat, hip hop, jazz and tango!
Two weeks of screenings, some free.
This hipster haven was once a tropical paradise and textile centre.
St Patrick's Day celebration 2014, not just Guinness.
Plant seeds 1 May, enjoy summer flowers.
Music meets film, which almost never goes wrong.
Plan ahead, and you can get festival tickets too.
Fab free festival returns to the Square Mile.
Think you're good enough to be king of the river?
Free showcase tonight in Shoreditch.
Talks, workshops, parties and open house tours make up this year's festival.
Tickets on sale this week for popular Southbank Centre festival.
Screenings, discussions and help for film-makers galore.
£5 off for Londonist readers!
Revamp your iPod with these acts tipped to be the sounds of 2016.
Applecart’s defiance of the weather proves to be a very British festival.
The World Cup's not the only global event coming our way.
Plus some silent disco headphones.
Events around Louisa Young's My Dear I Wanted to Tell You.
Festival organiser shows a bit of favouritism.
Tame those two left feet and learn about the history of street dance.
Punk, poetry, debate and more at this year's festival.
Londonist readers get 25% off tickets.
Spotlight on a hotly tipped London duo.
Everyone loves the Tudors.
Ales and nibbles at Borough Market.
Spanish passion at Sadler’s Wells.
Sporty challenges to raise money.
Top authors at the Folio Prize Festival.
A formal and fabulous, most historic party.
Free live music all weekend.
Plenty of fun for couples and singles.
Amazing Anti-Gravity Acts by Awesome Aussie Acrobats.
Alexandra Palace's foundations shook as Slayer hit the stage at IBYM.
Exceptional music for the end of the year.
Panther stroll is the new catwalk – it’s the mens’ shows goddamit.
Portobello Live! is back.
No room for shades of grey at Underwire.
Start reading Gillian Slovo's Ten Days.
An alternative celebration of the landmark charter.
For those who like their classical music fresh off the bone.
Listen to the song Nigel of Bermondsey made for us.
Talks, performance, comedy and more.
Performances, talks, films, workshops.
The festival returns to Tottenham with a new programme of hot dance talent.
Young aspiring filmmakers ahoy.
Be quick for tickets to this weekend's events.
Hosted by Edith Bowman and Dawn O'Porter.
Londonist readers get 25% off tickets.
Landmark films and a Thames cruise too.
£9 off all things snowsporty.
Kick back and enjoy the story.
The best of Africa, coming to the Southbank.
Watch out, it's Clock Opera.
Timely festival at Camden People's Theatre.
Gothenburg's Way Out West festival gives London music fans a preview of its 7th outing, at Electrowerkz..
Needless to say there's a Best Toilets category.
A variety club night of music, comedy and proper entertainment marks the sale of early bird tickets
Eye-watering taste-testing in the name of science.
After a sold out Lexington show comes this festival appearance.
Vote for your favourite new act.
Sexual assault dealt with in frank and funny festival.
A family-friendly trip down the Thames.
Pack away your Oyster for a trip to the highlight of the music calendar
Part of Lambeth Heritage Festival.
Devil horns aloft in mass metal celebration.
A new cabaret festival has angered many London performers.
James Lavelle, Chrissie Hynde and Gilles Peterson at the Southbank Centre.
Plus printing in Peckham and tweeting in Twickenham.
The return of the nomadic, independent dance showcase, making its Tottenham debut.
Mingle with fashion curators, museum directors and make-up artists.
Arts festival returns to Southbank Centre.
Opening show Locus Amoenus is a winner.
Spring/Summer 2015 collections hit the catwalks.
Inspiring shows and works in progress.
Connect with the mother of parliaments.
Energetic Shakespeare kicks off new season.
The Spitalfields Music charity talks about the East End music scene, with N Quentin Woolf.
How about Roddy Doyle, Margaret Drabble or Andrew Motion?
Some of the best sketch in town.
Unleash your flour power.
A week of watery adventures for 10-16 year olds.
Film, food, football and Island Records.
No jokes about striking, thank you.
Ted Hughes's legend lives on.
Series of live music, films and workshops.
Get out and discover somewhere new.
Get out and discover somewhere new.
See Youtube stars and CBBC favourites.
YARNfest is five-day celebration of storytelling, coming soon to film, theatre, literature and music venues across London.
Fireworks, boats and massive wicker men.
Nab your tickets now to make sure you're racing down a giant water slide this July.
A scary amount of events.
London's Burning is from the same people behind Lumiere Festival
That bit between Christmas and New Year.
With added virtual reality.
Plan your London fun for 2017...
London's best Mexican-inspired events.
It actually lasts two and a HALF days.
Enter ballots and reserve places.
Commemorating the Great Fire.
Brixton street gets a spruce up
Hugh Hefnerweisse? How could we say no.
Some of the best Christmas treats are free.
And don't forget the beer festival
Japan Matsuri Festival returns.
Don a sari, learn a Bollywood dance or tuck into Indian street food
Banana fritters, you say?
Fireworks, boats and massive wicker men.
W-w-e c-c-can't w-w-wait.
More than just a dynamite display over one of London's best views
Tuck into Brazilian food and have a dance.
Month-long celebration of the river.
One of the highlights of the summer
Parties, supper clubs and screenings around the capital.
A whole weekend of free shows.
All the colours of Carnival.
Mine's a pint of everything.
They had us at 'hipster druids'.
A new way to experience the classics.
The ultimate summer's day out.
Shipping containers set up south.
Wow your festive guests with Japanese Christmas cake
See Korean animations for free at this festival
A seasoned 'prommer' shares their tips.
Biggest science show in town
Look out for this the next three weekends
It's all happening at the Saatchi Gallery.
15 restaurants and over 50 artisan producers.
London's brilliant festival for the architects of the future
Jamaican dancing, face painting, tribal drumming.
New Bankside art installation will make your eyeballs vibrate
But get your tickets quickly.
From The Graduate to Little Big Man
From jam making to wood turning.
Flower show gets political.
The red carpet's got your name on it.
Get your face paint ready
An epic deaf rapper takes to the stage.
Night-time walks and nocturnal performances.
How much do you know about the Thames? Come to our floating quiz.
