All events on Thursday March 27
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- Buck 65
- Thursday 27 Mar (7:30pm) @ Dingwalls
- Buck 65 does hip-hop with a difference. While bearing a passing comparison in name to 50 Cent, the similarities end there. He hails from rural... View details »
- Film
- London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
- Thursday 27 Mar @ BFI Southbank More times »
- Established in 1986 and currently maintaining a proud position as the third largest film fest in the UK, the annual London Lesbian & Gay Film... View details »
- Music: DJ
- The Quantic Soul Orchestra
- Thursday 27 Mar (7–11pm) @ KOKO
- Will Holland (aka Quantic) always brings a Latin note to his mixes of funk, jazz and breaks. Revolving around this Brighton-based producer/DJ are a plethora... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Contains Violence
- Thursday 27 Mar @ Lyric Theatre Hammersmith More times »
- The Lyric Hammersmith present Contains Violence, a site-specific theatrical performance that plays out beyond the stage and into office windows along West London's skyline. At... View details »
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- The Beautiful & Damned
- Thursday 27 Mar (8:30pm) @ The Boogaloo
- Free
- This evening, unearth vintage delights at rock 'n roll juke-joint the Boogaloo when Miss Red and Mr Dickon Edwards present the Beautiful & Damned. These... View details »
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- United Colours of Art
- Thursday 27 Mar (7:30pm) @ ICA
- A panel of artists and arts professionals gather at the ICA to ponder the art world's ability to bridge cultural differences. On one hand, it... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Cowbella
- Thursday 27 Mar (8pm–1am) @ The Westbury
- Free
- DJ Roxanne Roll has put together London's only night dedicated to the noble cowbell. A musical road trip through Americana, from country rock and disco... View details »
- Art
- Peachy Coochy Nites
- Thursday 27 Mar (7:30pm) @ Toynbee Studios
- Giveaway
- Tonight in the Arts Bar & Café at Toynbee Studios, artist and writer David Gale invites five presenters — or Coochers, as he calls them... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- Book Slam
- Thursday 27 Mar (8pm) @ 12 Acklam Road
- Giveaway
- Author Patrick Neate continues to excite the spoken word in Notting Hill. Tonight combines readings and music, with DJ Resident Parking on hand at this... View details »
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- The Vitality Show
- Thursday 27 Mar @ London Olympia More times »
- This four-day showcase of health, beauty and fashion offers an exhaustive selection of products and programmes to winningly woo even the most exacting of customers.... View details »
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- Amora
- Thursday 27 Mar (1pm–midnight) @ Amora More times »
- Amora — the Academy of Sex and Relationships — offers an educational exploration of all aspects of intimacy. Seven distinct zones take you through everything... View details »
- Art
- Moore at Kew
- Thursday 27 Mar (9:30am–6:30pm) @ Royal Botanic Gardens More times »
- Twenty-eight of Henry Moore's pieces have been installed in a scattered fashion around Kew Gardens, giving fans the opportunity to view each work from various... View details »
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- Sleeping & Dreaming
- Thursday 27 Mar @ Wellcome Collection More times »
- Free
- Insomniacs and dreamers alike are welcome at this creative exploration on the subject of sleep. In contrast to most art spaces, the central gallery is... View details »
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- Hibiscus
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–2:30 & 6:30–10pm) @ Hibiscus More times »
- In just a month, chef-proprietor Claude Bosi has taken London's restaurant world by storm. With the relocation of his two Michelin stars from Ludlow to... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Dealer's Choice
- Thursday 27 Mar (2:30 & 7:30pm) @ Trafalgar Studios More times »
- Patrick Marber's hilarious Dealer's Choice returns to the West End for the first time since the play's premiere in 1995, when it was voted Evening... View details »
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- Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
- Thursday 27 Mar (9am–2pm) @ Wimbledon Village Stables More times »
- For city-bound equestrians missing their early-morning ride and novice ponyphiles alike, Wimbledon has more to offer than Wombles. Even if you have a penchant for... View details »
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- Café on the Hill
- Thursday 27 Mar (8am–10pm) @ Cafe on the Hill More times »
- With most of central London out-of-bounds (either closed or crammed with shoppers), get perspective on the city from Muswell Hill. Like a less pretentious Hampstead,... View details »
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- Furnace
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–3pm & 6–11pm) @ Furnace More times »
- Tucked down a side street off Hoxton Square is the perfect remedy to the seasonal poultry overload. Shoreditch's best-kept secret, Furnace has been in the... View details »
- Film
- Cornelia Parker
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Whitechapel Art Gallery More times »
- Free
- Notorious artist Cornelia Parker likes to experiment with media. Previous materials have included dust from the Whispering Gallery at St Paul's Cathedral,... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Hayward Gallery More times »
- Giveaway
- In Revolution in Photography, the Hayward celebrates Russian photographer Alexander Rodchenko's trail-blazing versatility. Featuring more than 120 original prints and photomontages, the exhibition traces Rodchenko's... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Peacocks & Pinstripes
- Thursday 27 Mar (11am–5pm) @ Fashion and Textile Museum More times »
- Made possible by the Fashion and Textile Museum and the Getty Images Gallery, Peacocks & Pinstripes explores the evolution of masculine fashion. The collection looks... View details »
- Art
- Electric Blue
- Thursday 27 Mar (11am–6pm) @ Oxo Tower Wharf More times »
- Free
- The intertwining floors of South Bank's atmospheric Bargehouse overflow with multi-sensory experiences for Electric Blue. The mixed-media artworks range from kinetic and sound installations —... View details »
- Art
- Laughing in a Foreign Language
- Thursday 27 Mar @ Hayward Gallery More times »
- Many otherwise serious-minded people use comedy to escape their troubles and forget themselves for a short while; so when humour seeps into the notoriously stiff-backed... View details »
- Film
- Derek Jarman
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Serpentine Gallery More times »
- Free
- Installation artist Isaac Julien puts on his curator's cap and examines the prolific career of controversial filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman, who died of an... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Grand Acoustic Show
- Thursday 27 Mar (7–10pm) @ The Grand Union More times »
- Free
- The Grand Union mini-chain has jumped on the gourmet-burger craze — and added a cocktail lounge to the concept. A nice mix of lived-in style... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
- Thursday 27 Mar (11am–8pm) @ The Photographers' Gallery More times »
- Free
- The quality of the annual Deutsche Börse photography competition just gets better every year. Though this year's winner won't be announced until March, the Photographers'... View details »
- Art
- Elizabethan Flagons
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–5:30pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- Free
- The Victoria & Albert's latest mini-exhibition features a set of Elizabethan flagons that return to the museum after 70 years abroad. Stroll down memory lane... View details »
- Art
- Alfredo Jaar
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–6pm) @ South London Gallery More times »
- Free
- Fresh from the African Pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale, New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar arrives at the South London Gallery. Politics of the... View details »
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- Aspects of Noël Coward
- Thursday 27 Mar @ National Theatre More times »
- Free
- Prolific playwright Noël Coward was once described by fellow dramatist Terence Rattigan as "a phenomenon... unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history". Coward may... View details »
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- 1001 Inventions
- Thursday 27 Mar (11am–5pm) @ Croydon Clocktower More times »
- Free
- Croydon isn't exactly top-of-mind when it comes to visiting museums, but this free exhibition at the town's exhibition gallery aims to challenge that. With a... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Jazz in London
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–9pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
- Free
- Take a trip back to the dark, smoky jazz clubs of the '50s with Walter Hanlon's atmospheric exhibition. While working in the music business during... View details »
- Art
- The Camden Town Group
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Tate Britain More times »
- Unlike Hawley Arms' caners Winehouse, Fielding and Geldof, this Camden Town Group was a collective of realist painters working in the borough during the early... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- Thursday 27 Mar (7:30pm) @ Old Vic Theatre More times »
- Who better to play David Mamet's two slick, fast-talking Hollywood film producers than two slick, fast-talking Hollywood actors? The Old Vic delivers the dream team... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Vanity Fair Portraits
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ National Portrait Gallery More times »
- Ever since it launched way back when, Vanity Fair has never failed to raise an eyebrow — least of all for its instantly classic cover... View details »
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- China in London
- Thursday 27 Mar @ Various locations More times »
- It's fitting that the Year of the Rat — a zodiac sign traditionally associated with enterprise and activity — coincides with the XXIX Olympiad in... View details »
- Art: Photography
- The ALI Folio
- Thursday 27 Mar (11am–7pm) @ Proud Central More times »
- Free
- Muhammad Ali is one of the world's most photographed people, but despite the amount of coverage he commands, an air of mystique still surrounds the... View details »
- Art
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–5:50pm) @ Tate Britain More times »
- Free
- After debuting at the 2006 Venice Biennale, Breda Beban's wonder of a film is now taking the rest of the continent by storm. At a... View details »
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- Parkour
- Thursday 27 Mar @ Westminster Academy More times »
- Release your urban primate with parkour, the sport that catapults folks around London using vaults, leaps and climbs. The beginner's class breaks you in gently... View details »
- Art: Photography
- John Swannell
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–5:30pm) @ Chris Beetles Gallery More times »
- Free
- Over his 35-year career, photographer John Swannell has shot lakes and mountains across the globe, dramatic nudes and models showcasing the latest catwalk collections, but... View details »
- Art
- Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Tate Modern More times »
- It isn't often you see Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia — a conceptualist, a photographer and a poet, respectively — exhibited together. The... View details »
- Art
- Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
- Thursday 27 Mar (9am–11pm) @ Barbican Centre More times »
- In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators" aren't from around here,... View details »
- Art
- Max Jacquard's Untold Stories
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ ZeST Gallery More times »
- Free
- ZeST Contemporary presents Max Jacquard's Untold Stories, a solo exhibition of the glass artist's most recent works. Pillow Piece, the collection's haunting main event, is... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Harder They Come
- Thursday 27 Mar (7:45pm) @ Barbican Centre More times »
- As you might guess, The Harder They Come is the musical-theatre adaptation of the 1972 cult film starring reggae legend Jimmy Cliff — it's also... View details »
- Art
- Ten Years Innit!
- Thursday 27 Mar (11am–6pm) @ Barrett Marsden Gallery More times »
- Free
- Ten Years Innit! celebrates a decade of artistic applicability. The exhibition pulls together new work from each of Barrett Marsden's resident artists, as well as... View details »
- Art
- Dallas Seitz
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–5:30pm) @ Carter Presents More times »
- Free
- Dallas Seitz's bizarre selections of creepy memorabilia comment on personal and collective identity. In Georgette Magritte and the Exotic Sea, the artist examines colonialism and... View details »
- Art
- Borders and Identities
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–5pm) @ The Stephen Lawrence Gallery at University of Greenwich More times »
- Free
- Borders and Identities explores the consequences of the lines drawn in geo-political sands. Palestinian-born Sharif Waked's short film Chic Point hauntingly juxtaposes footage of scantily... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- China Design Now
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- Celebrating China's return to the graphic-art world stage, China Design Now embarks on a three-part journey along the country's coastline. The cities examined — Shenzhen,... View details »
- Art
- Made by Slaves for Free People
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Riflemaker Gallery More times »
- Free
- Pablo San-José and Cynthia Viera (aka PSJM) are outspoken critics of global capitalism. The dissident duo — who were previously forced to withdraw their exhibition... View details »
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- The Regent
- Thursday 27 Mar (12:30–11pm) @ The Regent More times »
- If you awake to find yourself north of Notting Hill on a Sunday morning, get rejuvenated at Kensal Rise's best grub 'n boozer. Since its... View details »
- Film
- Children of Glory
- Thursday 27 Mar @ Various locations More times »
- With the Russian FSB flexing its muscles once again under Putin, Krisztina Goda's gripping Cold War-era drama bristles with prescience as it recounts the story... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Judah Passow
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ HOST Gallery More times »
- Free
- In Shattered Dreams: Israel and the Palestinians, acclaimed press photographer Judah Passow portrays Israel's past, conflicted present and uncertain future. A personal journey through both... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Into The Hoods
- Thursday 27 Mar @ The Novello Theatre More times »
- ZooNation's revamped Stephen Sondheim musical comes to London after a hit season at the Edinburgh Fringe. This pop-culture quest follows two lost children in a... View details »
- Art
- Tobias Till
- Thursday 27 Mar (2–7pm) @ gallery12 More times »
- Free
- Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal Academy art graduate's first... View details »
- Art
- Listening Post
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ The Science Museum More times »
- Free
- Idle conversations on Facebook walls, MySpace comments and message forums may not feel as intimate after Listening Post arrives at the Science Museum. Asking "What... View details »
- Art
- Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–6pm) @ Standpoint Gallery More times »
- Free
- Jess Flood-Paddock and Liz Murray offer deceptive stylisations of fruit and hot-dog stands (respectively) in their joint sculptural installation, exploring the hidden meanings in familiar... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Random
- Thursday 27 Mar @ Royal Court Theatre More times »
- Giveaway
- Debbie Tucker Green writes with striking urgency. Her trademark is rhythmic and forceful language, and not everyone appreciates her confrontational style and dark subject matter... View details »
- Art
- Monologue/Dialogue Part II
- Thursday 27 Mar (11am–6pm) @ Bischoff/Weiss More times »
- Free
- Monologue/Dialogue II's artists use sculpture, painting and installation to convey their own vision of Bangkok. Nathaniel Rackowe's urban, fluorescent installations are juxtaposed with Panya Vijinthanasarn's... View details »
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- Pollock's Toy Museum
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–5pm) @ Pollock's Toy Museum More times »
- Evoke dusty memories of bygone days with a visit to Pollock's Toy Museum, nestled in the heart of Fitzrovia. Comprised of two conjoined 18th- and... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Amin Taha Architects
- Thursday 27 Mar (9am–5:30pm) @ Dreamspace Gallery More times »
- Free
- Exterior-design up-and-comers Amin Taha Architects showcase their innovative work at dreamspace gallery. Their debut solo exhibition features recently completed projects, maquettes and as-yet-unseen competition entries.... View details »
- Art
- Barry Reigate
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–6pm) @ Paradise Row More times »
- Free
- Barry Reigate's knack for creating downright bizarre artwork is on full display in his first major London solo show. At Bethnal Green's Paradise Row, Reigate... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Live Art on Camera
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–5pm) @ Space Studios More times »
- Free
- Live Art on Camera presents a series of photographs of performance art from the 1950s to the present day. The exhibition peers into key moments... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Snowbound
- Thursday 27 Mar (3 & 7pm) @ Trafalgar Studios More times »
- Snowbound finds two orphaned brothers having their roles reversed: when older brother and businessman Tom loses his wife, the younger Alex must step in and... View details »
- Art
- Marc Horowitz
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Southbank Centre More times »
- Free
- Almost 90 years after the Bauhaus design ideal was unveiled in Germany, comic-slash-artist Marc Horowitz brings a similar concept to London. Famed for his National... View details »
- Art
- John Keane
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ Flowers Central More times »
- Free
- Part of the Children in Conflict collection, John Keane's Angola exhibition documents the fraught state of a post-conflict society six years into peacetime. Keane was... View details »
- Art
- Nour el Huda Awad
- Thursday 27 Mar (10am–6pm) @ The Cochrane Theatre More times »
- Free
- Nour el Huda Awad offers a fresh interpretation of traditional Islamic art forms with his installation Alhambra. The solo exhibition features a sequence of kiln-formed... View details »
- Art
- Tin Fish
- Thursday 27 Mar (2:30–6:30pm) @ Red Gate Gallery More times »
- Free
- Artist collective Tin Fish presents its debut exhibition, Fragile Existence, at the Red Gate Gallery. Artists include Carina Hall, Marie Hart, Danielle Ward and Becky... View details »
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- Cupboard Love 2
- Thursday 27 Mar (7am–7pm) @ Greenwich foot tunnel More times »
- Free
- For Occupy My Time's new monthly series, the art collective places artworks in the cupboards within the Greenwich foot-tunnel lifts. The pieces respond to the... View details »
- Art
- Gdansk: Polish Lives Found in Translation
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–10:30pm) @ The Wapping Project More times »
- Free
- For the first installment of the Jerwood: Found in Translation series, Polish filmmaker Marta Michalowska presents four films that encapsulate the history of her hometown,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Unconquered
- Thursday 27 Mar (8pm) @ Arcola Theatre More times »
- Stellar Quines Theatre Company present Torben Betts' award-winning play The Unconquered, exploring a story of revolution with dark, poetic satire. Directed by Muriel Romanes, the... View details »
- Art
- No Letters
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–6pm) @ Nettie Horn More times »
- Free
- No Letters brings together contemporary artworks that unpick assumptions about how we receive and digest public information — be it current affairs, gossip, news or... View details »
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- Wrapping Japan
- Thursday 27 Mar (10:30am–5:30pm) @ The Horniman Museum More times »
- Free
- Japan has traditionally prized modesty and reserve, so it's little surprise to find out that the Japanese have also made an art of wrapping everything,... View details »
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- DJ Night at the Castle Climbing Centre
- Thursday 27 Mar (6:30–9:30pm) @ The Castle Climbing Centre More times »
- An endless playlist of Europop, Chris de Burgh and the Cliffhanger soundtrack is a thing of the past at this Stoke Newington bouldering locale; for... View details »
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- Haozhan
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–11:30pm) @ Haozhan More times »
- Thanks to its bustling location in London's tourist hub, Chinatown is less a mecca for cuisine lovers than a torturous odyssey to find decent food,... View details »
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- Fox & Anchor
- Thursday 27 Mar (7am–11pm) @ Fox & Anchor More times »
- Dating from the late Victorian era, this pub — an old favourite of blood-spattered meat traders from Smithfields Market down the street — has just... View details »
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- Salt Yard
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–11pm) @ Salt Yard More times »
- It's not easy to garner favourable comparisons to London tapas giants Fino and Barrafina, but the diminutive Salt Yard pulls off this Goliath-sized task. The... View details »
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- Aaya
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–midnight) @ Aaya More times »
- Though Aaya has been open for a few months, it's still biding its time; rather than go for a press blitz, the restaurant wants to... View details »
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- Brunello Picnic in Kensington Gardens
- Thursday 27 Mar @ Brunello More times »
- If carrying equipment and provisions on public transport seems like too much perspiration for a weekend's picnic, then the Brunello restaurant's new selection of hampers... View details »
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- Whitecross Street Market
- Thursday 27 Mar (11am–5pm) @ Whitecross Street More times »
- Free
- For those lusting after a little more than the usual lunchtime selection of sandwiches and salads, best head to Whitecross Street Market. One of London's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The NewsRevue
- Thursday 27 Mar (9:30pm) @ Canal Café Theatre More times »
- The NewsRevue has followed the same format since 1979 — low-tech, topical comedy performed by two men and two women. Written by a team of... View details »
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- London Fencing Club
- Thursday 27 Mar @ Finsbury Leisure Centre More times »
- If you've ever watched the dueling scene in The Mask of Zorro and thought, "Hey, I could do better than that," now you can prove... View details »
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- Cha Cha Moon
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–11pm) @ Cha Cha Moon More times »
- Influential restaurateur Alan Yau is back with Cha Cha Moon, returning to cuisine with widespread appeal (he devised Wagamama and Busaba Eathai) at this Malay-Chinese... View details »
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- Quo Vadis
- Thursday 27 Mar (noon–2:45 & 5–10:45pm) @ Quo Vadis More times »
- Sam and Eddie Hart cemented their restaurant reputation by reinventing tapas for a sophisticated London clientele at Fino, then tailoring them for a drop-by crowd... View details »
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- Fondue Night
- Thursday 27 Mar (5pm–1am) @ Lost Society More times »
- Free
- Tucked away from the bustle of Wandsworth Road in a 16th-century barn, hidden gem Lost Society hosts the decadent Fondue Night. Typically entertaining exquisitely louche... View details »
