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- The Rights of Women: What Now?
- Thursday 4 Dec (6:30pm) @ British Library
- It's less than a hundred years since the suffragettes were fighting for the right to vote and have an impact on their environment. Tonight's discussion... View details »
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- Paradise Found
- Thursday 4 Dec (7pm–1am) @ Paradise by Way of Kensal Green
- Free
- This one-off fashion event at posh pub Paradise by Way of Kensal Green is for anyone who has ever longed to have visited an 18th-century... View details »
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- Quite Big Wine Quiz
- Thursday 4 Dec (7pm) @ Green & Blue Wines
- Green & Blue Wines' Quite Big Wine Quiz helps remove some of the elitism and snobbery from knowing about fermented grapes. The brain-buster is pitched... View details »
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- Cause an Effect
- Thursday 4 Dec (8pm) @ Westbourne Studios
- Cause an Effect, the inaugural shindig from new creative group Butterfly Knights, fills the space under the Westway with a bevy of multimedia artists. Magicians... View details »
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- Bleep43 feat. Surgeon and Scorn
- Friday 5 Dec (10pm–7am) @ Corsica Studios
- Although Surgeon made his name as a fierce techno DJ, he often spreads his wings at these Bleep43 parties and uses a laptop to join... View details »
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- The Great Christmas Pudding Race
- Saturday 6 Dec (11am) @ Covent Garden Market Piazza
- Free
- Christmas pudding is married to an obstacle-strewn dash through Covent Garden for this annual charity race in the endearing English tradition of quirky, food-related sporting... View details »
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- Christmas Craftacular
- Saturday 6 Dec (noon–midnight) @ St Aloysius Social Club
- US indie-girl glossy Bust brings DIY holiday cheer to our shores with the London instalment of their NY-LA-LDN Craftacular. The long-time champion of the new-craft... View details »
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- Discobox
- Saturday 6 Dec (9pm–3am) @ Sebright Arms
- Bill "DJ History" Brewster rummages through the crates for a feel-good set of classic hands-in-the-air disco at this great little party in the basement of... View details »
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- Spitalfields Winter Festival
- Tuesday 9 Dec @ Various More times »
- The Spitalfields Winter Festival sprinkles east London with seasonal shenanigans via concerts, walks, tours and outdoor events. Ghostly apparitions of a Yuletide nature abound in... View details »
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- Chocolate Delight Workshop
- Saturday 13 Dec (10am & 2pm) @ The Queen's Club More times »
- Chocolate Delight's weekly workshop at the Queen's Club is sheer indulgence for those with the sweetest of teeth. The two-hour course kicks off with a... View details »
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- Eco Design Fair
- Saturday 13 Dec (noon–7pm) @ The Old Truman Brewery More times »
- Saving the environment one pair of pants at a time, the Eco Design Fair flogs wares with a conscience this weekend. The fair's founder, recycled-textiles... View details »
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- Slow Food Christmas Market
- Saturday 20 Dec (11am–8pm) @ Southbank Centre More times »
- Free
- The Slow Food Market transforms the Southbank Centre Square into a gastrophile's paradise for the run-up to Christmas. Stalls sells a wide assortment of fresh... View details »
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- Amora
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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 »
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- Hibiscus
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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 »
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- Horse Riding at Wimbledon Village Stables
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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 »
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- A hell of a fight for the last piece of pudding
- Tuesday 2 Dec (11am–6pm) @ Whitecross Gallery More times »
- Free
- In this provocative exhibition at the Whitecross Street Gallery, multimedia works by father-and-son artists John and Jock Mooney go head to head. John Mooney's quirkiness... View details »
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- Parkour
- Tuesday 2 Dec @ 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 »
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- The Regent
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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 »
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- Pollock's Toy Museum
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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 »
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- Smirnoff Black Boutique Barbers with Hugo Boss
- Tuesday 2 Dec @ Selected Hugo Boss shops More times »
- A facial de-stress at Hugo Boss is the ideal tonic for men for whom the mere mention of Christmas shopping induces sheer panic. Each 15-minute... View details »
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- Cupboard Love 3
- Tuesday 2 Dec @ Greenwich foot tunnel More times »
- Free
- Occupy My Time's Cupboard Love 3 disproves the conventional art wisdom that white cubes are the ideal environment for exhibiting art. The art-collective use the... View details »
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- Turning the Season
- Tuesday 2 Dec (noon–10:30pm) @ The Wapping Project More times »
- Free
- Turning the Season explores the British seasons' effects on humanity through art, writing and performance. Among the exhibits transforming the Wapping Project Space are a... View details »
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- Haozhan
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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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- Bikram Yoga
- Tuesday 2 Dec (6:45am–9pm) @ Bikram Yoga City More times »
- Until the advent of Bikram, yoga was associated mostly with unlawful bending and the ubiquitous "om". Now, the modern twist on the ancient technique has,... View details »
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- Fox & Anchor
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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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- Fashion V Sport
- Tuesday 2 Dec (10am–5:45pm) @ Victoria and Albert Museum More times »
- Try as you might, it's next to impossible to recall a time when contemporary sportswear and fashion weren't merrily playing house. V&A's new exhibition Fashion... View details »
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- Salt Yard
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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
- Tuesday 2 Dec @ 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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- Natural History Museum Ice Rink
- Tuesday 2 Dec @ Natural History Museum More times »
- The freezing of the Natural History Museum's atmospheric East Lawn for skating has become a festive sight to rival the West End's Christmas lights. The... View details »
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- T. S. Eliot Festival
- Tuesday 2 Dec @ Donmar Warehouse More times »
- Covent Garden's Donmar Warehouse has gathered an impressive array of actors and directors in honour of poet T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot's epic poems "The Waste... View details »
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- London Fencing Club
- Tuesday 2 Dec @ 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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- '80s Spotlight Aerobics
- Tuesday 2 Dec (6:30pm) @ Electricity Showroom More times »
- If synchronised dance routines, fluorescent leg-warmers and perms inspire in you a deep sigh of longing, best head Electricity Showrooms way for '80s Spotlight Aerobics.... View details »
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- Cha Cha Moon
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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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- Côte
- Tuesday 2 Dec (8am–11pm) @ Côte More times »
- The first Côte opened in Wimbledon last August; before the rapturous reception had died down, a Soho-based second location opened in May, bringing the all-day... View details »
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- Dehesa
- Tuesday 2 Dec (noon–11pm) @ Dehesa More times »
- Together with Alan Yau's Cha Cha Moon and ace burger joint the Diner, Dehesa completes Ganton Street's status as the epicentre of Soho spur-of-the-moment dining.... View details »
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- Quo Vadis
- Tuesday 2 Dec (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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- Between the Covers: Women's Magazines and their Readers
- Tuesday 2 Dec (9:30am–5:30pm) @ The Women's Library More times »
- Free
- Between the Covers dips into the print archives of the Women's Library to explore how magazines have built relationships with readers over the centuries. The... View details »
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- Candlelit Opening
- Tuesday 2 Dec (6–9pm) @ Sir John Soane's Museum More times »
- Free
- On the first Tuesday of each month, visitors enjoy the unique opportunity of exploring Sir John Soane's collection by candlelight, the way it was illuminated... View details »
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- The Old Ship
- Tuesday 2 Dec @ The Old Ship More times »
- If you're planning a trip to the Hackney Empire any time soon, be sure to stop by the newly renovated Old Ship next door. Gone... View details »
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- Brick Lane Bike Polo
- Wednesday 3 Dec (7pm) @ Brick Lane Polo More times »
- Free
- Thanks to the invention of bike polo, carefully groomed horses are no longer a prerequisite for a quick chukka. There may be fewer fair-bonneted young... View details »
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- Yoga Club
- Wednesday 3 Dec @ Cafe 1001 More times »
- For those incapable of leaving the confines of Spitalfields and Brick Lane, sneak into 1001 to hone your breathing technique — or just writhe around... View details »
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- Whitecross Street Market
- Thursday 4 Dec (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 »
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- Fondue Night
- Thursday 4 Dec (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 »
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- Picture This
- Thursday 4 Dec (5:30pm) @ The Courtauld Institute of Art More times »
- Somerset House writer-in-residence Ruth Padel invites eminent writers to discuss their favourite paintings at the Courtauld Gallery over the winter months. The French Impressionists dominate... View details »
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- DJ Night at the Castle Climbing Centre
- Thursday 4 Dec (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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- Scottish Ceilidh Club
- Friday 5 Dec (7:15pm) @ Cecil Sharp House More times »
- Don the tartan — or not, as traditional highland wear is optional — and launch headfirst into Cecil Sharp House's regular Scottish Ceilidh Club evening.... View details »
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- Circus
- Friday 5 Dec (10:30pm) @ Soho Revue Bar More times »
- For a cheeky display of old-time glitz and glamour, check out Soho Revue Bar's weekly bash Circus. Since it launched in 2006, the regular fixture... View details »
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- You Me Bum Bum Train
- Saturday 6 Dec (7–11pm) @ Cordy House More times »
- You Me Bum Bum Train must surely take a top gong for originality: participants are strapped into a wheelchair and then pushed around a fairground-style... View details »
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- Swanfield pop-up boutique
- Sunday 7 Dec (noon–6pm) @ Swanfield More times »
- Free
- The Swanfield pop-up boutique provides a cosy indoor addition to the winter market circuit around Brick Lane. Each Sunday it hosts a collection of hand-made... View details »
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- Bogan Bingo
- Monday 8 Dec (7pm) @ Shepherds Bush Walkabout More times »
- Free
- Wade through the boisterous flock of antipodean revellers and indulge in a raucous session of Bogan Bingo. Having kicked off in Melbourne back in 2005,... View details »
- More Flavor: Shopping
- Wills-Moody Jumble Sale
- Sunday 14 Dec (1–5pm) @ St Aloysius Social Club More times »
- Free
- The Wills-Moody Jumble Sale is a great place to overhaul your summer wardrobe while avoiding high-street frenzy. At the utterly reasonable time of 1pm, Euston's... View details »
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- Something for Nothing
- Wednesday 17 Dec (7pm–1am) @ Dream Bags / Jaguar Shoes More times »
- Free
- New monthly fiesta Something for Nothing takes the sometimes-forgotten concept that Christmas is all about giving as inspiration, bringing together a selection of well-known brands... View details »
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- Tai Chi
- Saturday 27 Dec (2pm) @ Unity Unitarian Church More times »
- This two-hour Tai Chi session, taught in a fun and informal way by experienced Yang-style instructor David Talbot, is a great way to wash away... View details »
