Home What’s on By day Thursday 22 October What’s on in London on Thursday 22 October
268 listings starting this day, checked this morning, earliest first. Exhibitions and places open every day are on their venue pages .
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Antiques Market 08:00 · Old Spitalfields Market · Free Bootcamp 09:30 · Harefield Village Green · Free Beginners Bootcamp 10:00 · North Millfields Recreation Ground · Free Community Gardening at Charlton House & Gardens 10:00 · Charlton House - Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust · Free GoodGym Lambeth: Help Out Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre! 10:00 · Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre · Free Jazz Research Symposium - Lift the Bandstand 2026 10:00 · King Charles Court, Old Royal Naval College · Free Ladies Social Thursday Tennis @ Dulwich Park 10:00 · Dulwich Park Tennis Courts (1 & 2) · £12.50 Peckham Digital: Festival of Creative Computing 10:00 · Copeland Gallery · Free LOVO Women’s Health & Wellbeing Day – Free Event 10:30 · Peckham Baptist Church Hall · Free Digger 10:45 · The Castle Cinema · See listing Old Mayfair 10:45 · Green Park Underground Station, North exit (on the corner of Piccadilly and Stratton Street) · £20 (students £15) Slow-Speed Trail of High-Speed Rail 10:45 · Euston tube station, London · £20 (students £15) Untold Stories of London's Luxury Hotels 10:45 · Green Park underground station, London (Green Park exit, by the fountain) · £20 (students £15) Action for Silk Stream River Action Day 11:00 · Chandos Park · See listing Beatles Magical Mystery Tour London 11:00 · Tottenham Court Road Station, Exit 1 opposite The Flying Horse Pub · £20 (students £15) Case 137 11:00 · The Castle Cinema · See listing Creative Drawing: Sketching Architecture 11:00 · The Mill · See listing Extra Geography 11:00 · The Garden Cinema · £8.50 For Crying Out Loud! 11:00 · Wigmore Hall · £10 Grimshaw Club Coffee Morning with Mohammed Soliman 11:00 · MAR.2.06, The Marshall Building · Free London Bubble's Young Touring Company 11:00 · London Bubble Theatre · Free Max and Peggy Morgan Award 11:00 · Silk Street Music Hall, Guildhall School · Free Mutti and Coco di Mama's World Pasta Day Giveaway 11:00 · Observation Point Southbank · Free, fees may apply Oxleas Woods – Slowing the Flow 11:00 · Oxleas Wood Cafe · Free The Choir at The Bridge 11:00 · St John’s Waterloo · See listing The Famous Square Mile 11:00 · Monument Underground station, London (Fish Street Hill exit) · £20 (students £15) The Higgidy Arms Returns! 11:00 · The Queens Head London · £11 + fees The Wallace Collection – the Jewel in the Velvet Box 11:00 · Bond Street underground station, London (Marylebone Lane exit, by Disney Store – north side of Oxford Street) · £20 (students £15) Help Set Up the Foodbank at St Simon’s Church - Thursday's Session! 11:30 · St Simon's Church · Free Kikuyu Land 12:00 · The Garden Cinema · £8.50 OK Foundation’s Community Café (Lordship Rec Hub) 12:00 · Haringey · See listing Pilates 12:00 · Bishopsgate Institute · £15 Sip of Science 12:00 · The Francis Crick Institute · Free Cotton Queen 12:10 · ICA · See listing The Seasons 12:20 · ICA · See listing 22 October | Dyke Night Out @ Phoenix Camden All day · PHOENIX CAMDEN · Free 22nd Oct - Free Comedy at Midsummer Tap All day · Midsummer Tap Milton Keynes · Free A Drag Love Affair Season 2 All day · Love Affair Basement · From £5 + fees An Evening with the Sunbirds of the World All day · The Linnean Society · See listing Around The Belvedere Mount Tree Walk All day · Claremont Landscape Garden · £14 awkward prods' big stupid queer pop culture quiz - OCTOBER EDITION All day · Two Brewers · From £5 + fees Bender Benders Birthday Bash Vol .1 All day · Walthamstow Trades Hall · From £5 + fees Berkhamsted Habitat Maintenance Day All day · Berkhamsted Sewage Works · Free Bijou Socials All day · National Maritime Museum · Free Cabaret Voltaire All day · Roundhouse · See listing Camp Classics presents Frankenhooker at The Divine All day · The Divine · Some free, up to £6 + fees Charles Gimpel and Brixton All day · Brixton · Free Childminders Stay and Play: Information Sessions All day · Little Hands Little Feet Family Centre · Free City of London Cemetery - Heritage and History WALk All day · Meeting point, E12 5DA · Free, book ahead Conversations on identity, family and love All day · Shoe Lane Library · See listing Drag Race UK Season 8 Viewing Parties at Betty & Joan's (hosted by Michael Marouli) All day · Betty & Joan’s · Free Eko Brewery Tap Takeover All day · Tate Modern · See listing Everybody to Kenmure Street - Community Screening with Hackney Anti Raids All day · ESEA Community Centre · Pay what you can + fees In conversation with Richard Wright: celebrating 10 years of the Great Hall ceiling All day · Queen's House · From £22.50 InterBank Networking celebrating Oktoberfest All day · Mercato Metropolitano · Free Into the Garden: Private Sanctuaries Around the World All day · Garden Museum · See listing Kids at Keats: Spooktastic Spook House All day · Keats House · See listing Milton Keynes Glow Ride 2026 All day · Xscape Milton Keynes · Free Mr. Ted's Presents Quizzie Nights All day · The Cock Tavern London · From £5 + fees Much Ado About Nothing: Guided Tour All day · Shakespeare's Globe · See listing Pick&Mix Cabaret: Halloween Special. Presented by HOMOPARODY & FINGERZ All day · Royal Vauxhall Tavern · £10 + fees Prawntricia’s PowerPoint Party (PPPP) All day · VFD · From £5 + fees Programmers of Tomorrow fundraiser screening #3: Night of the Comet (1984) All day · The Cinema Museum · From £9 + fees Queer Britain Museum Lates All day · Queer Britain · Pay what you can, up to £10 + fees Queer Chess Club All day · The Common Press Dalston · Pay what you can + fees Queer Stand Up All day · Off Broadway · Pay what you can + fees Sapphoes: Spooky Femme Social All day · The Nellie · £5 + fees SAS: Behind enemy lines with Damien Lewis All day · Royal Geographical Society · £34.95 Scrabble for all 13:00 · The Mill · See listing SEEDL FREE Live and On-Demand Training All day · Wimbledon town centre · See listing Shakespeare and Windrush All day · Shakespeare's Globe · See listing Slow Looking: Jameisha Prescod on Frida Kahlo All day · Tate Modern · See listing small talks 3: A Sense of (p)Lace All day · Eat the Sunshine . Down the Sun · Pay what you can, up to £12 + fees Sole Sis Run Club All day · Pavilion Cafe Victoria Park · Free STRUT Queer Line Dancing All day · London Irish Centre · From £9 + fees Talk 90s to Me: Normski, Vinca Petersen & Poulomi Desai All day · Tate Britain · See listing The Gallifrey Cabaret: Monsters & Aliens Ball @ the Clapham Grand All day · The Clapham Grand · £16 + fees The Next Drag Superstar! SX: Bracket 2 WK3 - Girl Groups and Musical Theatre All day · Queen of Hoxton · From £10 + fees The Queer Comedy Club Raw All day · The Queer Comedy Club · Free The Return of the Common Good All day · Southwark Cathedral · Free Thursday Thrasher All day · Sobell Leisure Centre · Pay what you can + fees Tower Hamlets Biodiversity and growing symposium All day · The Ecology Pavilion 125 Grove Road · See listing Trinity Laban Lunchtime Concert 13:05 · St Alfege Church · Free Madness: Take It or Leave It 13:15 · The Garden Cinema · £8.50 Pause and Reset: A Guided Wellbeing Session 13:15 · Bishopsgate Institute · £10 Extra Geography 13:30 · The Arzner · See listing Extra Geography 13:50 · The Castle Cinema · See listing Chocolate Paradise 14:00 · Piccadilly Circus Tube, subway 1 exit · £20 (students £15) Comédie Française 14:00 · The Rex Cinema · From £8 Decoding the City – Secret Stories & Symbols 14:00 · City of London Information Centre (near the National Firefighters Memorial, Carter Lane ) St Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8BX (five minutes' walk from St Paul's Underground Station) · £20 (students £15) Fungi Walks: Citizen Science 14:00 · Bushy Park · Free Kensington***** Royal Village – 266 Five-Star Reviews 14:00 · High Street Kensington underground station, London (meet by the Wasabi restaurant at the end of the shopping arcade that links the station with the High Street)) · £20 (students £15) Lunchtime Lectures: Shakespeare's Objects: Understanding the Off-Stage Lives of Early Modern Stage Props 14:00 · V&A South Kensington · Free Old Westminster Walking Tour 14:00 · St James' Park Tube the Broadway/Westminster Abbey exit opposite the Conrad Hotel · £20 (students £15) Pressure 14:00 · David Lean Cinema · £10.50 Her Private Hell 14:10 · ICA · See listing The Blitz 14:15 · St. Paul's underground station, London (exit 2) · £20 (students £15) Nadja 14:20 · ICA · See listing Medical Tour: All Around the University – Firsts & Inventions in the History of Medicine 14:30 · Russell Square underground station, London · £20 (students £15) Street Fighter 14:30 · Genesis Cinema · £10 Underneath the Arches 14:30 · Liverpool Street Station, the Bishops Gate West Exit at the top of the escalator ( which starts from Platform 14) near to Eataly. · £20 (students £15) The Ear 14:45 · The Garden Cinema · £8.50 'Move Fast and Innovate Things: Agile Procurement in the Ukrainian Defence Technology Space' with Dr Elena Davlikanova and Chris Pool 15:00 · King's Building, Dockril Room (KIN 628) · See listing Naza 15:15 · The Garden Cinema · £8.50 The Social Reckoning 15:20 · Genesis Cinema · £7.75 Case 137 15:30 · The Garden Cinema · £8.50 Forgotten Island 15:30 · Genesis Cinema · £7.75 Mindful Movement & Joyful Dance for Emotional Wellbeing 15:30 · 73 – 81 Southwark Bridge Road · See listing Mistura 15:40 · Genesis Cinema · £10 Sutton Soundscapes 15:45 · Wallington Library · Free Adobe Presents: ‘From Concept to Pitch - AI in Film Pre-Production’ - FREE Event 16:00 · Riverside Studios · Free Art – Simon Pasquill’s local interest exhibition 16:00 · Haringey · See listing Naza 16:10 · The Castle Cinema · See listing By Design 16:30 · ICA · See listing Naza 16:30 · ICA · See listing Students, Scholars, and National Security: Afghanistan, Sudan, and Beyond 16:30 · Former Southall Town Hall · Free Student loans and homeownership: Research seminar with Prof Zhenguo Lin 17:00 · room b08, 1-19 Torrington Pl · Free The Naval War in the Baltic, 1914-1915 17:00 · King's Building, Dockrill Room (KIN 628) · Free Thursday Night Board Games at Hiver Taproom 17:00 · Hiver Taproom · Free Writing a Greener Future: A Creative Writing Workshop for Young Writers 17:00 · British Library · Free Wavelengths: October 17:45 · Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre · Free for under 25s Care and Resilience through Life Transitions 18:00 · 73-81 Southwark Bridge Road · See listing Chamber Rush Hour 18:00 · Royal College of Music · See listing Chess n Chill 18:00 · Old Spitalfields Market · Free Come and Guide Run with Achilles International (Paddington Rec Track!) 18:00 · Maida Vale Underground Station · Free Create & Date - Inclusive Speed Dating 18:00 · Ridley Road Social Club · Free daisy* 18:00 · New Cross Inn · £16.50 Digger 18:00 · Genesis Cinema · £10 Haxan with Live Score 18:00 · Prince Charles Cinema · See listing Headlining Rough Edges at The Amersham Arms on Thursday 22nd October – S0FTD0LLY. 18:00 · Amersham Arms · See listing Help a food growing community garden clear an area in Roehampton 18:00 · Roehampton Methodist Church · Free Hikikomori + Inner City Holdings 18:00 · Blondies · See listing OpenUK London Meet-up: “Agentic AI in Financial Services” 18:00 · Free Rosemary's Baby Presented by the Cult Classic Collective 18:00 · Genesis Cinema · See listing Sense and Sensibility 18:00 · The Garden Cinema · £15 Southwark after '81: Race, Equality and Community 18:00 · Canada Water Library · Free Spotlight on Wind, Brass & Percussion 18:00 · Silk Street Music Hall, Guildhall School · Free The Social Reckoning 18:00 · Rio Cinema · From £11 Watch with Mother: Trailblazing Children's Television 18:00 · Alexandra Palace · Pay what you can, from £5 Who are you? 18:00 · Ground Floor · Free Colette & Justin + Q&A 18:05 · Genesis Cinema · See listing Bad Apples 18:15 · Genesis Cinema · £10 Pub Philosophy 18:15 · Hoxton Cabin · Free Sense And Sensibility 18:15 · The Castle Cinema · See listing The History of Tudor Women: Witches to Queens 18:15 · The Guild Church of St Katharine Cree · £16 Black History Month: Red, White and Blue 18:20 · The Lexi Cinema · From £8 2/3rds of a Threesome (& Friends) 18:30 · The Bill Murray · See listing Autumnal Gardening at The Aldgate School! 18:30 · The Aldgate School · Free Beginners Bootcamp 18:30 · Beam Central Park · Free Beth Orton 18:30 · Alexandra Palace Theatre · See listing Book Presentation, Talk & Signing, Carol Allen Storey: Defying the Myth 18:30 · The Photographers' Gallery · Free Holborn Union Debate - This House believes that political donations are fundamental to free speech 18:30 · London School of Economics and Political Science · £5 LCC and Osbornes Law Present – Innovations in Urban Cycling 18:30 · The Building Centre · £5 Live Jazz from the Piano Bar at Red Room Studios, Soho 18:30 · Piano Bar Soho · See listing Mughals in Bombay? Border-making and itinerant belonging in a colonial port city 18:30 · Royal Asiatic Society · Free Ocean Film Festival World Tour 18:30 · Union Chapel · See listing Peter Oborne: British Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza' 18:30 · Alumni Theatre · Free Queerz Night 18:30 · The Bedford · See listing Sabrina Ghayour in conversation with Ben Drinkwater 18:30 · Daunt Books Notting Hill · £6 Stephen Wilson Jr. - Gary the Torch Tour 18:30 · O2 Academy Brixton · See listing Stolen Desire 18:30 · ICA · See listing Talk: I'm tired of this shit 18:30 · ICA · See listing The Return of the Common Good | Theos Think Tank 18:30 · Southwark Cathedral · Free Unfamiliar:Home 18:30 · Mother London · Free Martin Pyne Trio 18:45 · Vortex Jazz Club · See listing Naza 18:45 · Rio Cinema · From £11 24HR Rocky Horror Show 19:00 · Saw Swee Hock: The Venue (-2) · £6 Architecture on Stage: Walters and Cohen 19:00 · Barbican Centre · See listing Aspyrian 19:00 · Toulouse Lautrec · From £9 Beans in Britain: Fact and Fiction 19:00 · British Library · See listing Belle Livingstone's 58th Street Country Club 19:00 · Belle Livingstone's 58th Street Country Club · See listing Bird House Film Club - Halloween Special 19:00 · Bird House Brewery · £8 Cabaret Voltaire's Final UK Tour 19:00 · Roundhouse · See listing Eco-poetics with Ca Conrad 19:00 · MayDay Rooms · See listing Ex Cathedra - In 40 Parts: Spem in alium 19:00 · St Martin-in-the-Fields · From £10 Florentenes 19:00 · London Barfly · See listing Gaidaa 19:00 · Jazz Cafe · See listing GoldFord 19:00 · KOKO · See listing Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody 19:00 · Underbelly Boulevard · See listing Hine After Hours 19:00 · Boisdale, Canary Wharf · See listing Introduction to Leather Purse-Making 19:00 · Landmark Arts Centre · £81.50 incl. fees Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel – the VIP Small Group Tour that's had 523 Five-Star reviews* 19:00 · Whitechapel Underground Station (Whitechapel Road exit) · £20 (students £15) James Smith 19:00 · The Garage · See listing Jazz at Cockpit: Calum Gourlay residency + Chelsea Carmichael 19:00 · Spring Café, Cockpit Studios · Free Jazz Jam with Stratos // Every Thursday 19:00 · Grow · Free Katie Pritchard is Sir Elton Scone 19:00 · Museum of Comedy · See listing Khakikid 19:00 · The Lower Third · See listing Lip Critic 19:00 · Underworld · See listing Live at the Bedford Presents: Folk & Roots, Emma Stevens 19:00 · The Bedford · Free Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (30th Anniversary) 19:00 · Jazz Cafe · See listing Panda - Live in London 19:00 · O2 Forum Kentish Town · See listing Shovel Dance Collective: Live + Signing 19:00 · Rough Trade East London · From £16.89 Sleep Broken... A Tribute to Sleep Token 19:00 · O2 Academy2 Islington · See listing Space Hippo 19:00 · Jacksons Lane · From £10 Steam Down X Nyjo Big Band 19:00 · Blue Note London · See listing The Mountain Goats Night 2 19:00 · Hackney Church · See listing Thursday Night Pub Quiz & Karaoke — Fabal Beerhall 19:00 · 88 Druid Street · See listing Transvision Vamp 19:00 · O2 Shepherds Bush Empire · See listing Youth uprisings, student protests in France! 19:00 · Deptford Lounge · Free Cultivate: Hope is a Dangerous Thing 19:15 · Riverside Studios · £5 Page 1 2
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