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Dance
Perky street theatre, sky-high dance and reams of free family fun: Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (GDIF) returns to the streets for 2023
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Festival
The annual Totally Thames festival returns for 2022, with 90 arts-related events taking place along the banks of London's leading river. Here are the highlights to catch
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Lifestyle
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Dance
'An evening with Sergei Polunin' at the Palladium Theatre combines words and dance in an event that will delight his many fans
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Immersive
Helmed by Stephen Daldry and Good Chance Theatre, The Walk sees a giant puppet of a Syrian refugee travel from her homeland to the UK in search of her mother
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Beauty
Gift-with-purchase beauty products on a grand scale
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Festival
Colourful parades, booming sound systems and rum punch are among the things that usually characterise Notting Hill Carnival. This year, the party is going online…
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cheap
West End Live, the free festival showcasing the best of musical theatre, goes online with an all singing, all dancing virtual offering
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Immersive
NOW Gallery is one of our favourite immersive, free spaces in London and Emmanuelle Moureaux's Slices of Time is the exhibition everyone will be talking about this Feb
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Beauty
From lip products to fix flaky skin to brilliant budget formulas, an SPF stick, and a plastic-free lip balm: the best lip products for 2020 you can buy now
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Kids
Blow their tiny minds without blowing your budget: check out our round up of the best free events for kids in London
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Kids
Get your child excited about reading by introducing them to literature's rebels like Matilda and Dirty Bertie at the British Library's Marvellous and Mischievous: Literature's Young Rebels exhibition
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Best of
London's best open air theatre: summer is coming and culture's heading outside with a season of unmissable outdoor performances across the city
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Food & Drink
Now in its third incarnation, London's favourite barbecue restaurant offers mouthwatering meats paired with craft beers
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Best of
The Serpentine Summer Season is upon us; here's what you need to know about the Pavilion, Serpentine Park Nights, Radical Lunches and the monumental floating Mastaba
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Visual Arts
A rare opportunity to find out how and why Tolkien created Middle-earth – and discover more about the man behind the masterpiece
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Food
Indulge in B Bakery's traditional afternoon tea on a routemaster bus tour: sightseeing in style
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Visual Arts
We tell you all you need to know about Lumiere London, the city-wide free light festival taking over the capital this weekend
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Visual Arts
Spanish masterpieces from The Bowes Museum come to The Wallace Collection this winter in a once-in-a-lifetime collaborative exhibition
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Immersive
Radical Danes at the Tate: The 2017 Hyundai Commission, One Two Three Swing! opens at Tate's Turbine Hall
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Things to do
The blockbuster exhibitions start to close in August, so it's time to start snooping around the best London galleries: here's our guide
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Festival
Greenwich and Docklands Festival, London's biggest free outdoor festival of the arts, returns in 2017 with dance, theatre and a massive moon this summer
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Visual Arts
Pace Gallery showcases the starkly geometric work of American sculptor Joel Shapiro
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Visual Arts
Corrida de toros, mythology and an ancient Iberian bloodlust – this London show places Picasso in the context of the land of his birth
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Theatre
See the Easter story performed by a cast of 100 in the Passion Plays in Trafalgar Square for free this Good Friday
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Visual Arts
Swedish artist Emanuel Almborg's latest exhibition, Learning Matter, offers a fresh perspective towards the oldest machines: the human body
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Visual Arts
Dynamic canvases come to both Victoria Miro galleries: Madrid artist Secundino Hernández continues his love affair with gesture and form
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Visual Arts
New works by American artist Richard Tuttle: The Critical Edge gathers pieces in fabric from the king of textiles
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Kids
The third nationwide Fun Palaces 2016 festival celebrates the arts and sciences side by side, inspired by the vision of revolutionary playwright Joan Littlewood
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Food & Drink
New restaurant from founders of Pachamama: Chicama brings vibrant Peruvian flavours, zesty seafood and much bon viveur to Chelsea
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Visual Arts
Stage designer Es Devlin launches first solo installation, taking visitors on journey of reflection inspired by the evocative effects of fragrance
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Food & Drink
A slick new Texas barbecue restaurant comes to Bermondsey, and London BBQ will never be the same again