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Hello, September! Dive into this month’s newsletter filled with the most exciting events across London and Watford. Guess what? Summer’s making a surprise encore just as Autumn hits, perfect for soaking up the festivities. Fresh from a rejuvenating escape in the Lake District—scaling heights, wandering trails, and embracing the captivating British outdoors—I’m recharged for the upcoming season. Hope your summer tales are just as radiant!
BARTHOLOMEW FAIR – 1st till 16th
Over three weeks of free stunning performances and cultural events as the City of London’s historic Bartholomew Fair is reimagined.
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Totally Thames – 1st till 1st October
Celebrating the River Thames with arts events, active adventures, environmental initiatives, heritage and education programmes.
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BBC Gardeners World, Autumn Fair – 1st till 3rd
The Autumn Fair takes place 10am – 5pm from Friday 1 to Sunday 3 September 2023 in the grounds of English Heritage’s Audley End House and Gardens, Saffron Walden, Essex.
Find out more here.
Greenwich + Docklands International Festival – till 10th
GDIF 2023 will bring together UK and international artists in a ground-breaking outdoor theatre, performance, art, dance and circus programme in iconic public spaces across London.
Find out more here.
Watford Market Lates – 1st
Includes live music with ‘Tidal Basis’ and craft beer, a pop-up bar and delicious street food from around the globe, including Caribbean, Asian and Korean street food.
Find out more here.
Brentford Art Trail – 1st till 3rd
Creative Mile is planning its third year to celebrate the creativity that, like the mighty River Thames, flows right through the heart of Brentford, West London, combining Artists, Museums and Art Centres.
Find out more here.
Camberwell Fair, Camberwell Green – 2nd
Camberwell Fair will be returning on Saturday, 2nd September 12-8:30 pm at our old home of Camberwell Green for a day of amazing live music with influences from around the world, DJs, mask making, an independent market and food and drink stalls, all completely free entry.
Find out more here.
Black On The Square, Trafalgar Square – 2nd
Celebrate Black culture and creativity with music, spoken word and dance at Black on the Square, brought to you by the Mayor of London. Immerse yourself in the vitality and originality of London’s Black culture and creativity. Enjoy jazz, rap and soul as we platform legendary voices, pioneers and new talent.
Find out more here.
Music at the Bandstand, Watford – 3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th
Situated near the Cafe in the Park, every weekend during September, it plays host to a jam-packed programme of FREE live shows, playing everything from jazz to ukulele – and, of course, lots of traditional brass bands for you to enjoy. What better way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon!
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Photographic Walk in Cassiobury Park Nature Reserve, Watford – 6th
Take a guided walk through Cassiobury Park Nature Reserve led by Andrew Lalchan (local photographer); we will explore early autumn in the park with the changing leaves and fungi.
Find out more here.
Open House Festival – 6th till 19th
Open House Festival is an annual two-week celebration of London featuring amazing events, tours and open days of special buildings across all 33 London boroughs. With hundreds of thousands of visitors, it is the most popular event of its kind in the world.
Find out more here.
Heritage Open Days 2023 – 8th till 17th
England’s largest festival of history and culture! Thousands of volunteers across England organise events to celebrate our fantastic history and culture every September. It’s your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – all of which are FREE to explore.
Find out more here.
Star trails in Cassiobury Park – 8th
Have you ever wanted to do Star Trails of the night sky, well, this is your chance. We will be taking shots of the stars in a sequence to make a star trail. Clear skies are needed for this; the event will move to Saturday or Sunday if it’s cloudy.
Find out more here.
Julianknxx Chorus in Rememory of Flight, Barbican – 14th till 11th Feb 2024
Poet, artist and filmmaker Julianknxx explores themes of inheritance, loss and belonging as he crosses the boundaries between the written word, music and visual art.
Find out more here.
London Fashion Week, September 2023 – 15th to 19th
Discover the schedule for London Fashion Week, taking place from Friday 15th to Tuesday 19th September 2023. Highlights include BFC NEWGEN designers, 16Arlington, Burberry, JW Anderson, KNWLS, Molly Goddard, Richard Quinn, ROKSANDA & Simone Rocha.
Find out more here.
Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto at V&A – 16th
The first UK exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturière, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, charting the establishment of the House of CHANEL and the evolution of her iconic design style, which continues to influence the way women dress today.
Find out more here.
REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion, Design Museum – 16th till 11th February 2024
Opening to coincide with London Fashion Week, this landmark exhibition will be one of the most wide-ranging surveys of contemporary fashion culture ever staged in the UK. It will offer an unprecedented look at how careers in fashion are forged and the multitude of opportunities London’s fashion scene offers young creatives.
Find out more here.
London Design Festival – 16th to 24th
London Design Festival celebrates and promotes the city as a design capital on the global stage. London Design Festival was launched by Sir John Sorrell CBE and Ben Evans CBE in 2003. Building on London’s existing design activity, their concept was to create an annual event that would promote the city’s creativity, drawing in the country’s greatest thinkers, practitioners, retailers and educators to deliver an unmissable celebration of design.
Find out more here.
Frieze Sculpture 2023 – 20th till 29th October
Curated by Fatoş Üstek for the first time, Frieze Sculpture returns to The Regent’s Park from 20 September–29 October, featuring new work by Ayşe Erkmen, Ghada Amer and Hank Willis Thomas, among many others.
Find out more here.
Colour Walk Meetup at Spitalfields Market – 21st
It is an informal gathering of colourful, creative souls who meet, dressed in their finest, to walk, talk and strut their stuff. Excellent for photography.
Find out more here.
The Missing Thread at Somerset House – 21st till 7th Jan 2024
This autumn, Somerset House explores the stories of Black British fashion in a major new exhibition, The Missing Thread, curated by the Black Oriented Legacy Development Agency (BOLD). Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, The Missing Thread charts the shifting landscape of Black British culture and the unique contribution it has made to Britain’s rich design history.
Find out more here.
London Design Fair – 21st till 24th
London Design Fair returns in 2023 to its home at The Truman Brewery, located just off the iconic Brick Lane. The Truman Brewery holds the perfect aesthetic backdrop for the eclectic mix of cutting-edge, contemporary design on display.
Find out more here.
Watford Fringe – 22nd till 8th October
The Watford Fringe Festival is an extraordinary live festival full of great theatre, music, comedy, dance, magic and family fun-filled shows! 2023s festival brings over 85 performances at 11 venues across Watford.
Find out more here.
Strawberry Hill House Flower Festival – 22nd till 24th
The Strawberry Hill House Flower Festival, curated by Leigh Chappell & Janne Ford, returns for a fifth successive year this September with a spectacular showcase of the very best of British-grown flowers, foam-free sustainable floristry, and the design creativity of the UK’s leading floral designers.
Find out more here.
Light painting in Cassiobury Park, Watford, with model – 23rd
After sunset, we will use the park as our canvas, starting with the Lion King Tree and working our way down to the river. This workshop will be around 2 hours long*. Josè and I will be running the workshop. You can find out about ourselves on our Instagram links below. We will have a model for some shots.
Find out more here.
Turning Tides Festival, Greenwich Peninsular – 23rd to 24th
Join the party on the 23 & 24 September and party all weekend long with a phenomenal line-up of live music & DJs from around the globe, including headliners Afriquoi and Los Bitchos. Hosted in the heart of the Design District, you’re not going to want to miss a second of the fun. So gather your friends, grab your free tickets & get ready to take on the dance floor!
Find out more here.
London Pearly Kings and Queens Costermongers Harvest Festival – 24th
The highly anticipated London Pearly Kings and Queens Costermongers Harvest Festival is set to take place on Sunday, 24th September 2023, at 1:30 p.m. at The Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE. This cherished event, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, will bring together an array of entertainment, esteemed guests, and a vibrant procession, making it a must-attend event for Londoners and visitors alike.
Find out more here.
British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery – 28th
The Fair for Modern and Contemporary British Art. Top dealers from London and across the UK gather at Saatchi Gallery once a year to present the very best Modern British and Contemporary art, tell visitors all about the artist’s work, and give specialist advice on collecting. Galleries are installed throughout all three storeys of Saatchi Gallery, London, creating an elegant museum-like atmosphere for the fair.
Find out more here.
Sarah Lucas Happy Gas, Tate Britain – 28th
A British artist’s brash and tender exploration of what makes us human. Sarah Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold and provocative use of materials and imagery. Using ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understanding of sex, class and gender over the last four decades.
Find out more here.
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Hilma Af Klint & Piet Mondrian Forms Of Life at Tate Modern – till 3rd September
This is a unique chance to discover the visionary work of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint and experience Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s influential art in a new light. Although they never met, af Klint and Mondrian both invented their own languages of abstract art rooted in nature. At the heart of both of their artistic journeys was a shared desire to understand the forces behind life on earth.
Find out more here.
Planet Summer at the Southbank – till 3rd September
The Southbank Centre presents Planet Summer, a landmark multi-artform season that explores themes of care, hope, connection and activism in response to the climate emergency. Performances, exhibitions, music, new artistic commissions, a busy talks programme and free programming, will connect audiences with a range of environmental issues and highlight the need for active care of the environment and nature.
Find out more here.
BLACK VENUS: Reclaiming Black Women in Visual Culture at Somerset House – till 24th September
Somerset House is delighted to present BLACK VENUS, an exhibition that examines the historical representation and shifting legacy of Black women in visual culture. Curated by Aindrea Emelife, BLACK VENUS brings together the work of 18 Black women and non-binary artists to explore the othering, fetishisation and reclamation of narratives around Black femininity.
Find out more here.
The Rossettis at Tate Britain – till 24th Sept
This exhibition follows the romance and radicalism of the Rossetti generation through and beyond the Pre-Raphaelite years: Dante Gabriel, Christina and Elizabeth (née Siddal). Visitors will get to experience world-renowned works from their boundary-pushing careers. The Rossettis’ approach to art, love and lifestyles is considered revolutionary, and this will be thoroughly explored in an immersive show using spoken poetry, drawings, paintings, photography, design and more.
Find out more here.
Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians at Buckingham Palace – till 8th October
This exhibition explores what the Georgians wore, from the practical dress of laundry maids to the glittering gowns worn at court. Discover what fashion can tell us about life in the 18th century, a revolutionary period of trade, travel and technology that fuelled fashion trends across all levels of society. Delve into the Georgians’ style story and get up close to magnificent paintings, prints and drawings by artists including Gainsborough, Zoffany and Hogarth, as well as luxurious textiles, sparkling jewellery, and a range of accessories from snuff boxes to swords.
Find out more here.
Serpentine Pavilion 2023 by Lina Ghotmeh – till 29 October 2023
Serpentine Pavilion 2023: À table, designed by French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh, derives from the aspiration to create a sustainable kinship with the land through food and our primal relationship to the Earth.
Find out more here.
Contemporary African Photography at the Tate Modern, London – till 14th January 2024
A celebration of the varied landscape of contemporary African photography today. Bringing together a group of artists from different generations, this exhibition will address how photography, film, audio, and more have been used to reimagine Africa’s diverse cultures and historical narratives.
Find out more here.
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