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SUMMARY:Journey of Light
DESCRIPTION:Journey of Light is a solo exhibition of recent works by London-based artist Özlem Sorlu Thompson\, whose vibrant paintings embody the Mediterranean sun of her native Turkey. \n  \nThe centrepiece of the show was directly inspired by a recent visit to Şeytan Sofrası\, a volcanic hilltop on the Aegean coast known for a mythical lava pond that\, according to legend\, marks the spot where the devil left his footprint as he was expelled from heaven. \n  \nWhat started as a sketch on a small canvas grew into a polyptych and the artist’s largest painting to date. As each section blends into the next and layers of imaginary florals cover the dreamlike landscape\, Thompson takes us on a visual journey that merges ancient folklore with hopes for the future. \n  \nInitially approaching flora and fauna\, and exotic plants in particular\, with scientific curiosity\, Thompson’s art is guided by intuition and an interest in the less tangible qualities\, expressing her love for nature. Carrying the sun within them\, her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in collections as far afield as Dubai and the Americas. \n  \nJourney of Light marks the tenth anniversary of Özlem Sorlu Thompson’s move to North London and serves as a symbolic link between her motherland and her chosen home.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/journey-of-light/2026-04-08/
LOCATION:Burgh House\, New End Square\, London\, NW3 1LT
CATEGORIES:Arts,Events in London,Exhibitions,Family Activities,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Jeffs – Lives We Cannot Live
DESCRIPTION:Documentary film maker and photographer Jeremy Jeffs spent three years photographing and interviewing people with ME in their homes. Lives We Cannot Live reveals the hidden reality of living with the condition. \nCurated by Sebah Chaudhry and supported by the ME Association\, the exhibition sets out to bring visibility to a hidden and neglected community and encompasses environmental portraits\, collaged with diary notes and personal memories of before being ill\, selected from more than 50 cases. \nDiagnosed with ME as a teenager\, Jeffs shares the lived experiences of his sitters and captures an intimate side of life rarely witnessed even by close friends. Hidden symptoms mixed with a general lack of awareness make this a doubly invisible and isolating disease. \n“I started this project out of frustration and anger because in the almost four decades since my diagnosis nothing has really changed. We still don’t know much about ME\, there’s still a lack of proper funding for research\, no clear treatment\, and worse\, there’s still widespread misunderstanding about the illness\, even among some healthcare professionals.” \nAround 400\,000 people in the UK have this debilitating and as yet incurable illness. Symptoms include profound fatigue\, sleep disturbance\, post-exertional malaise\, cognitive difficulties and a range of other symptoms like pain\, headaches\, nausea and intolerance to lights and noise. \nLives We Cannot Live is the first large scale project to focus on ME and precedes the publication of a photo book with Fistful of Books later this year.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/jeremy-jeffs-lives-we-cannot-live/2026-04-08/
LOCATION:oxo gallery\, gallery@oxo\, Oxo Tower Wharf\, Bargehouse Street\, South Bank\, London\, SE1 9PH
CATEGORIES:Arts,Events in London,Exhibitions,Free Events,Health Education,Photography,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Desire to Create: Baťa's Architecture of Belonging
DESCRIPTION:The Czech Centre London\, in collaboration with the Tomáš Baťa Foundation and the Bata Heritage Centre\, marks the 150th anniversary of Czech entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa\, founder of the global Baťa Shoe Company\, with an exhibition exploring his achievements\, guiding principles\, and their realisation in East Tilbury. It reveals how ideas about work\, culture\, sport\, health and community were embedded in the design of the built environment. \nThe exhibition unfolds in two complementary strands. Desire to Create presents Baťa’s legacy as a comprehensive philosophy\, uniting work with service\, enterprise with education\, and personal development with responsibility towards others – not as a relic of the past\, but as a continuing source of inspiration. Baťa’s Architecture of Belonging brings East Tilbury to life through architectural drawings\, historic photographs and original artefacts\, evoking its distinctive modernist atmosphere. Together\, they trace how ideas were translated into built form – from vision to planning\, from planning to everyday life – creating a cohesive narrative of belonging\, work and community. \nOrganised by the Czech Centre London in partnership with the Bata Heritage Centre. \n\nEXHIBITION OPENING\nThursday 9 April 2026\, 6.30 – 8.30 pm\nFree entry\, Register Here\nEXHIBITION DATES: 10 April – 12 June 2026\nVENUE & OPENING TIMES\nVitrínka Gallery\, Czech Centre London\n30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY\nOpening hours: Tue – Fri 10 am – 5 pm
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/desire-to-create-batas-architecture-of-belonging/
LOCATION:Vitrinka Gallery\, 30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Arts,Community Events,Design,Digital Arts,Environment,Events in London,Exhibitions,Free Events
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SUMMARY:Maggie Roberts | Sheer Presence: While They Are Here…
DESCRIPTION:IMT Gallery is proud to present Sheer Presence: While They Are Here…\, a solo exhibition by multimedia artist Maggie Roberts\, exploring presence as a transformative force through watercolour paintings\, digital collage\, textiles and video. Responding directly to the ongoing ecological collapse\, violent destruction\, and the pervasive sense of uncertainty\, Sheer Presence acts as a cosmopolitical manifestation tool—a profound call to remain awake\, intentional\, and attuned to unseen forces shaping our shared reality. \nDrawing inspiration from Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ recent book What Is Life? Evolution as Computation (MIT Press\, 2025)\, the exhibition explores Sheer Presence as the distinct intrusion of another entity— often animal or virtual—disrupting the human order. Echoing the 8th-century Tibetan Buddhist Tattvasangraha text (verses 2892-2893)\, Roberts emphasises presence as the fundamental ability of an entity to profoundly influence and alter its environment\, reshaping perceptions and expanding experiences of reality. \nAt the heart of the exhibition is an ancient manifestation grid\, activated through six thematic “nodes”: ancestors><power; the invisibles><universe of multiple dimensions; crystal light><purpose; clarity><silent focus; creativity><collective imagination; and abundance><manifesting change. Each node directly addresses contemporary feelings of disconnection\, fragmentation\, overwhelming distraction\, and destabilisation\, offering pathways for healing\, imagination\, and renewal. \nRoberts invites visitors to follow Lines of Intention across this geometric terrain—a multi- dimensional map designed to reconnect with deep time\, invisible agents\, and ancestral wisdom. The sacred geometry that underpins manifestation practices\, is believed to align personal intentions with broader universal energies. At its centre sits the octopus\, Roberts’ Avatar of Manifestation\, representing fluidity\, adaptability\, distributed intelligence and the authentic self. \nWithin the images\, crystals and hagstones (naturally perforated stones shaped over millennia by ocean movement) serve as portals. Linked to folklore\, protection\, and divination\, hagstones reveal hidden truths\, amplifying the exhibition’s resonance with multidimensional frequencies\, agents and stories to foster the power of the imagination to bring change. \nABOUT MAGGIE ROBERTS \n\n\nMaggie Roberts has explored the boundaries of machine and human vision throughout her career\, exhibiting as a solo artist and as the collaborative artist 0rphan Drift (which she co-founded in London with Ranu Mukherjee in 1994). The work is increasingly underpinned by ecological issues and concerns entanglements of human\, technology and the wider biosphere as part of a process of co-evolution. 0rphan Drift employs various media – video\, 3D animation\, sound\, performance\, installation\, and text – particularly speculative experimental fiction. In recent years they have been considering artificial intelligence through the somatic tendencies of an octopus – as a distributed\, many minded consciousness\, manifesting in If AI Were Cephalopod at Telematic Gallery\, San Francisco\, her IMT Gallery Becoming Octopus Meditations\, ISCRI (partnered by the Serpentine Gallery’s AI Lab) and the current 0rphan Drift 9 Brains project. Their installations\, performances and speculative fictions have been exhibited nationally and internationally in gallery and museum spaces for over three decades. Other recent exhibitions include May the Other Live in Me\, Laboratoria Art Science\, Moscow; Still I Rise: Gender\, Feminisms and Resistance\, Nottingham Contemporary\, Nottingham; Matter Fictions\, Berardo Museum\, Lisbon; Speculative Fictions\, PDX Contemporary\, Portland; Eat Code and Die\, Lomex Gallery\, New York\, and in the book Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy\, by David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecent publications include Aqueous Humours\, Fluid Ground (Ed. Kirsten Cooke and Melanie Jackson\, pub. Matt’s Gallery); Serpentine Gallery’s Future Art Ecosystems 4; OctoGANN a Fiction (Creative Practice Journal); Hydrofeminist Thinking with Oceans (Routledge Press) and Pattern and Texture as Communication (Radical Matter Journal). \nRoberts teaches Fine Art Critical Studies at Central St Martins\, UAL and also lectures at many other UK art schools\, and presents 0rphan Drift’s work at symposia internationally. She is represented by IMT Gallery.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/maggie-roberts-sheer-presence-while-they-are-here/2026-04-09/
LOCATION:IMT Gallery\, Unit 2/210 Cambridge Heath Road\, London\, E2 9NQ
CATEGORIES:Arts,Digital Arts,Events in London,Exhibitions,Free Events,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:The House - Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:IMT Gallery presents The House\, an exhibition of works by Tom Clark\, Guest-Host-Guest\, Harri Harrison\, Heiðdís Hólm\, Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson\, Anna Sebastian\, Kristina Stallvik and Suzanne Treister. It features work that all\, often through degrees of autobiography\, speaks to some of the discordances of being at home: perhaps the anticipation of order amidst the everyday; or an expectation of comfort\, often amidst insecurity or tension. \nThe exhibition is a place where we might live. Often\, when visitors come to this gallery\, they ask her if she lives here. They ask\, “Do you live here?” They ask\, “Are these your cats?” I lived here once too. I don’t anymore. This exhibition is about living somewhere. Perhaps it is about reaching for this thing. \nIn the words of Guest-Host-Guest: ‘Here\, the house is a metaphor for assumed belonging. A place we are expected to be ‘resolved’ or ‘satisfied’\, even when displacement\, precarity\, and contested ownership sit just beneath the surface.’ \nThe exhibition is a hand with a mirror in front of it. The mirror reflects some flowers or a field. Behind the hand is a sky. In front of the sky is a blank\, featureless wall. All these things at various distances from the camera. A cat; a home; a gallery; a municipality listed on a birth certificate (since burned). The house. \nCurating at Home: Making Personal Spaces of Creative Agency\nOnline Course with Dr Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson \nApril – May 2026 \nOrganised to coincide with The House\, join us for a four-session online course exploring how we live with art\, and how the art we live with shapes the way we live. \nHeld fortnightly\, Curating at Home: Making Personal Spaces of Creative Agency invites you to look closely at the rooms\, objects\, and artworks that surround you. Drawing on art practices\, histories\, philosophy\, exhibition-making\, and practices of everyday attention\, we will explore how meaning is shaped through arrangement\, context\, and the lived rhythms of domestic space. \nLed by artist\, educator\, and curator Dr Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson and hosted by IMT Gallery\, each session brings together case studies\, creative exercises\, and guided activities designed to help you think with and through your own environment. \nPlaces are limited — the course begins 12 April. Click here for full course detail \n_ \nPictured: Anna Sebastian\, detail of ‘Esalon’ (2024)\, oil on canvas\, 100 x 100cm \nSuzanne Treister is represented by Annely Juda Fine Art\, London\, P.P.O.W\, New York and The Ryder\, Madrid.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-house-exhibition/2026-04-09/
LOCATION:IMT Gallery\, Unit 2/210 Cambridge Heath Road\, London\, E2 9NQ
CATEGORIES:Arts,Events in London,Films,Free Events,Sculpture,Visual Arts
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260409T150000
DTSTAMP:20260408T044806
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SUMMARY:London Loo Tour
DESCRIPTION:It’s Not the Bog-Standard London Experience! \nPrepare to be immersed (metaphorically\, that is!) in a world where the humble toilet becomes a portal to explore history\, anthropology\, art\, architecture\, identity\, and of course\, our sense of humour. \nFrom the earliest latrines through to the future of flushing\, your guide will take you on a whirlwind tour through the history of Britain’s public toilets\, with plenty of interesting sights and practical tips along the way. You’ll answer all the questions you never knew you had… How did the Romans wipe their bottoms?  Was there really a man named Thomas Crapper? How long will you spend in the smallest room in a lifetime? And why do we even call it a loo? \nIt’s the perfect day out for anyone who likes to dive a bit deeper… lifelong Londoners and first time visitors alike! One thing is for sure: you may never think about a simple visit to the lavatory the same way again!
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/london-loo-tour-2/2026-04-09/
LOCATION:Waterloo Station\, London Waterloo station Waterloo Road\, SE1 8SW
CATEGORIES:Education,Entertainment,Events in London,History,Walking
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SUMMARY:Desire to Create: Baťa's Architecture of Belonging - PRIVATE VIEW
DESCRIPTION:FreeExhibition marking 150 years of Tomáš Baťa explores his vision of work\, community and modernist design\, brought to life in East Tilbury. \n\n\n\nThe Czech Centre London\, in collaboration with the Tomáš Baťa Foundation and the Bata Heritage Centre\, marks the 150th anniversary of Czech entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa\, founder of the global Baťa Shoe Company\, with an exhibition exploring his achievements\, guiding principles\, and their realisation in East Tilbury. It reveals how ideas about work\, culture\, sport\, health and community were embedded in the design of the built environment. \nThe exhibition unfolds in two complementary strands. Desire to Create presents Baťa’s legacy as a comprehensive philosophy\, uniting work with service\, enterprise with education\, and personal development with responsibility towards others – not as a relic of the past\, but as a continuing source of inspiration. Baťa’s Architecture of Belonging brings East Tilbury to life through architectural drawings\, historic photographs and original artefacts\, evoking its distinctive modernist atmosphere. Together\, they trace how ideas were translated into built form – from vision to planning\, from planning to everyday life – creating a cohesive narrative of belonging\, work and community. \nOrganised by the Czech Centre London in partnership with the Bata Heritage Centre. \nEXHIBITION DATES: 10 April – 12 June 2026 \nVENUE & OPENING TIMES\nVitrínka Gallery\, Czech Centre London\n30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY\nOpening hours: Tue – Fri 10 am – 5 pm
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/desire-to-create-batas-architecture-of-belonging-private-view/
LOCATION:Vitrinka Gallery\, 30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Events in London,Exhibitions,Free Events
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SUMMARY:Eggs Aren’t That Easy To Make - London Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating queer joy and the family we choose\, Claire and her best friend Dan make a drunken pact at a 21st birthday party-he will be her sperm donor if she’s ever in a lesbian relationship when she’s older. \nFlash forward a decade and Dan\, in a relationship himself with girlfriend Naomi who doesn’t want children\, is ready tohonourthe agreement when Claire and girlfriend Lou struggle to find a donor. \nAs IVF treatments\, ante-natal classes\, and the looming realities of parenthood test the foursome’s friendships and relationships\, Eggs Aren’t That Easy To Make explores our limits and boundaries\, while highlighting the additional obstacles that LGBTQ+ couples face with warmth\, heart\, and humour.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/eggs-arent-that-easy-to-make-london-theatre/2026-04-09/
LOCATION:Riverside Studios\, 101 Queen Caroline St\, London W6 9BN\, Riverside Studios\, 101 Queen Caroline St\, London\, W6 9BN
CATEGORIES:Arts,Cheap Tickets,Community Events,Events in London,London Theatre
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SUMMARY:Wandering the World\, Wondering How to Return - Monodrama in One Act – When Diary Notes Grow into Literature - London Theatre
DESCRIPTION:For five years\, acting student Anna Torner travelled across the world\, documenting her experiences and inner journey in blog posts. From London to South America\, from India to New Zealand\, her travel journals eventually grew into her 2024 novel\, Itt sem fogunk élni (~We Won’t Live Here Either)\, which traces a young woman’s coming-of-age through her diary entries. \nIn 2025\, Boglárka Berecz and Mátyás Dögei adapted the book for the stage\, with Péter Vargyas composing its music and writing the lyrics. Thus was born the monodrama Wandering the World\, Wondering How to Return–a sensitive and humorous theatrical piece that takes the audience through this intimate journey of self-discovery. \nThroughout Anna Torner’s creative path – moving between writing and acting – her blog posts evolved into works of literary merit\, while acting became a defining part of her life. \nJoin us for this special performance\, which aims to offer us all relatable touchstones and answers. \n\nSynopsis \nIt takes one hour to fly from Budapest to Târgu Mureș. Travelling through England\, Asia\, and South America – sometimes by bicycle\, car\, train\, on foot\, by bus\, ship\, truck\, ferry\, tractor\, boat\, or motorbike – alone\, but never completely alone\, the same journey can take five years. \nThe journey matters more than the destination. I move like a ghost through a Parisian apartment. Pink ponies in London. In the junky quarter\, I swim across the canal with you. We cycle around Southeast  Asia and New  Zealand. Without you\, I hitchhike on Mexican trucks\, my Christmas dinner is green banana boiled with callaloo leaves\, and I rewrite the rules of wild camping. Don’t look for happiness outside. I try what’s worth trying in Colombia\, dance at a Kichwa celebration in Ecuador\, travel through Peru with Tata\, and get close to the Big Dipper itself\, without you. Home is within you. By the time I return\, maybe my phone will finally ring. \nThe performance runs 1 hour and 15 minutes and will be performed in English. \n\n\n\nDirector: Boglárka Berecz\nDramaturg and musical director: Mátyás Dögei\nPerformed by: Anna Torner\nLive music and vocals: Péter Vargyas\n\n\n\nWhen a young woman gathers her savings and buys a one-way ticket to Mexico – and keeps going\, farther and farther still – she can be sure to stumble upon a thousand little stories along the way. She sleeps in roadside motels\, trucks\, tents\, and pay toilets. Cooks banana soup in a Rasta hut in Belize\, finds surrogate parents in Peru\, argues with soldiers in the Indian mountains\, and ends up in a quarantine hostel in New Zealand. She babysits\, fries doughnuts\, tends bar\, and shears sheep. She makes friendships for life. Sometimes she curses the very idea of living in the moment – and herself. Because what are a thousand adventures compared to a fulfilled love? Then she’s off again\, speeding into the sunset on a truck bed. Or moves into a flat on Dob Street\, Budapest. And then moves on once more\, always farther – until… What does it really mean to arrive? \nAnna Torner travelled the world for five years. Her novel – born from blog entries and perhaps letters never sent – is both a travelogue and a diary\, written for those who keep searching\, with endless curiosity\, for their own path. \nLeonidasz Purosz\, editor of Itt sem fogunk élni (~We Won’t Live Here Either)
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/wandering-the-world-wondering-how-to-return-monodrama-in-one-act-when-diary-notes-grow-into-literature-london-theatre/
LOCATION:Liszt Institute\, Hungarian Cultural Centre London\, 17-19 Cockspur Street\, London\, Westminster\, SW1Y 5BL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Arts,Events in London,Free Events,London Theatre,Performing Arts
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