Things to do in London this week

London, look lively! The first of May’s two bank holidays takes place this Monday. And while still a few weeks from the summer equinox, the early May bank holiday feels like the unofficial start of summer in London. Looking for fun ways to fill those sweet extra days off? We’ve got absolutely loads of ideas...just read ou guide. 

Much-loved fried chicken emporium Morley’s is going to shower you with free chicken. A complimentary wing extravaganza is going to take place on Saturday celebrating Morley’s recent Fried Chicken Sauce team-up with Heinz. It’ll take place from noon to 2pm at two London shops – in Brick Lane and Brixton Hill – with free trays of wings with splodges of the special sauce on the side. The London stores will have performances from local DJs, and from 3-5pm at Morley’s Brick Lane there’ll be open mic performances and special guest DJs. 

This regular music market is back, providing artisan produce and street food alongside its mega vinyl booty. Find records on sale from all sorts of indie labels including AD, Because, Big Dada, Brainfeeder, Chess Club, Chrysalis, Dead Oceans, Dirty Hit, Fire, Jagjaguwar, Late Night Tales, Matador, Marathon, Ninja Tune, Secretly Canadian, Third Man and more. Once you’ve flipped through as many sleeves as you can manage take a look at stalls from artists and makers, or neck back a pint from the London Brewers’ Market. 

‘Blue Beard’ is, Emma Rice’s adaptation of the enduring French folktale about a young woman who marries the titular aristocrat and moves into his castle, only to discover that he has brutally murdered his many ex-wives. In true Rice style, it’s a dreamlike, song-drenched show framed by the Convent of the three Fs, a group of ‘fearful, fucked and furious’ women headed by Katy Owen’s hysterically bolshy Mother Superior, who for reasons we only discover at the very end is wearing her own blue beard. Expect an extremely pleasurable couple of hours of Emma Rice doing what she does best.

Lantana brings the Aussie sun to London, inviting you to savour great food, coffee and drinks all day, surrounded by friends, and looked after by people who care. Famous for freshness, quality, colour and of course, coffee, Australia’s cuisine and a healthy lifestyle is at the heart of Lantana. Enjoy menus that embrace seasonality and all the sustainable goodness that Mother Nature intended, from the BBQ Mushroom Hash and the Chicken Parmigiana to the Banoffee Banana Bread and Affogato.

Get a main dessert and a cocktail at Lantana for just £25, only through Time Out offers. 

Take note Richard Curtis: just because you’re making a romcom, it doesn’t mean you can’t blow stuff up. With The Fall Guy, stuntman-turned-filmmaker David Leitch and his bang-on-form stars, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, have nestled a frisky, winsome romantic comedy inside the framework of a full-throttle action movie and conjured up a perfect night at the movies in the process. Expect a cocktail of brilliant stunt set pieces and electric star power. 

In cinemas worldwide now.

Never ending baskets of delicious dim sum. Need we say more? That means tucking into as many dumplings, rolls and buns as you can scoff down, all expertly put together by a Chinatown restaurant celebrating more than ten years of business. Taiwanese pork buns? Check. Pork and prawn soup dumplings? You betcha. ‘Supreme’ crab meat xiao long bao? Of course! And just to make sure you’re all set, Leong’s Legend is further furnishing your palate with a chilled glass of prosecco. Lovely bubbly.

Get 51% off bottomless dim sum at Leong's Legend only through Time Out Offers

Fag-stained, booze-drenched, stumbling and slurring: John Deakin captured the lows of Soho at its height. He was the photographer of choice for Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and all the other artistic degenerates of central London in the 1950s and ’60s. A handful of his photos have been brought together in this small exhibition by the influential writer and ‘psychogeographer’ Iain Sinclair, who used them to create a new semi-fictionalised biography of Deakin called ‘Pariah/Genius’. It’ll make you desperate for a bigger show. 

This city-wide celebration of all things crafty is back for its tenth year, and the V&A will be hosting events and workshops so you can really get involved in the artisnal fun. Look out for the Craft Symposium featuring panel discussions and keynote speeches from craft-industry experts, curator talks and maker demos from weaver Caron Penney and master embroiderer José Luis Sánchez Expósito. 

A wild concept is taking over EartH this month. From the mind of renegade director, DJ and skateboarding legend Harmony Korine, this night marks the first London screening of AGGRO DR1FT, a new film featuring rapper Travis Scott. Following this, the party heads downstairs where you’ll dance to the live sounds of Evian Christ and Harmony Korine aka EDGLRD who promises a mind-boggling audiovisual experience. If the New York show is anything to go by, this is going to be wild. 

EartH, N16 8BH. Fri May 10, 8pm From £55.11.

Following unprecedented public demand, The Art of Banksy is extending its London run following hugely successful residencies in Covent Garden and Regent Street. Drawing critical acclaim, The Art of Banksy is the world’s largest collection of original and authenticated Banksy artworks showcasing more than 150 pieces. 

£9.95 tickets to The Art of Banksy only through Time Out offers 

There was a lot of love in the last years of Michelangelo Buonarotti’s life. Already hugely successful, the Renaissance master dedicated his final decades to loving his god, his family, his friends, and serving his pope. The proof of that love is all over the walls of this intimate little visual biography of the final years of his life, filled with his drawings and letters and paintings by his followers. We’ve had a lot of Michelangelo drawing shows in recent years, but the drawings in the last room of this show are incredible. They were never meant to be seen, they're frail, weak things, but they’re also an amazing vision of one of history’s greatest painters. 

Cinemas are fun, but generally speaking they’re more of a wintery activity – unless you make it al-fresco, that is. Enter the Drive-In at Embassy Gardens! The west London development is hosting back-to-back screenings of classic, crowd-pleasing blockbusters (‘The Lion King’ and ‘Mamma Mia’, to name a couple), interspersed with trivia challenges and family screenings. Essential cinema snacks and cocktails will be rustled up by The Alchemist, and there’ll be pic ‘n’ mix too. 

Obsessive, repetitive, maximal: Nnena Kalu’s art is like an act of physical, aesthetic meditation. She takes textiles, plastic, unspooled VHS tapes, netting and rubbish and binds and rebinds it over and over. In the process, she creates hanging bundled forms of countless colours and textures. They hover like disembowelled organs, hearts and guts constructed out of detritus. They look tense, dangerous, ready to burst.

Looking for authentic Italian food and freshly made pasta? Officina 00 in Old Street and Fitzrovia are here to deliver Italian cuisine favourites made from rare regional recipes from Italy. Founded by friends Elia Sebregondi and Enzo Mirto who grew up together in Naples, these London hotspots offers a carefully curated menu of indulgent dishes. 

Get this three courses and a glass of house wine at Officina 00 for £29.50, only through Time Out offers. 

Presented by Tongues on Fire and supported by BFI, the longest-running South Asian film festival in the world is back for its 26th edition this spring. It’s set to host its opening gala at the BFI IMAX for the first time ever, with a premiere of the film Minimum, a directorial debut about the tumultuous beginnings of an arranged marriage, and closing night will feature a screening of Lord Curzon Ki Haveli, a film about four South Asians who meet at an unplanned dinner, at the Regent Street Cinema. There’s also an Emerging Curators Gala as part of the festival’s LGBTQ+ strand, as well as a screening of Amu to mark 40 years since the anti-Sikh riots in India, plus loads more.

At Between The Bridges every Sunday this summer, SoLo Craft Fair will host the South Bank Summer Market, with over 60 traders selling a huge variety of bits and bobs from art, jewellery and fashion to kids’ products and more. Everything will have been created by independent designers from across the capital and if you want to try your hand at making something, there’ll be free workshops on site.

The batshit fever dream that Kristen Stewart’s fans have been waiting for, ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ also happens to be the best B-movie of the year. Too early for such lofty claims? Consider the evidence: a single montage includes Ed Harris’s mulleted mobster petting horned beetles, bodybuilder Katy O’Brian pumping iron in Richard Simmons shorts and a tank top adorned with the words ‘Burning Love’, and Stewart’s lost moll reading a paperback called ‘Macho Sluts’. Director Rose Glass infuses a hothouse atmosphere with wickedly unsparing insight – and just a touch more humour – to turn genre tropes inside out in this retro-noir fantasia. 

Lightroom is back with another spectacle set to take your breath away. See this exciting Apollo Remastered collaboration with Tom Hanks, Christopher Riley and 59 Productions with an insight into the impending return of crewed surface missions by going behind the scenes of the Artemis programme, including interviews between Hanks and Artemis astronauts. With a musical score by Anne Nikitin, Lightroom’s powerful projection and audio technology will transport you to another world.

Get tickets to 'The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks' at Lightroom for £19, only through Time Out offers. 

Escape reality through maximum immersion and experience 42 masterpieces from 29 of the world’s most iconic artists, each reimagined through cutting-edge technology. Marble Arch’s high-tech Frameless gallery houses four unique exhibition spaces with hypnotic visuals reimaging work from the likes of Bosch, Dalí and more, all with an atmospheric score. Now get 90 minutes of eye-popping gallery time for just £20 through Time Out offers.

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