12 Fab Things To Do In London This Month

It may be getting gloomy out there, but there’s plenty of light in the darkness. From book salons to winter terraces, candlelight theatre to pottery painting, here are the best things to do in London in November 2024.

Best Things To Do In London: November 2024

Cadogan Gallery: A Group Exhibition. (© PietraStudio)

Visit A New London Gallery

There’s a shiny new venue on the London art scene, and it’s definitely worth the visit this month. In the heart of Chelsea, Cadogan Gallery’s new Harriet Street space is presenting a group exhibition to celebrate its opening, with new work from 21 artists on display distilling each individual aesthetic into a cohesive tale of past, present and future.

Details: The group exhibition runs until 8 February 2025. Cadogan Gallery can be found at 7-9 Harriet Street, London SW1X 9JW. cadogangallery.com

The Library at Charlotte Street Hotel

Bella Mackie Book Salon

Join bestselling author Bella Mackie for an evening at Charlotte Street Hotel in London this month, where she’ll be discussing her highly anticipated new book, What A Way To Go, with author and journalist Natasha Lunn. Bella’s debut novel, How to Kill Your Family, was a bestseller and now she’s back with a cleverly funny and twisty mystery that delves into dysfunctional families and true crime enthusiasts.

Details: From 6.30pm on Monday 4 November 2024. Tickets are £20pp including a glass of wine or non-alcoholic cocktail and can be booked here.

Visit The Official James Bond Bar

This is not one to miss for Bond fans: Mayfair’s historic shopping destination, Burlington Arcade, has launched the official James Bond Bar & Boutique, The 007, with a curated collection of 007-inspired products including legacy pieces and designer collaborations.

Details: Open until 31 December at Burlington Arcade (51 Piccadilly, London W1J 0QJ). burlingtonarcade.com

See Shakespeare In A Church

Every summer, Shakespeare in the Squares brings the Bard’s classics to open air spaces across the city – and now the company is coming to a plethora of London’s beautiful churches for its inaugural winter season, presenting a new production of Macbeth infused with wicked music.

Details: Running 7–30 November 2024 at more than 20 venues across London. Find out more and book at shakespeareinthesquares.co.uk

The company rehearsing All’s Well That Ends Well at Shakespeare’s Globe (© Marc Brenner)

Shakespeare By Candlelight

If that isn’t enough Shakespeare for you, The Globe’s candlelit Sam Wanamaker theatre is reopening for the season this month, with All’s Well That Ends Well starring Kit Young and Ruby Bentall. Expect a genre-bending social satire in a stylish contemporary world of gossip and lies akin to The White Lotus and Succession; think the Roy family’s Shakespearean level scheming, encompassing comedy highs, tragic lows and an expansive moral grey area.

Details: Running 8 November 2024 until 4 January 2025 at Shakespeare’s Globe (21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London SE1 9DT). Tickets start from £5pp and can be booked at shakespearesglobe.com

Winter Cocktails Pop-Up

Winter pop-ups are springing up across London, but this one is our favourite. Ordinarily reserved for hotel guests, Ham Yard Hotel will open up its hidden fourth floor garden and terrace in partnership with Sipsmith this winter. The Winter Gin Garden: Sipping History experience invites guests to sample twists on 400 years of cocktails. Cosy up with a blanket and hot water bottle in the snug al fresco living room – dotted with heaters, candles and books – and enjoy a host of both cold and hot cocktails. Each ticket (£24) includes a welcome Milk Punch (a clarified blend of Sipsmith London Dry Gin, ruby Port, lemon and Ham Yard’s bespoke tea) plus another drink of choice: will you opt for the 17th century Hot Buttered Gin, the 18th century Gin Mazurwari, the 19th century Ginger Blazer, the 20th century Sloe Lady or the 21st century Ginicillin? If you get peckish, a host of snacks are also available to enjoy; think Cacio e pepe black truffle flatbread, Kombu and soy glazed mushroom skewer, and toasted s’mores with toffee apple and cinnamon crackers.

Details: Running from 6 November until 31 December at Ham Yard Hotel. Tickets are £20pp (non alcoholic) or £24pp (alcoholic) and can be booked at firmdalehotels.com

The Great Christmas Feast

Fancy some immersive theatre with a side of delicious Christmas dining this month? The Great Christmas feast is the place to be. A sell-out for the last six years, the evening unfolds in a magnificent dining room, where guests are transported back to Christmas Eve, 1843. As the night draws in, Dickens himself guides you through his timeless tale, A Christmas Carol, and guests tuck into an exceptional Victorian-inspired three-course Christmas dinner while the story of Scrooge plays out around them with theatrical performances and cinematic music to boot. Find out more here.

Details: Running until 12 January at The Lost Estate’s HQ (9 Beaumont Ave, London W14 9LP). Book your tickets at christmasfeast.thelostestate.com

Fearne Cotton launches new Happy Place wellness classes with FRAMELESS.

Wellbeing Class With Fearn Cotton

Host of the Happy Place podcast, Fearn Cotton is partnering with London’s permanent immersive exhibition space, Frameless, on a series of wellbeing classes this month. The 40 minute classes include yoga, sound baths, breathwork and laughing yoga, set amongst immersive backdrops of grassy plains, mountainous valleys and glistening streams, all led by some of Fearne’s favourite instructors including Rebecca Dennis, Donna Noble, Monica Bazzani and Cat Googe.

Details: Sunday 17 and Sunday 24 November at Frameless (6 Marble Arch, London W1H 7AP). Tickets cost £45 – including access to Frameless’ galleries, too – and can be booked at frameless.com

Sip & Pottery Paint

For a therapeutic evening of pottery painting, head to Canteen this month for its Bottomless Sip and Paint experience in collaboration with new Design District tenant Pottery Studio LDN. Free-flowing drinks will be available all evening, while the food hall is also available if you get peckish, with Mexican, Indian, Italian and Spanish cuisine all available, plus plenty more.

Details: 6.30–8.30pm on Thursday 21 November 2024 at Canteen Food Hall & Bar (7 Soames Walk, London SE10 0AX). Tickets are £50pp and can be booked at pottery-studio.co.uk

Cocktail Masterclass

Prep your cocktail making skills ahead of the festive season with La Goccia Bar’s new masterclasses hosted with Sapling. Guests will experience personalised guidance as you shake, stir and sip your way through three bespoke cocktails: a refreshing Pear Sour, a vibrant Cosmo Spritz, and a decadent Pumpkin White Russian. As you master each cocktail, enjoy a perfectly paired gourmet snack, including focaccia and olives, beef croquettes, and caciocavallo impiccato.

Details: Sessions from 6pm on 7, 14 and 21 November 2024 at La Goccia Bar (1 Floral St, London WC2E 9FB). Tickets are £50pp and can be booked here.

Expendable At The Royal Court

Artistic Director David Byrne’s inaugural season will draw to a close with the launch of Emteaz Hussain’s Expendable, which stages the fraught period between the 1990s and 2010s when hundreds of young girls were sexually exploited by gangs of predatory men in towns across the UK. Expendable centres on two sisters grappling with the fall out in their personal lives and community when the men around them are implicated.

Details: Running Thursday 21 November until Saturday 21 December 2024 at The Royal Court (50-51 Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS). Tickets can be booked at royalcourttheatre.com

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair

Art season isn’t over just yet: Woolwich Works will host the ninth edition of WCPF this month, balancing half specialist galleries with half independent artists to present a unique art fair experience. Highly collectable artists like Damien Hirst, Brian ENo and David Shrigley will be up for sale, with a series of talks spanning insights from curators to how to gift art this Christmas.

Details: Running 21–24 November 2024 at Woolwich Works (The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 St, Royal Arsenal, London SE18 6HD). Tickets start from £12pp and can be booked at woolwich.works

Embroidery Workshop

Later this month, Chelsea’s The Surprise will host a creative workshop of sewing, storytelling, and festive inspiration, led by founder of The Fabled Thread Eppie Thompson. Known for her exquisite embroidery kits that celebrate bold colour and intricate design, Eppie will guide guests through a hands-on embroidery workshop where they will learn stitching techniques and immerse themselves in the art of needlework.

Details: 6.30–8.30pm on Wednesday 27 November 2024 at The Surprise Chelsea (6 Christchurch Terrace, London SW3 4AJ). Tickets are £45 (including a Fabled Thread seasonal embroidery kit, drinks on arrival and nibbles, plus an exclusive discount on Fabled Thread products, which will also be available to purchase during the evening) and can be booked at thesurprise-chelsea.co.uk