1 to 14 August 2022
See this free outdoor exhibition at Aldgate Square of photographs and prints from London Metropolitan Archives to find out about our green spaces.
See how Londoners have embraced and enjoyed the great outdoors from the sixteenth century to the 1980s, including festivals, gardening and promenading, playgrounds and allotments, Sunday football and even flocks of sheep.
Wednesdays in August 2022
The Provibers, famous for their interactive experiences will be joining Leadenhall Market to bring a light dusting of festival flavour and colour to the City, every week throughout August.
See how Londoners have embraced and enjoyed the great outdoors from the sixteenth century to the 1980s, including festivals, gardening and promenading, playgrounds and allotments, Sunday football and even flocks of sheep.
Each year, in partnership with local businesses, the City of London has a selection of artworks by internationally-acclaimed and emerging artists on sites around the City.
The 11th Edition was launched on 22 June 2022. View the sculpture in EC3
Missed the 10th Edition? See it Now
June to September 2022
The Gunpowder Plot is a thrilling new immersive experience which takes place in a purpose-designed immersive theatre space in Tower Vaults, at the Tower of London.
The vaults sit beneath the infamous Tower Hill site where much of the prelude to the Gunpowder Plot took place before Guy Fawkes’ torture and eventual death.
October 2022 to January 2023
If you can’t make it to the concert hall the Barbican is bringing music straight to your home with a host of live-streamed events this Autumn.
They include an evening inspired by childhood with piano virtuoso Isata Kanneh-Mason, a performance from the Australian Chamber Orchestra that pairs revolutionary classical music with the didgeridoo, plus a theatrical meditation on melancholy with lestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford.
June to September 2022
To celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen in 2022, over 20 million seeds were sown in the moat of the Tower of London to provide a flower display and attract pollinators.
Visitors are able to wander along a weaving path into the centre of the flowers and listen to a specially commissioned sound installation to make them feel at home amongst the bees and butterflies. Book your Tickets Now
In the Middle Ages the City of London was the centre of commerce and trade.
Around 80,000 people lived within the City Walls, and the City was full of narrow and twisting streets.
Many of these streets and passageways that we still walk down today, follow the same layout as the medieval City.
Step into the medieval City of London and discover the people and places that defined the Square Mile in the Middle Ages by walking this Self-guided Walk.
July & August 2022
Find out on this family sixty minute interactive walk how the Great Fire started, spread and was finally stopped.
See Great Fire of London family walk for more information.
Until 23 August 2022 between 12 noon and 2 p.m.
Enjoy free lunchtime open-air concerts with up-and-coming local artists on Tuesdays and Thursdays across different genres, including, Classical, Jazz, Acoustic Guitar.
Venue: Aldgate Square, EC3
As part of the Leadenhall 700 year celebrations, the Museum of London have taken over the windows of shop unit 43 to 45, to give visitors an insight into iconic moments from Leadenhall’s history.
See Museum of London’s Windows into History for more information.