Unmissable Things To Do in London in June 2025

Why not try something different this summer with our Unmissable Things To Do in London.

The Good Clothes Show | Chelsea Town Hall | 31 May-1 June | £15

A beautiful celebration of sustainable fashion including the fabulous Audra’s Brooches.

LDN Queer Mart | Deptford Lounge | 1 June | £2 suggested donation

Support incredible queer artists and creatives at this epic rainbow summer party. We’re doing a free Queer Flower Arranging taster at 1pm and 3pm. Arrive early to get a spot.

Permission | Tara Theatre | Until 7 June | £25/20

This important new play scratches under the surface of tropes like the oppressed Muslim Woman and delves into global patriarchy.

STOREHOUSE | Deptford Riverside | 4 June-20 September | From £37.50

A mystery wrapped in an enigma, there’s not much info about the new immersive show from Sage & Jester but it’s a great chance to visit the abandoned Murdoch paper warehouse on the Thames.

SpeakEasy Po’Jam | Theatre Deli | 3 June | £1

A bi-monthly night of Black & Global Majority Artists for just £1.

Peopling the Palaces Festival: RESISTANCE | ArtsOne, QMUL Mile End | 4-8 June | All events FREE

A free multidisciplinary programme curated around themes of resistance. Showing work by students, academics, and artists including events like skill-building workshops, performances, live art, and discussion in an environment designed to build communities and provide opportunities for conversation.

• Creative Skills Academy – get creative jobs, learn video editing and event management
• Stage Left Podcast Live – hear inspiring playwright Mojisola Adebayo in this live podcast recording

Others: A New Musical | Two Brewers | From 4 June | From £5

An unmissable new fantasy musical about those who don’t fit in, those who can’t fit in, and those who choose to stand with them. 

STARS: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey | Brixton House | 5-28 June | From £16

Join an Afrofuturistic space journey to find Mrs’ orgasm in the depths of the universe.

London Rivers Week: Film Night – Rave on the Avon & more | Cody Dock | 5 June | From £7.21

Celebrate rivers with this night of film at the gloriously serene surroundings of Cody Dock.

London Open Gardens | Across London | 7-8 June | £various

Go behind the gates at London’s gardens including places like London Zoo, Downing Street and secret community garden paradises near you.

Design and Disability | V&A South Kensington | From 7 June | £16

A showcase of Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people and communities and their impact on design history and contemporary culture, from the 1940s to now.

CHRISTEENE | Soho Theatre Walthamstow | 7 June | £25

Batshit, raw, punk, filthy-mouthed and honest – that’s Christeene, folks! This is her gala performance at Soho Theatre’s new wonderhall in Walthamstow.

Floristry business skills – wholesale flower market tour & guide | New Covent Garden Flower Market & Brockley Rise Centre | 7 & 14 June | £28

A chance to visit the (not so) secret flower market and understand how it works to buy wholesale flowers in Nine Elms.

Mooch Fest | Colour Factory | 8 June | £6

Mooch to your hearts content whilst supporting queer creatives, seeing live performance from Virgin X and much more.

LOVE & RAGE: MUNROE BERGDORF | Rio Cinema & Genesis | 10 June | £11

This film about the life and times of trans supermodel and icon Munroe Bergdorf is unmissable this week.

Queer 70s: LGBTQ+ Cinema in the Decade after Stonewall | Barbican | From 11 June

Delve deeper under the corporate Pinkwashing surface of Pride Month and see movies that explore the 1970s including the glorious Car Wash with intro by Mzz Kimberley.

A Collective Archive | Ugly Duck | 12-15 June | From £8

Ugly Duck is a space for radical performance, music and art and is having a a chance to take stock of the incredible feats it has achieved in it’s lifetime since 2012.

Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival | 13-29 June

A refreshingly thoughtful festival line up on the theme of ‘cultural reforesting’ includes a feast of dance, music, exhibitions, theatre and more.

SHIFT+SPACE Summer 2025 | Theatre Deli | From 13 June | Pay What You Can

‘Live DJ party play. Ukrainian Folk singing. Queering The Beatles. Theatre Deli presents 10 fresh slices of experimental works in progress from artists across the globe in our Summer programme of Shift+Space. ‘

A fabulous night of Neo-variety that you need to see.

Sohome Horror Pride | 13-15 June | Donate-What-You-Can

Put your feet up and ditch expensive cinema snacks for your own home feast to watch this cavalcade of blissfully queer horror movies.

Bethlem Gallery Festival | Bethlem Gallery | 14 June | FREE

Bethlem Hospital was the original Bedlam to which people with mental health conditions were sent – and their arts programme is definitely worth a trip. Head out to the Betlem to see their gorgeous grounds, gallery and Museum of the Mind.

Who is Claude Cahun? | Southwark Playhouse Borough | From 18 June | From £24

Androgyne surrealist photographer Claude Cahun is a little explored pop culture icon. So it’s exciting to see a new play exploring this underrepresented queer person struggling with gender identity in the male dominated art world.

Midgitte Bardot’s Personal Spot | Peckham Levea | 19 June | From £11.50

Punk performance legend Midgitte Bardot’s dreams are coming true… ‘Raffles! Frankie Thompson! Mischief! Disability Benefits Bingo! Angry songs!’. Expect raucous mayhem in Peckham’s multi-storey car park of distinction.

A Word After A Word After A Word | Union Theatre | 19 June | From £10

A night of fresh new theatre ideas from woman/non-binary writers and directors, curated by woman-led theatre company That
What’s Wild.

Fridaze | Omnibus Theatre | 27 June | £10

Variety is the spice of life and Omnibus the place to see new art stars before the in crowd.

DISABLED QUEER PROM! | The Albany | 28 June | Pay What You Can

Part of The Albany’s glorious Queer Summer Season, this is the prom that reclaims the school disco but makes it very queer and very accessible.

Did we forget any unmissable things to do in London? We almost certainly did – please let us know in the comments below or contact us!