Unmissable Things To Do In London in June 2026
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Live at Dalston Curve Garden | Dalston Curve Garden | All summer | £19.80
Woodburner hosts an eclectic summer of top flight music in Dalston’s gorgeous garden.
London Clown Festival | Soho Theatre & Jacksons Lane | Until 13 June | From £10
Clowns including Lara Ricote pictured above, are descending on London’s theatres until 13 June. Get over your coulrophobia and discover there’s much more to clowning and that playing the fool is a revolutionary act.
TRANS/FORM | Piehouse Co-Op | 2 June | Pay What You Can
A cabaret, drag and performance art feast of trans storytelling.
Hey Mum | The Divine | 2 June | From £8
London’s hottest and strangest comedy night comes to the Divine, which sadly isn’t accessible for wheelchairs in the basement.
Community Cinema: The Stimming Pool | UCL East | 3 June | FREE
A free screening of this dreamy neurodiverse art-doc made by pioneering The Neurocultures Collective.
Conversations We Should Have Had | Venue | 3 June | £6
Comedian Rosie Wilby debuts meta material from her unpublished autofictional novel.
Slaughterhouse-Five | Southwark Playhouse | From 3 June | From £16
Kurt Vonnegut’s cult anti-war novel comes to life with live storytelling and ambitious video design.
Branding Britain | Museum of Brands | From 4 June | £14
Britain loves brands. From Marmite to Cadbury this exhibition explores the national obsessions.
Bunny | Battersea Arts Centre | 4-6 June | Pay What You Can
Queer East Festival breaks away from the screen to present a live work by Daniel Kok and Luke George with rope exploring collective desire.
Dagmarr’s Cabaret | Love Affair Basement | 4 June | £12
Lost Weimar cabaret icon Hersh Dagmarr tells their sublime story to the multilingual songs of artists such as Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich and Kurt Weill.
London Open Gardens | Multiple Locations | 6 & 7 June | From £11.31
Go over the garden fence to see some rarely open green beauties in the capital.
The Great Exhibition Road Festival | South Kensington | 6 & 7 June | FREE
A free festival presented by Imperial College London near the museums featuring live music, science and arts taking you back to The Great Exhibition of 1851.
Mitcham Carnival | Three Kings Piece | 7 June | FREE
A carnival parade in Merton that ends with a party in the park with stalls, live performances and community joy.
Beyond Words | Institut Français | 8-22 June
London’s home of Francophone culture hosts a delightfully diverse festival of French literature and now, screen too.
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica | Barbican | From 11 June | £19
A multimedia exploration of the impact of Pan-Africanism on artistic and cultural production from the 1920s to the present.
UAL Degree Shows | Various Venues | Throughout June | FREE
See the next generation of creative talent. Venture away from the obvious Central Saint Martins and instead head to Camberwell and Wimbledon and you will be rewarded with fresh talent that won’t get as much attention.
Mark Silcox & Adam Larter | The Pen Theatre | 12 June | £7.21
The stars have aligned to bring these two offbeat comedy kings into one space on one night only.
What the Folk? Fest | Museum of the Home | 13-21 June
The Neo-folk trend rolls on with nine days of urban folk including hands-on workshops, music, talks, family fun, and Summer Solstice celebrations.
The Music is Ours | Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park | 13 & 14 June | Free
A beautiful chance to get into the park and get dancing at this Block Party celebrating London’s soundsystem legacy in the birthplace of Grime. Our highlight is a performance by the legendary YolanDa Brown OBE DL
RON | Riverside Studios | From 13 June | £22
A surprising and twisty, queer odyssey.
Punk Days | Rich Mix | 14 June | £15
A tale of growing up mixed-race in London and finding solace in Punk rock and the fight against fascism by Hassan Mahamdallie.
Why local democracy needs indie news | The Albany | 15 June | FREE
Two South London local media platforms Salamander News and The Greenwich Wire tell us why we need local news outlets to keep democracy working at a local level.
Did language make us human? | Hoxton Hall | 16 June | £15
Archaeologist Steven Mithen and art stars Figs in Wigs explore the origins of language.
CAMDENWALLA | Camden People’s Theatre | From 17 June | From £12
Camdenwalla exposes the hidden history of the Camden Monitoring Project, a group organising against increasing racist attacks in the 90s.
How To Be Famous (When Your Parents Don’t Have A Wikipedia Page) | Pleasance | 17-20 June | £14.50
Performance collective Side eYe Black Muslim womxn’s stories in witty and truthful shows. Their latest tells the story of Nala, a working-class wannabe comedy superstar who has family expectations that might just get in the way of her big break. Can she channel her life chaos and live her dream?
Neurodivergent Karneval | Hoxton Hall | 18 June | £14
NDK (Neurodivergent Karneval) is a variety showcase of live bands, cabaret acts and various other weirdnesses including drag king Clary Montero, awesome band Twat Union and Drag/lesque cabaret from Spanxxx.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Copeland | Royal Festival Hall | 18 June | From £34.50
A chance to stop and feel your soul with Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s ethereal and sublime music. He is assisted by his partner in life and music Elizabeth Copeland.
PEPCOT presents: Mary Jane’s Not A Virgin Anymore | Piehouse Co-Op | 18 June | From £6
London’s most out there and unmissable film club presents the next edition of their ‘No Budget? No Problem!’ season with Mary Jane’s Not A Virgin Anymore (1996) a riot Grrl coming of age tale by ‘DIY Queen’ Sarah Jacobson.
Queer Euphoria | Woolwich Works | 19 June | From £25
Circus star Zaki Musa curates a sizzling night of cirque and cabaret.
A Midsummer Night’s Fairy Tale, with Mermaid Chunky | British Library | 20 June | £28
Cult queen Mermaid Chunky curates a night like no other that the somewhat stuffy British Library will have ever seen.
First Light Festival | Lowestoft (Travel via Liverpool Street) | 20-21 June | Free (some paid events)
Discover underdog wild seaside town Lowestoft at this gorgeous chance to connect with nature by beach camping, see top acts and speakers for free, and stay up all night to watch the sunrise first at UK’s most easterly point.
Her Own Words | Hackney Showroom | 23-24 June | £15
A beautiful new incubator for transfemme solo-performance over two nights including tales of the double life of a queer Somali and transfemme motherhood.
Ritzy Pride Takeover | The Ritzy | 28 June
Brixton’s Ritzy cinema gets a Pride makeover with free activities, paid cabaret and short films.
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!
Occasionally the To Do List team are forced to work together.
Rupert likes: free, cheap & offbeat London, especially: cabaret, art, theatre, pop-ups, eating out, quirky films, museums, day trips, social enterprise & much more.
Stuart likes: nice pubs, film marathons, not doing real marathons, bad comedy, plays/musicals with shorter second halves, and the Oxford comma.
