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There’s so many things to do in North London this weekend. Here’s the full list.
— Maryam
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Your guide to what’s happening in North London this week. Events marked with (£) require a ticket in advance.
Spice Girls Pop-Up at UMusic Camden | 📍UMusic Shop, The Stables Market, NW1 | 6 - 8 November | Free
Girl Power turns 30, and UMusic Camden is marking it with a Spice Girls pop-up at The Stables Market. Camden-exclusive Wannabe hoodie, a dedicated listening area with music videos and behind-the-scenes footage, the new 14 x 7" coloured vinyl box set, and Spice Girls cocktails and mocktails at the in-store bar.
Upside Down London | 📍Alexandra Palace, N22 | Until 17 November | Free
A camera obscura is a device that projects the world outside onto a surface inside, upside down and in real time, one of the oldest optical tricks in existence. Pinhole London’s pop-up version is installed in East Court at Alexandra Palace, covered in photographs made with community groups across the city, and you can step inside to watch East Court appear on the wall, inverted. Open daily 7am to 7pm, donations welcome.
Diwali Candle Painting | 📍Burgh House, NW3 | 8 November | (£)
Isher Dhiman has run workshops at the Tate, the Wellcome Collection and the Royal Academy, and this Sunday she’s at Burgh House in Hampstead for a Diwali candle-painting session. Ninety minutes to decorate a pair of pillar candles with colour and pattern inspired by the festival of lights, in one of North London’s most beautiful old houses. Pay what you can, £10 suggested, materials included. 2pm.
Big Festive Popup by Black Marketplace | 📍St Michael’s Church, NW1 | 7 - 8 November | Free
Black Marketplace brings its biggest event of the year to a Camden church for the weekend, Black-owned brands selling fashion, jewellery, skincare, books, art and homeware alongside African and Caribbean food, live performances and entertainment. Different vendors each day, free tickets but registration required. 12pm to 6pm.
Wembley Park Diwali Weekend | 📍Market Square, Wembley Park, HA9 | 6 - 8 November | Free
The Diwali Market on Market Square runs Saturday and Sunday with 25 traders selling street food, mithai, jewellery, textiles and homeware. Free henna on Friday, Speaker Box dance party on Saturday, classical music and Dhol2Dhol on Sunday, plus Bollyqueer and Rangoli throughout. 10am to 7pm.
Conway Hall News Club | 📍Conway Hall, WC1R | 7 November | Free
Conway Hall has been a home for free thought and open debate since 1929, and this is their first News Club, a community gathering where people discuss and critically examine the news they’re consuming together. Run by Media Revolution and the Conway Hall Ethical Society, the idea is to make news consumption a collective, more conscious activity rather than something you do alone on your phone. 2pm to 3.30pm.
Keats Community Library Autumn Book Sale | 📍Keats Community Library, NW3 | 7 November | Free
Keats Community Library sits next door to the house where John Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale, and twice a year it clears the shelves for a book sale. Poetry, novels, crime, art, history, biography, cookery, children’s books and more, most priced at £3 to £4, some from £1. 10am to 5pm.
Harringay’s Speedway Heroes | 📍Bruce Castle Museum, N17 | 8 November | Free
Harringay Stadium was one of London’s great speedway venues before it closed, and many local people still remember watching riders like Jack Parker, Vic Duggan and Split Waterman race there. Peter Lush of London League Publications gives a talk on that history at Bruce Castle Museum, in memory of Bill Rust, the friend of the museum who bought and restored the 1937 speedway bike now on display there. Tea and Tottenham Cake afterwards, books available to buy. Free, booking essential. 2pm to 4pm.
Remembering Wartime Willesden | 📍Willesden Jewish Cemetery, NW10 | 8 November | (£)
Timed for Remembrance Sunday, retired Judge Dr Jonathan Lewis speaks at Willesden Jewish Cemetery about the Jewish community’s wartime contribution, drawing on his book about Jewish chaplaincy in the British Armed Forces. The stories range from men who gave their lives to save others and the first Jewish chaplain to serve in the field, to the Jewish involvement at Bletchley Park. Proceeds support the ongoing care of the cemetery. £10, £8 concessions, booking required
Remembrance Sunday | 📍Islington Green, Upper Street, N1 | 8 November | Free
Islington’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations move across three locations through the morning, starting at Islington Green at 10.50am, a service at Spa Green near Rosebery Avenue at 12pm, and a final commemoration at Royal Northern Gardens in Manor Gardens at 1.30pm. The Mayor of Islington leads alongside representatives from local Armed Forces and civilian organisations.
Remembrance Sunday | 📍Islington Green, Upper Street, N1 | 8 November | Free
Islington’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations move across three locations through the morning, starting at Islington Green at 10.50am, a service at Spa Green near Rosebery Avenue at 12pm, and a final commemoration at Royal Northern Gardens in Manor Gardens at 1.30pm. The Mayor of Islington leads alongside representatives from local Armed Forces and civilian organisations.
DARÉ: A Live Encounter with Sound | 📍Bernie Grant Arts Centre,N15 | 6 - 7 November | (£)
A daré is a traditional Shona gathering space, the kind of circle where communities in Zimbabwe come together to share wisdom, settle disputes and heal. Zimbabwean-born London artist Shumba Maasai has taken that concept and built an immersive show around it, spatial audio that surrounds you, scent design, visuals and live music, all working together to create something closer to a ritual than a concert.
Pitchfork Music Festival | 📍Multiple venues incl. Roundhouse, NW1 | 2–8 November | (£)
Pitchfork Music Festival takes over sixteen London venues for six days of specially curated multi-artist bills and one-off events. The Roundhouse is among the North London venues confirmed.
Highgate Art Fair | 📍Highgate Primary School, N6 | 6 - 8 November | (£)
Independent artists, galleries and collectives filling a Victorian school hall in Highgate village for a weekend. Kids have their own exhibition and workshops running alongside, so it’s genuinely one for the whole family.
Desire Paths | 📍Epitome Studio, N16 | 7 November | (Free/£)
Latebulletin brings five multidisciplinary artists together at Stamford Works for a day exhibition and evening supper club. Photography, textiles, ceramics, poetry and a print installation exploring our relationship with nature, plus the first issue of a new magazine. There’s also a letter-writing station where you write to yourself and they post it back to you in the New Year. Exhibition free, 11am to 5pm. The three-course dinner runs 6.30pm to 10pm at £33 a head, wine on arrival included.
St Martin’s Lantern Procession | 📍Graham Street Park, N1 | 7 November | Free
St Martin’s Day is a centuries-old European tradition, particularly in Germany, where children carry handmade lanterns through the streets after dark singing songs about St Martin of Tours, a Roman soldier turned bishop who became a symbol of generosity. The Friends of Graham Street Park are bringing it to Islington this Saturday, a lantern walk through the park with traditional songs and the story of St Martin. Bring your own lantern or any light, an instrument if you have one. Snacks and drinks on sale.
Gladiators Live | 📍OVO Arena Wembley, HA9 | 7 - 8 November | (£)
The BBC reboot of Gladiators sold out arenas across the UK last year, and the live show is back at Wembley for two days. Contenders take on the Gladiators in the fan-favourite events, finishing with the Eliminator. Two shows each day, four chances to go. Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult.
Love Your N21 Christmas Market | 📍The Sidings, Winchmore Hill, N21 | 8 November | Free
A community Christmas market next to Winchmore Hill train station, local creatives and small businesses selling handmade gifts with live music and food. 10am to 3pm.
UK Jewish Film Festival 2026 | 📍Multiple venues across London | 5 - 15 November | (£)
Now in its 30th year, the UK Jewish Film Festival is the largest Jewish film festival in the world. The London programme runs across ten cinemas including the Phoenix in East Finchley, JW3 and Everyman Belsize Park, with international drama, comedy and documentary, Q&As with directors and guests, and a Best of 30 strand revisiting standout films from the festival’s history. Open to everyone. Online from 18 to 30 November, short films free to watch.
Nick Sharratt at West Green Market | 📍Harris Primary Academy Philip Lane, N15 | 7 November | Free
Nick Sharratt is the author and illustrator behind Shark in the Park, one of the most loved children’s picture books around. He’s coming to West Green Market in Tottenham for a live storytime at 11.30am, with books to buy on the day. Remember back in June when we featured Lucy Ansa-Addo of LAOXA and her community rug project at the market? This Saturday she’s unveiling the finished Shark in the Park rug, made section by section by local people, which goes on permanent display at the school. 10am to 2pm.
North London Vintage Market | 📍Hornsey Parish Church Hall, N10 | 7 - 8 November | Free
Mid-century ceramics, 50s to 70s fabrics, vintage clothing, vinyl, retro furniture, kitchenalia, books, jewellery and curiosities in a Crouch End church hall. Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 1pm to 5pm.
OmVed Gardens November Open Day | 📍OmVed Gardens, N6 | 8 November | Free
OmVed is a regenerative garden tucked into a Highgate hillside, and most of the time you need a ticket to get in. This Sunday it’s free. Garden tour, an art exhibition in the barn, a hedgehog talk from Growing Green, the seed library and seasonal food from the kitchen.
Mildmay Community Food Project: Final Celebration | 📍Mildmay Community Centre, N16 | 7 November | Free
For two years, Mildmay Community Food Project has been working with local people to build healthy soil and grow food in Islington, and this Saturday is their last event as funding ends. They just won the Community Impact Award at Islington in Bloom, so they’re going out on a high. Come and celebrate with mushroom growing, wild clay pottery, natural dye making, soil microscopy, food and music./
TINY Bookshop Launch | 📍Willesden Green Station, NW2 | 7 November | Free
TINY is a new independent bookshop opening at Willesden Green Station, with its entire programme of events run by young people. The launch day has poetry readings, live music, storytelling and making workshops. From midday, come and say hello.
Voilà! Theatre Festival 2026 | 📍Multiple venues across London | 2 - 22 November | (£)
Voilà! is a three-week international fringe festival that runs every November across London, putting on shows in several languages from emerging artists around the world. Work that’s too political or experimental for mainstream venues tends to end up here. North London venues include the Etcetera Theatre above the Oxford Arms on Camden High Street, Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate and The Cockpit in Marylebone. 101 shows, 60 languages, tickets from £5.
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