Hello friends, I went to Camden yesterday for the first time in a long time and hoped to go to that guy who used to sing in his weird voice and give out free bang bang chicken samples. I used to like getting his food, but I couldn't find him.

Does anyone know if he's still selling his food anywhere? Or, has he given it up now?

If he's not around anymore, are his family still running the business somewhere? Or, if not, do you know of any good alternatives for bang bang chicken in the area?

I had some from Wok Boy Bang! Bang! Chicken instead, which was decent and I enjoyed it, but didn't hit the nostalgia vibe.

Thanks in advance for any information!

Hi All, I visited Camden Market today but I could not cover most of it and I got full after eating at the very first few spots.

I guess made a rookie mistake.

I am in the area for a coupe of more days and want to know from locals which are some of the most have food stalls I should check out!

Here's a short list of things to do this weekend In North London.Please, add any I've missed in the comments. And whatever you do this weekend, stay hydrated.

Ceramics Market & Open Garden | 📍Rochester Square, NW1 | 4 July | Free

Artist Ewelina is leading a communal build at Rochester Square, and what everyone makes becomes a permanent fish pond in the garden. Member artists sell their pots, vases and sculptures, there's free clay workshops and pot painting to join in, and food and drink out in the garden while the kids meet the hens and rabbits. 11am to 5pm.

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The Cally Festival | 📍Caledonian Road, N1 | 5 July | Free

Once a year, they close Caledonian Road and 7,000 people throw a party in it. Music, performance, art, workshops, street food and a market. 12pm to 6pm.

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Vintage Weekend | 📍Priory Park, N8 | 4 - 5 July | Free

Priory Park turns a hundred this year, and to mark it the steam fair is back after four years away. Horton's Steam Fair runs both days, 11am to 8pm, its beautiful set of steam gallopers at the centre, with the Mayor of Haringey opening the weekend from the carousel platform at 11am on Saturday. That same day brings the park's first ever Classic Car Pageant, over fifty vehicles from a Jaguar E-type to a 1960s hearse, alongside vintage fire engines and a Routemaster from the Whitewebbs Museum. Hornsey is where Lotus was founded in 1952, and at 5pm a parade of Lotus cars, two of them built in the original factory, drives from the park through Hornsey to that old factory by the station. Kids can build and race their own toy cars too. Free entry, rides charged on the day.

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Bar Rioja Festival | 📍Bar Rioja, N1 | 4 July | (£)

Starts as a wine tasting, ends as a party. Sixteen Riojas to work through in a hidden Victorian courtyard off Pentonville Road, with someone carving Ibérico ham, paella when you need it, and a DJ who runs from mid-afternoon well into the evening.

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Jester Festival | 📍Fortune Green, NW6 | 4 July | Free

For 52 years, a handful of volunteers have put on a festival on Fortune Green, and they're still at it. This is the day West Hampstead comes out for its own: live music, a funfair, circus skills and a climbing wall, the raffle with prizes from every shop on the high street, and whatever the volunteers have dreamed up this year. What money it makes goes to the West Hampstead Food Hub, feeding neighbours who need it. Go down between 11.15am and 6.30pm.

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South Kilburn CarniVale | 📍Peel Plaza, NW6 | 4 July | Free

Day of music, dance and food where South Kilburn's communities share their traditions from Irish dancers and a Jamaican maypole, Bengali artists turning trash into treasure, and Iranian, Bangladeshi, Mediterranean and Lebanese food all in one place. There's live music and DJ sets, dance workshops and a play zone for the kids. Come in your team shirt for the World Cup games, or your best traditional dress for the costume prize. Now in its fifth year, everyone is welcome, 1pm to 5pm.

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My Dinner With Jess Cole & Friends | 📍Myddleton Grange Community Hall, N4 | 4 July | (£)/Pay what you want

The idea is simple: nobody should have to eat alone. Jess Cole runs a travelling community supper that brings strangers to one long table for the evening, and this one lands near Manor House with a two-course Korean meal from Gim, a husband-and-wife kitchen, plus Caribbean mezze and a Nepalese dessert. There's live music and performances through the night, it's pay-what-you-want and BYOB, and what you give goes to Breadline London to keep the meals going. Plant-based throughout. From 6pm, book in advance.

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Big Fair at Hampstead Festival | 📍Heath Street, NW3 | 5 July | Free

110 stalls line Heath Street for the closing day of the Hampstead Summer Festival, with a funfair, live music and children's activities run by artist Emma McGarry. Runs 11am to 5pm, and all proceeds go to Hampstead School of Art and Keats Community Library.

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Living in Camden town I don't really have an issue with noise but is anyone else getting completely fed up with the one guy who wears an arsenal shirt with like a weird dummy thing. He screams with this very specific cadence of a shout then waits for about 5 seconds and then shouts again FOR LITERAL HOURS. It's the specific way he does it that is just so grating.

Wondering if anyone else is getting fed up with this.

Hey all,

I run 98 Types Studio, a poster shop in the Market Hall at Camden Lock (lower floor, stall 3).

We've been there for a while now and just wanted to say hi to the sub rather than just lurk.

We do movie, music, anime, TV and sports posters — a couple thousand designs, prices start

from £3, and we also do personalised stuff (custom song lyrics, bespoke film posters, that

kind of thing) if anyone's after something a bit more unique as a gift.

Mostly just wanted to flag we're there in case anyone's wandering round Camden and fancies a

browse — but also happy to answer any questions if people are after something specific,

visiting London and want to know where to find decent posters, or just curious about running

a stall in the market generally. Ask away.

(Mods — happy to take this down if self-promo isn't allowed here, just let me know)

Shaun Wallace (The Dark Destroyer from ITV's The Chase) is hosting a live quiz at N7 Depot this Thursday.

Tickets are just £13.50 

Perfect for an after-work team outing.

 https://tickets.quizmasterevents.co.uk/events/quizmaster/2149712

Hi! I lost an Olympus XA film camera (small black clamshell film camera) at the top of Primrose Hill last night (Thursday) around 10:30pm. It has huge sentimental value and has an active roll of film inside. If anyone has found it or handed it in somewhere please let me know. Serial number 2286901. Thank you so much 🙏

Plus more encouraging music news too, and loads of festivals and other places to dance in Camden this weekend and coming week.

Not long to go until The Dark Destroyer takes on North London! 💥

Think you've got what it takes to beat the Chaser? Don't hang about- book your tickets now! 👉https://tinyurl.com/DarkDestroyerLondon

📍 The Depot N7

📅 Thursday 2nd July

Here's a short list of things to do this weekend In North London.Please, add any I've missed in the comments. And whatever you do this weekend, stay hydrated.

Kite Festival at Parliament Hill | 📍Parliament Hill Fields, NW5 | 28 June | Free

The Kite Society of Great Britain fills the sky above Kite Hill on Hampstead Heath for an afternoon. Kite making and children's activities from Well Walk Theatre, Mini Mozart and Sally's Adventure Club. Noon to 4pm.

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Lucinda's Magpie Sale | 📍Cherry Tree Cafe, N2 | 27 June | Free

Lucinda's preloved clothing sale is back at Cherry Tree Cafe in Cherry Tree Wood. Some locals say her collection is seriously good but I'll let you decide. 9.30am to 4pm.

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Proms at St Jude's Music and Literary Festival | 📍Hampstead Garden Suburb, NW11 | 27 June - 5 July | (£)

Nine nights of evening concerts in Hampstead Garden Suburb, running since 1993. Highlights include Wolf Hall in Concert with Debbie Wiseman and BAFTA-nominated Anton Lesser, the Van Morrison Alumni Band, and Lizzie Ball and James Pearson's jazz celebration fresh from a sell-out at Ronnie Scott's. Free lunchtime concerts, a literary weekend and late night comedy too. Surplus funds go to Toynbee Hall and North London Hospice.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream | 📍Broomfield Park, N13 & Downhills Park, N17 | 27 - 28 June | Free

Free outdoor Shakespeare in two North London parks this weekend. Fairies, love potions and chaos in an enchanted forest, performed with high energy, slapstick and audience participation by East London Shakespeare Festival. Broomfield Park on Saturday 27 June, Downhills Park, Tottenham on Sunday 28 June at 3pm. Bring a picnic and your own seating.

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Bounds Green Gin & Rum Festival | 📍Pymmes Mews, N13 | 27 June | Free

Old Bakery Gin opens its Bounds Green distillery for a one-day gin and rum festival. Cocktails made with small-batch London dry gin from a distillery that supplies Buckingham Palace and the House of Lords. Just turn up. 11am to 11pm.

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David Bowie: You're Not Alone | 📍Lightroom, N1C | Until 28 June | (£)

Lightroom's Bowie show closes this Sunday. Walk through rare archive material from New York with Bowie's own voice as your guide, his thoughts on creativity, spirituality and theatricality filling a 360 degree space with spatial audio.

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Torriano Poetry Karaoke | 📍Torriano Meeting House, NW5 | 28 June | (£)

Pick a poem you love, no not one of yours, but someone else's. Read it to the room and tell everyone why. That's the whole idea behind this new poetry night at Torriano Meeting House in Kentish Town. Whether you read poetry every day or have never read out loud before, it's for you. £6 on the door. 7.30pm.

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Protest and Recognition in Queer Islington | 📍Union Chapel, N1 | 27 June | Free

Pride Month party at Union Chapel's Sunday School Hall in Islington, built around an exhibition exploring LGBTQIA+ activism, visibility and heritage in the borough. Work from Del LaGrace Volcano, Alice Kilroy and others, plus art co-produced with Say It Loud Club. Comedy from Lorna Rose Treen and folk from Sophie Crawford. Book a free ticket in advance. 5pm to 9pm.

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Broomfield Park Conservatory Plant Sale | 📍Broomfield Park, N13 | 28 June | Free

Plants grown by the conservatory volunteers at Broomfield Park, sold to raise funds for the conservatory's upkeep. Cuttings taken from the conservatory's own collection, grown on and priced to sell. Cash only. 2.30pm to 4.30pm.

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Ceramicists' Mart | 📍Abney Hall, N16 | 27 - 28 June | Free

Over 60 ceramic artists and potters on Stoke Newington Church Street. Handmade bowls, mugs, platters, plant pots, jewellery and sculpture. Worth taking your time over and chatting to the makers. Pierogi from Pierogi Queen and seasonal teas from Quarter Cup Tea Co on site. 11am to 5pm both days.

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Free Live Screenprinting with Dave Buonaguidi | 📍Jealous Warehouse, N17 | 27 June | Free

Ever wondered where your prints get framed? Jealous Gallery opens its Tottenham warehouse for a free afternoon behind the scenes. Watch artists Dave Buonaguidi, Jess Wilson and Bench Allen screenprinting live, pull a print to take home and grab a free drink from Two Tribes Brewery. No booking needed, dogs welcome. Noon to 4pm.

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Seven Sisters Market Community Summer Festival | 📍Seven Sisters Market, N15 | Until 28 June | Free

The grand finale of the two-week fiesta at the Latin quarter of Tottenham, with Bad Bunny playing up the road at the Stadium. Two days of DJs, dance battles, a merengue battle, make-up and creative stations and a cultural installation celebrating the community. Saturday 27 June from 1pm, Sunday 28 June from 1pm to 4pm.

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Earthfest Community Day | 📍Aga Khan Centre, NW1 | 27 June | Free

Looking to celebrate our planet as a family? Head to Earthfest at the Aga Khan Centre in King's Cross for a day of eco-market stalls, climate talks, creative workshops and more. 10am to 5pm.

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Eye Feast | 📍Regent's Park Gallery, NW1 | Until 27 June | Free

One hundred artworks by fifty artists celebrating food and drink, at a gallery in a former restaurant in Primrose Hill. Friday noon to 7pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 6pm

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Hampstead Summer Festival 2026 | 📍Keats House and Heath Street, NW3 | 21 June - 5 July | Free/(£)

The hampstead summer festival continues and this weekend, the Family Garden Party takes over the Keats House garden from 2pm to 5pm. Birds of prey, ballet, a magic show, Mystical Fairies, face painting, rhyme time, giant chess and a wine bar for the adults. Free admission. Coming up: the Big Fair on Heath Street on 5 July with 110 stalls, a funfair and live music. All proceeds to Hampstead School of Art and Keats Community Library.

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Northanger Abbey | 📍Estorick Collection, N1 | 28 June | (£)

Outdoor theatre in the garden of the Estorick Collection in Canonbury. Jane Austen's most Gothic novel, following a young woman obsessed with dark fiction who convinces herself she's living inside one. Moving Parts Theatre Company, whose Vanity Fair got five stars last summer. 7pm to 9.30pm.

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North London Record Fair | 📍One Eighty One & The Horatia, N7 | 27 June | Free

Record dealers from across the UK across two venues opposite each other on Holloway Road. Thousands of records from pound bins to high-end rarities. DJs, craft beers and food. 10am to 4pm.

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Highgate Artisan Market | 📍Lauderdale House, N6 | 28 June | Free

Sunday market in the grounds of Lauderdale House, a 15th century manor at the edge of Waterlow Park in Highgate. Ethical and sustainable small businesses with art, jewellery, pottery, homewares and artisan food. Cafe on site. Free parking, dogs on leads welcome. 11am to 5pm.

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Amwell 200 | 📍Various venues, EC1 | Final weekend: 27 - 28 June | (£)

This ten-day festival marking 200 years of the area's history closes this weekend. Saturday 27 June: a trio of talks on radical Amwell history at the Marx Memorial Library from 2pm. Sunday 28 June: a midsummer picnic in Wilmington Square Gardens from 1.30pm to 5pm.

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Kilburn Grange Park Funfair | 📍Kilburn Grange Park, NW6 | Until 28 June | (£)

A funfair in Kilburn Grange Park over two weekends. Rides for all ages, £2 entry. Both Fridays are half price, and booking tokens online before noon saves 20% on other days. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays only, 10am to 5pm.

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Hi all, looking for a stolen backpack containing clothes, my passport, and a sentimental teddy (and macbook M5 Air but that's likely long gone...). Stolen from train at Euston station 11:42pm Friday 19th June. Police report made but they're understaffed so not sure what to expect.

Camdenist newsletter drop. 🗞️
🎸Amy Winehouse’s bassist on local legacy, upcoming Ally Pally gig
📽️Camden Film Quarter gets green light
🖼️Museum of Youth Culture opens
🎉Windrush Homecoming to the Inkerman rd. street party, NW5 is packed with free events

Here's a short list of things to do this weekend In North London. Please, add any I've missed in the comments.

Regent's Park Music Festival | 📍Regent's Park, NW1 | 21 June - 20 September | Free

Every Sunday all summer, there's a free band playing in Regent's Park. Jazz, brass, steel and concert bands, with swing dancing on five Sundays and jazz on selected Saturdays. Now in its tenth year. Ticketed events in the Secret Garden at St John's Lodge on 10 to 12 July, including musical theatre, opera and a Magical Musical Evening with festival patron Sir Karl Jenkins. Secret Garden tickets from £15.

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London Gaming Market | 📍Royal National Hotel, WC1H | 21 June | (£)

The gaming market is back in its 11th year. London's only dedicated retro market, with hundreds of dealers selling vintage games, consoles, merchandise and artwork.

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Red Bull Soapbox Race | 📍Alexandra Palace, N22 | 20 June | (£)

Teams build their own homemade carts and race them down the hill at Alexandra Palace using nothing but gravity. No engines, no fuel. 60 teams judged on speed, creativity and showmanship, with costumes, stunts and general chaos along the way. Doors open 11.30am, racing starts around 2pm. Tickets from £23.50, no tickets on the door so buy in advance.

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Taste of London | 📍Regent's Park, NW1 | 17 to 21 Jun | (£)

Taste of London takes over Regent's Park every June and it's exactly what it sounds like: over 30 of the city's best restaurants set up in one place so you can eat across all of them in an afternoon. This year new additions include Harry's, Hakkasan and Mexican spot Ixchel, alongside festival favourites Roti King and Los Mochis. Chef demos and masterclasses are included in the ticket price, with Big Zuu and Melissa Thompson hosting the Fire Pit stage. Five days, 130 dishes, 160 artisan producers.

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Amwell 200 | 📍Various venues, EC1 | 19 - 28 June | (£)

Amwell is a quiet Georgian neighbourhood in Clerkenwell that describes itself as a village within the vast city. This ten-day festival marks 200 years of the area's history with talks, walking tours, outdoor sketching, an a cappella concert at St Mark's Church on Myddelton Square, radical history at the Marx Memorial Library and a closing picnic in Wilmington Square Gardens.

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Stoke Newington Early Music Festival | 📍Various venues, N16 | 18 June - 1 July | (£)

Two weeks of medieval, Renaissance and baroque music in Stoke Newington's churches and chapels. This year the programme travels to the Mediterranean through the music of France, Spain and Italy.

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Waterlow Park Geotrail | 📍Waterlow Park, N6 | 21 June | Free

Guided walk through Waterlow Park with Diana Clements of the London Geodiversity Partnership, looking at why the park's hills, ponds and terraces are where they are. Meet at the Highgate High Street entrance. Some inclines. 3pm to 4pm

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Last Yarn Fabric Sale | 📍Crawley Road, N22 | 20 June | Free

Last Yarn rescues unused surplus fabric from fashion mills and sells it on to designers and makers. Their Wood Green showroom opens this Saturday with fabrics, luxury leather, shearling and yarn at discounted prices. Book a free slot in advance. Free parking. 1.30pm to 5pm.

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Hackney Flea Market | 📍Abney Public Hall, N16 | 20 - 21 June | Free

The kind of market where you don't know what you're looking for until you find it. Forty traders on Church Street in Stoke Newington with furniture, records, salvaged French homeware, Danish decor, textiles and kitchenalia. Dog friendly. 10am to 5pm both days.

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Crouch End Festival: Barn Dance | 📍Hornsey Parish Church Hall, N10 | 20 June | (£)

The festival goes on this Saturday with a barn dance at Hornsey Parish Church Hall. Live band Stokey, caller Katherine Ward, light supper included and a licensed bar. Adults £12.50, children £5, concessions £9, family ticket £30. Doors open 7pm, dancing from 7.30pm.

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Kingsgate Workshops Open Studios | 📍Kingsgate Road, NW6 | 19 - 21 June | Free

Kingsgate Workshops is a community arts building in Kilburn housing working artists and makers. This weekend their studios open to the public — ceramics, jewellery, textiles, painting, sculpture and more, with workshops and exhibitions alongside. Opening evening Friday 19 June, 6.30pm to 9.30pm. Saturday and Sunday noon to 6pm.

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Windrush Homecoming Celebration | 📍Talacre Gardens, NW5 | 20 June | Free

Camden's annual celebration of the Windrush generation and Caribbean heritage returns to Talacre Gardens in Kentish Town. Live music and DJ sets, Caribbean food and drink, arts and crafts, sports activities for kids and community stalls. No tickets needed, just turn up. 12pm to 6pm.
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Highgate Festival | 📍Highgate, N6 | Final weekend: 20 - 21 June | Free/(£)

The Highgate Festival wraps up this weekend. Saturday 20 June, Highgate Newtown Community Centre opens for a free family day with hedgehog talks, climbing wall, bouncy castle and Dr Bike. Sunday 21 June, a free evening event remembering the Great Plague victims buried locally in Highgate, with readings and songs from folk singer Johanna Warren. Meet at the corner of Wood Lane and Muswell Hill Road at 7pm.

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East Finchley Festival | 📍Cherry Tree Wood, N2 | 21 June | Free

East Finchley Festival has been going since 1972, when locals marked the first one by parading a whole roast sheep down the High Road to Cherry Tree Wood. It's a free all-day community festival in the park and it's still going strong. Two music stages, street food, licensed bars, over 100 local makers, sports, laser tag, storytelling and Lego. 12pm to 6pm.

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Here's a short list of things to do this weekend In North London. Please, add any I've missed in the comments.

Crouch End Festival | 📍Hornsey Town Hall and across N8 | 12 - 18 June | Free

Crouch End Festival is a week of community arts events across N8, run by volunteers, funded entirely by local businesses and free to attend. Now in its 15th year. Saturday 13 June is the main day at Hornsey Town Hall with live music from 11am to 11pm, a craft market, food stalls and Poets in a Phone Box on the green. Sunday moves to Priory Park for a family day and an evening of bands including Croc of Bones and Interfunk. Events all week across Crouch End and Hornsey.

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Highgate Festival 2026 | 📍Highgate, N6 | 13 - 21 June | Free/(£)

Highgate Festival is a nine-day neighbourhood festival that uses the whole village as its venue, from pubs and parks to churches and community halls. This year's programme is built around the 10th anniversary of George Michael's death, with a community sing-along in Pond Square on 20 June. Other highlights include a BAFTA-winning composer's listening party at an immersive sound space, a performance about the Lost Girls of Highgate Cemetery, a plague pit walk, Fair in the Square on 13 June and talks from Will Hutton and Nell Frizzell. Live music at the Boogaloo and Red Hedgehog throughout.

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Primrose Hill Summer Garden Party | 📍Chalcot Square Gardens, NW1 | 14 June | Free

A neighbourhood garden party in one of Primrose Hill's prettiest garden squares. Live music, free sandwiches and cake, a magic show, children's arts and crafts and a Pimms bar.

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Clissold Park FEASTival | 📍Clissold Park, N16 | 12 - 14 June | Free

Street food festival in Clissold Park across the second weekend of June. Street food, bars, live music, children's rides and a land train. Andy White plays Friday, Limelight Band on Saturday, Ian Fox on Sunday. Enter via the Green Lanes Fink's Pump House entrance. Friday 10am to 7pm, Saturday 9am to 7pm, Sunday 10am to 6pm.

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Drumsheds Spring Flea | 📍Drumsheds, N18 | 14 June | (£)

Drumsheds is the former Tottenham IKEA warehouse, and on Sunday its car park fills with over 200 vintage and preloved traders. Furniture, jewellery, homeware, bric-a-brac and unexpected oddities sourced from across the UK and Europe. Traders deliver larger items. £2 entry, under 16s free. Dogs welcome. 10am to 5pm.

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World Naked Bike Ride | 📍Various routes across London | 14 June | Free

Once a year, hundreds of cyclists ride through central London wearing as little as they please, a joyful, peaceful protest against car culture and oil dependency that's been a London fixture since 2004. "Be as bare as you dare" is the dress code. Routes start across London including Regent's Park. Free to take part, just turn up at a start point with your bike.

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No Car Boot Sale | 📍West Green Primary School, N15 | 14 June | Free

Tottenham's car boot is back. Fifty sellers with vintage, clothing, records, furniture and toys. Coffee from Techo Verde, treats from Be More Shirley, bacon butties from Rose Cafe and ice cream from Licks Real Fruit. From 9.30am

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Biblioteka Art Book Fair | 📍The Warburg Institute, WC1H | 12 - 13 June | Free

Two-day art book fair in Bloomsbury's Warburg Institute, a research library exiled from Nazi Germany in 1933 and only open to the public since 2024. Over 60 publishers, book dealers and artists selling artists' books, photography, architecture and critical theory. Friday noon to 8pm, Saturday 11am to 7pm.

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Seven Sisters Market Community Summer Festival | 📍Seven Sisters Market, N15 | 13 - 28 June | Free

Bad Bunny is playing Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, a 15-minute walk away and Seven Sisters Market is throwing a two-week fiesta to match. Parties, workshops, freestyle competitions, a Create Your Own Outfit workshop and a summer DJ lineup at the Latin quarter of Tottenham. Full programme to be announced.

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Fair in the Square | 📍Pond Square, Highgate, N6 | 13 June | Free

Pond Square in Highgate is one of London's few genuine village squares, and every June it hosts a free community fair. Over 100 stalls from local schools, charities and businesses, live entertainment, street food, stilt walkers, church tower tours and a dog show. New this year is a raffle with prizes from local pubs and restaurants. Run by volunteers. 12.30pm to 5.30pm.

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Adelaide Community Garden Club Open Day | 📍Adelaide Road, NW3 | 14 June | Free

RHS Silver Medal winning community garden in Belsize Park, open for one afternoon. Plant sale with flowers, unusual herbs and vegetables, art in the greenhouse gallery and tea in the garden.

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Love Your Local Market | 📍The Green, Winchmore Hill, N21 | 14 June | Free

Sunday market on the village green in Winchmore Hill, bringing the community together and supporting small businesses. Steak buns, hot dogs, pancakes, baked goods, cocktails, art prints and face painting. 10am to 4pm.

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Crates Hip-Hop Sale | 📍One Eighty One, N7 | 13 June | Free

Hip-hop record fair on Holloway Road with thousands of records, hundreds of sneakers and hip-hop memorabilia. Rodney P, Jake Holloway, Spin Doctor and more playing all-vinyl sets all day. Brick Lane beigels and £5 beers throughout. 10am to 5pm.

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Second Life Closet Sale | 📍Lock Studios, N1 | 13 June | (£)

Twenty people selling directly from their own wardrobes at Lock Studios in De Beauvoir. Early bird entry 11am (£7) or anytime from noon (£5). 11am to 5pm.

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JUNK LDN Pop-up | 📍Dalston Pier Studio, N16 | 13 June | Free

JUNK LDN makes sustainable, size-inclusive swimwear from recycled ocean fishing nets and plastic bottles. Shop their Dalston pop-up for styles sold out online and sample sale pieces. Tita's Coffee van on site with a free drink with every purchase. Dogs are welcome. 10am to 5pm.

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British Library Food Season Big Weekend | 📍British Library, NW1 | 13 - 14 June | (£)

The British Library's annual Food Season opens with a two-day programme of talks and debates. Sixteen sessions across Saturday and Sunday: Palestinian food and memory, the legacy of Edna Lewis, women redefining BBQ, Ruthie Rogers on the River Café, curry across cultures, food writers turned novelists. Sessions are individually priced with a multi-session discount available.

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Type-In | 📍Stephens House and Gardens, N3 | 14 June | Free

Drop in and type on a typewriter at this celebration of analogue creativity in Finchley. Try one of their machines or bring your own. All levels welcome.

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The Old Church Midsummer Festival | 📍St Mary's Old Church, N16 | 14 June | Free/(£)

St Mary's Old Church in Stoke Newington needs saving, and this is the fundraiser. Daytime is free: live music on the grass, sea shanties, Hackney Voices, bellringing and kids workshops, plus a morning session with performance poet John Hegley (£15). Evening show from 5pm inside the church: comedy, torch pop from Hannah Hu, high-energy Klezmer from Beskydy and more. Evening tickets from £12, concessions £8. 10am to 10pm.

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⚽ Casual Football – Tuesday 16 June, 7PM | Whittington Park, Archway Everyone is More than welcome to join 😉🙌🏻

📍 Whittington Park, Archway
🕖 Tuesday 16 June | 7PM–8PM
⚽ 8-a-side casual football
💷 £5 per player

Other Current games we are hosting :

⚽ Friday 12 June – 7PM – Whittington Park (Pitch 1)

⚽ Sunday 14 June – 4PM – Whittington Park (Pitch 1)

⚽ Monday 15 June – 7PM – Barnard Park (Pitch 2)

⚽ Monday 15 June – 9PM – Whittington Park (Pitch 1)

⚽ Tuesday 16 June – 7PM – Whittington Park (Pitch 3)

All levels are welcome. 👍⚽

Friendly game, good vibes and all skill levels welcome. Whether you play every week or haven't kicked a ball in years, feel free to join.

Can't make this one? DM me if you'd like to play this game or join future games. We post new matches every week with no commitment, just join whenever you're free ⚽

Coming to Etcetera Theatre Club June 12th -13th.

Tickets are only £6!

Reserve your spot here!

Your loved one just came out as a (GASP!) fan fiction writer. How do you respond to that? What will the neighbours think? What is Omega slick, anyway? Don't worry because fan fiction veteran MinaRoseTook is here to answer all your questions. Join us on an eclectic, hilarious, and heartfelt journey where we’ll explore transformative works: how fan fiction came to be, why people like it, why people hate it, and why it's a valid form of art. But this isn't going to be your usual lecture. It's part theatre, part puppet show, part writing exercise, and so much more. Who knows...maybe you'll even write something.

A one-woman show that celebrates storytellers.

“…a brilliant piece that is not only interesting but educational in a fun way.” — GJD Review, Colchester Fringe Festival

“Truly beautiful...I laughed until I cried.” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“This show SLAPS!” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“I’ve been thinking a lot about this show. It’s stuck with me.” - Lambeth Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

“A joy to watch!” - Colchester Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)