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XVII
THE STAR
Wonder & Awe
For when you want to feel small and lit from within.
45 venues in this arcana
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180 Studios
Temple
Lie down, look up, let the universe remake you.
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ArtHouse Crouch End
Crouch End
Art beats loud in the old chapel bones of Crouch End.
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Autograph
Rivington Place
Portraits breathe here — lens, light, and liberation entwined.
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BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir – Neasden Temple
Neasden
5,000 tonnes of carved marble risen in suburban miracle
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Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall
Vauxhall
Time slows among brick arches and strange visions.
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Bush Hall
Shepherd's Bush
Chandeliers shimmer as sound takes flight in this west London jewel box.
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Candlelight Concerts at St Mary le Strand
The Strand
Strings and candleflame in a glowing Strand sanctuary
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Colour House Theatre
Merton
A toybox of tales tucked into Merton’s old mill house.
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Cubitt Artists
Islington
Cubitt is a stitched-together constellation — studios, gallery, gathering ground.
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Deen City Farm
Merton
Horses here teach patience better than any app could.
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Dino Snores for Grown Ups - Natural History Museum Sleepover
Kensington
The whale looms above your sleeping bag, vast and serene.
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Frameless
Marble Arch
Colours bloom on every wall — you're inside the painting now.
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Freightliners City Farm
Islington
A farm where the only deadline is feeding time.
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Hackney City Farm
Bethnal Green
A tiny farmyard teaching city hands to touch the earth again.
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Hackney Empire
Hackney
Velvet curtains part on Hackney’s golden stage of wonder and roar.
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Hampstead Observatory Public Nights
Hampstead
Where the trees end, the stars begin.
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Horniman Museum and Gardens
Forest Hill
Strange wonders gather here, where the city falls away into story.
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Hundred Years Gallery
Shoreditch
Tucked in a quiet Hoxton side street, Hundred Years Gallery hums with the strange and the sublime.
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Illuminated River
Central London
Fifteen bridges glowing, the Thames wrapped in light
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Jacksons Lane
Highgate
Trapeze dreams and fairy lights flicker from the Highgate redbrick.
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Kentish Town City Farm
Kentish Town
The UK's first city farm still knows how to slow time down.
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Leighton House Museum
Kensington
A golden dome shelters a fountain in a Victorian artist's dream.
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Lightroom
King's Cross
Dinosaurs swim overhead, astronauts drift past — let the walls disappear.
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Lightroom – The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks
King's Cross
Standing where the lunar module stood, Earth rising behind you
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Luke Jerram's Gaia at Southwark Cathedral
Southwark
Our blue planet turning slowly beneath Gothic arches
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Mudchute Park & Farm
Isle of Dogs
Here the skyscrapers watch sheep graze without comment.
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Natural History Museum – Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?
South Kensington
Asking the biggest question beneath Victorian vaults
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Navrtar
Ealing
Walk into the simulation. Trust your instincts.
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Outernet London
Tottenham Court Road
Four storeys of LED dreams bleeding into the street
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Painted Hall at Old Royal Naval College
Greenwich
Nineteen years of painting, one overwhelming ceiling
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Planetarium GO! at Battersea Power Station
Battersea
A pocket cosmos inflating inside industrial cathedral walls
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Royal Docks Swim Series (RDSS) Evening Swim
Royal Docks
At dusk, the docks shimmer with invitation.
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Ryoji Ikeda: Data-Cosm at 180 Studios
Strand / Temple
Data becoming light, numbers becoming awe
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Southwark Park Galleries (Lake Gallery & Dilston Gallery)
Bermondsey
Art grows where swans glide and leaves murmur.
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Spitalfields City Farm
Spitalfields
A corner of the city where pigs and people take it slow.
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St Paul's Cathedral – Whispering & Golden Galleries
City of London
528 steps to where whispers travel and London spreads below
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Standpoint Gallery
Shoreditch
Behind a modest Hoxton doorway, Standpoint hums with the urgency of new work.
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Stepney City Farm
Stepney
A farmers' market of feelings, with mud on your boots and clay under your nails.
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Surrey Docks Farm
Rotherhithe
Goats nibble nettles while the Thames tide whispers by.
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The Fan Museum
Greenwich
Silk, paper and ivory whisper of hands long gone.
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Twist Museum
Oxford Circus
Reality bends gently here. Let it.
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UCL Observatory Public Tours
Mill Hill
Historic domes opening onto infinite dark
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Vauxhall City Farm
Vauxhall
Alpacas and skyscrapers coexist here like old friends.
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Wellcome Collection
Euston
A quiet place to meet the future without losing your humanity.
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Wonders of the Dark Sky - Woodoaks Farm Stargazing
Woodoaks Farm, Maple Cross, Hertfordshire (north-west Greater London)
At Woodoaks Farm, the stars return.