The capital’s best free events from Mar 2nd-8th

Happy Monday, {{ first name | Cheapskater }},

Welcome back to another roundup of London’s best free events! Oh, and happy International Women’s Day for this coming Sunday. I have so much love and respect for all the women in my life (including the ones I work with at Cheapskate!), so I hope you can celebrate the amazing women in your life this week, too.

In last week’s email we asked you to let us know about the inspiring women-owned businesses or initiatives making a difference in your community. Please keep your suggestions coming – we’ll share our highlights in next week’s newsletter.

Any brilliant women-led small businesses we should know about?

Have a wonderful week,
Clementine x

PS: Congrats to Jess, Em, Meg and Sophie the winners of our EatClub and BookBeat competitions. Just a reminder that ALL our readers can get £20 free EatClub credit (use the code CHEAPSKATE20) and an exclusive 60-day free BookBeat audiobook trial. Scroll down for two exciting new giveaways 👀

🎨 ‘The Weight of Being’

Two Temple Place’s 2026 exhibit explores vulnerability, resilience & mental health through the work of a diverse range of 20th-century & contemporary artists. This powerful show brings together deeply personal & collective reflections on identity, societal pressures & the search for solace. No booking required.

🗓️ Open Tues-Sun from 11am, until Sun 19th April
📍 Temple

MONDAY

🖥️ ‘Internet Cafe’

Social media & the internet have totally changed our lives, for better or for worse – a theme explored in this nostalgic exhibit at Hypha Studios, now in its final week.

🗓️ Until Sat 7th Mar
📍 Warren Street

♻️ London Repair Week

This fantastic celebration of all things fixing is taking place this week, where you can pick up repair skills & give old items new life at classes & workshops across London.

🗓️ Mon 2nd Mar-Sun 8 Mar, 6-8pm
📍 City-wide

TUESDAY

🏙️ Borough of Culture

Introducing the next London Borough of Culture: Haringey! Meet the borough’s creative community at Hornsey Town Hall, & listen to a panel with local women artists.

🗓️ Tues 3rd Mar, 6-9pm
📍 Crouch Hill

📖 24 Hours at the Capitol

You may not want to think too much about US politics right now, but this KCL book launch sounds fascinating: it’s an oral history of the Jan 6th riots by an Emmy-nominated journalist.

🗓️ Tues 3rd Mar, 6-8pm
📍 Temple

WEDNESDAY

📰 Read all about it!

Hear ye, hear ye! Get your truth out there at this communal letterpress workshop hosted by the Southbank Centre & printing studio The Typography Workshop. Participants will learn the art of typography & help create a beautiful text-based artwork.

🗓️ Weds 4th Mar, 6-8.30pm
📍 Waterloo

🎨 ‘Filling the Gaps’

This Weds is the private view of this ambitious exhibit chronicling the history of the disabled people’s movement through portraits, at Marylebone Parish Church.

🗓️ Weds 4th Mar, 5.30-8pm
📍 Baker Street

👩‍⚕️ Making herstory

Grab your tickets ASAP for this late opening & guided tour celebrating the history of women in medicine at the Royal College of Physicians. (This Hunterian IWD exhibit also looks fab.)

🗓️ Weds 4th Mar, 5.30-8pm
📍 Regent’s Park

📚 Competition time!

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’ve partnered with Shimmy Books – the community-driven platform changing how people buy & sell secondhand books – to give away a pair of tickets to this dreamy event for book lovers.

Held this Sat in ‘The Secret Reading Room’ (with its secret east London location), the day will be packed with author talks, bookish workshops, a book lover ‘meet cute’ hosted by Shimmy Books, & much more!

To be in with a chance of winning the tickets, get someone you know to subscribe to Cheapskate by sending them this link (it contains your personalised referral code): {{rp_refer_url}}. Once they’ve signed up, you’ll be entered into a draw, & we’ll pick the winner at random. Good luck!

(FYI Cheapskate Club members get automatic entry into all of our weekly competitions; no referral needed. We’re currently running a sale!)

THURSDAY

🤖 Do the Cyberdance

This month’s Horniman Museum late invites you to ‘enter the Cyberdance zone’: that means a futuristic blend of art, sound, fashion & gaming, & lots of interactive workshops.

🗓️ Thurs 5th Mar, 5.30-9.30pm
📍 Forest Hill

🖼️ Exhibits galore

It’s a big day for free art openings: there’s this pop-up at Peckham Rye station, this tribute to Hampstead at Burgh House & this private view at The Handbag Factory.

🗓️ Thurs 5th Mar, various times
📍 Peckham Rye/Hampstead/Vauxhall

FRIDAY

🎶 ‘Live at Lunch’

There’s a rare opportunity to watch world-leading opera for free at the Royal Opera House during your lunch break this Fri. Tickets on the door; first come, first served.

🗓️ Fri 6th Mar, 1-1.45pm
📍 Covent Garden

🍻 The heart of the East End

Ninety One is the Truman Brewery’s first new pub on site in 37 years. To celebrate the launch, the pub is throwing a proper knees-up, complete with £5 pints.

🗓️ Fri 6th Mar, from 6pm
📍 Shoreditch High Street

🍪 ANOTHER competition!

This week, one of our amazing Cheapskate Club members will be randomly selected to win a Floozie Cookies Easter box! The box (available online & at Floozie’s Covent Garden store) contains six delicious New York-style cookies inspired by Easter classics like hot cross buns & Creme Eggs.

There are just 120 people in the Cheapskate Club – our incredible community of supporters who literally help keep this newsletter going. These wonderful people are helping make sure London’s cultural scene is open to everyone, no matter how much money they earn.

We’d love to add some new members to the club, so we’re running a sale all this week. If you join before Friday, you’ll enter the draw to win the cookies! Please support us today 🧡

SAT - SUN

✍️ For the love of literature

Mayfair Library is hosting a haven for book lovers this weekend, with this book fair promising meet-&-greets with authors, curated indie collections & exclusive discounts.

🗓️ Sat 7th Mar, 10am-8pm
📍 Marble Arch

🛍️ Samples for all

This market showcasing samples & trial pieces at Abney Public Hall ought to yield some fab bargains. There’s also this Lucy & Yak sample sale at Copeland Park.

🗓️ Sat 7th-Sun 8th Mar
📍 Stoke Newington/Peckham Rye

👩‍🎨 Work by women

Only 27 paintings in the National Gallery’s 2,000-strong collection are by women. Explore some of those much-loved works on this IWD-themed guided tour.

🗓️ Sun 8th Mar, 11-11.50am
📍 Charing Cross

🌺 Para las mujeres

Celebrate International Women’s Day the Latina way at this market celebrating women-owned businesses from across Latin America, at Metropolis in Vauxhall.

🗓️ Sun 8th Mar, 12-8pm
📍 Vauxhall

LOOKING AHEAD

🏛 The British Museum is hosting a late inspired by its blockbuster Samurai exhibit, with manga drawing, arcade games & model-making.
👩‍🏫 The Guildhall Library turns 600 this year, so to celebrate its curator is holding special guided tours on Sat 11th April (booking essential).
👨 Explore the rich history of masculinity on stage & screen as part of the British Academy’s amazing The Age of Self? series.

And for dessert...

🍽️ Love eating out but not the bill that comes with it? EatClub’s here to help – this amazing app gives you instant discounts on both food & drink at great London restaurants. Use the code CHEAPSKATE20 to get 🚨 £20 free credit 🚨 when you redeem your first offer… so your next dinner out is on us!

👟 It’s getting a little too warm for chunky boots, so let me propose to you: chunky sandals. This pair from Kleman is the perfect transitional shoe. - Clementine

🚌 Good news for fans of free transport: to promote use of the Silvertown & Blackwall Tunnels, TfL has made three local bus routes – the SL4, 129 & 108 – free for another seven weeks.

🍳 Looking for a new veggie cookbook? I’m constantly rotating between Dinner by Meera Sodha, & this cookbook from Middle Eastern-inspired London restaurant Bubala. Have you tried either? - Georgia

🍹 To mark Mother’s Day this Sun, my fave independent pub The Crown (in Highgate) is offering free rhubarb bellinis to mums who come in for a roast. Just quote ‘Cheapskate’ on arrival (& trust me – the roasts are to die for!). - Kate

🐦 If there’s one thing we’re not lacking in London, it’s pigeons. Turn the city’s fave pest into art thanks to this pigeon photography contest: submit your best pigeon snaps by 10th March for a chance to see your work exhibited at UCL.

⚡️ I use Octopus energy at home, which is 100% renewable & the customer service is actually good. If you’d like to try Octopus, here’s £50 free credit! - Kate

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