The capital’s best free events from April 27-30th

Hi there {{ first name | Cheapskater }},

Welcome back to your weekly roundup of London’s best free events, discount codes, recommendations and more – plus a huge congratulations to everyone who ran the London Marathon yesterday!

This week’s edition is slightly shorter than usual… stay tuned for our bumper May bank holiday edition coming out this Friday 👀

Have a fantastic couple of days!
Kate, Georgia and Clementine x

PS: Congrats to readers Vivien K, Lu Z and Lila B who each won £50 credit to spend on EatClub – our fave app which gets you incredible discounts at top London restaurants (use the code CHEAPSKATE20 to get £20 for free).

Scroll down for your chance to win tickets to an amazing event this Thursday… and head to our Instagram to win an escape room experience!

MONDAY

👂 The sound of silence

Experience the historic Smithfield area in a totally new way on a soundwalk – a walk centred around sounds, rather than sights. Meet outside Timpson by Farringdon station this evening.

🗓️ Mon 27th Apr, 6-7.30pm
📍 Farringdon

🧸 A dose of nostalgia

It’s your last chance to catch this adorable exhibit of previously unseen early sketches for the Winnie the Pooh books, at the Peter Harrington bookshop in Mayfair.

🗓️ Until Mon 27th Apr, 10am-6pm
📍 Green Park

TUESDAY

🕺 Dancing queens

Loved ABBA Voyage? Go deeper into the legendary band’s story at this lecture (hosted by Wimbledon Library) all about the making of their 1975 breakthrough album.

🗓️ Tues 28th Apr, 7.30-9pm
📍 Wimbledon

⚡ ‘Power Station’

This 2025 film tells the story of a community in Walthamstow coming together to bring solar power to their street – Central Saint Martins is hosting a screening & Q&A.

🗓️ Tues 28th Apr, from 6pm
📍 King’s Cross

🗣️ Competition time!

If the state of the world has you equal parts furious & fired up, this one’s for you.

We’ve teamed up with The Guilty Feminist podcast & The Nerve – the female-founded investigative media title set up by former Guardian & Observer journalists – to give away a pair of tickets to their live event, The Road to Gilead.

Host Deborah Frances-White will be joined by Carole Cadwalladr & Lucia Osborne-Crowley (whose definitive book on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial is essential reading), plus guest co-host comedian Ria Lina.

Taking place at Leicester Square Theatre this Thurs, this will be an unmissable evening of joyful resistance, with music, comedy & honest conversations. To enter the prize draw, simply fill out this poll:

Do you want to win a pair of tickets to this event?

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If you don’t win, fear not! Readers can take 20% off ticket prices using the code CHEAPSKATE (while stocks last)

WEDNESDAY

💡 Unlock your creativity

Kick back & relax at Shoe Lane Library this Weds: choose from a sound bath, a ‘non-judgemental voice workshop’ or an art class inspired by Sculpture in the City.

🗓️ Weds 29th Apr, various times
📍 Chancery Lane

💃🏿 An unsung hero

Battersea Arts Centre is screening Carmen (2025) – not the opera, but a work of visual art exploring the life & career of trailblazing Guyanese British actress Carmen Munroe.

🗓️ Weds 29th Apr-Fri 22nd May
📍 Clapham Junction

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THURSDAY

🛼 Get your skates on

Skate 50 is a new pay-what-you-can photography & video exhibit paying homage to the iconic skate space under Queen Elizabeth Hall. It’s on at the Southbank Centre until June.

🗓️ Thurs 30th Apr-Sun 21st Jun
📍 Waterloo

⏰ Working nine to five

Is it time to change the 40-hour work week? It’s been around for 100 years, after all. This Thurs, head to Pelican House to explore the case for shorter working hours.

🗓️ Thurs 30th Apr, 6-7.30pm
📍 Bethnal Green

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LOOKING AHEAD

🚜 Escapes is back next week with another free screening at cinemas across London, this time with Our Land, a doc about the Right to Roam movement.
🌳 Big Vauxhall Tree Week will celebrate urban nature in the south-west London neighbourhood, & culminates in a big May Day party on 16th & 17th May.
🏛️ The Horniman Museum is celebrating its 125th birthday with a fabulous family-friendly party on 27th June – book here!

Bank holiday edition coming on Friday!

And for dessert...

🎥 To kick off the Herne Hill Free Film Festival, there’s a film quiz tonight (Mon) at Bird House Brewery hosted by Cheapskate reader Zoë – it’s £3 per person to enter, & make sure to get there early as it’s first come, first served.

🍻 The upcoming bank holiday means that London is about to become pop-up central – for example, Peroni is taking over the Covent Garden piazza with an Italian Renaissance-inspired mural (which also dispenses free beer!).

🧖‍♀️I had a heavenly experience over the weekend - a massage at my home! I used Urban, an app which you can use to book massages, beauty, osteopathy & physio treatments where the practitioner comes to you. Use my discount code (RKATESARD) to get £15 off your first booking. - Kate

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