Grab your best Frank-N-Furter or Magenta costume & get ready to sing along, because Effra Social is screening The Rocky Horror Picture Show tonight, with free popcorn & 2-for-1 burgers all evening.

It’s the last week you can catch Umbilical, an ambitious rope-based artwork at Here East. While you’re there, make sure to check out the (free) David Bowie archives at the V&A Storehouse next door.

Clive Goddard has been a cartoonist for Private Eye & other mags for 25 years. He’s giving an “illustrated talk” at Westminster Reference Library to accompany its Things That Go Bump In The Night exhibit.

Take part in a storytelling workshop at ArtsOne exploring what plants can teach us about care, connection & creativity. Expect sensory exercises & a chance to reimagine your own story through the lens of vegetal life.

As part of the Southbank Centre’s free Creative Encounters series, there’s a chance to relax & unlock your artistic side this Weds. All materials will be provided for you to paint to your heart’s content while listening to poetry readings from the Black Women Art Network.

Celebrate World Food Day at Imperial College with a selection of sustainable autumn cookery events, including talks & interactive cooking demonstrations. Registration highly recommended.

Could you have designed a chair when you were 14? I certainly could not, so I’m excited to discover the young furniture designers of tomorrow (aged 14-25) at this one-day-only event at Furniture Makers’ Hall.

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‘Tis the season for cult horror films. Sign up for Deptford Lounge’s newsletter to find out what film they’re showing this Thurs (hint: it’s a “lesser-known film from a legendary horror director”). There’s free popcorn!

And my mother said to me, enjoy your life – artist Annie Frost Nicholson’s new exhibit of large-scale paintings (opening at Coal Drops Yard this Thurs) – is a nostalgic ode to “an analogue world that no longer exists.”

Celebrate the lesbian-coded history & symbolism of Marie Antoinette at a special V&A late event co-curated with the queer art-rave collective Riposte. And just down the road is the Science Museum’s Halloween late!

In celebration of its hit Nigerian Modernism exhibit, Tate Modern is theming this month’s late around the sounds that have shaped contemporary Nigerian culture. Expect live music, workshops & artist talks.

Celebrate “Halloweekend” with Juju’s Bar & Stage’s Twilight-themed party. Or, if you’re more Britney than Bella Swan, there’s also this Y2K Halloween celebration over at Eastcheap Records by Monument.

It’s the Day of the Dead as well as Halloween this weekend, so head to Camden Market to celebrate all things Mexican culture by way of music, street food & a spectacular sugar skull parade, of course.

The SE London BookFest continues at the Morocco Bound bookshop – this Sun, you can choose from a guide to staying sane in a house share (I’m sure many of us need that…) or author-journalist Mina Holland discussing her memoir about caring for a baby with a life-threatening illness.

You’ll need to be up early for this one, but the annual Veteran Car Run ought to be worth it. Head to Hyde Park to watch as the cars, all built before 1905, begin their race to Brighton.

Frieze may mostly be over for another year, but there’s still one more weekend to catch the free Frieze Sculpture display in Regent’s Park, which features 14 artists from around the world in the English Gardens.