One day in September each year, Regent Street closes to traffic and the fun begins - a huge street party with a different theme each year.

Dates and info: Regent Street Festival.

Music, pyrotechnics, aerial work, street theatre... all these and more come to Trafalgar Square for three weeks in August in a fabulous celebration of live performance.

Everything you'd expect from a country fair - homemade jam, animals, fruit, flowers - in the middle of London. But there's more - mediaeval jousting, a parachute display, and a great reggae soundsystem. Find it all at Brockwell Park in [more...]

September brings a huge festival of music, street theatre, dancing, masquerade and costumes to both sides of the Thames. The fun goes on late into the night and lasts an entire weekend.

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Every early May Bank Holiday masses of canalboats gather in Little Venice. There's a parade of painted boats during the day, illuminated boats at night, a trade and craft fair and special events at the Puppet Theatre Barge.
How to get there.