The best things to do this weekend, 25-27 October
The best things to do this weekend, 25-27 October
Our top picks of the best things to get up to: family theatre and Mexican food in Wimbledon, art installations at Southbank, music in Sutton and comedy in Kingston!
Pictured: Installation view of Haegue Yang: Leap Year – Photo by Mark Blower
Theatre
Soft or Spiky
Polka Theatre, Wimbledon
One for the families! This playful and interactive new show is full of shapes, sounds, textures and words exploring different ways to connect and understand each other, inspired by heartfelt conversations with new parents.
Exhibitions
Haegue Yang: Leap Year
Hayward Gallery
Leap Year consists of over 100 works from Haegue Yang’s career, including three major new commissions and multiple movable, activated works creating an all-encompassing visual and sensory experience.

Haegue Yang, The Randing Intermediates – Underbelly Alienage Duo (Earth Alienage Rising Sporing, Sea Alienage Fanned-Out Bang), 2020. © Haegue Yang. Courtesy kurimanzutto, Mexico City, New York
Music
Out On The Floor – Northern Soul Night
The Sound Lounge, Sutton
After 3 outstanding nights at the Sound Lounge, the Out On The Floor DJ’s will be back again on Saturday 26th October for a Northern Soul night – get your dancing shoes on!
Comedy
Crack Comedy
Ram Jam Records, Kingston, 25 October
Crack Comedy brings you the best comedians on the London circuit at Kingston’s comedy club RJR! Tickets are still available but do tend so sell out so be sure to book.
Food
Day of the Dead Feast
Bar + Block, Wimbledon
You can head to Bar + Block as it visits Mexico to celebrate Day of the Dead as part of its ‘Inspired By’ menu. The menu features an array of delish dishes: corn tortilla chips and chunky guacamole, plus tacos with fillings of mushrooms; slow cooked pulled beef short-rib; and beer-battered fish goujons.

