Japan House in Kensington is the cultural home of Japan in London. Japan House organise a number of exciting exhibitions and events throughout the year, including talks, workshops and film screenings. Most events are free but a small number of events require a participation fee.
Discover the urgent research and innovation taking place to design a future for fashion that is both stylish and sustainable.
The Holland Park Ecology Centre helps to promote awareness and understanding of biodiversity and the local environment through events for children and adults as well as environmental visits for schools and holiday activities.
Events for spring 2025 include a Botany Walk, Dawn Chorus Bird Walk, Family Bird Walk, Spring Bat Walk, Herbal Medicine Walk, pre-school activities
The Holland Park Ecology Centre is run by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's Ecology Service.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea run an Active For Life programme of free activities throughout the year in local parks and leisure centres.
Discover never-before-seen royal and court fashion treasures in Dress Codes, a new exhibition at Kensington Palace where fashion, royalty and court etiquette collide. Never before-seen royal and court fashion treasures and the associated dress codes, conventions and sometimes boundary-pushing outfits will be on dazzling display.
Explore a century of swimming culture and design. Pamela Anderson’s sensational red bathing suit from Baywatch, the first Olympic solo swimming gold medal won by a British woman, and a selection of eye-catching men’s Speedos from the 1980s, are some of the star items that will go on display in the Design Museum’s major spring exhibition on swimming and style.
Stroll through the stalls and you'll find everything you need from freshly caught fish and shellfish to seasonal fruit and vegetables, pies, fresh bread, game in season, free range and organic eggs and poultry, meat, preserves, flowers and much more.
Songs on the Steps will offer a range of new and familiar songs and arias to capture the imaginations of devotees and dog walkers, music lovers and passers-by, featuring music from the 2025 Season. No booking is required. Bring a rug or a cushion, join us at the steps to the theatre and enjoy forty minutes of free music in the fresh air of Holland Park.
Featuring artists from the company, the fortnightly concerts will be held on Fridays at 1pm, from 16 May to 25 July.
16 May, 1pm
30 May, 1pm
13, June, 1pm
27 June, 1pm
11 July, 1pm
25 July, 1pm
A three-month summer festival in front of Holland House in Holland Park.
2025 performances include The Flying Dutcham, Itch, The Merry Widow, La traviata, Royal Ballet School Performances, Semele and Songs on the Steps lunchtime recitals.
A major exhibition bringing together art, science and radical thinking to ask how design can help our planet thrive by shifting its focus beyond human needs.
A major exhibition at the Design Museum Kensington bringing together art, science and radical thinking to ask how design can help our planet thrive by shifting its focus beyond human needs.
Photo: Sculpture for Octopuses: Exploring for Their Favorite Colours – Aquarium in Kobe, 2019, Shimabuku | Courtesy of Shimabuku, Barbara Wien, Berlin, Amanda Wilkinson, London and Air de Paris, Romainville
Taking place on Saturday 26th July as part of the new High Street Ken Market the Big Kensington Vintage Flea Market is being delievered in partnership with Judy's Vintage Fair.
The first Judy’s Vintage Fair took place in 2005 and has grown from strength to strength. Whether lighting, ceramics, glassware or textiles, you’ll find the lot at the UK’s largest mid-century marketplace.
The High Street Ken Vintage Flea Market will also take place on:
Saturday 27th September
Saturday 25th October
A free play programme of fun, creative activities and events inspired by the Royal Parks’ wildlife and open spaces.
Simple but powerful, the humble pictogram has become an indispensable global communication tool, visible on everything from maps and street signs to text messages and dashboards.
Until 2 June young people aged 7-16 can take part in the My London Pictogram competition to design your own pictogram representing an aspect of London that is important to you. Winning designs will be featured in this exhibition
The exhibition delves into the long history of visual communication around the world, as well as the more contemporary process of creating a pictogram. It will imagine what a world without pictograms would look like, as well as consider their critical role in global tourism.
Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s invites you to discover the iconic London nightclub where the culture of the 1980s began. From Spandau Ballet and Visage to Boy George and Marilyn, the scene launched the careers of some of the decade’s biggest stars.
This first-ever major exhibition on the legendary club night dives deep into the 18-month phenomenon that had an enormous global impact on popular culture — from fashion and music, to film, art and design.
Photo credit: Outside the Blitz club in 1979. Photo by Sheila Rock
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea run an Active For Life programme of free activities throughout the year in local parks and leisure centres.