Things to do in London in June 2026
After a May that’s been described as the hottest on record, June keeps the heat on with events (and hopefully sunshine) across the city, including the return of several summer staples such as the Serpentine Pavilion and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, alongside Meltdown Festival at Southbank Centre, this year curated by Harry Styles. London Gallery Weekend also returns, with more than 120 galleries across the city taking part, while Sadler’s Wells presents This is Rambert marking 100 years of the company. Neighbourhood takeovers such as Hackney Art Week and the Mount Street Summer Festival, alongside outdoor programming at Canary Wharf and Covent Garden, bring culture into streets, galleries and public spaces across the city. Here is our guide to things to be on your radar in London in June.
HSBC Championships at Queen’s Club
Image courtesy of The Queen’s House
#FLODown: HSBC Championships at Queen’s Club returns, widely regarded as one of the most significant grass-court tournaments ahead of Wimbledon. The WTA 500 and ATP 500 events bring together many of the world’s leading women’s and men’s players across consecutive weeks in June. The Queen’s Club has also recently drawn wider attention amid reports of Serena Williams potentially making a surprise return to competitive tennis at the event. The 23-time Grand Slam champion, who last competed in 2022, has been linked with a possible doubles appearance alongside Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko, in what would mark her first competitive outing in several years.
Date: WTA 8–14 June 2026 | ATP 15–21 June 2026. Location: The Queen’s Club, Palliser Rd, London W14 9EQ. Price: From around £20 (varies by ticket type). Book now
Anyma presents ÆDEN
Broadwick Live's Silverworks Island in the Royal Docks. Image courtesy of Broadwick Live.
#FLODown: One of the top bookings of the summer, Anyma's audiovisual ÆDEN show is debuting in London after an epic launch on the Coachella main stage earlier this year. The two-day London edition takes over Broadwick Live's Silverworks Island in the Royal Docks, a 20,000-capacity open-air site set against Millennium Mills and directly beneath London City Airport's flight path. Saturday’s lineup leans heavier with Kevin de Vries and Kölsch playing a B2B set, alongside Chris Avantgarde and Layla Benitez. Sunday is a treat for house fans, with performances from rising star Ben Böhmer and Woo York. Mind Against, Kasia and 8Kays also feature across the weekend, and Anyma closes both nights with the headline ÆDEN performance. For Anyma, this is a full-circle moment, his first London live shows happened at Printworks before the venue closed, and these are his first capital dates since 2022.
Date: 27 - 28 June 2026. Location: Silverworks Island. Price: from £85.44. Book now
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Harry Styles’ Meltdown Festival
Harry Styles, curator of Harry Styles. Meltdown in the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary year © Laura Coulson.
#FLODown: Meltdown Festival returns to the Southbank Centre in June for its 75th anniversary year, with this edition curated by Harry Styles. Taking place from 11–21 June 2026 across the Southbank Centre’s venues, the festival brings together an expansive programme of live music including electronic, jazz, indie and experimental sounds. The first announced artists include Devonté Hynes, Kamasi Washington, Warpaint, Mulatu Astatke, Nilüfer Yanya, Jon Hopkins and bar italia, alongside special collaborations, one-off performances and headline shows across the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room. Harry Styles will also perform his own headline show on 16 June at the Royal Festival Hall.
Date: 11–21 June 2026. Location: Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX. Click here for the full programme of events.
Glengarry Glen Ross
All-female cast for the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Glengarry Glen Ross, directed by Tony Award winner Patrick Marber at The Old Vic
#FLODown: David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross will open at The Old Vic in June, directed by Tony Award-winner Patrick Marber (The Producers). The production is set in a high-pressure Chicago real estate office where four agents compete over a set of valuable leads across two days, exposing a world driven by ambition, manipulation and survival. This new staging reimagines Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play with an all-female cast, offering a fresh perspective on a story about power, pressure and the cost of success. Known for its sharp, overlapping dialogue and dark humour, it remains one of modern theatre’s most intense ensemble works.
Date: 4 June – 18 July 2026. Location: The Old Vic, 103 The Cut, London SE1 8NB.Price: Previews and Off-Peak £14.50–£71.50, Peak £16.50–£76.50. Book now
East London Martini Map
Equal Parts to severe bespoke £7 martinis from 12–20 June 2026.
#FLODown: A walkable martini trail is coming to East London this June as the East London Martini Map takes over Shoreditch from 12–20 June 2026, turning the neighbourhood into a loose cocktail circuit built around Redchurch Street. The activation brings together six much-loved bars, each serving bespoke £7 martinis created in collaboration with The Boatyard Distillery and Cocchi Vermouth, celebrating the ongoing revival of the classic drink. Across the week, venues including Equal Parts, Mad Cats, Rain Dogs, Without Papers, The Sun Tavern and Umbrella Workshop each offer their own interpretation of the martini, ranging from crisp, dry serves to more experimental twists, with additional events such as bar takeovers and a World Martini Day finale featuring oysters, music and late-night drinks.
Date: 12–20 June 2026. Location: East London (centred around Shoreditch / Redchurch Street), London. Price: participating bars across the trail, £7 martinis.
This is Rambert
© Tim Bret-Day
#FLODown: Celebrating 100 years of innovation and artistic excellence, This is Rambert brings together three bold and thought-provoking contemporary dance works that reflect the company’s commitment to creativity. Presented as part of Rambert’s centenary year, the programme showcases powerful new voices and international collaborations. Highlights include (LA)HORDE’s Hop(e)storm, a fusion of lindy hop and rave culture exploring resistance, equality and collective action; Gallery of Consequence by award-winning choreographer Emma Evelein, which uses the airport as a metaphor for life’s defining choices; and In Crimson, a compelling new UK collaboration from Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, exploring the tension between performance and reality. Together, these works offer a snapshot of contemporary dance and a glimpse into the future of one of Britain’s most influential dance companies.
Date: 10–13 June 2026. Location: Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN. Price: From £15.00 (+ £4.00 transaction fee). Book now.
Hackney Art Week
Image courtesy of Hackney Art Week
#FLODown: Hackney Art Week returns for its second edition, turning the borough into a city-wide cultural trail across Dalston, Clapton, London Fields, De Beauvoir, Stoke Newington and Hackney Wick. Over ten days, more than 130 artists and creatives take part across around 60 venues, including galleries, studios, cafés, pubs and public spaces. The programme features exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, sound events and public interventions, alongside community-led projects and charitable collaborations such as limited-edition prints supporting Hackney Giving, as well as ceramics workshops, queer-led takeovers and experimental music events. The festival is free and open to all.
Date: 4–14 June 2026. Location: Across Hackney, London, UK (including Dalston, Clapton, London Fields, De Beauvoir, Stoke Newington, Hackney Wick, Haggerston). hackneyartweek.com
Marylebone Summer Festival
The Marylebone Summer Festival, Marylebone Village returns Sunday 14 June 2026.
#FLODown: The Marylebone Summer Festival returns to Marylebone Village on Sunday 14 June, bringing a day of music, food, wellness, family activities and dog-friendly events to Marylebone High Street and surrounding streets in support of the Young Westminster Foundation. Around 100 stalls line the area, alongside “Bark in the Park” with dog shows and pet activities, a wellness “Sanctuary Space” with classes led by Lululemon and Third Space Marylebone, a main stage near 108 Brasserie at The Marylebone Hotel with live music and a children’s zone with rides, games and roaming entertainment.
Date: Sunday 14 June. Location: Marylebone Village, London (including Marylebone High Street and Paddington Street Gardens). Price: Free. marylebonevillage.com
June art exhibitions
Gallery view of the Summer Exhibition 2025, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 17 June - 17 August 2025. Photo: © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry.
#FLODown: June is a great month for art in London, marked by the return of summer staples like the Serpentine Pavilion, which in 2026 celebrates the programme’s 25th anniversary with a design by LANZA Atelier, and the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition. Alongside these, several major shows open across the city, including a survey of Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery, Tate Modern’s highly anticipated Frida Kahlo exhibition, and a landmark presentation at the National Portrait Gallery marking the centenary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth.
Click here for our guide to over 18 art exhibitions opening across London in June 2026.
Indie Night
L-R is Khairani Barokka, Tim MacGabhann, hosts Okechukwu Nzelu and Eliza Clark, Deepa Anappara, Vigdis Hjorth. Indie Night February, Southbank Centre. Image credit Angelo Amikhaeil.
#FLODown: Indie Night returns to the Southbank Centre in June as part of its 75th anniversary celebrations, presenting a quarterly series championing independent publishing and the writers it supports. Hosted by Okechukwu Nzelu and Eliza Clark, the June edition brings together journalist and author Amelia Abraham, Mercury Prize-winning rapper and writer Speech Debelle, acclaimed speculative and literary writer M John Harrison, and award-nominated novelist Jackie Thomae, each presenting work that highlights the breadth of independent storytelling across genres and countries.
Date: 24 June 2026, 7.45pm. Location: Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX. Price: from £15 + £4 booking fee
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London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix
Image courtesy of the Barbican Centre
#FLODown: The London Symphony Orchestra’s Half Six Fix is a 60-minute early evening concert designed to offer a short, accessible dose of classical music. This June, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts Elgar’s Enigma Variations, a work made up of musical portraits of friends and family, all based around a central theme whose “enigma” has never been solved. The concert is introduced by the performers and will feature screens in the hall to help guide audiences through the music. It runs without an interval and finishes at around 7.30pm.
Date: Wed 10 June 2026, 6.30pm. Location: Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS. Price: from £19 + £4 transaction fee). Book now
Mount Street Neighbourhood Summer Festival
Mount Street Neighbourhood. Credit Norman Wilcox Geissen
#FLODown: The Mount Street Neighbourhood Summer Festival returns to Mayfair from 4–20 June 2026. The two-week celebration of art, publishing, fashion and food, presented by Grosvenor, features a programme built around a new cultural hub at 62 South Audley Street, hosting headline events with partners including Thames & Hudson, Le Monde Béryl, Kathryn Maple and By Walid, alongside exhibitions, talks, workshops, installations and retail activations across the neighbourhood.
Date: 4–20 June 2026. Location: Mount Street Neighbourhood, Mayfair, London, UK (62 South Audley Street and surrounding streets). Price: Free and ticketed events (varies by programme). Book now
Diasporas Now at South London Gallery
Omí, Nine Night Sala Comando 2025 by Alessandro Sala. Image Courtesy of artist
#FLODown: South London Gallery will host an evening of live sound and audiovisual performance presented by Diasporas Now as part of their national tour Macrocosmic Futures. The event brings together four Global Majority artists, Hannan Jones, Tiff Wellington, Omí and Emma Korantema, each presenting new work across experimental music, sound art, moving image and live performance. Drawing on Afrofuturism, speculative fiction and ancestral technologies, the programme uses performance as a space to imagine alternative futures beyond colonial and extractive systems.
Date: Wednesday 3 June 2026. Time: 6.30pm–9.30pm.Location: South London Gallery, Clore Studio, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH. Price: £5 (limited free tickets available). Book now.
London Gallery Weekend 2026
Image credit Alev Takil
#FLODown: London Gallery Weekend 2026 returns to London from 5–7 June 2026, bringing together 120 galleries for a citywide celebration of contemporary art. The sixth edition features exhibitions by major contemporary and historical artists including Alvaro Barrington, Anne Imhof and Francis Picabia, alongside a free public programme of talks, tours and performances across the capital. This year also introduces a new acquisition fund supporting emerging UK artists and encouraging a new generation of collectors and patrons.
Date: 5-7 June 2026. Location: throughout London. More information is available at londongalleryweekend.art
Covent Garden x Royal Ballet School
Photography by ASH
#FLODown: Covent Garden will mark the centenary of The Royal Ballet School in summer 2026 with a Piazza-wide cultural takeover celebrating 100 years of ballet training, performance and heritage. From 22 June, the space will be transformed into an open-air public programme featuring live participation, screenings and interactive experiences inspired by the School’s legacy. For the first time, full-length ballet classes and student performances will be shown free on the Piazza’s big screen, alongside dance-themed film screenings and public activities. The celebration will also include large-scale installations such as a ballet-inspired sculpture made from pointe shoes and an aerial artwork within the historic Market Building.
Date: 22–28 June 2026.Location: Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2E 8RF.Price: Free (public event). coventgarden.london
Canary Wharf Summer Screens
Image courtesy of Canary Wharf
#FLODown: Canary Wharf’s Summer Screens returns to Canada Square Park from 4 June for a three-month programme of free open-air film, sport and interactive entertainment across the estate’s outdoor screen. The season brings a wide-ranging Film Club selection featuring blockbuster releases, cult favourites and family screenings, including Wicked: For Good, Barbie, Mamma Mia, Superman, Zootropolis 2 and Wall-E, alongside themed programming and special one-off screenings such as National Theatre Live. Alongside film, the programme features daily live sport coverage, including Wimbledon Championships and major cricket fixtures, as well as large-scale participatory events like the Mario Kart Championship and the Sounds Familiar music quiz.
Date: 4 June – 1 September 2026. Location: Canada Square Park, Canary Wharf. Price: Free. canarywharf.com
Architecture on Stage
Image courtesy of the Barbican
#FLODown: Architecture on Stage is a talk series by The Architecture Foundation in partnership with the Barbican that brings together leading international architects and practices to present new work and discuss ideas shaping contemporary architecture. In June 2026, the programme features talks by Crispin Kelly (9 June 2026) and Farshid Moussavi (11 June 2026). Crispin Kelly is an architect and founder of the development company Baylight Properties and will discuss his work on housing design and domesticity, from the intimacy of the bathroom to the community of the porch, in connection with his book Collaborations in Housing Design; Farshid Moussavi is an architect who will present the recently completed Ismaili Centre in Houston, a building commissioned by the Aga Khan and conceived as a venue for educational, cultural and social events, reflecting on its interpretation of Islamic design principles and its role as a space for encounters between people of different backgrounds, faiths and traditions.
Location: Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS. Price: £15 + £1.50 Booking fee. Book now
Hampton Court Palace Festival
Image courtesy of Hampton Court Palace Festival
#FLODown: The Hampton Court Palace Festival returns in 2026 with a series of open-air concerts set within the historic grounds in East Molesey. Known for its intimate atmosphere, the event pairs live music performances with dining and relaxed summer evenings in the gardens. The line-up includes David Gray, OMD, Pete Tong’s Ibiza Classics, The Stranglers, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and 80s Classical, featuring special guests across the run of performances.
Date: 10–20 June 2026. Location: Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9AU. Price: from around £49.50 (varies by ticket type). Book now
Sunday Art Club at Hidden Grooves
Image credit Sunday Art Club
#FLODown: Sunday Art Club takes place at Hidden Grooves in Shoreditch on Sunday 28 June, offering a new take on the traditional art workshop focused on designing custom vinyl record sleeves. Hosted by artist Charlotte Archer, the afternoon includes a hands-on vinyl sleeve design session with music from DJs Tiffany Quinn and Marley, who will play a back-to-back vinyl set of house, disco and soul.
Date: 28 June 2026. Time: 3pm–6pm. Location: Hidden Grooves, Virgin Hotels London-Shoreditch, 45 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3PT. Price: from £12.50 + booking fee. Discover more
