Spooky season is upon us. Dark nights, harvest moons and foggy mornings are the perfect backdrop for the strange, macabre holiday of Halloween and London is celebrating it in style with a bunch of suitably eerie, hair-raising events and things to do. Party in your best synthetic wig and fangs at The Cause’s Halloween party, scare yourself senseless at the Odeon Cinema’s Fright Fest or pick one of the many creepy ghost tours happening at ancient London institutions. This weekend it’s also the beginning of London’s Bonfire Night parties, lighting up the London skies with spectacular firework displays.
On the culture front, head to cinemas to see Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’, which questions the ‘keep calm and carry on’ spirit of the era. See Sarah Slappey’s erotic, tense, beautiful paintings of squirming bodies at the Bernheim, listen to Laura Marling in residency at Hackney Church and don’t miss Tinuke Craig’s revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 masterpiece ‘A Raisin in the Sun’, which is having a rare run in London at the Lyric Hammersmith.
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