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All weekend
- Frightful, funny and fun Halloween stuff begins all over town.
- It's American Football weekend: join the free fan rally in Trafalgar Square on Saturday between 11am-5pm for cheerleading and ball games or shell out for tickets to the Rams v Patriots Wembley match on Sunday at 3pm (tickets £149).
- Marvel at the Moscow State Circus on Clapham Common (tickets from £10).
- Browse the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park (tickets £12/conc. £10 in advance).
- The Campsite opens for half term at the Natural History Museum (free entry).
- Flex your brain at the Inside Out Festival courtesy of London's universities.
- Flex your body at The Yoga Show in Olympia (tickets from £10).
- The whole family can enjoy The Good Neighbour, a theatrical treasure hunt round Battersea Arts Centre.
- Get thoroughly seasonal at the Autumn Gardening Gathering with pumpkin carving, planting, rickshaw rides, face painting, music and more down on the Southbank at Jubilee Gardens (free).
- Shop at the Sample Hunters Designer Sale at the Truman Brewery, Brick Lane or visit the MADE LONDON craft and design fair at One Marylebone opposite Great Portland Street station.
- A fortunate few may be able to snap up spare tickets for the brilliant Apocalypse How?, running on Saturday and Sunday - check the Facebook page (tickets £25).
Saturday:
- Consider the supernatural at the London Ghost Conference at Bishopsgate Institute from 10.30am-6pm (tickets £20 +bkg).
- Find out who's the fastest man, woman and child in Brixton at the Brixton Bolt.
- The London Anarchist Bookfair is at Queen Mary University with reading matter, meetings, films and discussions from 10am to 7pm (admission free).
- Get the kids involved with the Big Draw at Goldsmiths from 11am-4pm (free).
- The huge TNT Travel Show is at Islington's Business Design Centre from 9.30am-5.30pm (free if you register in advance, £2 on the door).
- Whitechapel Gallery Family Day is an opportunity to explore the gallery with a child and do some painting and dancing from 12-4pm (free).
- Visit the Old Operating Theatre on its 50th birthday today and get in free! Surgical demonstrations will take place on the hour, every hour from 11am to 4pm (free).
- Take a Lomography workshop at Museum of London and learn about film photography from 1.30pm (tickets £12).
- Try Chinese Opera with the Beijing and Kunqu Opera Gala at Rudolf Steiner House near Baker Street from 2.30-4.50pm (tickets £12/conc.£8).
- London Salutes William Burroughs at the Horse Hospital with film, music, spoken word and more (admission £8.50/conc.£7).
- Dance with the dead at the Day of the Dead party at Zigfrid von Underbelly from 10pm-3am (tickets £5 in advance).
Sunday: Clocks go back!
- Celebrate Diwali in Trafalgar Square from 2-7pm (free).
- Experience the family friendly Day of the Dead festival at the Latin Corner, Camden with EsspressArte from 12-6pm (free).
- Join us on the Hampstead and Highgate pub crawl.
- Kinetica Museum presents giant robot theremins and holographic sculptures at Village Underground, Shoreditch, performances at 3 and 7pm (tickets £14/£12 conc. £5 under 12).
- Take an LGBT tour of Soho between 2-4pm (£5)
- Draw amazing plants and specimens at the Big Botanical Draw at South London Botanical Institute, Tulse Hill from 11am-3pm (free).
- The China Image Film Festival has its opening ceremony (tickets £35) at the Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue and films Chinese films this week at Odeon Panton Street (screenings £6).
- Scary film choices: watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Netil House, Hackney at 8pm (tickets £12). Or get chills in the chapel with a screening of Nosferatu by Hither Green Cinema from 7pm (tickets £8/conc £5).
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Photo by Vanda Ralevska, taken at the Mr Brainwash exhibition at the Old Sorting Office until 31 October (free entry).
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