London Borough of Culture 2025 Culture is thriving in Wandsworth

Wandsworth’s year as London Borough of Culture begins in April 2025, but if you can’t wait till then to explore everything the borough has to offer then there's loads to discover between now and April.

Kicking off in September, Wandsworth celebrates Black History 365 with a year-round cultural programme featuring creative workshops, dance performances, children’s theatre, music and heritage events, happening all over the borough.

Discover a world-class autumn season at Battersea Arts Centre, as they celebrate their 50th birthday in style. Be the first to see brand new plays and develop your own playwriting skills with Theatre 503, and keep an eye out for what’s coming up at Tara Theatre, an official Theatre of Sanctuary and the UK’s only theatre focusing exclusively on South Asian artists and stories. Catch an irreverent musical – or a very grown-up panto – at the Turbine Theatre, or have a Big Night Out at Clapham Grand, Wandsworth’s last Victorian music hall, now a contemporary ‘palace of varieties’ with a packed line-up of comedy, drag, music and more.

Wandsworth is welcoming accessible performance pioneers Blink Dance Theatre to the borough as they take up residency in their new home in New Mansion Square, North Battersea, at the end of the year. (You can catch their new show, a collaboration with internationally acclaimed young hip hop theatre performers, BAC Beatbox Academy, at BAC in October!)

Cutting edge contemporary art gallery Matt’s Gallery presents Turner Prize nominee Willie Doherty this Autumn, and take a peek inside the studios and home of Wandsworth’s painters, sculptors, potters and crafters with Wandsworth

Artist’ Open House free art trails, happening across the first two weekends of October.

The EFG London Jazz Festival takes over World Heart Beat Embassy in November, alongside an autumn season of jazz, folk, classical and world music. There’s more live music line-ups across the borough – check out the ever-popular Half Moon in Putney and The Bedford in Balham for rock, indie and singer-songwriters.

Finally, the iconic Battersea Park Fireworks will be returning with a bang in November, and we can look ahead to another sparkling festival of light sculptures this winter, lighting up the riverfront and Battersea Power Station in January 2025.