From walking tours of Chinatown to vintage fashion fairs: Five things to do in London this weekend

It’s the last weekend of January, Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted and the beginning of the Lunar New Year is just around the corner.

For Londoners wanting to venture into the city again, there are plenty of fun activities and events to enjoy.

From walking tours of Chinatown to vintage fashion fairs, here are five events happening in the capital this weekend January 28 to 30, we think you should check out.

Chinatown Walking Tour

China Exchange, 32 Gerrard Street, W1D 6JA January 30 11.30am to 2pm Tickets Adult £22.50 Child £12.50

For those of you wanting to start your Chinese New Year celebrations early, you can discover the fascinating stories and characters behind London’s Chinatown in this informative and engaging walking tour.

Did you know that the site of today’s Chinatown was converted into hunting grounds by Henry VIII in Tudor England?

Or that Ronnie Scott’s world-famous jazz club started in Gerrard Street?

Learn more of these facts from your community tour guide.

The two and a half hour tour also ends with a delicious family-style Chinese lunch. Sounds scrumptious!

Force Majeure

Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, WC2H 9LX Till February 5 Tickets £10 to £50

Catch Rory Kinnear in Force Majeure in its final weekend at the Donmar Warehouse.

Adapted by playwright Tim Price from Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s acclaimed 2014 film, Force Majure follows Tomas (Kinnear), a fragile, immature married man who goes on a skiing holiday in the French Alps with his wife and two kids.

But when disaster strikes, their family unit is tested to breaking point with hilarious and tragic consequences. The show also features live skiing!

Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything

The Great British Museum, Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG Till January 30 Tickets £9 to £14

Catch the last weekend of Katsushika Hokusai’s exhibition at the British Museum. Hokusai is one of Japan’s most celebrated artists best known for his iconic print, Under the Wave of Kanagawa, popularly called the Great Wave.

This exhibition displays 103 recently acquired drawings by Hokusai, produced in the 1820s–1840s for an illustrated encyclopedia called The Great Picture Book of Everything.

Depicting scenes from Buddhist India, ancient China and the natural world, the brush drawings not only showcase Hokusai’s inimitable style and skill, but also reveal a version of 19th-century Japan much more intrigued by the wider world than previously thought.

In addition to the original brush drawings, the exhibition showcases Hokusai’s masterpiece The Great Wave

Clerkenwell Vintage Fashion Fair

Freemasons Hall, 60 Great Queen Street, WC2B 5AZ January 30 Tickets £3.83 – £5.98

If cutting down on fast fashion is one of your New Year’s Resolutions, you can enjoy some guilt free shopping at London’s leading vintage fair.

Browse through stalls from 50 of the very best dealers in vintage fashion, accessories and textiles dating from as early as the 1900s through to 1990s alongside pre-loved designer labels that frequent our rails such as Chanel, YSL, Biba, Ossie Clark, Dior and more.

A favourite amongst fashion designers, stylists, film & television costume departments, collectors and vintage lovers alike.

A Number

Old Vic Theatre, The Cut, SE1 8NB Till March 19 Tickets £10 to £65

Catch the opening weekend of Caryl Churchill’s chillingly prescient 2000 cloning drama ‘A Number’ at the Old Vic.

Lennie James (Line of Duty) and Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) play father and son in this gripping story about what it costs to start again.  

It concerns Salter (James), a middle-aged man confronted by a number of clones – albeit with wildly different personalities – of his son Bernard.