Oktoberfest is on Clapham Common from 9 October and the Book Festival at Omnibus on the 17th. Plus 40 more dated listings, from Halloween to fireworks.

Two dates stand out in Clapham over the next six weeks. Oktoberfest on the Common opens on Clapham Common on Friday 9 October and runs over three weekends to the 24th. The Clapham Book Festival marks its tenth year at Omnibus Theatre on Saturday 17 October.

Around them sit the last weeks of the Lambeth Fringe, Black History Month in Brixton, half term and Halloween, then the fireworks weekend of 7 and 8 November and the Southbank Centre Winter Market from 2 November.

Every entry below was re-read on the organiser’s own page on 5 October 2026, except the Lambeth Fringe, whose site blocked us that day (its dates are from 29 September). Each entry links to that page, so check it before you set off. Prices are given only where the organiser publishes them. For places that are open all year, see our guide to things to do in Clapham.

Updated 5 October: last week’s events removed; added the Grand’s live podcast weekend, Halloween nights at the Grand and Venn St. Records, Eshu at the Crossroads for families at Brixton House, the Southbank Centre Winter Market and Julius Caesar Remixed at Omnibus.

This week

Monday 5 to Sunday 11 October.

  • Lambeth Fringe 2026. To Sunday 25 October, based at The Bread & Roses Theatre, 68 Clapham Manor Street, SW4 6DZ, with other venues across the borough. Five weeks of theatre, comedy, cabaret and family shows. Times and prices vary by show (Lambeth Fringe).
  • Riot Cabaret Wrestling: Slap ‘Em in Clapham. Tuesday 6 October, The Clapham Grand, 21-25 St John’s Hill, SW11 1TT. Doors and bars open at 6.15pm and the first bell is at about 7.30pm. Some ticket tiers have sold out (The Clapham Grand).
  • What Would Jarvis Do? Tuesday 6 to Friday 16 October, Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common Northside, SW4 0QW. Performances are at 7.30pm Tuesday to Saturday, with a 2.30pm Saturday matinee and 4pm on Sunday. Tickets £20 or £25, concessions £18 or £23. Laura Grillo’s absurd comedy follows two Jarvis Cocker super-fans on the trail of his yellow trousers. It runs 80 minutes, for ages 14 and over (Omnibus Theatre).
  • Radical Justice: An Evening With Nani Jansen Reventlow. Wednesday 7 October, 6.30pm to 8.30pm, Black Cultural Archives, 1 Windrush Square, SW2 1EF. Tickets £20, still on sale on 5 October. The human rights lawyer discusses her book (Eventbrite).
  • Baby. Thursday 8 to Saturday 31 October, 7.30pm, Brixton House, 385 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8GL. Tickets £24, concessions £20. A new play by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, with Pearl Mackie, from Brixton House and Clean Break. There are 2.30pm matinees on some Thursdays. The first preview, on 8 October, has sold out. It runs 70 minutes, for ages 14 and over (Brixton House).
  • Keeping Things Whole. Thursday 8 to Friday 30 October, Brixton House. An exhibition of five Latin American artists working with landscape, clay and plants. It opens the final chapter of CASA’s Lines of Flight programme (Brixton House).
  • Oktoberfest on the Common. Friday 9 to Saturday 24 October, Clapham Common, SW4 9DE. Nine sessions over three weekends. Evening sessions open at 5pm, or 6pm on Saturdays, and the site shuts at 11pm. Saturday afternoon sessions run from 11am to 4pm. General tickets are £29 to £41 and VIP tickets £34 to £46, plus a booking fee. It is strictly for over 18s and no tickets are sold on the door (Oktoberfest on the Common; Lambeth Council events calendar).
  • Black Culture Market. Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 October, noon to 5pm, Assembly Hall, Lambeth Town Hall, 1 Brixton Hill, SW2 1RW. Free, but register for a ticket first. The Black History Month edition of the market of Black-owned businesses (Eventbrite; Black Culture Market).
  • Brixton Windmill Open Days. Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 October, 1pm to 5pm, Windmill Gardens, Blenheim Gardens, SW2 5DA. The last open weekend of 2026. Short tours need no booking, but entry is not guaranteed and you may have to queue. The free British Sign Language tour at 1pm on the Saturday is fully booked (Brixton Windmill).
  • Cheerful Earful live podcasts. Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 October, The Clapham Grand. Five recordings: BudPod (Saturday 11.30am), Distant Pod (Saturday 2pm), Ghost Huns (Sunday 11.45am), The Horne Section Podcast (Sunday afternoon) and This Paranormal Life (Sunday 6.15pm) (The Clapham Grand).

One warning on Oktoberfest. The organiser’s home and tickets pages still show session lists from earlier years. The 2026 dates, times and prices above are from its FAQ page, and the council’s calendar confirms the opening date.

Next week

Monday 12 to Sunday 18 October.

  • Clapham Book Festival 2026. Saturday 17 October, Omnibus Theatre. The Clapham Literary Walk starts the day at 10.30am. Events at the theatre follow from 2pm to 8pm:

    • 2pm, Crime Time, with Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee
    • 3.30pm, the first Penelope McNeile Writing Competition prize
    • 5pm, the historian Anne Sebba with Elizabeth Buchan
    • 7pm, Gordon Corera in conversation with Adam Raphael

    Tickets are sold online only, not by the theatre (Clapham Book Festival; tickets). - The Black History Culture Tour Bus. Saturday 17 October, noon to 2.30pm, from the African and Caribbean War Memorial, Windrush Square, Brixton. Tickets £38.62 to £65.71 (Eventbrite).

Later in October

  • Clapham Society AGM and talk on the Clapham BID. Monday 19 October, 7.30pm, Omnibus Theatre. Free and open to non-members, who are invited to make a donation. After the annual meeting, Jeremy Keates explains how the Clapham Business Improvement District works (The Clapham Society).
  • DOLLY. Tuesday 20 October to Saturday 7 November, Omnibus Theatre. Performances are at 7.30pm Tuesday to Saturday, with a 3pm Saturday matinee and 4pm on Sunday. Tickets £20 or £25, concessions £18 or £23, with £10 previews. Charlotte Ashton’s play follows a stand-up comic failed by the criminal justice system. Jessica Clark plays Dolly. It runs 75 minutes, for ages 16 and over (Omnibus Theatre).
  • Clapham South: ghosts of the Underground. Wednesday 21 to Sunday 25 October and Wednesday 28 October, at 12.45pm, 2.45pm, 5.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets £39, or £36 for concessions and children. Meet outside the M&S Food Hall on Balham Hill, SW12 9EA. The London Transport Museum’s Halloween tour of the wartime shelter has 180 steps and no step-free access (London Transport Museum). Our Clapham Halloween page has the booking rules.
  • NLA walking tour: Brixton Black History. Saturday 24 October, 2pm to 4pm, meeting on Windrush Square near the Ritzy. From £16.80. A two-hour walk with Blue Badge Guide Angela Morgan (New London Architecture).
  • Shakespeariment: As You Like It. Saturday 24 October, 8pm, Omnibus Theatre. Tickets £16, concessions £14. The cast meets for one rehearsal and then performs. It runs two hours with an interval, for ages 12 and over (Omnibus Theatre).
  • Clapham Common Jazz Club: Pablo Barrios Group. Sunday 25 October, Omnibus Theatre. Tickets £15. The theatre has not yet published a start time for this date, so check the listing (Omnibus Theatre).
  • Halloween at Brixton Windmill. Sunday 25 October, 1pm to 4pm, Windmill Gardens, SW2 5DA. Free. Lantern carving costs £3 a pumpkin, for children aged seven and over. Spooky stories for ages 5 to 11 are at 1.30pm and 2.45pm (Brixton Windmill).
  • Eshu at the Crossroads. Sunday 25 October, 2pm and 5pm, Brixton House. Afro-Cuban choreographer Miguel Altunaga and the puppetry company Theatre-Rites tell a family story drawn from Yoruba myth, with dance and puppets. For ages 5 and over, part of the Dance Umbrella festival (Brixton House).
  • October half term family activities. Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 October, drop in between noon and 4pm, Brixton House. Free. Autumn crafts and an indoor scavenger hunt. Register online or on the door (Brixton House). Our half term page has more for children.
  • Jawdance. Wednesday 28 October, 8pm, Brixton House. Tickets £15. The Apples and Snakes poetry night, with Amina Jama, Akila Richards and Roger Robinson, plus an open mic. Ages 16 and over (Brixton House).
  • Lemn Sissay: Let the Light Pour In, Live. Thursday 29 October, 7.30pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX. Tickets £32 to £41. The poet reads from the book and tells the stories behind the poems (Southbank Centre).
  • Hocus Pocus Halloween Movie Night. Thursday 29 October, The Clapham Grand. A live show and the film from 7pm, last entry 8pm. Over 18s only (The Clapham Grand).
  • Ogrepalooza: 25 Years of Shrek. Friday 30 October, 7pm to 11pm, The Clapham Grand, with the band The Ogretones (The Clapham Grand).
  • Herne Hill Velodrome Halloween Fireworks. Saturday 31 October, Herne Hill Velodrome. Gates open at 5pm, the bonfire is lit at 6pm and the fireworks start at 7pm. Adults £13, ages 12 to 16 £8 and under 12s £1, plus a booking fee on each ticket. Tickets are sold in advance only (Friends of Herne Hill Velodrome).
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Night. Saturday 31 October, The Clapham Grand. Doors 6pm, live show and film from 7pm, last entry 8pm. Over 18s only. The cheapest tier has sold out (The Clapham Grand).
  • Lost the Plot: An Improvised Musical. Saturday 31 October, 9pm, Omnibus Theatre. Tickets £15, concessions £12, under 15s £8. A one-hour musical made up from an audience suggestion, for ages 14 and over (Omnibus Theatre).
  • The Grand’s Massive Halloween Party. Saturday 31 October, 10pm to 3am, The Clapham Grand. Tickets guarantee entry until 11.45pm and last entry is 12.30am. The Early Bat and first three releases have sold out; fourth release £35, final release £45. Costumes are expected (The Clapham Grand).
  • Mr Frightside. Saturday 31 October, Venn St. Records, 78 Venn Street, SW4 0BD. An indie pop Halloween party with DJ Zed from 10pm to 2am. Entry before 9pm £10 and before 11pm £20, with limited door tickets at £25 (Venn St. Records).

More October dates are on our Black History Month in Brixton page. One change since we published it: the Southbank Centre now lists Dua Lipa and Zadie Smith on 24 October as sold out.

November

  • Southbank Centre Winter Market. Monday 2 November 2026 to Monday 4 January 2027, Queen’s Walk, under Hungerford Bridge. Open daily 11am to 10pm, craft traders until 9pm, closed 25 and 31 December. Free to walk in (Southbank Centre; South Bank London). See our Christmas markets page.
  • Under the Same Sun. Thursday 5 to Monday 30 November, Brixton House. Asafe Ghalib’s photographs on queer migration and belonging, curated by Gabriela Román González for CASA (Brixton House).
  • Glide at Battersea Power Station. Friday 6 November 2026 to Sunday 3 January 2027, Circus Road West, SW8 5BN. The riverside ice rink and skate trail. Prices appear only in the booking calendar (Battersea Power Station). See our guide to ice skating near Clapham.
  • Dulwich Fireworks. Saturday 7 November, Dulwich Sports Club, Giant Arches Road, SE24 9HP. Gates open at 5pm, live music starts at 5.30pm and the fireworks begin around 7pm. Under 12s get in on a “Kid for a Quid” ticket (Irvin Leisure).
  • Battersea Park Fireworks. Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November, Battersea Park. On Saturday the gates open at 6pm and the fireworks start at about 8.30pm. On Sunday the gates open at 4.30pm and the fireworks start at about 7pm. Adult tickets run from £10.60 to £18.10 by release, and youth tickets are £11.50. None are sold on the gate (Battersea Park Fireworks).
  • Julius Caesar Remixed. Wednesday 11 November to Saturday 5 December, Omnibus Theatre. 7.30pm Tuesday to Saturday, plus 2.30pm on Saturdays. Seating is unallocated: £25 (concessions £23) for the front three rows, £20 (concessions £18) behind. Intermission Youth’s play within a play, about two rival London schools staging Shakespeare (Omnibus Theatre).
  • Clapham Society talk: Music Halls. Monday 16 November, 7.30pm, Omnibus Theatre. Free and open to non-members. Bill Linskey on the Empress Theatre in Brixton, which opened on Boxing Day 1898 (The Clapham Society).

Our Clapham fireworks page compares the three displays. Lambeth has not yet published its Remembrance Sunday arrangements for 8 November. Our Remembrance Sunday page will carry them. The Old Town Christmas lights switch-on has no date yet either.

Regular events

  • Venn Street Market. Every Saturday, 10am to 3pm, Venn Street, SW4 0AT, beside Clapham Common station (Venn Street Market).
  • Clapham Common parkrun. Every Saturday, 9am, Clapham Common, Broomwood Road, SW4 9AU. Free. Register with parkrun before your first run (parkrun).
  • Brockwell parkrun. Every Saturday, 9am, Brockwell Park. Free (parkrun).
  • Herne Hill Market. Every Sunday, 10am to 4pm, Station Square, Railton Road, SE24 0JN. Food, arts and crafts from within 100 miles (City and Country Farmers’ Markets).
  • Free live music at Omnibus Theatre. Every Sunday, 1pm to 3pm, in the cafe, bar and garden. Free (Omnibus Theatre).

Getting there

Omnibus Theatre is in Clapham Old Town, a short walk from Clapham Common station. The Oktoberfest site is nearer Clapham South. Brixton House, Windrush Square and Lambeth Town Hall are all a walk from Brixton station on the Victoria line. Our tube and train times page has the services. If you are driving, see parking in Clapham and check the roadworks and travel page first.

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