With the prospect of pay day looming the poverty will soon be over - but if the contents of your wallet is still in rapid decline, there's no need to waste another weekend. There's plenty of free stuff for you to be getting on with -
FREE Great White Bear exhibition
Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, SE23 3PQ
Rail: Forest Hill
Bit of an odd one this - two blokes went on
a hunt throughout the entire UK to track down every stuffed polar bear
over a three year period, photographing them and tracking their
history. You'll find descriptions on exactly how each one was killed,
transported and how and where each one came to be stuffed and
displayed. Apparently the Horniman had its own stuffed polar bear that
was sold in 1948 and has never been found. How sad. Makes for a grizzly
afternoon though.
Daily 10.30am-5.30pm. Gardens daily 7.15am-dusk
FREE An afternoon of Hollywood glamour in Borough
Saturday 27 January
Tube: Borough
Trade the glum for glitz at Roxy Bar & Grill’s Classic Hollywood Musical matinee event. So sit back, forget about the cold outside and lose yourself in some old-fashioned glamour on the big screen. Plus, the screening is free – now that wouldn’t happen in Tinseltown! 3pm start.
FREE Picadilly Line: Past, Present and Future
Chamber Lobby, City Hall, The Queens Walk, SE1 2AA.
Tube: London Bridge
If you're not sick to the back teeth of the entire tube system after an inch of snow caused total citywide chaos this week, why not head along to celebrate 100 years of the Picadilly Line at this London Transport museum exhibition? You'll see intriguing pictures of WW2 Underground shelters, find reams of info about the architecture of Charles Holde and tons more things to make you wonder exactly how the thing has been beneath our feet for so long, yet still never seems to work properly.
Mon-Fri 8am-8pm
FREE A Spoonful of Poison - Monday 29th
Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, E1 1EW
Tube: Aldgate East
Hardly the sickly sweet Mary Poppins style offering, but this upbeat open mic night invites us all in for free before 8.30. Hosted by Vis the Spoon, guests are Lonely Krill Escape and Loud Hayley.
FREE - exhibitions at the Oxo Gallery:
Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street,
South Bank, London SE1 9PH
Curtains - 4 Jan - 4 Feb
Neil Bailey's work hangs all over London, but this is his first solo show of paintings, his striking use of colour and witty metaphors play decoy to his illustrious signwriting career.
20 Impressions - 7 25 - Feb
20 artists from the South Bank Printmakers collective present a selection of original work showcasing a variety of printmaking techniques.
On the party side: pssssssssssssst...
Guilty Pleasures is free before 9 on Friday at Cargo
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