The Imagine Children's Literature Festival, at the Southbank Centre, installs a love of literature and creativity in kids of all ages. The UK's best contemporary children's writers, storytellers and illustrators enrapture and enthuse young audiences with readings, discussions and workshops.
Step into Charles Darwin's slippers and explore Down House, in which he wrote and researched his revolutionary On The Origin of Species series. Watch bees building their honeycomb or pace his Sandwalk path and come up with your own theories.
Carnivorous lampshades and pole-dancing robots might sound like elements of a very disturbed person's dream, but Kinetica Art Fair at London's P3 displays exactly these sorts of weird exhibits. See seriously cool kinetic, electronic and new media art.