Here’s our selection of the best culture and entertainment in Islington during the week ahead. Let us know if you’re organising or attending an event we should add to our list! Please leave a comment below or tweet us @islingtonnow.
Monday 11 March
- Foy Vance, Islington Assembly Hall, 7.30pm, £15
- Austenatious: An Improvised Comedy, The Old Queen’s Head, 7.30pm, £5
- The Turn of the Screw, Almeida Theatre, until 16 March, 7.30pm, from £8
- Your Paintings: Islington in Oil, Local History Centre, until 13 April
Tuesday 12 March
- Laugh Out London, with Tom Rosenthal, James Acaster, Holly Burn, Suzi Ruffell and Rich Fulcher, The Old Queen’s Head, 7.30pm, £5 advance, £7 door
- Little Angel Firsts, two week festival celebrating puppetry by emerging companies, The Little Angel Theatre, until 24 March, various times, £5
Wednesday 13 March
- Radicals, religion and rivers: a walk through Clerkenwell, Clerkenwell and Islington Guiding Association, every Wednesday at 11am and Saturday at 2pm, meet outside Farringdon station, 2hrs, £6 but children go free
- Wednesday 13, O2 Academy Islington, 7.30pm, £15
Thursday 14 March
- The Patchwork Club variety night, The Slug and Lettuce, Islington Green, 8pm, £5
- Shakespeare’s links with the Clerkenwell underworld, talk by Dr Duncan Salkeld, Reader in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Chichester, Islington Museum, 6.30pm, free
- Join the Jig to break a Guinness World Record at O’Neills, Upper Street, 7pm, free
Friday 15 March
- Rumours of Fleetwood Mac, Union Chapel, also 16 March, 7.30pm, £24.50
- Flamenco Festival London’s 10th anniversary, Sadler’s Wells, until 27 March, 7pm, events from £12
Saturday 16 March
- Club de Fromage St Paddy’s Day party, including ‘a dramatic Riverdance moment’, O2 Academy Islington, 10.30pm, £7
Sunday 17 March
- The Angel’s delights: a walk through the heart of Islington, Clerkenwell and Islington Guiding Association, every Sunday at 2pm, meet at Angel station, 2hrs, £6 but children go free
