What's on in Smithfield

City and County of the City of London, England

Smithfield sits right in the heart of the City and feels like a proper village square where everyone knows your name. The Paris Bar has been serving up live music for years, and you can usually find a market stall or two within shouting distance. It is not bad for an area this compact. Pub quizzes pop up through the week and the odd comedy night keeps things interesting. Near Here pulls it all into one place so you are not stuck wandering around with your phone on Sunday evening.

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KEIN Wortgottesdienst (Ham)

KEIN Wortgottesdienst (Ham) at St Boniface RC. Consider this your nudge. The organiser's site is your next stop for the details.

Sun 12 AprSt Boniface RC(1.5mi)

via St Boniface RCCurated

Cinema

The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks

One for the diary — The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks at Lightroom. The organiser's keeping schtum on the details, but that's half the fun.

Sun 12 AprLightroom(1.6mi)

via LightroomCurated

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Lama Chopa and Tsog Offering (Guru Puja)

Lama Chopa (also known as Guru Puja) is a practice of guru devotion special to the Gelugpa tradition. During this practice, the lamas of the graduated path lineage beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha himself, are invoked, extending to present direct teachers who have shown the path. Practitioners pay homage, make offerings, and request each of them to please bless their minds with the same realizations that they themselves have generated. By offering sincere, heartfelt requests, students make their minds ripe to receive the full blessings of this precious lineage and quickly actualize the realizations they need to attain enlightenment. If you wish to experience realizations quickly, the practice of Lama Chopa is indispensable. The benefits of the practice according to Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Practicing this Guru Puja, which is an integration of the three deities, makes it much easier to achieve enlightenment in a brief life of this degenerated time. Doing this practice every day, with purification and many infinite skies of merit, brings the mind closer to the path to enlightenment and closer to enlightenment itself, and so much closer to freeing all sentient beings from obscurations and suffering and leading them to enlightenment.

Sun 12 AprJamyang Buddhist Centre(1.9mi)

via Jamyang Buddhist Centre

Live MusicDance

Baile De Tropa

BAILE DE TROPA at E1 London. Sunday, 12 April 2026.

Sun 12 AprE1(1.9mi)

via E1Local gem

Sports & Fitness

Fitness Jam

Something's afoot at Walworth Town Hall Community Space and it goes by the name of Fitness Jam. Their site has the particulars.

Sun 12 AprWalworth Town Hall Community Space(1.9mi)

via Walworth Town Hall Community SpaceCurated

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London Landmarks Half Marathon 2026

London Landmarks Half Marathon 2026 is happening at Hayward Adventure Playground. We've got the when and where — their site has the why and the how much.

Sun 12 AprHayward Adventure Playground(2mi)

via Hayward Adventure PlaygroundLocal gem

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London Landmarks Half Marathon 2027

Run the London Half Marathon with team Kids and take in fabulous views of London’s most iconic landmarks, from Big Ben to the London Eye!

Sun 12 AprHayward Adventure Playground(2mi)

via Hayward Adventure PlaygroundLocal gem

Arts & CultureHistory & Heritage

Around £400.00

A solitary sun for a medieval time

Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK. This limited edition lithograph print depicts a vibrantly colourful drawing that inspired the artist’s hand tufted rug ‘“The sky is not bounded by a fixed edge!”: an illuminated rug arranged to accommodate a medieval mind.’ (2014). This work was first shown as part of the artist’s ‘The Weakened Eye of Day’ exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. ‘A solitary sun for a medieval time’ (2025) is inspired by Nolan’s interest in ecclesiastical architecture and aesthetics, and drawing the present, real and imagined together. The edition relates to Nolan’s Liverpool Biennial 2025: ‘BEDROCK’ exhibition, which features similar arches inspired by historical and current cathedrals in Liverpool: Sir Edwin Lutyen’s unfinished Roman Catholic Cathedral, of which only a crypt exists due to post-war lack of funds, St Nicolas Pro-Cathedral, which was built in 1813, and the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King , which replaced St Nicolas’ in 1967 and still stands there today. Whether fixating on the knees of a C17th sculpture, or considering the status of a Neolithic artefact, images of deep space or the contingent grandeur of Gothic architecture, Nolan’s work responds to how we make reality happen through science, philosophy, religion, and art.

Sun 12 AprPlinth(2.1mi)

via Plinth

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Photo by Peter Otto

Led by artist, educator, and curator Dr Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson and hosted by IMT Gallery, each session brings together case studies, creative exercises, and guided activities designed to help you think with and through your own environment. Places are limited — the course begins 12 April. Ready to rethink the spaces you live with? Click here for full course details _ Image: Crystal Morphology 01 (2025) by Mary Yacoob

Sun 12 AprIMT Gallery(2.2mi)

via IMT GalleryLocal gem

Free! (worth double-checking)

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Branching Out: Easter family activities

Tacita Dean CBE, Majesty 2006. Tate. © Tacita Dean, courtesy Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris.

Sun 12 AprTate Members(2.2mi)

via Tate MembersLocal gem

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The Civilisations

We've tracked down The Civilisations at St. Margaret's House. For the rest of the intel, you'll want their website.

Sun 12 AprSt. Margaret's House(2.2mi)

via St. Margaret's HouseLocal gem

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Matinée Show: Rebet Asker-Greek Roots Series

Green Note is putting on Matinée Show: Rebet Asker-Greek Roots Series and we're making sure you know about it. Job done. Details on their site.

Sun 12 AprGreen Note(2.2mi)

via Green NoteLocal gem

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Wayward Jane

The full scoop on Wayward Jane lives over on Green Note's site. We're just the friendly messenger.

Sun 12 AprGreen Note(2.2mi)

via Green NoteLocal gem

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Harry Diplock Sessions

Green Note is putting on Harry Diplock Sessions and we're making sure you know about it. Job done. Details on their site.

Sun 12 AprGreen Note(2.2mi)

via Green NoteLocal gem

Religion & Spirituality

Warehouse Christian Ministries, Sacramento

Warehouse Christian Ministries, Sacramento is a nondenominational church proudly serving Sacramento

Sun 12 Aprwarehouseministry(2.3mi)

via warehouseministryCurated

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Orthros and Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

Orthros and Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom — brought to you by Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Andrew and surfaced by us. A beautiful collaboration, if we do say so ourselves.

Sun 12 AprGreek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Andrew(2.5mi)

via Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. AndrewCurated

Free! (worth double-checking)

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Zazen + Samu + Coffee/Chat (9:00am - 11:45am)

Our Sunday morning schedule consists of 9:00am - two 30 minute periods of zazen with kinhin in the middle10:20am - chanting of the Heart Sutra, Sandokai / Hokyozanmai, and the dedication to the patriarchs/matriarchs10:40am - samu - some cleaning work practice. 10:55am - coffee/tea/biscuits and chat!

Sun 12 AprLondon Zendo (Hannya Temple)(2.7mi)

via London Zendo (Hannya Temple)Curated

Religion & Spirituality

Söndag 12 april - 2:a söndagen i påsktiden

Spotted Söndag 12 april - 2:a söndagen i påsktiden on Swedish Seamens Church's listings. We do the finding, they do the hosting. Team effort, really.

Sun 12 AprSwedish Seamens Church(2.8mi)

via Swedish Seamens ChurchLocal gem

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