00:01If you're planning ahead for 2027, there's already plenty to put in the diary across London between January and June.
00:09Let's start with January, when the Capitol gets the year underway with the London New Year's Day Parade.
00:14Watching it is free with dancers, acrobats, musicians, marching bands and floats, making their way through central London towards Westminster.
00:23Later in January, the London Short Film Festival returns to cinemas across the Capitol.
00:27And at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London Art Fair brings together more than 100 galleries.
00:34Moving into February, London's Lunar New Year celebrations will bring performances, lion and dragon dances and a major parade to
00:42Chinatown, Trafalgar Square and central London.
00:45The celebrations will mark the year of the Fire Goat.
00:47Theatre fans can also see Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge Theatre, where you can see Roald Dahl's story of
00:54an extraordinary young heroine battling the formidable Miss Trunchbull.
00:59March brings St Patrick's Day Festival with a parade through central London, followed by live music, Irish dancing, food stores
01:06and performances.
01:07There's also a new exhibition at the V&A South Kensington, Punk to Pop, a history of British music and
01:14fashion.
01:14It explores the 70s and 80s.
01:17For gamers, the London Games Festival is another spring fixture across venues in the Capitol, bringing together games, developers, competitions,
01:26exhibitions and other events.
01:27The King's Gallery at Buckingham Palace has extended its popular exhibition, honouring the late Queen, into April 2027.
01:36Queen Elizabeth II, her life in style, displays around 300 items from her wardrobe.
01:43Sport takes centre stage in April 2.
01:45The boat race returns to the Thames, with Oxford and Cambridge competing in the annual contest.
01:51The 2027 race also marks 100 years since the first women's boat race.
01:56The London Marathon will take place across two days, too, with around 100,000 runners expected across the event.
02:03Tate Modern will celebrate the 300th anniversary of Thomas Gainsborough's birth, with a major exhibition exploring his portraits and landscapes.
02:12And the RHS Chelsea Flower Show returns with show gardens, floral displays and horticultural exhibits, alongside the evening Chelsea late
02:21event.
02:22Then, from the end of May, the VNA will explore the history and creative possibilities of clay sculpture, in its
02:29Sculpture in Clay exhibition.
02:32And there's still plenty to come in June.
02:34At the Adelphi Theatre, Billy Elliot the Musical returns to the West End, following a working-class boy whose ambition
02:40is to become a ballet dancer.
02:42And the King's official birthday celebrations are set to include the traditional military parade known as Trooping the Colour,
02:48followed by the RAF flypast over Buckingham Palace.
02:51Yes, that's your look ahead to what's coming up across London from January through June 2027.
02:57Thank you, Ben.
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