Notting Hill Area Guide

Rough Trade West is very excited to present a signing from Blue. This unique event celebrates the release of their new album 'Reflections' released via Cooking Vinyl. Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the fantastic new album on your format of choice to be collected from Rough Trade West on the day of the show. More product information can be found HERE >> https://www.roughtrade.com/product/blue/reflections-12#53304554717515 Accessibility: For accessible tickets, free PA/Carer tickets and other accessibility requests please go to dice.fm/contact. Rough Trade is wheelchair accessible with step free access. Presented by Rough Trade. All ages

Just around the corner from the world-famous Portobello Road, this treasure trove of consumer culture showcases the evolution of household packaging, advertising and design from the Victorian era to present day, featuring over 12,000 items. Discover how food packaging, toys, magazines, technology, travel and fashion from some of the world's best loved brands have changed over the past 150 years. Black Friday .hidden-word { display: none; }

Following on from our last hugely successful For Sudan event held in summer 2025, we invite you to an evening of Sudanese games, folkloric storytelling, and intimate music performance this November Come along and bring your memories of playing, your personal game rules, and, most importantly, yourselves! Alongside classic games, regional stories, and traditional folk music such as Aghaani Hakeeba, we’ll also be sharing the warmth of Sudanese hospitality through food and drink that celebrate the country’s culinary traditions. We are looking forward to celebrating and learning more about the culture we all love so dearly and are striving so fiercely to protect. Full programme to be announced soon! The evening is programmed by poet Eljae, and multidisciplinary artist Ahmed Akasha Generously supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the You Are Here project Proceeds from this event will go towards putting on this and other community events run by Grand Junction. We welcome and encourage donations to Mutual Aid Sudan and Waging Peace, in support of people in Sudan living through, and those displaced by, the ongoing war. Presented by Grand Junction in partnership with Shubbak Festival All ages

Take a nostalgic journey through 200 years of consumer culture, social change and lifestyle at the Museum of Brands, located in the heart of Notting Hill. Established in 1984, the museum features over 12,000 original items and images from iconic brands, as well as housing over half a million items. The collection aims to concentrate on areas that have transformed daily life- from entertainment, to children's toys, to wartime ephemera, royal souvenirs and more! Reflecting a vast social history and the evolution of consumer lifestyle, this museum is a must for fans of history, British culture, design, and commercial art. Black Friday .hidden-word { display: none; }

Dive into famous film and feel like a star. Wander through Notting Hill's colourful Victorian terrace houses. Experience the vibrant Portobello Road Market, a haven for treasure seekers. Professional guide Portobello Road Travel Bookshop Notting Hill. Nearby public transportation options are easily accessible. Infants and small children are welcome to ride in a pram or stroller. A moderate level of physical fitness is recommended for travelers. Experience supplied by Best Tours London Black Friday.hidden-word { display: none; }

Cris Contini Contemporary London concludes a successful year with a solo exhibition by German artist Jens Hesse, Glitch & Glamour: Perfectly Imperfect. The show celebrates Hesse’s distinctive painterly language, where the precision of digital aesthetics meets the sensual imperfection of tactile surfaces. His works unfold in the space between these poles, translating the technical errors of our media-saturated era into gestures of painterly intimacy. A former fashion designer, Hesse approaches painting as both fabric and image. The surface — sometimes corduroy, sometimes bouclé — is never neutral; it recalls texture, touch, and wear. These tactile foundations become the site where the “glitch” appears: not as a mistake, but as a revelation. What the screen hides behind its promise of seamless perfection, Hesse reveals through brushstrokes, layering, and distortion. His portraits and figurative scenes seem at once familiar and disturbed. Pixels bleed into brush marks; compression lines cut across faces; digital interference coexists with the softness of oil and textile fibers. These works do not imitate technology — they expose its fragility. By transforming visual defects into painterly language, Hesse reclaims the human presence within the technological gaze. The exhibition’s title, Glitch & Glamour, evokes this duality. “Glamour” — the polished image, the seductive surface — meets “glitch”, the breakdown that disrupts illusion. Hesse situates beauty within the fault line between these states. In doing so, he reminds us that imperfection is not the opposite of glamour but its hidden core: the shimmer that occurs precisely when control falters. In an age obsessed with clarity, correction, and resolution, Hesse’s paintings invite us to dwell in ambiguity. They ask us to look again — not for perfection, but for presence. Within the glitch, we find the trace of the hand, the residue of the body, the persistence of the real. Perfectly imperfect.