TOTW: seize the day
Illustration: Natalie Hapeshi
This year sees the return of the Leap Year. Saturday 29th February marks 24 hours you didn’t have last year and 24 hours that you wont have next year! Such a gift calls for you to seize the day, reinvent yourself, do something selfless, work on your mental, spiritual and physical wellbeing…. Or perhaps you would rather just kick back and appreciate an extra day of Netflix and chill!
What is a Leap Year ?
During a Leap Year there are 366 days in the year. The Georgian calendar we know has 365 days in the year, based on the approximate time it takes the Earth to Orbit the Sun. However, the actual time it takes for the Earth to Orbit the Sun is 365.25 days. Therefore, to ensure the calendar seasons are in sync with the solar seasons, an additional day is added to the calendar every four years.
FYI: The background colour of the illustration is 2020's pantone colour of the year, 19-4052 classic blue, "instilling calm, confidence and connection
Open to the public all day, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, affectionately known as The Lane, is reimagined as a destination for entertainment, food, bars, art, architecture and culture, so the iconic interiors can be enjoyed by everyone not just theatre goers in the heart of London’s Covent Garden.
Noah Davis · Sadler’s Wells East · Leigh Bowery · THE SEAGULL · Kew Orchid Festival 2025 · Collect Art Fair 2025 · Winter Light Festivals · London Bookshop Crawl · The Score · Flavour&Some X Control Room A · IL TROVATORE · Our Mighty Groove · Les Illuminations · Concrete Garden: Imagining Worlds · Imagine Festival 2025 · Linder & Mickalene Thomas at the Hayward Gallery…
Battersea Power Station’s Light Festival · London Art Fair · Brú Theatre: Not a Word · Out-Spoken Masterclass: January · Looking for Giants at the Kings Head Theatre · Canary Wharf’s Winter Lights Festival · Salena Jones at Ronnie Scott’s · · Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism · SOIL: The World at Our Feet…
Casse-Croûte · Berenjak Borough · Lolo · Sollip · OMA · Camille · Aqua Shard · Rambutan ·Borough Market · White Cube · Fashion and Textile Museum · Science Gallery London · Cahoots · Labombe Wine Bar · Nine Lives · Oblix at The Shard
La Pendue: La Manékine · January Blues Festival · Special Edition: The Fourth Space · London Short Film Festival · Jenůfa · Tarantula · Novo Quartet · Jason Singh: Drifters · We Live in Time · New Contemporaries · Jake Grewal: Under the Same Sky · Matthias Groebel: Skull Fuck · Gregg Bordowitz: There: a Feeling · Francis Bacon: Human Presence · Barbican Conservatory · Galette des Rois…
Barbican Conservatory · Sky Garden · Crossrail Place Roof Garden · Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew Gardens · Palm House at Kew Gardens · Temperate House at Kew Gardens
Escapes brings free cinema experiences back for 2025, offering tickets to a special 4K screening of Point Break at over 150 UK cinemas, with more monthly screenings planned throughout the year.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle · Skate at Somerset House · TS Eliot Prize Ceremony · MimeLondon 2025 · The Importance of Being Earnest · Darius Brubeck Plays Dave Brubeck · Nickel Boys · Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation · Lygia Clark: The I and the You · Nairy Baghramian: Jumbled Alphabet · Jason Wilsher-Mills: Jason and the Adventure of 254 · Es Devlin: Face to Face: 50 Encounters with Strangers · V&A Museum Residencies 2024 · In Conversation with John-Paul Pryor · Veganuary 2025 at The Gate Restaurant · Little Village…
Canary Wharf’s Winter Lights Festival · 75th New Contemporaries · London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle · Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism · Yotam Ottolenghi: The Comfort Tour · London Short Film Festival · Ballet Shoes · Winter Light · Dimanche · TS Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings · Veganuary · Ice Skating · Mississippi Goddam: A Celebration of Nina Simone
Explore the rich biodiversity of Peru through orchids, art, and culture at Kew Gardens’ Orchid Festival from 1 February 2025…