Get over to the City of Westminster for the annual August arts and culture festival, Inside Out, with tons of events for all agents and all interests - music, crafts, dance, tours, workshops and Mr Doodle trail around the West End.

The Roundhouse Comedy Festival is back in Camden with a slew of headline acts and breakthrough acts, live shows, live podcasts, and £5 Under-30s tickets (Aug 1-18).

Summertime at Shakespeare's Globe: among others, A Midsummer Night's Dream ends this month, followed by hit show Pinocchio in the autumn.

LANZA Atelier's Serpentine Pavilion, based on an English 'crinkle-crackle' wall reinterpreted by the Mexico City practice will be in Kensington Gardens until October 25.

The Camden Fringe - this year with 450+ shows at 39 venues: theatre, comedy, music, opera, improv, dance and a gameshow at small venues and reasonable prices across the borough.

The RPS International Photography Exhibition 167 runs at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea from Aug 7-Sept 11 and features over 100 prints by 48 photographers (out of a longest of over 5,000).

Last chance for the world's largest open air submission art show, the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, with late openings (until 9 pm) on Fridays and Saturdays. Ends August 23.

Get over to Coal Drops Yard at King's Cross for the 11th free and fabulous Summer Sounds Music Festival, featuring folk, jazz, soul, classical and indie rock music, dance performances and plenty of local talent (Aug 13-23).

'Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art' is at the often-underrated IWM Art Gallery, showing London under attack through the eyes of artists. Until November 1.

The Barbican Arts Centre sprouts a screen for the annual Outdoor Cinema Festival by the lakeside. Expect everything from cult classics to French New Wave, with a food market and cocktails in the conservatory (Aug 18-30).

The huge Greenwich+Docklands International Festival 2026 with theatre, circus and dance, loads of community events and a fair (Aug 21-Sep 6).

The Wellcome Collection, always good for a punchy show, examines senescence in 'Coming of Age', with work and objects from 120 artists (to Nov 29)

Get there quick: enfant-terrible-turned-national-treasure Dame Tracey Emin's retrospective, 'A Second Life', at Tate Britain ends this month Aug 31)

Catch the last three weeks of the Electric Summer at Battersea Power Station, with Big Wheel, Dodgems, a wave swinger, and loads of events for all ages, plus a new roller rink hosting themed sessions (ends Aug 31).

Va-Va-VAM! The V&A stages what turns out to be, incredibly, the UK's first show on the out-there sophistication and chic of Elsa Schiaparelli in 'Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art' (to Nov 8)