Londoners are invited to come along and sing a selection of the nation’s favourite carols in beautiful Southwark Cathedral.

This hugely popular event is open to the public on a ticket only basis. There are limited free tickets available so book early to avoid disappointment.

If you have a ticket please note that entry is on a first come, first served basis and a ticket does not guarantee you a seat so we advise that you arrive early. Please bring your ticket to the event.

Doors open at 6.15pm.

Brazilian-born, Cologne-bred and Berlin-based singer-songwriter and pianist Dominique Dillon de Byington, aka Dillon, makes her Barbican programme debut at LSO St Luke’s this autumn. The artist, who bridges pop, art song and electronica, presents material from her latest choral project (and forthcoming release of the same title) This Silence Kills The Unknown for which she will be joined by Hackney-based amateur women’s choir Deep Throat Choir.

Dillon released her debut album This Silence Kills in 2011, followed by her second album The Unknown in 2014 on German electronic music label BPitch Control to great critical acclaim. The two albums are linked and tell a coherent story, which continues with her recently released third album This Silence Kills The Unknown, a live album of a theatrical concert with a 16-strong women’s choir that Dillon had devised for the Berlin Festival’s Foreign Affairs strand in summer 2015. Dillon said: ‘This Silence Kills and The Unknown have always been one to me and the new album physically brings them together in a way that, until now, has only been possible live.’

The Night Museum invites nocturnal visitors to accompany them on a programme of night walks, talks, performances, artist bars and journeys into the dark heart of the city. An eclectic and magical series of events will be held in unusual and hidden spaces surrounding the museum, including the Roman City Wall, the Barber Surgeons' Garden, St Botolph Without Aldersgate and Postman's Park.

The evening includes:

The museum of dark places talks

In Dark City: London after the Apocalypse, Dr Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck, University of London) will explore the post-apocalyptic London imaginary, from H G Wells, Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing, to the disturbing urban fantasies of contemporary writers such as China Miéville and Alan Moore.

In Night. London. 1616, writer and academic Matthew Beaumont (author of Nightwalking) will present a thought experiment that evokes what it would be like to wake in the night and walk through the streets of London before the era of public lighting. 

An ear to the night guided walk

Join Rosie Oliver and Dotmaker Tours on a listening tour of the London night. From the bells that mark the passing hours to the hum of buildings at sleep, tune into the City’s nocturnal soundscape and rediscover lost and forbidden sounds. 
Starts at 8pm.

Performance by Musarc 

Musarc, one of London’s most progressive and experimental choirs, will reference "when night makes a weird sound of its own stillness" (Percy Bysshe Shelley), creating a magical atmosphere where the senses are heightened and darkness prevails. Performances at 8.15pm and 9.20pm. Meeting point: St. Botolph Without Aldersgate.

The memorial to heroic self-sacrifice

Historian Dr John Price will tell the story of Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in London’s Postman’s Park, revealing the story of the memorial and how artist and radical socialist George Frederick Watts realised his ambition to commemorate ordinary people who died saving the lives of others. 

In the darkness they swing their manes like pendulums

Mythical creatures will stalk the night in two specially commissioned performances by artist Nicky Deeley, with percussion by Tazelaar Stevenson. Inspired by H G Wells’ The Time Machine and 60s sci-fi film Quatermass and the Pit, two species will engage in a rite of exchange and ingestion.