• The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich hosts the annual ‘Caribbean Takeover’ – a family-friendly event celebrating Caribbean culture, history and heritage – this Saturday. The event, which marks 60 years of the Notting Hill Carnival, brings together artists, historians, performers and community groups. The day will feature live music, dance performances, talks, creative workshops and community-led displays with highlights including steel pan music and African drumming, calypso dance and limbo, performances on the Ocean Map, and interactive experiences. The event, which runs from 10am to 5pm, is free. For more, see https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/national-maritime-museum-queens-house/caribbean-takeover.

• The work of Victorian artist Richard Dadd (1817-1886) is at the centre of a new exhibition opening at the Royal Academy of Arts this Saturday. Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam, the first exhibition devoted to his work in more than 50 years, features around 100 oil paintings, drawings and watercolours and charts his life as a student at Royal Academy schools, his travels and the final 42 years of his life as a patient in Bethlem and Broadmoor Hospitals. Recognised early on for his skill at rendering detail, Dadd went on a tour of the eastern Mediterranean in 1842 but began experiencing delusions as the trip and, on returning to England, killed his father whom he believed to be the Egyptian god Osiris. He fled to France but was apprehended and spent the remainder of his life in hospitals – first at Clermont, north of Paris (1843-44), and then at Bethlem in Lambeth (1844-64), and finally at Broadmoor in Berkshire (1864-65). Highlights include the fairy painting Titania Sleeping (1841) and Scene from Hamlet (1840) as well as works from his time in hospitals including Contradiction. Oberon and Titania (1854-58), The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke (1855-64) and Portrait of a Young Man (1853). Runs in the The Jillian and Arthur M Sackler Wing of Galleries until 25th October. Admission charge applies. For more, see www.royalacademy.org.uk.

• On Now: British Wildlife Photography Awards 2026. Some 72 images and video from the awards have gone on show at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in South London. Highlights include Paul Hobson’s A Toad Swims Across Its Woodland Pond (Grand Prize Winner and winner in the Black & White category); Ben Lucas’ Feathery Pillow, depicting a mute swan cygnet taking a nap on its sibling’s back (The Young British Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026); Sarah Darnell’s The Fur Flew image of a pair of hares boxing (runner up in the Animal Behaviour category); Felix Belloin’s Through the Lavender showing a neighbourhood fox visiting his garden (runner up in the Animal Portraits category); Barry Webb’s Slime Moulds and a Water Droplet (winner in the Botanical Britain category). The free display can be seen until 21st February next year. For more, see horniman.ac.uk.

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