The team behind boutique festival Winterwell are hosting a truly terrifying Victorian-themed Halloween party this Saturday (30 October) at Village Underground in Shoreditch.

With live cabaret performances, music and DJs, revellers will be transported back through the mists of time to a London where dangers lurked on every street corner and murderers haunted Scotland Yard.

Guests will be encouraged to participate in a range of dastardly activities; from a visit to Dr Jekyll’s lab to being shaved by Sweeney Todd. Only the bravest of the brave will be able to face certain perils, such as eating an infamous pie from Mrs Miggins’ kitchen.

Visit London blog readers have the chance to win a pair of tickets to Winterwell’s Halloween Party in London. Simply email winterwell@hotmail.co.uk with “Visit London blog giveaway” in the subject bar and tell us what Halloween costume you’re planning to wear in the comments below.

Enter if you dare!

Entries close at 10am Friday 29 October. The winner will be notified via email.

The Jellyfish Theatre opens to the public at the end of August with premieres of two  inspiring plays about climate change, specially-commissioned for performance in the venue:

• OIKOS by Simon Wu, 26 Aug- 18 Sep

• PROTOZOA by Kay Adshead, 23 Sep- 9 Oct

Find out more about the plays and the progress of the theatre’s construction at www.oikosproject.com

Visit London Blog Giveaway

The Red Room theatre company is offering five pairs of tickets for Oikos, the first play to be produced at The Jellyfish Theatre, for any 8pm evening performance between 26 August and 4 September.

Just send your name and email address to submissions@theredroom.org.uk before 20 August when the winners will be randomly selected and contacted for their choice of performance date.

Plus, leave a comment below about why you’re keen to experience The Jellyfish Theatre!

The Go! Go! Go! Show is a new musical at Leicester Square Theatre that the whole family can enjoy.

Go! Go! Go! follows a young pop group who awake one morning to discover their socks are missing. They soon realise the culprit is a cheeky creature called the Fluffalope, who likes nothing more than munching his way through tasty old socks! The gang then embarks on a hilarious caper to rescue their socks via Holiday Bay and the Land of Lost Property.

The feelgood musical is packed full of music, dancing, jokes and magic and is suitable for kids of all ages.

Visit London is giving away 10 family tickets (2 adults, 2 kids per ticket) to any performance of Go! Go! Go! in August.

To win, tell us in the comments below what you’re doing as a family in London this summer holidays and send an email with your contact details to james@mobiusindustries.com

Entries close at 11.59pm on Wednesday 28 July. Winners will be notified by email on Friday 30 July.

If you’re not lucky enough to win, you can book Go! Go! Go! tickets here

Tuesday 20 July marks the bicentennial of Colombia’s Independence. And what better way to celebrate than a huge party at Vinopolis!

Colombia Fest at Vinopolis presents live music from world-renowned band Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, traditional Colombian dancing, a Colombian DJ and a special-guest appearance by Miss Great Britain, Tara Hoyos-Martinez (her parents are Colombian).

Meanwhile, there’ll be delicious food platters of empanadas and chorizo, accompanied by Colombian drinks: Sant Fe Rum, Nectar Aguardiente (a fiery aniseed spirit) and Colombia’s premium beer, Club Colombia.

Best of all, Vinopolis and Visit London are giving away three double-passes to Colombia Fest at Vinopolis on 20 July.

To enter, leave a comment below telling us how you’re celebrating summer in London and email competition@vinopolis.co.uk

The deadline for entries is 11.59pm, Thursday 15  July. Winners will be notified by Vinopolis on Friday 16 July.

Don’t want to chance it? Buy yourself a ticket today at www.vinopolis.co.uk

Tickets cost £29 in advance or £35 on the door.

Right now, many of us are caught firmly in the grip of footie fever. But we do feel for those of you who don’t want to watch the World Cup in London.

With this in mind, our good friends at BFI Southbank are hosting an Alternative To The World Cup film season.

What better way to escape the World Cup madness than by settling down in a darkened cinema to watch one of the classics such as:

• All of Grace Kelly’s films including Hitchcock’s Rear Window
• A Fistful of Dollars starring Clint Eastwood
• Kubrick classic A Clockwork Orange
• Eco thriller Soylent Green with Charlton Heston
• Tilda Swinton’s latest I Am Love
• Manga movie Ghost In the Shell 2: Innocence

Lucky for you, BFI is offering 10 pairs of tickets to any film during their June and July seasons to celebrate their alternative to the world cup campaign. And we want to know, what’s your World Cup alternative?

Leave a comment below and email filmcompetitions@bfi.org.uk with Visit London World Cup in the subject by Friday 25 June to win.

Read competition terms and conditions