Until 11 Feb  Exhibition #3
Exhibition of the circus curios and fairground ephemera accumulated over a lifetime by pop artist Sir Peter Blake, including taxidermy dioramas by Victorian genius Walter Potter. The Museum of Everything has extended its run of this very popular exhibition until mid February.
10.30am-6.30pm Wed-Sun. Museum of Everything, London NW1 8YL. Free.

12 December - April 10 HR Giger in Sarnen
The artist who gave form to Ridley Scott's Aliens displays a nightmarish collection of work at Landenberg Sarnen, Switzerland. The monsters that started life in his nighmares, will now inhabit yours.
2pm – 5pm Saturday and Sunday, Landenberg Sarnen, Switzerland

15-30 Jan London International Mime Festival
Haven’t you heard? The International Mime Festival is in town. This is your chance to see the most cutting edge circus-theatre, adult puppetry and animation, physical and object theatre in the world.
Times, venues and prices vary. See website for details.

18 Jan The Fly (1958) on the Big Screen
Relive the terror of this original sci-fi classic in glorious, gigantic technicolour. This seminal film challenges our almost universal belief in science and progress, and is as valid today as it was then.
6.30pm. JZ Young Theatre, Anatomy Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. Free.

18 Jan-23 Jul Extinct
The Grant Museum of Zoology will be displaying specimens of animals that have become extinct over the course of history. Ranging from the pre-historic days of the woolly mammoth and megalodon shark to the recent disappearance of the Tasmanian devil, the exhibition aims to address man’s roll in the survival of rare species.
10am–5pm. Hunterian Museum, London WC2A 3PE. Free.

21 Jan-17 Feb Doug Foster -In the Naughty Chair
Terror descends on Lazarides Rathbone gallery this month as Doug Foster shows his recent sculture and stereoscopic video alongside some more of his most celebrated installations. Continuing his chilling inquiry into the human experience, the promise of interactive art is a little intimidating.
11 am-7 pm Tues-Sat. 11 Rathbone Place, London W1T 1HR Free

21 Jan-12 March   The Witching Hour: Darkness and the Architectural Uncanny
An exhibition of photography, painting and film exploring the power of buildings to unsettle or intimidate. The artworks feature diverse sites, from a cemetery and tunnels to the streets where Jack the Ripper murdered his victims.
PM Gallery and House, Ealing W5 5EQ. Entry is free. For opening times and more information, see the gallery website.

26 Jan Gnostic Legacies: The Wilder Shores of Gnosis
Dr Jonathan Hill explores the origins and beliefs of some fringe Gnostic groups. Some of whom are known only through isolated texts and scholarly guesswork. The lecture will also touch upon the place of Gnosticism in ancient society, and why they were rejected so violently by Christian groups.
7.15pm. Treadwells Bookshop, London WC2E 7PB. £7.

27 Jan The Circus Of Horrors
There will be great wailing and beating of chests when the Circus puts on their phantasmagoria: ‘The 4 Chapters From Hell’. Zombies, vampires, pickled people and bendy people, knife throwers and sword swallowers shall all be summoned from the darkness.
7.30pm. Liverpool Empire Theatre, Lime St, Liverpool. £16.25 - £30.50.

28 Jan National Kazoo Day Extravaganza
A righteous celebration for an instrument that is treated with unjust derision every other day of the year. Wet your whistle with performances from the How Long Jug Band and a premiere of new kazoo art by photographer Daniel Stark. Free kazoos will be distributed too.
10am-5pm. 115 NW 5th Ave, Portland, OR. Free.

29-30 Jan National Potato Day
Now in its sixteenth year, National Potato Day continues to go from strength to strength. Meet potato experts, and marvel at over 140 strains of tobacco.
10am-5pm. Garden Organic, Ryton, Warwickshire. Free.