Alice in Wonderland – screened live from the Royal Opera House

Follow Alice down the rabbit hole next Monday evening (October 23) when The Royal Ballet’s ever-popular Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is screened live in cinemas. Vivid designs portray a fantasy world taking in an exotic caterpillar, a dancing pack of cards, an enigmatic Cheshire Cat and a tap-dancing Mad Hatter. 7.15pm: Barbican; Curzons Bloomsbury, Mayfair & Victoria; Empire Haymarket; Everyman Hampstead; JW3; Odeons Covent Garden & Holloway; Vue cinemas Finchley Road, Islington & Leicester Square

• Kentish Town cellist Ashok Klouda is starting a series of six recitals at Conway Hall this Sunday (October 22) evening, playing before the main concert being held in the hall. In the series, he’s exploring the masterpieces which inspired him to take up the cello, playing Bach suites for solo cello this Sunday – alongside new works written for him by Natalie Klouda. Cellist Ashok Klouda plays Bach suites, 5.30pm, Works for violin & guitar: Harriet MacKenzie/ Morgan Szymanski, 6.30pm, £10/cons £8. Conway Hall, 2 Red Lion Square, WC1, 020 7405 1818, https://conwayhall.org.uk/events/category/sunday-concerts/

• Renowned cellist Mario Brunello continues his series of National Gallery lunchtime concerts next Tuesday (October 24) with art historian Guido Beltramini in front of Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors. Inspired by the enigma of the amorphous skull at the centre of the painting, Brunello has devised a programme based on Bach’s Partita No 2 which he’s playing on a violoncello piccolo. Room 4, National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, 1pm,free, www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/gallery-concert-24-october-2017-1300

• Very versatile singer Patricia Hammond is at Heath Street Baptist Church on Tuesday lunchtime (October 24), singing about Women Who Wrote Songs. The pieces are parlour songs by women composers over 100 years from 1830 to 1930. Women Who Wrote Songs: singer Patricia Hammond/ pianist Andrea Kmecova, Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead, 1pm, free, http://www.heathstreet.org/activities/lunchtime-concerts/

Still of Lenin in Eisenstein’s October: Ten Days that Shook the World

• Sergei Eisenstein’s great 1927 silent move October: Ten Days that Shook the World is being screened at the Barbican next Thursday, accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra. Barbican, 7.30pm, from £15, 020 7638 8891, www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2017/event/kino-klassika-presents-sergei-eisensteins-october