{"title": "Answer Me, Pythia (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £12)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "A work-in-progress performance sharing in which a performer and a ventriloquist's dummy share one voice between two bodies. It is made by Stina Fors, a performance artist, choreographer and experimental vocalist whose work centres on the voice. The piece continues her research into ventriloquism and its lineage, from oracle to witch to comedian, asking what happens to a voice when the belief system around it changes. It follows a two-week residency at the venue as part of the UNREAL festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/answer-me-pythia-work-in-progress-73836/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/answer-me-pythia/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d5ac507c35c4db13319d0fadf8fa95219744889eeae7575358898d018760615c-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "A Mouthful Of Tongues", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £15)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["music/singing", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "A Mouthful of Tongues is a solo performance in which a figure in a suit arrives on an empty stage and voices begin to fill the void from hard-to-locate places. It is created and performed by dancer and choreographer Stina Fors, a performance artist and experimental vocalist whose work centres on the voice. Built on several years of research into the relationship between body and voice, it uses distorted ventriloquism to let multiple identities be seen and heard. The piece explores what a body can hold and what it cannot contain, using the voice as a choreographic tool to ask what we do and do not give a voice to.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-mouthful-of-tongues-73828/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01bc47dc287f95c2b07c5b99e675c83680758cdaeabe92e11cb67439119350ef-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Artist Talk: UNREAL", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £8), plus a £2 transaction fee per order", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An artist talk lasting about an hour, held in the Members Bar at Battersea Arts Centre, a venue in south-west London. It brings together two trailblazing performance artists, Marisa Carnesky and Jo Bannon, who discuss their respective practices and how each has explored magic within them. With questions from UNREAL curators Tom Cassani and Augusto Corrieri, the conversation touches on covert choreographies, hidden bodies, high rituals and Show Women. It forms a thoughtful discussion on performance and magic, part of the UNREAL festival at the venue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/artist-talk-unreal-73831/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/unreal-artist-talk/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b5e34a120ffcb115493eccc6c5fea4d04b7a0444b090964cc571f63f6be889e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dissidences 7. Sound, voice, word", "start": "2026-11-14T16:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "Free / £5/10 donations for the artists", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Dissidences 7. Sound, voice, word is a performance gathering poets, singers and performers in a semi-circle around a music improviser, reading, reciting, singing or babbling, with spontaneity and dissidence as the rules and the basis for a collective piece. The performers are Carla Cías with sound, Ivy Tsui with dance and voice, and Montse Gallego and Charlie Folorunsho with voice and words. Ivy Tsui is a Hong Kong-born, London-based dance artist and choreographer whose practice centres on improvisation and the relationship between movement, sound, memory, language and identity. Montse Gallego, a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Hundred Years Gallery, brings her poetry to the event alongside Charlie Folorunsho, who has played on the London improv scene at venues including Boat Ting and Hundred Years Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dissidences-7-sound-voice-word-36576/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/dissidences-7-sound-voice-word-saturday-14th-november-4-30/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Oraculum (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (recommended price £12)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "Oraculum (Work-in-Progress) is a solo performance show in which the audience takes part in a mass psychic reading. It is made by Tom Cassani, an award-winning UK-based performance maker who works with choreography, magic, sideshow and live art. Built around a classic psychic reading and a live text, the show draws on the worlds of mind readers, divinators and charismatic public speakers to reveal how we as an audience unknowingly share similar experiences and thoughts. Cassani turns an individual reading into a collective, self-reflective experience where unlikely connections begin to appear.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/oraculum-work-in-progress-73834/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/oraculum/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/458be263d7bc16cc5c799edb217590ddfebf156069a3d4b93cd5acd33c2b2fd6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Liminal (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £10), all orders subject to a £2 transaction fee", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "Liminal (Work-in-Progress) is a performance at Battersea Arts Centre that blends performance magic with live art, movement and film, inviting audiences to explore the boundaries between illusion and reality. It is created and performed by Hsiang-Sheng Teng, a London-based interdisciplinary artist from Taiwan, with outside eye Tom Cassani and support from Forecast / Skills e.V. Drawing on his experience learning silk magic from a Japanese sensei, the piece reveals the hidden world and politics of silk, showing through transformations and recurring actions how illusion is constructed and sustained. It takes audiences on a journey through the 'in-betweenness' of the ordinary and the extraordinary, East and West, the visible and the invisible, performance and life, and illusion and reality.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/liminal-work-in-progress-73833/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/liminal/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b4c99eff10175ed69f2437f4f8c9c6777accd2bac22cca3a17b8a665d3e6caa8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "UNREAL A Festival of Magic and Performance", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Prices from £8), all orders subject to a £2 transaction fee", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "UNREAL is a festival of magic and performance at Battersea Arts Centre. It is curated by Tom Cassani, Augusto Corrieri and Tim Bromage, and brings together artists from across the UK and Europe working at the intersection of magic and performance. Over five days, audiences encounter images, transformations and moments of collective awe, as sleight of hand and stage illusion are reimagined through theatre, choreography and live art. The festival invites audiences behind the curtain, questioning assumptions about what we see, hear and believe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unreal-a-festival-of-magic-and-performance-73827/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "This Is Not A Magic Show", "start": "2026-11-14T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £15)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "'This Is Not A Magic Show' is a work of theatre-magic in which playing cards transform and silver coins appear, while our perception of reality shatters. It is created and performed by artist Vincent Gambini, the pseudonym of Brighton-based performance maker Augusto Corrieri. Through conversational, crafted sleight-of-hand, he questions the show itself and explores magic's invisible mechanics, its clichés, and what it reveals about live performance and make-believe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/this-is-not-a-magic-show-73837/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/this-is-not-a-magic-show/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/21087fd60c73c146475cae80d5f9f7f7499411084a9fbe38222db84c5f1b4177-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Beneath Still Waters", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "comedy"], "description": "A solo theatre performance titled Beneath Still Waters, presented as part of the VOILA! Festival. Created and performed by Rebecka Öberg, a Swedish performer and theatre maker based in London, it was developed during an artist residency at WOMB, Mexico City, in 2024. The show blends storytelling, original music and absurd comedy, retelling the tale of the ugly duckling to explore identity, validation and beauty ideals.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beneath-still-waters-60527/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/beneath-still-waters/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5fd240197e9722b0b106e5c959de9a49391d162ca43f88c200fc3403f956d55e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Panel Talk: Staging the (Un)translatable: Global...", "start": "2026-11-17T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "Pay what you decide: £3, £5, £10, £15", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/translation", "stage"], "description": "A panel talk bringing together theatre-makers, dramaturgs, translators, publishers and researchers to examine the interrelation between (un)translatability, (un)stageability and (un)performability. It is produced and presented by The Cockpit and UAL Wimbledon College of Arts as part of the Voila! Theatre Festival. The discussion addresses panlingualism in the theatre, making work in languages other than English or the creatives' mother tongue, what it means to be an exophonic artist, and how migration challenges the notion of the 'native speaker'. It includes a short reading from a contemporary play as a prompt, moderated by Dr Jozefina Komporaly, an academic and translator at UAL Wimbledon College of Arts, and tickets are by donation supporting migrant artists in the UK.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/panel-talk-staging-the-untranslatable-global-39129/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/panel_talk_staging_the_untranslatable_global_voices_and_panlingual_dramaturgies", "image": ""}, {"title": "Elaine Mitchener – LATE JOYS", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "£5 - £25", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/vocal", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "LATE JOYS is a one-off performance at the Linbury Theatre, part of the Royal Opera's Dark Nights series of one-off performances by vocal innovators and experimental composers. It is conceived by Elaine Mitchener, a contemporary vocalist, movement artist and composer, and devised with choreographer Dam Van Huynh, moving image artist Reece Ewing and her electro-acoustic group The Rolling Calf: Xhosa Cole, Jason Yarde, Mark Sanders and Neil Charles. The hour-long work unfolds as a reverberation of time and space, where presences are conjured through sound, movement and visual intensity, weaving between a shifting landscape where memory, inheritance and imagination converge. Drawing on the poetics of writers who have inspired Mitchener's practice, it invites audiences into new ways of sensing the past while reaching towards possible futures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elaine-mitchener-late-joys-74752/", "official_url": "https://www.rbo.org.uk/production/dark-nights", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fde093da0a62dc754b71f2b9e071746b0d5308d9603df2ca9848d83a38978a44-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Song and Dance", "start": "2026-11-17T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £16)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/play"], "description": "A Song and Dance is a theatre performance about masking, performing and 'acting the part.' Created and performed by Action Hero, with text by Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse and direction by Gemma Paintin. A reluctant actor, lost inside a recurring nightmare filled with the phantoms of his disapproving ancestors, returns to the stage to conquer an 8-year period of intense stage fright, replays his own life story and starts to lose the plot. He re-writes his anxiety dreams live on stage with the audience, in the hope of banishing the ghosts of performances past.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-song-and-dance-73838/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17ed1a4add0e852f4da63c74cdfec18f2d0991d9c62e62c5893554685f93b209-1200.webp"}, {"title": "NON FINITO: ART in EVOLUTION", "start": "2026-11-19T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Union Theatre", "address": "Old Union Arches, 229 Union Street, SE1 0LR London", "price": "Full Price £18, Concession £15", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art", "dance", "music"], "description": "NON FINITO: ART in EVOLUTION is a live arts festival made up of new performance pieces still in evolution, including live music, dance and theatre, under the title NON FINITO: ART in EVOLUTION. It is created by EVOL Creation, produced with TAKA Strike Club and supported by the Global Mosaic Foundation, and presents an artistic patchwork of works on a journey, from unrecorded albums played live to an ancient legend told through dance. The line-up features pieces such as DESCENDANTS OF ANANSI by Kofi Mingo and LUX written and performed by Olivier Sublet, alongside live sets by BRNSRGHT, Stamatis Seraphim and the South London rapper Consensus, plus movement and writing workshops. The creative team includes director Jack Gilliat and composer and sound designer Stamatis Seraphim.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/non-finito-art-in-evolution-39973/", "official_url": "https://uniontheatre.biz/show/non-finito-art-in-evolution/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c4540042f1d1856d1c4b3933daa665d9487c9b5040728d984eacc3f913010cf-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Meet Me in The Dressing Room", "start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Jago Dalston", "address": "Kingsland Road 440, E8 4AA London", "price": "Check Listings", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/activism", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Meet Me in The Dressing Room is a solo performance show at the edge of history, in which a glittering showgirl of the apocalypse transforms her dressing room into a site of political organisation and resistance to a fascist moment. It is created and performed by Sophie, with an industrial soundscape by Vyvyan Stewardson built around Diane DiPrima's Revolutionary Letters and original costuming by Max Allen emblematic of leaders who offered radical hope. Through enigmatic and referential choreography, movement, live action and dirty tricks, the ritual nature of hope and defeat is embodied as the body is pushed to its extremes hoping to liberate the body politic. The show is completely self funded, with all profits going directly to the artists involved and tiered ticket prices, including free tickets for disabled persons' carers or companions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meet-me-in-the-dressing-room-92823/", "official_url": "https://www.thejagodalston.com/event/meet-me-in-the-dressing-room/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0260ce7eadf0d1a772b8a42a48dd91f62aa1306d2fe1de5588145677183045bb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Voice of Butterflies", "start": "2026-11-11T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/violence-against-women"], "description": "The Voice of Butterflies is an artivistic performance originally created to commemorate the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls, running as part of the VOILA! Festival at the Etcetera Theatre on Camden High Street. Created by the company Hilanderas, directed by Stephanie Prieto and performed by Stephanie Prieto and Esmeralda Sears, it draws an analogy between butterflies' lack of a physical voice and how trauma silences parts of the human body. The narrative follows a woman and her therapist on a regressive journey into childhood to uncover a secret held within the flesh, triggering a metamorphosis in which other women listen to the protagonist within the sound of her silence. After the 45-minute performance, offered in Latin American Spanish with English surtitles for ages 14 and over, Hilanderas hosts a Q&A and a Roy Hart-based workshop.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-voice-of-butterflies-60519/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-voice-of-butterflies/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e53b6b5efb173a3ed6ab8b18e3bd1a35a7ec13e53e468e751ee3a3fd1318a0a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Perpetuity (Work-in-Progress)", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £10), all orders subject to a £2 transaction fee", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/clowning"], "description": "Perpetuity (Work-in-Progress) is a solo theatre show by Shambles Ensemble, staged in the Members Bar of Battersea Arts Centre as part of the UNREAL festival. Created by the company and directed by Chris Yarnell, it fuses visual and physical storytelling, clowning, performance art and illusion to explore what it means to spend an eternity, what constitutes a soul, and how resilient the human spirit is. Inspired by Dorian Gray, lockdown and pot plants, the 60-minute show asks how you would spend forever and follows a life that is never quite finished. It is recommended for ages 14 and up and contains haze, flashing lights, sudden loud noises and themes of loss, death and suicide.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/perpetuity-work-in-progress-73832/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/perpetuity/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1e93627a3b674fe2374f86bb3901b996fd63b0bc39ef68e33010d8035d27498-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Seat of Me (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/solo-show"], "description": "The Seat of Me is an intimate autobiographical solo performance staged at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden as part of the VOILA! Festival. It is written and performed by Giulia A.Cryan and produced by Iter Pictures. Through storytelling, music and minimalist staging, it follows one woman's journey across Rome, New York, Los Angeles and London, exploring identity, migration and the search for belonging, with fragments of Edith Piaf's music woven through. Recommended for ages 14 and up, it lasts 50 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-seat-of-me-voila-festival-60525/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/86aa3f85a863dfe9c2b5ec0840a61e69c0e2f4cdd9e5826757fb5bbffbd76910-1200.webp"}]}