{"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", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/unreal-festival-artist-talk/book/470096", "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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/book/469096", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "UNREAL is a festival of magic and performance at Battersea Arts Centre. 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This edition brings together artists who explore domestic architectures not simply as backdrops, but as sites of labour and performance that can take on a life of their own. Georgina Hill performs a work on the overlooked history of cottage industries in Britain, Alia Hamaoui reworks behind-the-scenes footage from the whodunit crime film 8 Femmes, and Beatrice Vorster presents BOO!, a performance made with Yasmin Vardi that deconstructs the ghost-movie genre. The event takes place at South London Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-conch-38708/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/the-conch-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3cf5e3fce0bb7a0ab456dc088eb17a976b430c7f2da4442b2f458c2d9e29f574-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Extra Second London", "start": "2026-10-31T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St. Margaret's House", "address": "Old Ford Road 15-23, E2 9PJ London", "price": "£4 (£5 for Open Mic + Guest)", "price_from": "4.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/stmargaretshouse/1432082/select-date", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word"], "description": "A cosy monthly evening of poetry, spoken word, music and discussion with open mic slots. Hosted by Kid Anansi and Julie G, it pairs performances with a discussion section that gives performers and audiences a space to reflect on writing and performing, welcoming everyone from newcomers to seasoned pros. The October theme is ALCHEMY.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/extra-second-london-38811/", "official_url": "https://www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk/events/extra-second-london", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bba057d21d53ce77888181cc3445b100438830ba4441c8eda3441b81cdb90301-2000.webp"}, {"title": "FOTD: Witch, Hag, Crone - breakfast conversation", "start": "2026-10-31T10:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Woodfield Pavilion", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.southlondonstorytelling.com/coming-up/witches-hags-and-crones-whats-in-a-name", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word"], "description": "A breakfast conversation over coffee and croissants with Prof. June Boyce-Tillman, held at The Woodfield Pavilion in London. It is a spoken word event, and attendance is free. 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It peeks behind the velvet curtain, blending the tricks of the trade — a white rabbit, a magic wand, a puff of smoke — with Bannon's lived experience of visual impairment. She invites audiences to glimpse a world where truth and illusion, performance and reality converge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-winter-26-jo-bannon-the-dirty-work-65765/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Black Magic and Iterations (Double Bill)", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "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", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/black-magic-iterations-double-bill/book/469097", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "A double bill of contemporary magic, 'Black Magic' and 'Iterations', asking how much you trust your own eyes through sleight of hand, illusion and trickery. 'Black Magic' is conceived by Luis Sartori do Vale and Kalle Nio, who merge black theatre techniques and double exposure with modern technology to create illusions in real time. 'Iterations' is written, choreographed and performed by Tom Cassani, exposing the practising magician and showing how impossibilities emerge through simple repetition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/black-magic-and-iterations-double-bill-73829/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/black-magic-iterations/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ae582b262c28872ac58d2a3d4be5d0015714dac1c2ea95dab23ae6b02d387eb7-1200.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", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/perpetuity-work-in-progress/book/469296", "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": "Good Sex", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £25)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/room-13/#book-by-time", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Good Sex is a piece of theatre that asks how you have sex on stage. It comes from theatre makers Dead Centre with novelist and essayist Emilie Pine, and follows two strangers each night who perform a story of desire, betrayal and loneliness without having rehearsed together, guided by an Intimacy Director. Since premiering at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2022 it has toured Europe and New York, and now makes its UK premiere at Battersea Arts Centre. The Wednesday performance features Jack Gleeson and Phia Saban.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/good-sex-73825/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/good-sex/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5e4d98ab18e72912cc2ecf8c3ce55e557af40466d9da48ade733d08480ab262-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Magic: An Illustrated History", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00Z", "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", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/book/469096", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "Magic: An Illustrated History is a theatre show combining live vocals, puppetry and illusion to create a shifting, dreamlike narrative. Performer and musician Jim Dahl Presents an oblique history of magic, exploring the conflicting role of the magician as conjuror, raconteur and charlatan. The 50-minute performance is recommended for ages 16 and over and takes place in the venue's Members Library. Jim Dahl Presents is a performer and musician based in Wales whose practice is informed by folklore, music and the uncanny.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/magic-an-illustrated-history-73826/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/magic-an-illustrated-history/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a5f3757b4ce3fccfbca9ea0e5e18e04172e635127df6987b7e791ea2d128237-1200.webp"}, {"title": "More Fire: Performance Poetry Ignited", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Woolwich Works", "address": "No 1 Street 11, SE18 6HD London", "price": "Cabaret Seats: £27 | Standard Seats: £22 (all prices include a £2 booking fee per ticket)", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "27.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word"], "description": "More Fire: Performance Poetry Ignited is a one-night spoken word show gathering radical and exceptional voices in performance poetry, never seen together on stage before. It is presented by Apples and Snakes, the national organisation for performance poetry, and spotlights the transformative origins, present and future of the art form. The line-up includes The Last Poets, Michael Rosen, Inua Ellams, AFLO. the poet, Jordan Stephens, Rakaya Fetuga and David Okodeh, hosted by Yomi Ṣode. The evening of raw storytelling and unmissable energy is never to be repeated.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/more-fire-performance-poetry-ignited-40362/", "official_url": "https://www.woolwich.works/events/more-fire", "image": "https://noky.io/images/069f86da197260f99be8b5625e0d7039338f8d01164b76055dd345e28ef762bd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "party done: Performance by Samra Mayanja", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "party done is a solo performance by London-based artist Samra Mayanja, staged in the Lower Gallery as part of the setting of Autumn Knight's exhibition. It presents the aftermath of a party that may have just ended or may never have begun, with a cargo net of balloons lowered and some escaped balloons strewn on the floor. Moving along a lightbox, Mayanja may pop some of the balloons with sharp implements. She conceived the piece in direct response to the exhibition's themes and brings her own stories of complaint into the gallery, rehearsing and reworking them in the space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/party-done-performance-by-samra-mayanja-74130/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/autumn-knight-party-done", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee6e3edce865f4e0850e10bd5daeded2b844308d0486356b76dfd4b358fd6298-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Art Laughs: Art-Themed Comedy Night", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T20:30:00Z", "place": "Leighton House", "address": "", "price": "£25; Students & Under 30's £15; includes museum admission.", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://leightonhouse.digitickets.co.uk/search", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["art/painting", "comedy/stand-up"], "description": "Art Laughs: Art-Themed Comedy Night is an evening of stand-up routines inspired by paintings in the Leighton House collection. It was founded by art historian and comedian Verity Babbs, who is joined by award-winning comedians Bebe Cave, Mary O'Connell, and Rosalie Minnitt. Art Laughs brings stand-up, improv, guided tours, quizzes and panel talks to galleries, museums, fairs and auction houses, encouraging us to take art a little less seriously. Doors open at 6:30pm to explore the historic house and current exhibition, with the performance in Leighton's studio from 7pm to 8pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-laughs-art-themed-comedy-night-36976/", "official_url": "https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/museums/art-laughs-art-themed-comedy-night", "image": "https://noky.io/images/24d11948f5e85385dc2a0156161153f059b63f8baf2128fa163e3ce452d4149c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Magic as the Science of the Imagination", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "College of Psychic Studies", "address": "Queensberry Place 16, London", "price": "£22.00", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["religion/esotericism"], "description": "An online talk at the College of Psychic Studies called 'Magic as the Science of the Imagination', exploring magic, myth and symbolic thought. It is led by Andrea Aste, a multimedia artist, animator and author known for his tarot decks and hybrid novels. The session draws on tarot, mythology, esoteric traditions, psychology and philosophy to treat imagination as a way of knowing and a gateway to deeper reality. It is open to all, invites live participation, and no prior knowledge is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/magic-as-the-science-of-the-imagination-43070/", "official_url": "https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/talks/esoteric/magic-as-the-science-of-the-imagination/?id=6663", "image": "https://noky.io/images/295acbf16029d54e8f6629e41bc3cc6d7f01125a67cfd87f95f96ebbc15a8885-1200.webp"}]}