{"title": "Life Drawing Theatre – ‘Through me is the way to the sorrowful city’ (Divine Comedy – Inferno epic stanzas)", "start": "2026-11-15T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Abney Park", "address": "219 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 0LH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing/figure-drawing", "literature/poetry"], "description": "Life Drawing Theatre – ‘Through me is the way to the sorrowful city’ (Divine Comedy – Inferno epic stanzas) is an interactive storytelling workshop combining performance and drawing. Sonnets from Dante's Divine Comedy are narrated by Paul McGill, while models hold poses inspired by each sonnet for 5 to 10 minutes, letting attendees sketch their own storyboard without needing any artistic experience or prior knowledge of the poem. Among the sonnets is the tale of Odysseus from Canto XXVI, in which Dante and Virgil encounter the voyager among the Fraudulent Counsellors. The workshop is part of the Tales of Departure series within the Gates of the Abode season, and takes place in the Gothic, picturesque setting of Abney Park, whose Egyptian Revival gateway has long marked a threshold between the world of the living and the dead.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/life-drawing-theatre-through-me-is-the-way-to-the-sorrowful-59941/", "official_url": "https://abneypark.org/upcoming-events/2026/8/31/life-drawing-theatre-through-me-is-the-way-to-the-sorrowful-city-divine-comedy-inferno-sonnets", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff20b8136beca411d2c94379862d5b2218145ae7369b979bee2b7aa90f6408a3-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-15T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Abney Park", "address": "219 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 0LH London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Life Drawing at the Museum", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T20:30:00Z", "place": "Estorick Collection", "address": "Canonbury Square 39a, N1 2AN London", "price": "£15 (Standard), £12 (Estorick Collection Member), £12 (Students), £20 (Pay It Forward), £5 (Open Doo", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing/figure-drawing"], "description": "Life Drawing at the Museum is an untutored life drawing session with a professional life model at a museum of modern Italian art. 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It is organised by 'North London Life Drawing', with the professional artist Piero Pierini present: an Argentinian illustrator who studied art at the University of Buenos Aires and has worked in the UK for seventeen years, helping people find their own artistic voice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-weekly-life-drawing-class-36712/", "official_url": "https://www.jamboreevenue.co.uk/events/life-drawing-class-in-london-51/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f2a7e1ad964800d53c046de31b2c8213cf1f2bcf07f48d6d5e4f5d1089772afb-600.webp"}]}