{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Jago Dalston", "address": "Kingsland Road 440, E8 4AA London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Seat of Me (VOILA! 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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"}, {"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, "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": "CRIPTOPIA", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T21:15:00Z", "place": "The Feminist Library", "address": "Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word", "stage/cabaret", "dance"], "description": "CRIPTOPIA is an accessible, hybrid, multidisciplinary performance night centering and celebrating the work of crip, disabled and chronically ill artists, with acts ranging from spoken word to dance to bed-based cabaret. It is hosted at The Feminist Library and brings together live and digitally integrated performances, including a livestream with online participation for those unable to attend or perform in person, making space for people often excluded from traditional venues. All profits go to the ME Association, a charity supporting people living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. The night includes COVID safety measures such as mask requirements, performer testing, an air purifier, and a calm room, and is Breathe Easy London approved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/criptopia-39185/", "official_url": "https://feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/10/21/criptopia/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69806431259711a494a0e6be6586548459dfa1c924928742269b8f5785ddca1f-2000.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": "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": "Sophie Huckfield & Company – A Socially Useful Production: “The Participation Waltz”", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "Stanley Picker Gallery", "address": "Grange Road, KT1 2QJ Kingston upon Thames", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "history"], "description": "An exhibition at Stanley Picker Gallery that turns the space into a setting for making, gathering and performance around the 1976 Lucas Plan, a radical proposal by workers at Lucas Industries for socially useful production, and the play \"The Participation Waltz\" developed with Lucas workers by Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre. It is created by Sophie Huckfield & Company with Production Designer Rosanna Vize. The show is divided into two 'Acts': one set in the Lucas corporate offices with archival materials, the other the backstage of a working theatre with a recreation of the Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre stage and original and reimagined props. Talks, performances and collaborative activities throughout revisit this history with members of Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre and Lucas Workers sharing their stories, with scripts rewritten, objects remade and the play restaged.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sophie-huckfield-company-a-socially-useful-production-the-pa-42058/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c606f17ca361a8050baf2d028768869cdc8e22bbe21f63973721c67623c79058-2000.webp"}, {"title": "LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains)", "start": "2026-11-11T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T22:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains) is a visceral physical theatre work about discipline, masking and the paradox of agency within constraint. Created, produced and performed by Xiaoyao Luo, it uses chains, masks, movement and multilingual text to move through the roles a woman is taught to inhabit, from daughter and student to lover and mother. It sketches a world of internalised surveillance where social scripts become muscle memory, asking what freedom might be when conduct is measured from within. Recommended for ages 16+, it runs 50 minutes and contains chains, masks, physical restraint, intense movement and swearing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/liberating-she-dances-in-chains-60529/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/liberating-she-dances-in-chains/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6640f6fc327901363f441d2edd7391d65daa7568bcfbd3e3f1ab7c8d2e116e53-1200.webp"}, {"title": "(M)Others Between Shores", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£17.00 (General Admission, including £1.00 booking fee); concessions from £13.50", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "(M)others Between Shores is a movement-led ethnodrama exploring migrant motherhood and belonging. Created by Resonant Shore Theatre from the lived experiences of migrant mothers, it blends physical theatre, puppetry, live music and multilingual performance to show how migration reshapes motherhood, identity and belonging. The devised production traces journeys of displacement, resilience and rebuilding home across borders, transforming personal testimony into poetic theatrical language. From the creators of the award-winning Mothering Voices, this intimate ensemble piece celebrates the strength, care and courage of mothers forging new lives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mothers-between-shores-46242/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/22bbe87cd86c7f26618b7746b099c606c47af9378007858aed374e073964279f-2000.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": "Theatre in The Pound: November", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£1", "price_from": "1.00", "price_to": "1.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/new-writing"], "description": "Theatre in The Pound: November is a not-for-profit scratch night at which performers or groups try out 10-15 minutes of new work on stage. It is produced and presented by The Cockpit as part of Theatre Maker, with support from their backstage and tech crew. The November line-up includes I'M DAFT by Nikki Simon, War Crimes, Saladin's Saga by David AL-Fahmi, Defective Altruism by Alex Rowntree and Stark Raving by Beth Noonan-Roberts. For audiences it offers a cheap, fun night out with the chance to see new work and share thoughts directly with the performers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/theatre-in-the-pound-november-39128/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/theatre_in_the_pound_november_0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/838301e155dda2ab7e15eaf19524a1622a6a237f31376c4d238df2aaa34c21f1-1200.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": "Autumn/ Winter 26: Jo Bannon - The Dirty Work", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Place", "address": "Duke's Road 17, WC1H 9PY London", "price": "£22 (£5–£18)", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "22.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/solo-show"], "description": "The Dirty Work is a new solo performance by Jo Bannon at The Place. 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": "People's Justice: Towards an Understanding of Art Solidarity", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:30:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/activism"], "description": "A panel talk bringing together Alexander Supartono, Marco Baravalle, and Rehana Zaman to discuss art as a means of building solidarity. It forms the final chapter of Rakyat Pasti Menang, where Taring Padi presents works from People's Justice, a series rooted in the collective's commitment to art as a tool for political change and social transformation across borders. Drawing on the speakers' personal and collective experiences of constructing progressive alliances, the conversation examines solidarity as the formation of common practices against the co-optation, disciplining, and censorship of the global art-industrial complex.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/peoples-justice-towards-an-understanding-of-art-solidarity-49152/", "official_url": "https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/peoples-justice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4530f2b39e1c23d2c1a92b6c63f8994b8f6e3866b93f14940dffa9122f30497f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Knots Presents: Oscillations", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T22:00:00Z", "place": "ANNEX, 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Knots Presents: Oscillations is an exhibition at ANNEX in Elephant and Castle, hosted by The Koppel Project, bringing together a network of artists, organisers and learners. It is curated by Knots, whose noise nights invite artists to meet through an exchange of ideas and collaboration, and it invites artists to respond through visual mediums speaking to collaboration and resistance in shared history, local communities, familial lives and the every day. Knots frames it against the rising influence of the far-right in the UK and beyond, using performance to build relationships, exchange knowledge and work in solidarity with communities resisting authoritarianism and injustice. The opening evening is followed by cross-disciplinary noise collaborations with Knots alumni and a short panel Q&A with the exhibiting artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/knots-presents-oscillations-42454/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/knots-presents-oscillations-annex", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e8c4c2a00a05ba4b41afd061a3d875c8e737070a1d5b100bc8610ae61659e961-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here?", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "society/migration"], "description": "Do You Know Where To Go From Here? is a one-woman dark comedy about grief in relation to family, faith and migration. Sophie wakes up in a strange space surrounded by clothes, with no way out, and tries to escape by tidying up, facing old wounds about love and loss. It is based on real events and tells a story about reframing our way of being in this world and the humour and resilience it takes to live well. It is part of the VOILÀ! Theatre Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/do-you-know-where-to-go-from-here-40973/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/do-you-know-where-to-go-from-here-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6d67e5a5545583366fe7a8d9c59047fac0529fb5a18dc31a8541ace7df6b7e6b-2000.webp"}]}