{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Autumn Knight: I Can't Complain", "start": "2026-11-06T12:00:00Z", "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": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "I Can't Complain is a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Autumn Knight, her first major presentation in the UK, combining a new commission with recent work. Knight's practice draws on theatre, psychology, improvisation and social exchange, and the exhibition centres on the act of complaining: its pleasures, frustrations and political potential. The Lower Galleries hold an audio and spatial installation with a canopy of balloons and a sound installation built from recorded conversations about everyday irritations, alongside recent video works. New performance work, including solos by Knight and collaborations with Samra Mayanja and with Michelangelo Miccolis and nick von kleist, punctuates the exhibition's run.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-knight-i-cant-complain-74128/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/autumn-knight", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5d3936d1b8f28ea08402a80f861e9e245c83e06ecfde97d7600296a7b23ca7e7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Conch", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "The Conch is an event where artists share new work that is still in development, with the audience invited to respond after each presentation by sharing thoughts, questions and reflections. 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": "Sensored Magazine presents...", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T23:45:00Z", "place": "Love Affair Basement", "address": "324 - 326 Hackney Road, E2 7AX, London, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An evening at a basement venue hosted by Sensored Magazine. Expect erotic and sensual performance guided and curated by Editor in Chief and photographer Tom Selmon. More details are still to come.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sensored-magazine-presents-63578/", "official_url": "https://www.loveaffairbasement.co.uk/events/sensored-magazine-presents", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5c1f9be881b9c37f6888e4ca22194ffbfe11b20bbd945e3b97ecaed080bc37c0-600.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": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/Shows/voila-festival-2026/huella", "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": "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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "Elegy", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/violence-against-women", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Elegy is a ritual performance and installation project by Gabrielle Goliath that gathers collective acts of mourning around lives and histories marked by violence, erasure and structural loss. Developed over more than a decade, it has been staged in Johannesburg, Cape Town, São Paulo, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich and beyond, and arrives in London following the cancellation of the South African Pavilion in Venice. Installed in the sonic chamber of Ibraaz's Minassa, voices and moving images immerse audiences in a space of mourning, kinship and collective care. Addressing rape culture and femicide in South Africa, the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namibia and the ongoing devastation of Palestinian life, it proposes mourning as a sustained practice of collective presence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elegy-36599/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bddd26bf2c80c57cde9f964f820a194720c5676bda6d23e076a328fea43bc74d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Process Makes Practice is a free, drop-in exhibition at Camden Art Centre marking the culmination of a three-year programme supported by The Mildred Fund. Over three years the centre worked with seven artists, two schools and two community groups, including Sidings Community Centre and The Hive, on iterative creative processes without defined outcomes. The exhibition brings together installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections from those involved, with projects led by artists including Shepherd Manyika, Sam Williams, Sara Heywood, Eva Jonas, Nancy Allen, Lydia Paulett and Maymana Arefin. It offers an insight into the work of artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-60157/", "official_url": "https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/process-makes-practice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.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", "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"}, {"title": "Halloween", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Horse Hospital", "address": "Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10-14 Sliding Scale", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://gel.now/events/1145", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["occasion/halloween", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Halloween is an evening of performances and music at The Horse Hospital. It features performances by Jesse Darling and Gentle Stranger, Kate Mahony, Adam Christensen, and Beth Collar, plus a DJ set by Secretary b2b peb. The performers include the Turner Prize-winning sculptor Jesse Darling, the London trio Gentle Stranger, and artists working in performance, video, text and sound.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-39362/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/halloween-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/88bfe48c085abc74bafe22fe85c164e2bd114f436dc88b7bc3d53870c83bdd66-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Live Art & Performance Group – DREAM: We Only Come To Dream", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "suggested £10–£15 cash", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An evening of live art and performance titled 'DREAM: We Only Come to Dream', taking place at Hundred Years Gallery. It is presented by LAPER : Live Art and Performance Group. The title takes inspiration from the Nahuatl poem attributed to Tochihuitzin Coyolchiuhqui, Zan tontemiquico ('We Only Come to Dream'). Entry is by suggested donation of £10–£15 in cash.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/live-art-performance-group-dream-we-only-come-to-dream-36571/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/performance-we-only-come-to-dream/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c4981262fbfc619dbcfb80f108c2677e3387ab9bd2ab5dc3cf263b006a227485-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Samira", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Dorfman - National Theatre", "address": "National Theatre, Upper Ground, SE1 9PX Ground South Bank, London", "price": "GBP 24", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "56.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/samira-tickets/2027/02/04/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/politics", "stage/theatre"], "description": "Samira is a new stage play at the Dorfman theatre. British-Lebanese writer Carmen Nasr makes her National Theatre debut with this political play, directed by Emily Burns and starring May Calamawy. Inspired by true events, it follows London academics thrown into crisis when a Syrian blogger they follow vanishes in Damascus during the Arab Spring, raising questions of authenticity, political upheaval and identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/samira-63511/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d59d407e34978faf095fcfb102913c3318df3f810cf9c3076690af8ad6380c7f-600.webp"}, {"title": "Voila! at the Space - Launch Party", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "occasion"], "description": "An evening launch party at The Space marking its third year as a Voila! Theatre Festival venue and its first mini-season launch. The venue invites audiences to join its performing artists, who wanted to feel part of a venue community, in welcoming them to East London. Guests can see extracts of the shows programmed at the Space, meet the makers, and play mingle bingo with the international and migrant artists. Each ticket includes a free glass of fizz, alcoholic or non.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voila-at-the-space-launch-party-39747/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/voila-launch-party/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5f0c016395adcd2dea775574feffa3bec5d8bc500e47526ddded8267c851424-1200.webp"}]}