{"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. 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. 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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. 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'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": "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": "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. 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It features Artists Rule The Universe, a new funk project from Edd Bateman after 20 years as a session musician on every continent, joined by an all-star lineup of Tamara Jade, Boris Latinov and Giuliano Osella. The night brings a jam session, a set from Artists Rule The Universe, and more jamming, with special guests, improvisation and surprises so that no two nights are the same. 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It is led by Maximilian, a TV magician known for Sky One's Max Magic and BBC One's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, an award-winning member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star. Expect laughter, audience participation and illusions that leave the whole family scratching their heads, with fun for little ones and grown-ups alike.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/family-friendly-magic-show-halloween-daytime-76863/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/efbb16bdf30fba1d00351bf2454ad84df9bf5bfe8bcc1dd3822cc4796c1e3d3e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Magical Bones presents BONEFIDE MAGIC", "start": "2026-11-03T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Courtyard Theatre", "address": "", "price": "from £38.50", "price_from": "38.50", "price_to": "71.49", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "Magical Bones presents BONEFIDE MAGIC is an 80-minute action-packed magic and illusion show running at The Courtyard Theatre in Shoreditch for an exclusive two-week run. Behind it is Magical Bones, a Britain's Got Talent finalist hailed as the hottest British talent on the magic scene, who stands alone for sheer originality. The show is an awe-inspiring journey featuring breakdance moves, backflipping card tricks and jaw-dropping street magic. Sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024, it now comes to London for the first time.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/magical-bones-presents-bonefide-magic-45815/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70cb1c611fc89a7998f6f146916adaf0f7620770b399b30000be3dfe2789b740-1200.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": "Derren Brown: Only Human", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Leicester Square", "address": "", "price": "££", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "Derren Brown: Only Human is a live show in the West End, following a sold-out UK & Ireland tour. Multi-award-winning master showman Derren Brown combines mind-reading, psychological illusion, and breathtaking storytelling. The show explores what it means to be human — our perceptions, beliefs, and the fragile line between reality and illusion. Smart, unsettling, and wildly entertaining, it is theatre at its most compelling.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/derren-brown-only-human-69948/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d463ad3fefacdb5e3a14d1a8f0f7abbbbdad3f03705bfbfa943de84f01643d97-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Live Magic/Theatre: The Great Divinator: Touched by Spirits", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Puppet Theatre Barge", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/artofthepuppetltd/2408581/select-date?modal_widget=true&widget=true", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic", "comedy"], "description": "A magic and theatre performance called 'The Great Divinator: Touched by Spirits', which is not a puppet show and is for ages 12 and up. It stars Katie Tranter, a multi award-winner and member of the Magic Circle, as a celebrated 19th-century spirit medium returning to the stage after a 106-year career break to prove he can communicate with spirits. The show combines vintage mind reading, outrageous audience participation, comedy Victorian seance, drag, mentalism and spooky paranormal happenings. It runs 1h30 including a 20-minute interval and has won awards including Best Variety Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/live-magictheatre-the-great-divinator-touched-by-spirits-39614/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07ef7c545b7f28f6380edb93625c3758ae47a9e0caf1c32ff50b8f2fdcf0cd7b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Room 13", "start": "2026-10-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Standard: £20, Peak: £24.50 (all orders subject to a £2 transaction fee)", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "24.50", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/room-13/#book-by-time", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/immersive-theatre"], "description": "Room 13 is an immersive theatrical horror experience at Battersea Arts Centre, built around a fictional sealed chamber said to have been uncovered after a real fire there in 2015. It was created by the experiential theatre company Immersive Octopus and directed by Tom Maller, with a script by Bells Pendergast. Visitors are summoned to meet the Circle of the Veil, a secret society of paranormal investigators, to uncover the truth behind sinister encounters in the building before entering Room 13 itself to solve its riddle and face the darkness at its heart. Seated throughout the roughly 35-minute experience, audiences can expect jump scares, atmospheric effects, a prolonged period of complete darkness and optional interaction.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/room-13-73823/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74e2b5748d84ceff0a4dfbf36c73f91261804b57de54dce73ed76db2052e8977-2000.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": "Light + Flight at artsdepot", "start": "2026-09-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00Z", "place": "Arts Depot", "address": "Nether Street 5, N12 0GA London", "price": "Varied", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/installation/light-art", "music/electronic", "community"], "description": "Light + Flight at artsdepot is part of Light + Flight, a celebration of creativity, connection and belonging across Barnet. At its heart is LIT/UP, a weekend at artsdepot headlined by the premiere of Lighthouse, a new commission by Jez Colborne that mixes gig, light show and apocalyptic rave through original music, projection, film and movement. Big Beat Playground bring their family friendly festival in an action-packed family rave, while exhibits and performances by local Barnet communities fill the building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/light-flight-at-artsdepot-73804/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad1d49b7c2b0953f4dae56e4fe88bcd80a8cd0da851634d0550523c8e4da9994-2000.webp"}, {"title": "From Another Place", "start": "2026-10-31T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Longfield Hall", "address": "50 Knatchbull Road, SE5 9QY London", "price": "Pay what you can on the door", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["art/contemporary/experimental"], "description": "From Another Place is a strange and otherworldly performance evening bringing together Figurant, Ghost Mind and Chansons Obliques. Figurant is a live audiovisual work by a visual artist, two musicians and a writer that playfully explores the concept of the séance, using 1960s 8mm film altered by submersion in the River Ravensbourne, with projected film, improvised sound, field recordings and spoken word interacting in real time. Ghost Mind improvise with instruments, toys, objects and sounds processed through their machine, conjuring a sound that is sometimes orchestral, sometimes post-hauntological, as if improvising with our memories and dreams. Chansons Obliques present 'A Viennese Ghost Story', and the running time is approximately 120+ minutes, for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/from-another-place-70029/", "official_url": "https://longfieldhall.org.uk/2026/09/21/from-another-place/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/78e1081f19c8f4335e6166de127a475fc151c2ae36c56ed646dabddafe6fc913-600.webp"}, {"title": "Spooktacular Special: Buffo’s Wake & DJ Sacha Dieu @ The Magic Garden Get tickets here!!!", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T02:00:00Z", "place": "The Magic Garden", "address": "Battersea Park Road 231, SW11 4LG London", "price": "", "price_from": "8.30", "price_to": "8.30", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spooktacular-special-buffos-wake-dj-sacha-dieu-the-magic-garden-tickets-2000482992482", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["music/rock/punk", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A Halloween party night at The Magic Garden, a pub and live music venue in Battersea, London. It features the six-piece band Buffo's Wake, who fuse punk, rock and traditional Eastern European folk with funfair sounds, dark cabaret, 30's Swing and drum and bass, formed in 2009. DJ Sacha Dieu spins genre-defying party sets into the early hours. Max the magician performs around the pub, with face painting and more treats and tricks through the night.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/spooktacular-special-buffos-wake-dj-sacha-dieu-the-magic-gar-76864/", "official_url": "https://magicgardenpub.com/event/spooktacular-special-buffos-wake-dj-sacha-dieu-the-magic-garden/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2feea895eb156a6a136a591fb6a034e03dab24469afaabaac76e4c274cb0331c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Derren Brown: Only Human", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-30T19:30:00Z", "place": "Apollo Theatre", "address": "Shaftesbury Avenue 31, W1D 7EZ London", "price": "GBP 25–42.50", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "42.50", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.nimaxtheatres.com/shop/tickets/series/APDER02M", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "Derren Brown: Only Human is a live stage show by Derren Brown at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End, following a sold-out UK and Ireland tour. The multi-award-winning showman, who wrote the show with Stephen Long and Andrew O'Connor, combines mind-reading, psychological illusion and storytelling. Only Human explores what it means to be human, looking at our perceptions, beliefs and the fragile line between reality and illusion. Directed by Andrew O'Connor, the production runs for about 2 hours 25 minutes including one interval and is recommended for ages 12 and over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/derren-brown-only-human-37385/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32d99f6bf46105e9df7f52d17288566340709b5f9c703f40c683201c771eace3-2000.webp"}]}