What’s On This Week: November 6th – 14th
Dal:um
Dal:um are a Seoul-based musical duo who challenge the sonic possibilities of Korea’s most well-known traditional string instruments
The gayageum is played by Ha Suyean and the geomungo by Hwang Hyeyoung. Despite their apparent similarity, the two instruments are surprisingly different from each other in structure, playing technique and tone.
Dal:um’s innovative interpretations create a harmony between the two. Their beautifully balanced and expansive music is defined by inspired dialogue and creative paradox.
November 6
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Astronomy and Islam
Held before the predicted sighting of the next New Crescent Moon, a Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomer will guide young and old alike through the night sky, highlighting Arabic tales about characters and creatures that people imagined seeing by joining together the bright stars in the sky.
Find out which stars astronomers still call by their original Arabic names and what some of those stars are famous for today. The astronomer will also talk about the moon and why it seems to change shape over the course of a month.
November 6
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Swipe Right
The show is a music-led, comedic show with fresh and original songs intricately crafted by acclaimed singer/ songwriter Dan Loops.
Armed with a razor sharp wit and an acoustic guitar, a performer and his assistant put on an electrifying show, with a beautiful blend of projection and music you’ll be transported into the technological world of online dating apps, and even deeper into the mind of a self sabotaging musician with delusions of grandeur but debilitating low levels of self-esteem.
November 6
The Bridge House Theatre
Battersea Park Fireworks
Saturday night will feature the traditional bonfire at 7.30pm before the fireworks show kicks off at 8pm.
Add on the BatterseaBierkeller Experience and head to Evolution London before and after the show for bier, brats and bumper cars. Keep the party going with our lively in-house band until 12am.
The new Sunday Family Night starts an hour earlier and welcomes those of all ages. The traditional bonfire from Saturday night will be reimagined with a light show by Squid Soup, a UK-based international group of artists working with digital and interactive media experiences.
Join the crowd with a family-friendly sing along experience before the main fireworks show, which is also tailored to families of all ages.
November 6 to 7
Battersea Park
Samaadhi
Ivantiy Novak and Mohit Mathur present Samaadhi, a new physical theatre piece that has been developed with The Bridge House Theatre.
It deals with trauma and colonisation. At its heart rests the Jallianwala Bagh massacre that took place on the April 13, 1919 in Amristsar, Punjab during the British Raj in India.
The piece examines the psychological and social impacts that suffering, loss, duty, family and identity have on our life.
November 6 to 7
The Bridge House Theatre
Jackie Oates and Mike Cosgrave
After 17 years and seven solo albums Jackie Oates is a central figure in the accomplished, informed and stylistically individual English traditional music scene that began in the early 2000s and continues to thrive.
Jackie Oates continues to bring elements of the English folk tradition to new people and places, in turn bringing a much-needed calm and joy to those who hear it.
November 7
Dulwich Folk Club at The Lordship Pub
The Cat and the Canary
Bill Kenwright’s Classic Thriller Theatre Company continues with its latest chilling whodunit, the creepy comedy thriller The Cat and the Canary.
Twenty years after the death of Mr West, his descendants gather to learn who will inherit his vast wealth and the hidden family jewels.
Within moments, the heritage hunters turn into prey. Walls crack open, shadows loom, and dark secrets are revealed.
Who is The Cat? His movements soundless, unnoticeable, and his vengeance swift. Who will feel his horrible grasp next?
November 8 to 13
Churchill Theatre
How To Save The Planet When You’re A Young Carer And Broke
Lavisha Smith is a mixed race, working class 14-year-old from the Roundshaw Estate in Wallington.
Lavisha was raised by her white mother, Faith, who has recently been forced back to work despite her disabilities.
Lavisha is smart and her intelligence has landed her in a top local grammar school, but she’s struggling and lonely.
She has been side-lined by her old friends and is constantly clashing with more middle-class, climate-protesting peers at her new school.
It’s not that she doesn’t get climate change, of course she does and it terrifies her, but for Lavisha there are more immediate issues, like making sure her mum doesn’t faint again because her iron levels are so low.
In all seriousness though: the planet’s imploding, but so are so many parts of Lavisha’s own life – can you really be working class and save the planet?
November 10 to 11
Theatre Peckham
Journey into the Unknown
A group exhibition of the work of 23 emerging visual artists – many of them recent MA graduates from the University of the Arts London.
The work selected for exhibition represents a vibrant sample of contemporary production in the UK.
Among works displayed will be three large-format paintings from Miguel Sopena’s ongoing Dénia series.
The paintings are based on physical and emotional memory of the town in eastern Spain where the artist spent many summer months as a child and teenager.
These works are not inspired by any imagery or physical mementos, but solely by the persistence of early life emotional and sensory impressions.
November 10 to 14
Copeland Gallery
Straight White Men
They are feared, envied, occasionally attacked and derided.
But pitied? When personal identity is essential and privilege is a problem, what is a straight, white man to do?
Straight White Men takes place over the Christmas holidays, when three brothers assemble at the family home, to celebrate the season with their widowed father Ed.
Games are played. Chinese food is ordered. Brotherly pranks and trash talk distract them from the issue that threatens to ruin the testosterone-fuelled, boys-will-be-boys celebration.
In this raucous, surprising and fearless work, Lee takes an outside look at the traditional father/son narrative, shedding new light on that theatrical storyline we have come to know all too well.
But, and here is the twist, the people in charge of proceedings are neither straight, nor white, nor male.
November 10 to December 4
Southwark Playhouse
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