Clapham and surrounding areas Area Guide

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Kilimanjaro Live & Bizzle Entertainment Presents Kweku Smoke Presented by Kilimanjaro Live & Bizzle Entertainment. This is an 18+ event

Proper, round the table folk music. All musicians and all styles welcome. Irish, Welsh, English and Scottish, American old time, bluegrass and western swing, French, Yiddish, East European, Scandinavian, Greek, Turkish, Balkan and more. All abilities tolerated. Swap tunes and songs, meet people and learn stuff. Or, do what most people do and just get a pint and enjoy the music. Presented by Windmill Brixton. This is an 18+ event

Returning to London for two nights only, award-winning cult performance artist Louise Orwin brings Famehungry- a helter-skelter nosedive through TikTok in a sisyphean mission to make art and find beauty and hope in the relentless, Almighty Algorithm-feeding attention economy. Made in collaboration with a real life TikTok star, Famehungry plays to two simultaneous audiences: one in the theatre, and an unsuspecting one on TikTok. Loud, fast, unpredictable and occasionally messy, it asks what lengths we'll go to be seen- and what it means to make art in an era when everything is content. Unlike anything you’ve seen before, this is theatre redefined for the brat generation (sort of). Having toured to Edinburgh, New York, Mexico's Festival Internacional Cervantino, Denmark and Malta, Famehungry makes its long-awaited London return to Battersea Arts Centre. 80 minutes. No interval.

Explore how the history of dance has shaped our ideas of the female form and how that relationship can be revolutionary. Followed by Q&A. What do you think of when you picture a female dancer? What does she look like and why do you picture her this way? The relationship between dance and the female form is complex, shaped by centuries of tradition, expectation, and cultural influence. Join Prof Sarahleigh Castelyn to explore how dance has constructed, disciplined, and defined ideas of the female body. We will dive into questions from “why do we expect female dancers to move in certain ways?” to “why are dance audiences at times guilty of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia?”, while exploring dance activists like Nadine McKennzie, Petra Kuppers and Claire Cunningham and more. This talk invites you to rethink how you view the female form in dance, and why questioning these perspectives matters. Doors open at 7pm, talk starts at 7:30pm - come down early to grab a good seat! Follow us on IG @seedtalks Speaker Bio: Prof Sarahleigh Castelyn is a performer, choreographer, and a dance nerd. She began her journey at the age of four with ballet, later expanding into contemporary dance during her university studies. Over the years, she has contributed to a wide range of projects, from performing in Giselle and me at the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Festival, to authoring Contemporary Dance in South Africa: The Toyi-Toying Body. Presented by Seed Talks This is an 18+ event

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