Folklore, tarot and myth explored
Do you believe in the power of tarot cards to look into the future?
Illustrator Sophy Hollington and author David Keenan (This Is Memorial Device) certainly do.
The pair have combined their skills to create their own 30-card, linocut tarot deck and instruction booklet.
The deck is in keeping with tarot’s folkloric roots, and inspired by David’s novella To Run Wild In It, but re-imagines the cultural phenomenon as a ‘glam-punk portal into the now’.
Curious? Hear the pair discuss their new deck in a talk at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD.
November 24, 7pm – 8pm.
Admission: £15.
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/lectures-talks/2022/november/sophy-hollington-david-keenan-in-conversation-folklore-tarot-and-myth/
https://southwarknews.co.uk/news/culture/londons-burning-the-best-firework-displays-south-of-the-river/
Nature versus nurture
Months after his new show For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy played at the Royal Court Theatre, rising theatre maker Ryan Calais Cameron’s touring show Human Nurture comes to Theatre Peckham.
The urgent, moving play explores the different paths two best friends take when one is adopted from the care system and the other is left behind.
Roger is black, Harry is white, but they share the same tastes in just about everything.
When Roger is re-homed, the ‘brothers’ find themselves growing up at opposite ends of Britain’s social spectrum.
How different will this make them?
A reunion years later is a chance for them – and us – to find out.
An exploration of race, class, allyship and male vulnerability.
Theatre Peckham,
221 Havil Street, London SE5 7SB.
November 3 – 5, 2:30pm & 7:30pm.
Admission: £6 – £15.
The Scrooge of Peckham – top names and local actors take to the stage
A coming of age story with a difference
In her autobiographical one-woman show Things I Can Laugh About Now, theatre maker Shakira Newton tells a coming of age story with a difference.
In it, she explores what it means to grow up as part of “every minority under the sun” through humour, honesty and fine-tuned storytelling.
With strong language and themes of suicide, mental health and domestic abuse explored, this show comes with a trigger warning and is suitable for those aged 14+.
Brixton House,
385 Coldharbour Lane,
London SW9 8GL.
November 1 – 11, 7:45pm – 8:45pm. Admission: £17+.
www.brixtonhouse.co.uk/shows/housemates-return-things-i-can-laugh-about-now/
Carnival comes to Brixton
Who said the spirit of carnival belonged to summer?
Or to Notting Hill for that matter?
Brixton Winter Carnival returns to SW2 nightclub Electric Brixton, presented by BBC 1xtra DJs Shabba Party and Rampage Sound.
Expect mega sound systems, live acts including grime artist D DOUBLE E, carnival dancers and plenty of feathery costumes – come wearing your own to fully embrace the spirit.
Electric Brixton,
Town Hall Parade London, SW2 1RJ.
November 4, 11:30pm – 5am.
Admission: £10.30.
www.electricbrixton.uk.com/events/brixton-winter-carnival-d-double-e-more/
The Rest is History – live!
If you’ve been completely enthralled listening to historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook raise the dead in their hit podcast The Rest is History, then take this opportunity to see them interrogate the past in the flesh as they record an episode live at Clapham Grand.
On the agenda is the nature of ‘greatness’ itself, why the west no longer has civil wars and whether Richard Nixon was more of a Caligula or a Claudius.
The Clapham Grand,
21 – 25 St John’s Hill, London
SW11 1TT.
November 13, 1:30pm.
Admission: £33.80.
