14 Sept 2026 - 20 Sept 2026
This Week: Survival, Reinvention, Witness (w/c 14 Sept)
A live weekly selection of readings of London through how we endure change, remake ourselves, and bear witness to what shifts around us.
14 Sept 2026 - 20 Sept 2026
This week's listings share a quiet preoccupation with persistence through upheaval. Tilda Swinton returns to stage after decades wearing the same costume through Nazi Germany; filmmakers and writers document displacement, war, and the fraying of democracy; musicians and performers celebrate survival itself—whether Oasis reuniting, Chats Palace turning 50, or Duckie honouring Shirley Bassey's endurance. Even the talks circle the same axis: how institutions fail us, how we measure what matters when everything shifts, how journalists stay human reporting from active war. The thread isn't dark—it's grounded in the stubborn act of showing up.
7 events
Man to Man
Mon 14 Sept · Royal Court Theatre
Tilda Swinton, after 38 years, steps back into a role that asks one woman to survive dictatorship in silence. The performance itself is an act of witness.
In 1930s Germany, a woman puts on her dead husband’s trousers and never takes them off. As the world around her changes, she endures war and dictatorship, hunger and humi…
View event →Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger
Tue 15 Sept · Bertha DocHouse
A documentary following Oasis's reunion—two brothers who fractured, now playing the same stage together. The ultimate reinvention is reconciliation.
This film charts Liam and Noel Gallagher’s reunion tour, Oasis Live ‘25, one of the most anticipated rock ‘n’ roll comebacks of our time.
View event →Reporting From the Front Lines, with Lyse Doucet
Tue 15 Sept · Union Chapel
Lyse Doucet, BBC's chief correspondent, shares what it means to witness war and suffering across 30 years, and still report with humanity intact.
As the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet has witnessed and reported on some of the most consequential events of our time. She has reported from Iran and Afghanis…
View event →La Haine
Sun 27 Sept · Prince Charles Cinema
La Haine—three young friends waiting for news after a night of rioting. The film about endurance through systems that don't protect you.
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a…
View event →Chats Palace 50th Anniversary Reunion Party
Sat 19 Sept · Chats Palace
Chats Palace marks 50 years of survival as a cultural space. This party is a testament to what persists when institutions keep showing up.
Friends of Chats Palace through the decades… Come along and celebrate its illustrious history through photos, posters, film & live band The Exaggerators (intoxication gumbo of blue…
View event →This IS MY Life: Duckie Salutes Shirley Bassey
Sun 20 Sept · Southbank Centre
Duckie's salute to Shirley Bassey—a night honouring an artist who endured and transformed. Sequins and shimmer as an answer to what kills the spirit.
A dance club and variety show with performance, downtown diamond drag, musical chairs, boogie bingo, boas, badges, debate, dance floor shimmers and singalongs. From the sausage fa…
View event →Nothing Compares: How We Decide What Matters
Wed 16 Sept · Pints of Knowledge
Dr Amelia Peterson on how we decide what matters when everything is measurable. A talk about power, institutions, and what should never be commensurable.
"Nothing Compares: How We Decide What Matters" With Dr Amelia Peterson Details: How do we price stocks? Rank universities? Value a life? These are all questions about commensuratio…
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