Bettina will be at SKRONK #194 free improvisation open mic, celebrating their 10 Year Anniversary in Deptford in London.

Free entry.

An evening of experimental performance and collaboration with Noisy Women Present & Friends + Kaneng Lolang.

Tickets: https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/the-noisy-women-present

Bettina will be one of the musicians to do a conduction with the amazing London Improvisers Orchestra at Hackney Music Live STOKE NEWINGTON CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Tickets: £10 (under 26s £5) https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hackneymusiclive/2074887

“For audiences, a London Improvisers Orchestra concert offers something increasingly rare: orchestral scale with genuine unpredictability. Even at its most explosive, the music is built moment by moment through deep listening, collective risk-taking, and a shared commitment to invention in real time.”

“Conduction: Coined by Lawrence "Butch" Morris, this method uses a specific vocabulary of gestures to summon sounds, instruct players to repeat phrases, or alter dynamics on the spot.”

Bettina will be reading her poety at Verbal Discharge plus open mic in May.

From £5

Bettina will be at The Poetry Society’s FREE VERSE book fair on Saturday 25th April.

The main exhibition space is open from 12–6.30 pm with a quiet hour from 11am. After the fair, all visitors are welcome to join a free gala reading with bar from 7pm. This year James A Smith has been chosen to be one of the poets to read on the night.

There will be books, poets performing, community, and the best indie presses in the country. 

Plus Gala Show with bar and poetry readings from 7pm.

Venue: St Columba’s Church, in the Lower Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD

On SUNDAY APRIL 12TH, Intox Extravaganza returns to delectable Daltons on the beach...at the slightly earlier time of 7pm. 

Lovely live leftfield music will leap from:

DEPLOY WALLS
Deploy Walls is the duo of Bojan ‘Chibsterr’ Nikolic (harsh noise, feedback, fractured sequencing) and Lucia Fenzi (jazz-rooted experimental drums). 

BETTINA SCHROEDER plus special guests James A Smith on bass and Stuart McKay harmonica.

ELECTRYZA
Extraordinary internationally diverse free improv trio marrying drums, bass and guitar - alongside occasional flute and piano. They may be joined by special guests.

Intox Extravaganza is a mechanism for musical electicism!

Bettina will be performing some of her poetry at Crunch Crunch - Expanding Thinking 2026 for Neurodiversity Week, an open arts event at Glitch in Waterloo. With visual arts, poetry music, performance and more. 

£8 entry. All welcome, doors/art install at 2pm. Music from 3.30pm.

Oxford Poetry Circle Presents Unsteady Ground - Poetry for a Shifting World.

In politically unsteady times, socially shifting times, and personally uncertain times, poetry remains a place to stand.

Join Oxford Poetry Circle for an evening of powerful readings, reflection, and open mic participation at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

Featuring:
Pete Raynard
Bettina Schroeder
Marian Eastwood

With Featured Guest:
Fr Stephen Ojapah - Novelist, poet, priest

Having spent 33 days in a kidnapper’s den in Nigeria, Fr. Stephen brings a voice shaped not only by faith but by lived experience, survival, endurance, and reflection. His contribution offers a rare and deeply human perspective on suffering, resilience, and hope.

Open Mic
Book sales

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-poetry-circle-presents-unsteady-ground-poetry-for-a-shifting-world-tickets-1984321490996

Noisy Women Present (Maggie Nicols, Faradena Afifi, Gwendolyn Kassenaar, Nicky Smith, Charlotte Keeffe, Bettina Schroeder, Steve Beresford, Julian Woods, Jo Morrison, Ningrui Liu (Akira), Constance Cooper, Bernd Ihno Eilts, James A Smith).

The Noisy Women are an award winning international mixed arts collective that use creativity to explore and connect through spontaneous and improvised art, music, poetry, costume and dance.

Small Rooms (Angela Vowles: voice, processing - Rob Harrison: guitar, FX)

The idea of Small Rooms is, as it says on the can. A sense of claustrophobia, that of being crammed into a small space. Each one overlaps into the other's territory. Social space. Small Rooms try not to fall into any neat musical categories. They are musical Nomads in that sense.

Ivor Kallin interviews Bettina for his fantastic freewheeling music series The Ambrosia Rasputin Show. Listen in this Sunday from noon till 1.30 on resonancefm.com and 104.4fm

This week's show features Bettina Schroeder talking about the Noisy Women Present ensemble, and reciting a wee poem about London. We also hear new releases from Elinbaum and Feria; Casserley, Corringham and Miura; Shit Creek; Marzan and Roelofs; Spinks and Benford (again) and TheThreeFeet (again). Bongo Joe Coleman, George Russell, Rev Gary Davis and Joe Harriott also get a look in.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/playlists/the-ambrosia-rasputin-show/

Bettina will be at the Mayfair Mini Book Fair in March. Copies of her poetry book will be available. She will also do a poetry reading at the post show 5.30-7.30pm.

Free entry. Tickets available here.

Bettina playing for the first Skronk (the improvised music open mic) in Margate, free entry. Upstairs at Olby’s Soul Cafe.

Bettina will be performing as part of Noisy Women Present at Mopomoso at Vortex Jazz Club.

Tickets £12.50/Vortex members and concessions £8

https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/mopomoso-international-free-improvised-music-3/

Schroeder/Smith (Bettina Schroeder and James A Smith) will be performing during Jill Rock’s art exhibition ‘Transgressive’ on 18th December 2025.

Free entry.
http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/

Bettina is playing as part of the LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA at their final concert of the year, a truly seismic event, featuring a star-studded army of 40 improvisers from across the generations. Join us at the renowned Café OTO on Wednesday, 17 Dec at 19:30.

Bettina will be reading her poetry at Rachel Chadwick’s International Day of People with Disabilities: Poetry Open Mic in Charing Cross Library.

PLEASE NOTE change of schedule: Bettina and James A Smith are now hosting this event instead of Rachel as originally advertised.

Free entry.

Bettina will be performing alongside other talented musicinas at üf-Beat Fringe Music Club. Open improvisation and musical exploration.

Bring your instrument of choice and an open mind. Or just come to listen. (Kids and dogs welcome). Full PA. Drums. Lighting. Audio Visual.

In partnership with Haringey Music Services.

Free entry.

Bettina has been invited to read at Rachel Chadwick’s ‘Poems in Support of Women’s Rights’.

Share or listen in support of women’s rights. Refreshments and opportunities for Q&As.

Free entry at The Mayfair Library, London.

Bettina’s poetry book, ‘Flirting on an Escalator’, will be at the OXFORD INDIE BOOK FAIR represented by two publishers.

Find it at: Table N18, London Poetry Books and Marian Eastwood’s table N07 representing Grey Suit Editions UK and Wisdomia (Oxford Poetry Circle).

There will be talks, presentations, readings and book launches throughout the day at our two performance areas.

Free entry.

https://www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk/

Noisy Women are performing at the RMA Study Group “Music and/as Process” Annual Conference at Goldsmiths, University of London, on Friday 7 November 2025.

The conference explores how sound, form, and process intertwine, and we’ll be closing the day with a live Noisy Women performance at 6pm, free and open to everyone! 

 Panel discussion at 5:30pm

 Concert: 6–7pm | Free & Open to All

musicandasprocess.org

Album release on 24 October, ONE ENCHANTED EVENING by Xqui on Mortaility Tables. Featuring spoken contributions from various artists including Bettina Schroeder. https://mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/

Radio play: 13 Oct 25 on Lost and Found Sounds, 2Bob Radio, Australia. www.2bobradio.org.au/lost-and-found-sounds

Join Bettina Schroeder and James A. Smith for an intimate evening of poetry at West Hampstead Library.

MEET THE AUTHORS is a special series of poetry events in libraries around London. “Acclaimed poets James A. Smith and Bettina Schroeder will be sharing readings from their books.” 

After the readings there will be a Q&A session with book signings, followed by some open mic, so bring a poem to share or just come to listen and enjoy.

Organised by London Poetry Books and in collaboration with the Multicultural Book Fair.

Readings start at 5:30pm (Q&A at 6:00pm followed by open mic) 

A celebration of poetry, music and art, and all things imaginative!

Bettina will be reading from her book Flirting on an Escalator at the Creative Souls Festival on Sunday afternoon, 14th Sept at Morden Hall House & Gardens.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-souls-festival-tickets-1507895037649

Bettina will be at the Multicultictural Book Fair 2025 at Conway Hall, London, on 6th September for a day filled with diverse books, authors, and exciting poetry readings. This year, lots of publishers and their authors are performing on the main stage. Bettina will be reading from her poetry book at 11:40am and at the Gala evening at 7pm at The Square Pig. You will find her at the London Poetry Books stand throughout the day.

Free entry 10 am – 5 pm (free tickets on Eventbrite)

GALA SHOW 6pm, The Square Pig, 30-32 Procter St Holborn WC1V 6NX

Bettina will be performing at Crunch 2025 Open Source Arts Event - an all dayer at Fiery Bird Arts and Cultural Centre with visual arts, poetry, publishing and bands. She will be reading from her poetry book 'Flirting on an Escalator’ as well as showing some visuals.

Tickets: £10 on the door or via Eventbrite

‘Clapham Junction’, a Schroeder/Smith collaboration with Stuart McKay on harmonica will be playing on The Dexter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) & Pawarota Radio (Poland), featuring One Minute Wonders 2025 on 26 July 2025.

Bettina will part of a participatory session with All Good Sound Workshop involving a range approaches to free improvisation during the Haringey Arts Festival. All invited and bring along your voice!

Participation from all attendees is welcomed. Free entry at the All Good Bookshop, Turnpike Lane, London.

haringeyartsfestival.com/arts-festival-events

Bettina will be one of the featured poets invited by the Oxford Poetry Circle presenting 'Gazebo' - Poetry, Rhythm and Beats, a collaboration with the Oxford Indie Book Fair, hosted by the Oxford Festival of the Arts at Magdalen College.

Featured poets:

Anthony Howell • Julian Stannard • Bettina Schroeder • Alex Murdock • Marian Eastwood — presenting Secret Codes, her stunning debut poetry & art book

An open evening of improvised music, poetry, and the usual. No electronic FXs, amps or electrics. Just natural sounds, acoustic instruments and stuff. Play or just listen.

Part of Crouch End Festival with mix of music, sounds, noise, spoken word and open mic. Free entry.

All events here: www.crouchendfestival.org/cefevents