YOUNGSTERS can enter a magical watery world with Spirallina the mermaid, while learning about disability and difference. The Mermaid and the Mirror, for children aged three to seven, is part of the Xposure05 festival which showcases disability arts.

Spirallina leaves her solitary underwater world for dry land, where she meets people and makes friends. But when she looks in the mirror she knows she is different from those around her and wonders if this is good or bad.

The Mermaid and the Mirror, November 20, The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford, 12.30pm and 3.30pm, £5/£3 children, 020 8692 4446.

November 24-26, Croydon Clocktower, Katherine Street, Croydon, £5.50/£4.50 concs, ring for times, 020 8253 1030.