Battersea Arts Centre presents a unique month-long festival from next week in which you can own Battersea Power Station, watch a woman dance around her handbag or enjoy some Boxer Shorts Bingo.

'Not For Me, Not For You, But for Us' is the borough of Battersea's motto and has been taken on by the centre as the name for the festival, which will see audience members actively asked to be involved in the vanguard performances that will explore audience creativity, interactivity and play.

"We, and many of the artists who work at BAC, are consistently amazed by the creativity of our audience," says BAC artistic directors David Jubb and David Micklem.

"So it seems entirely natural to develop a body of work that celebrates, indeed requires, the active engagement of the audience.

"‘Not for me, not for you, but for us’, Battersea's motto since the 19th century, feels like a fitting name for a festival of work we think has a major contribution to make to theatre's future."

Alongside the main programmed events detailed below, BAC will also be filled with activities to explore, including interactive gaming with Hide and Seek’s Sandpit, astonishing animatronics from Jim Whiting in Boxer Shorts Bingo and Felix’s Machines sculptural sonic installations.

Here's what you can expect from the five main shows:

Home Sweet Home by Subject to_change

October 14 7pm, 15 and 16 4pm, 17 2pm, £10

Become a member of London’s newest neighbourhood, a cardboard city where anything and everything is possible but only with your participation.

On arrival select plot of land and create your cardboard home in a city boasting a number of services from a post service to a radio station. Watch the world you’ve created evolve, coming and going as you please over four days. The experience ends with a street party on the final night.

A Small Town Anywhere by Coney

October 15 to November 7, 7.30pm, £10 or £14. Call 020 3411 4820 or visit smalltownanywhere.net

Take a hat and badge to become a citizen in a gripping examination of community. Love, wealth and power might all be yours if you choose to pursue them or take the quiet life, pottering in the shadows and looking out for gossip, perhaps writing a letter or two.

Handbag by Geraldine Pilgrim

October 19, 7pm, 7.45pm, 8.30pm, 9.15pm, 9.45pm, £5.

In an empty ballroom a caretaker sweeps away the remnants of a previous event. A woman enters the space and puts down her handbag. A beat begins, a mirror ball turns and the sound of a classic dance track fills the air… Geraldine Pilgrim presents this site-specific event.

The 14th Tale by Inua Ellams and Fuel.

October 19 to 31, 8.30pm, £10.

A free flowing mellifluous narrative that tells the hilarious exploits of a natural born mischief growing up from the clay streets of Nigeria to rooftops in Dublin, and finally London.

Keep Dancing by Wendy Houstoun

October 22 to 24 and November 5 to 7, 8pm, £12.

In this solo show, a typist gets waylaid by the act of preparation before finding herself in a loop of action she finds difficult to escape. Keep Dancing is a dialogue with technology and a visual display including fascinating archive footage.

Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, October 14 to November 7, various times and prices. Call 020 7223 2223 or visit bac.org.uk.