{"title": "All White in Barking", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/t-qmyvppn", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "All White in Barking is a documentary screening followed by a Q&A with Marc Isaacs, moderated by Gareth Evans. The film probes the attitudes of Barking's white residents toward their new immigrant neighbours. Isaacs is an unseen but prominent presence, questioning prejudices and prying at preconceptions with remarkable results. It produces a vivid picture of the attitudes and perceptions at the heart of an increasingly multicultural Britain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/all-white-in-barking-35343/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cb6098823979d8100ab5b2d6647c3ea6ae7170dd3083d35241818c9a7253739-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Lift + Calais The Last Border", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/t-dklaqqm", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "An evening of two documentaries by Marc Isaacs, Lift and Calais: The Last Border, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker moderated by Gareth Evans. In Lift, made in 2001, Isaacs sets himself up with his camera in the lift of a London tower block, waiting for the right moment to ask residents questions, capturing the whole of British society in a humorous and moving microcosm. Calais: The Last Border, from 2003, weaves together character-driven stories of refugees, migrants and English expatriates in the French port town that is, for hundreds of migrants, the final barrier in the search for a new life in England. Together the films build a picture of transient places and inhabitants who dream of somewhere better.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lift-calais-the-last-border-35342/", "official_url": "https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/planned-spontaneity-the-films-of-marc-isaacs/lift-calais-the-last-border", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f670b40d71c7c8fc3cfad2a4973659abe56ccb3931620e8c724520b57adeb8af-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tracing Posterity: Screening and Scanning Social", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Women’s Museum", "address": "Barking Wharf Square 4-5, IG11 7DQ", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002211966891?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/black-history"], "description": "An evening of short films and archival footage followed by a communal scanning and sharing workshop. Curated by Abel Holsborough, it reflects on the representation of Black British histories in film archives and how selective memories are preserved. Led by and centring Black residents of Barking and Dagenham, it marks Black History Month and invites visitors to bring family photos, DVDs and tapes to be digitised for a borough-wide community archive. The programme includes Early Years by Morgan Quaintance, Super Sam by Sandi Hudson Francis, and Eileen's Party, a home movie by local resident Eileen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social-40351/", "official_url": "https://womensmuseum.org.uk/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76e5b14dc4792c68dfe22d592716439c2265ed022594685261aea3707f3fcd5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Driving Home", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Albany", "address": "Douglas Way, SE8 4AG London", "price": "Pay-what-you-decide", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "Driving Home is a pop-up installation where you sit in the passenger seat of a black cab and watch an intimate documentary film projected across the windows. It is created by the company Dante or Die and follows five taxi drivers navigating towns and cities shaped by shift and divide. Through cinematic footage and interviews, it explores migration and a changing nation, uncovering what 'home' truly means. Seating just three people at a time, it is a free, immersive experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/driving-home-38941/", "official_url": "https://www.thealbany.org.uk/events/driving-home", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b47a78974cf3316a979bfe53e7ed9d2cb00452b32b4f2bb18d35fb8a4a516b4f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Punk Brighton", "start": "2026-11-09T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/punk", "film/documentary"], "description": "Doc N' Roll: Punk Brighton + Q&A is a screening of the documentary Punk Brighton, followed by a question-and-answer session with its director. The film tells how a punk movement grew in Brighton around The Vault, an underground burial crypt turned legendary gig venue, with bands like The Piranhas, The Depressions and Peter & The Test Tube Babies turning humour, mischief and music into a fiercely communal scene. Built from fifteen years of interviews, performances and animation, it captures a scene that confronted fascism, rocked against racism and fought to save Brighton & Hove Albion. Featuring Fatboy Slim, it celebrates the city's DIY spirit and two figures who defined it: Attrix Records founder Rick Blair and The Piranhas' Bob Grover.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/punk-brighton-38169/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/WhatsOn?f=2886423", "image": "https://noky.io/images/18ffdeeffbd6b09d93f131bd55ab3d072e86918b1ab2ed8934e805d813dec1df-2000.webp"}, {"title": "'RAFT' & The Parlour Collective & 'The Moon Over The Alley'", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Horse Hospital", "address": "Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10 standard, £15 solidarity", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://gel.now/events/1212", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "stage/musical"], "description": "An evening triple bill of films celebrating the entanglement of bodies and place, with a special focus on London and its shelters, rafts and sanctuaries. It brings together Chiara Ambrosio’s ‘Raft - A London Story’, a screening of work by The Parlour Collective, and Joseph Despins’s 1976 feature ‘The Moon Over The Alley’, with an opening performance from Bird Radio and James Hesford. Ambrosio’s film is described as a musical haunting and contemporary fairytale about a specific place poised between appearance and disappearance, seeking new forms of sanctuary and belonging; The Parlour Collective are artists working with site-responsive performance and film, exploring the psychological and somatic experience of landscape. Despins’s dark yet tender 1976 British experimental musical, scored by Galt MacDermont, explores the problems facing the multicultural residents of a Notting Hill boarding house destined for demolition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/raft-the-parlour-collective-the-moon-over-the-alley-39366/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/raftparlourmoon", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9083b82df6e14dd0f8bdaaa6996611a9b4d27dd5850e925237bea3a84bb36982-2000.webp"}, {"title": "What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain with Colin Grant", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1998637389233", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/migration"], "description": "An evening talk titled 'What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain' exploring what people leave behind and carry with them when they move to Britain. Author, historian and critic Colin Grant has travelled the country gathering stories of people who came to make a new life, including a Czech-Roma lawyer, an Iranian taxi driver, a Sierra Leonean actor and a Romanian police officer, asking questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration. He will be joined in conversation by actress, director and writer Anni Domingo and writer Isabelle Dupuy. The event takes place at Brixton Tate Library and is free to attend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-of-migration-to-britain-with-c-60892/", "official_url": "https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-migration-britain-with-colin-grant", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f50cce3ac322c2eca82938db0a470ea07ed03c811cfbb47685448905a5da548a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Derek vs Derek", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Act One Cinema", "address": "High Street 119 - 121, W3 6NA London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.10", "price_to": "11.60", "tickets_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_872560.TcsSection_755", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "nature/environment", "society/rural-life"], "description": "Derek vs Derek is a documentary about two neighbouring farmers in the rolling hills of Devon who share the same name but take radically different approaches to land use. It was made by award-winning director James Dawson and features Derek Banbury and Derek Gow. The film is by turns hilarious and moving, and shines a light on the debate about the future of rural Britain, encouraging conversation about how farming and nature restoration might work together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/derek-vs-derek-37749/", "official_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=872505", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2e503f9b0a2208e6c5d688d16211c2342d27ab0e3ea46838353e7bee6bd62d28-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Before It Was Cool: The Brooklyn Beat From Lauterbach’s", "start": "2026-11-01T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/punk", "film/documentary"], "description": "Before It Was Cool is a documentary film followed by a Q&A. Filmmakers Michael West and Lia Komakhidze tell the story of Lauterbach's, an unassuming Brooklyn dive bar of the early 1980s that became the birthplace of a musical movement known as \"The Brooklyn Beat.\" Through intimate interviews, archival footage and animation, the film uncovers this overlooked chapter of New York music history and a community of punk, indie and alternative musicians who turned competition into collaboration. When the bar suddenly closed its community scattered, but the film celebrates this pre-gentrification Brooklyn and its enduring influence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/before-it-was-cool-the-brooklyn-beat-from-lauterbachs-39226/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/before-it-was-cool-the-brooklyn-beat-from-lauterbachs-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/18cb4ceff5d8aaea143fe2b02f87854c90c61b8b4a4c230267993efb14338a8a-600.webp"}]}