{"title": "Archiving from Below: Ambivalent Archives", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-29T21:00:00Z", "place": "maydayrooms", "address": "88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/technology/digital", "history/archives"], "description": "An evening conversation about digital archives, databases and repositories, with questions such as how vulnerable digital collections are compared to physical ones, the future of data centres, and whether anyone can truly be off-grid. It is a session of the Archiving from Below series hosted by Ambivalent Archives, a Cambridge-based research lab exploring critical archival research and practice. Convenor Dr Sophie Marie Niang will talk with Dr Siddharth Soni about the dreams and pitfalls of digitisation, the (im)possibilities of non-hierarchical archival spaces online, and how organisers can use them critically. Attendees can also engage with growing collections of ecological direct action, including Do or Die!, Green Line, Live Wild or Die, Earth First! 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It is delivered by LUX in partnership with UCL's Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media MSc, as part of the programme 'Sharing Strategies: Caring for moving image in the margins', with support from the BFI Screen Heritage Fund. The day is open to archivists, conservators, artist-filmmakers and anyone interested in conserving artists' moving image, including informal and grassroots collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/study-day-sharing-strategies-caring-for-artist-moving-image-37115/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/study-day-sharing-strategies-caring-for-artist-moving-image-in-the-margins/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/48a0048e1be78867b62680233f8df905a6f1d657d9150128039feab6e3a246c4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Digging & hungering: creative approaches to moving through archives'", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "place": "The Feminist Library", "address": "Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines"], "description": "A zine-making workshop titled 'Digging & hungering: creative approaches to moving through archives', part of a series at The Feminist Library. It is run by Anamot Press and invites participants to create their own zines using scraps and fragments of archival material as a starting point. Through collective discussion and readings, the session explores the opportunities offered by community and independent media in an age of rising techno-fascism and AI. In particular, it brings to light material from and connected to the archive of Elizabeth Peters Robinson, an educator, social worker and long-time co-host of No Alibis, a radical news outlet based in California since the 1990s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/digging-hungering-creative-approaches-to-moving-through-arch-39183/", "official_url": "https://feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/10/07/digging-hungering-creative-approaches-to-moving-through-archives/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec1d309bd0165ce1ef92eec3f74ae69f89c275f4e8e9dd1f20b13888fdca09cf-1200.webp"}, {"title": "PANEL TALK: PUBLISHING AS COLLECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE with Minor Compositions", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "price": "Sliding scale", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-confessions-of-a-london-river-hunter-by-john-rogers/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/publishing", "society/media"], "description": "A panel talk and launch for the book Publishing as Collective Infrastructure, a collectively authored, polyphonic work that rethinks the book-form as an intervention into academic and open-access publishing. Emerging from the ServPub project, it brings together artists, academics, technologists, feminist server collectives, and experimental publishers to examine how publishing is shaped by extractive platforms, proprietary software, unpaid labour, and opaque infrastructures. The book, involving In-grid, Minor Compositions, noNames, Shape, and Systerserver with further contributions, documents alternative models grounded in free and open-source tools, collective authorship, feminist care practices, and self-hosted, small-scale infrastructures. 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Curated by Beatriz Lobo with programme support by Vasita (Pleng) Jirathiyut, it responds to Lubaina Himid's British Pavilion commission and explores how collective care, tradition-making and belonging are built through everyday practices such as cooking, braiding and gathering. Three artists, Anya Paintsil, Rajyashri Goody and Rose Afefé, are supported to make new commissions in their local contexts, while four writers from an international open call will respond to the works in a digital publication. The programme runs online from 1 May to 30 November 2026, continuing iniva's transnational, research-led public programmes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-message-is-in-the-pattern-60787/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a0979f0cd962a9acaffabcb74cfecb03fa4c4c6e1270c8b02b22bb88ad6ac3f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Decolonising Kingston: The Living Archive", "start": "2026-10-30T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T17:00:00Z", "place": "Kingston History Centre", "address": "", "price": "FREE Admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "The Living Archive is a community led exhibition exploring how history is recorded, who is remembered and how local people can become active authors of Kingston's story. It was developed through a partnership between the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Kingston Race and Equalities Council, local residents and artists, authors, curators and researchers Jaixia, Rong, and Jacqueline from Sharp Raiser Limited, and is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The exhibition celebrates the borough's diverse communities and addresses the underrepresentation of marginalized perspectives within local heritage archives, while honouring half a century of Kingston Race and Equalities Council's dedication to race equality, grassroots leadership, and cultural advocacy. Visitors can discover poems, personal stories, interviews, memories and artworks created during the project and contribute something of their own to Kingston's growing Living Archive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/decolonising-kingston-the-living-archive-36790/", "official_url": "https://www.kingstonheritage.org.uk/events/decolonising-kingston-living-archive", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ce984631e8a6026bf07e259daf9699c69bfd68247f8eeca955640f22353b8582-600.webp"}, {"title": "Digital Support Sessions", "start": "2026-10-31T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T12:00:00Z", "place": "Forest Hill Library", "address": "Dartmouth Rd, London SE23 3HZ", "price": "Free (donations welcome)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/digital-literacy"], "description": "Digital Support Sessions is a drop-in clinic where people can get help with digital problems such as online forms, personal devices, websites and app permissions. 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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"}]}