{"title": "Beinghood: More-than-Human Intelligence and Ancestral Futures", "start": "2026-11-19T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland", "address": "Fitzroy Street 50, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment", "society"], "description": "A hybrid talk and conversation on beinghood, a mode of existence grounded in relation, presence, agency and participation in a world of many beings. It features Fernanda Gebara, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, in conversation with Jemma Foster, Founder and Director of Wild Alchemy Labs. Drawing on Gebara's forthcoming book Chanting Spring: Indigenous Wisdom for Ancestral Futures and her two decades of work with Indigenous peoples, particularly in the Amazon, the discussion explores plant intelligence, ancestral intelligence and how recognising other beings as sources of knowledge might guide responses to ecological and social crises. 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It is led by Patience Chigodora, a trauma and culturally-informed psychotherapist counsellor, hypnotherapist, psychic medium and intuitive whose Zimbabwean heritage informs her ancestral work. The day explores the relationship between divine feminine energy, the womb space and the generational patterns we carry in our bodies, through teaching, guided somatic and creative practices and energy clearing. No prior experience is needed, and participants are asked to wear comfortable clothing for gentle movement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/womb-wisdom-generational-healing-41242/", "official_url": "https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/workshops/ancestral-healing/untangling-generational-patterns/?id=6792", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ef029a0a6f8817e484d99e311858ef1e67f876872561024f219b6403da0a0dbc-600.webp"}, {"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. 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Facilitators introduce key concepts about fungal life and encourage rethinking mortality, decay, and death in creative, life-assertive, and regenerative terms, with participants creating their own zines and penning handwritten notes on biodegradable paper. The event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK's national festival of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. Those attending a separately booked fungus tour in Regent's Park may bury their notes in a designated area of the park.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/entangled-writing-and-thinking-workshop-70651/", "official_url": "https://sohopoly.co.uk/events/entangled-writing-and-thinking-workshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ca1a2001b58cb207d760bcab6a79fc0f85a14cd89057d755eb4551fefd04c9b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mundurukuyu – The Forest of the Fish Women", "start": "2026-11-15T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Horse Hospital", "address": "30 Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10-15", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "society/indigenous"], "description": "An afternoon event from the Native Spirit Film Festival, guest-curated by Zain Gibson, combining short experimental films with a writing activation and a feature screening. It gathers up to 40 minutes of experimental shorts by Indigenous filmmakers exploring ancestry and identity, introduced before the audience takes part in a writing response. These shorts come from Brazil, Colombia, Canada and Greenland, and look at how their makers maintain traditions, practices and belief systems looking to the future. They are followed by the feature film MUNDURUKUYÜ – The Forest Of The Fish Women, in which three women of the Daje Kapap Eypi audiovisual collective take up the camera as a weapon in defence of their ancestry, preserving and transmitting their Munduruku mythology of the world's origins, when humans transformed into forests, plants and animals.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mundurukuyu-the-forest-of-the-fish-women-80665/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/nsff2026-mundurukuy", "image": "https://noky.io/images/16eec771595025ed40693679b7d31dae8fe0c700ef7498fe2fdae88b97d9bb26-2000.webp"}]}