{"title": "Clarissa", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Clarissa is a drama that had its premiere in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. It is a modern-day, Lagos-set adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, made by directors Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri and starring Sophie Okonedo, Toheeb Jimoh, Ayo Edebiri and David Oyelowo. The film follows society woman Clarissa as she prepares to host a party at her home in Lagos, Nigeria, where she will unexpectedly encounter once-intimate friends from her youth. 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When their ailing mother comes to live with them, old wounds surface and the sisters' fragile family bonds are tested as they confront grief, ambition, desire and expectations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dear-ajayi-38171/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437.TcsProgramme_2949792", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8aacda989ad23f5c4048d33f0ddd624ee545b6ad6dd87feb560931dc49bf93ea-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. 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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": "Fundraiser: The People's Emergency Briefing + Discussion", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Arzner", "address": "Bermondsey Square 10, SE1 3UN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://thearzner.com/TheArzner.dll/WhatsOn?f=361479", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/climate/climate-change", "film/documentary"], "description": "A film screening followed by a discussion, held as a fundraiser to mark the International Day for Biosphere Reserves, with all ticket sales donated to LDEC and The People's Emergency Briefing. 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