{"title": "Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "FREE admission. Suggested donation of £5.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/earthly-paradise", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media", "history/social-history"], "description": "Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK is a major touring exhibition about the people and places that have shaped art and activism across Britain over the last 200 years. Presented by William Morris Gallery, it was developed in partnership with Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, Blackwell – The Arts & Crafts house in Bowness-on-Windermere, and Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, who work together as Four Lanterns as part of Art Fund's Going Places programme. Through objects, painting, drawing, photography, sound and archival material, it highlights individuals and communities who defied conventions and the homes they created to realise new visions of society, including William Morris's Red House, Charleston, Benton End, Prospect Cottage and Dial House. Curated by Hadrian Garrard, Linsey Young and Tayyabah Tahir, it also considers the role that money and class have played in access to these spaces and in imagining new ways of living.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/earthly-paradise-radical-living-in-the-uk-42812/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4606a47388641a9b47a51a7aac5b10ca924738564d500267f04b92c99fd67335-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Free Community Group Tours: Earthly Paradise", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/activism", "art"], "description": "Free guided tours for community groups of the exhibition Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK. 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Neal Shasore, an architectural historian and founder of the School of Building, joins Michael Hall, author of A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the The National Trust. 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Organised by Tate Britain in collaboration with Charleston, it explores the pair's creative partnership of more than 50 years and their legacy as core members of the Bloomsbury Group. Over 300 works are on show, including portraits, still lives, landscape paintings, ceramics and textiles, plus a restaging of the artists' studio relocated from their Sussex home, Charleston. The exhibition also traces the group's commitment to lives of freedom and radical experimentation, which shaped art, literature and societal thought in Britain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/vanessa-bell-duncan-grant-inside-bloomsbury-38884/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/vanessa-bell-and-duncan-grant", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0504dcb22ff839476bff9223ce57dbf2322c8a487006a725be8687562f7301a7-2000.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. 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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": "London Luminaries Online Talk – Director Gabriella Esser on “Practically Magic: William Morris at Home in Hammersmith”", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Society", "address": "Upper Mall 26, W6 9TA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design", "history/victorian"], "description": "An online talk titled “Practically Magic: William Morris at Home in Hammersmith”, given by director Gabriella Esser. 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Through satire, newspapers and letters of the time, it shows how ideas of liberty and equality set a democratic precedent for the world. The exhibition tours to Hogarth's House and other venues until spring 2027, accompanied by talks by academics and readings of Howard Ginsberg's play Jefferson & Adams.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/how-we-lost-america-exhibition-36534/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec106bf31bc7b8a138d88e687148c28c3509bfd2264ea4c81c461662a9cbc437-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "price": "Adults £15, concessions available. Tickets include entry to all exhibitions. Members go free.", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.qbcentre.org.uk/events/01a0a5bf-c121-79c7-9061-7747335a17d0", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever is a new exhibition blending UK folklore, viral memes and 3D printed sculpture. It is created by London-based duo Vince Ibay and Jessica Miller, who work together as Fromm Studio. Visitors travel through two co-existing spaces, 'Dystopia' and 'Utopia', meeting animated figures of ancient legend and myth, from Cornish piskies to a Pied Piper of Hamelin with TikTok-style dancing rats. The exhibition explores how the digital landscape is shaping our modern lives and asks whether humanity's oldest stories still resonate and can offer perspective and hope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/faerdom-now-as-ever-38102/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bf92ecfadc45a060caf679a9b762cc13905c9fdabbd2e925b9b9e09923bd708-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Knots Presents: Oscillations", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T22:00:00Z", "place": "ANNEX, 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/knotsnoise/2392847/r/website", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Knots Presents: Oscillations is an exhibition at ANNEX in Elephant and Castle, hosted by The Koppel Project, bringing together a network of artists, organisers and learners. It is curated by Knots, whose noise nights invite artists to meet through an exchange of ideas and collaboration, and it invites artists to respond through visual mediums speaking to collaboration and resistance in shared history, local communities, familial lives and the every day. Knots frames it against the rising influence of the far-right in the UK and beyond, using performance to build relationships, exchange knowledge and work in solidarity with communities resisting authoritarianism and injustice. The opening evening is followed by cross-disciplinary noise collaborations with Knots alumni and a short panel Q&A with the exhibiting artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/knots-presents-oscillations-42454/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/knots-presents-oscillations-annex", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e8c4c2a00a05ba4b41afd061a3d875c8e737070a1d5b100bc8610ae61659e961-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sophie Huckfield & Company – A Socially Useful Production: “The Participation Waltz”", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "Stanley Picker Gallery", "address": "Grange Road, KT1 2QJ Kingston upon Thames", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "history"], "description": "An exhibition at Stanley Picker Gallery that turns the space into a setting for making, gathering and performance around the 1976 Lucas Plan, a radical proposal by workers at Lucas Industries for socially useful production, and the play \"The Participation Waltz\" developed with Lucas workers by Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre. It is created by Sophie Huckfield & Company with Production Designer Rosanna Vize. The show is divided into two 'Acts': one set in the Lucas corporate offices with archival materials, the other the backstage of a working theatre with a recreation of the Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre stage and original and reimagined props. Talks, performances and collaborative activities throughout revisit this history with members of Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre and Lucas Workers sharing their stories, with scripts rewritten, objects remade and the play restaged.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sophie-huckfield-company-a-socially-useful-production-the-pa-42058/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c606f17ca361a8050baf2d028768869cdc8e22bbe21f63973721c67623c79058-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gathering Ground", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "nature/environment"], "description": "Gathering Ground is an exhibition at Tate Modern exploring art's power to inspire change in today's ecological crisis. It brings together works from Tate's Collection highlighting the connection between environmental and social justice, inviting us to reimagine our relationships with the natural world and each other. Artists including Outi Pieski, Abbas Akhavan, Bruce Conner, Zheng Bo, Joydeb Roaja, Abel Rodriguez, Munem Wasif, Minerva Cuevas and Carolina Caycedo feature, alongside a new commission by Abbas Zahedi, honouring Indigenous knowledge, nurturing queer multispecies relations and documenting issues such as displacement and destruction of land and waterways. Set in a former oil and coal power station, the exhibition offers a shared space to reflect on our role in creating a more equal world, asking how we can be good Ancestors for future generations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gathering-ground-38892/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca2f874a9082c1e73d112ff92bb7729f7c6e35916197269c3aa77468aa1a6fb8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Art on Your Doorstep", "start": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Art on Your Doorstep is a free outdoor exhibition bringing life-size reproductions of National Gallery masterpieces to Brentford, displayed across the town in fine detail and complete with their frames. It is part of The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep, a national touring project taking works from the nation's collection beyond Trafalgar Square to twelve towns across the UK. Brentford is one of those twelve towns, with up to 30 masterpieces exhibited, shaped by this year's Creative Mile theme of 'Love' and by the people, landmarks and history of Brentford. Visitors to Boston Manor House can see three masterpiece reproductions: one by the café terrace and two photo stand-ins inside the House.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-on-your-doorstep-35024/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc999c3f25e613b04ee7dac017aa6cdd1309692f498f2aea24ec5c49e803c497-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Tunnel present The Road of Excess", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "This is an exhibition running at a gallery in East London. It is presented by The Tunnel, a group of artists and performers who hold regular exhibitions in London. The title refers to the William Blake quote 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom', taken from his poem The Marriage of Heaven And Hell (1790–93).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-tunnel-present-the-road-of-excess-36570/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/864a9df9c1625888dbfac4eb7d90954890d0327654af4c2ee892492e89100275-2000.webp"}, {"title": "My Walthamstow exhibition", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Mill", "address": "Coppermill Lane 7-11, E17 7HA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/community-art"], "description": "A community art exhibition called My Walthamstow exhibition, showing art works about the neighbourhood. The Mill invited artists to show Walthamstow through their eyes, from the Warner flats and the high rises to the marshes and the market, exploring how the town's diversity of people is mirrored in its landscape and how people have shaped it as much as it has shaped them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/my-walthamstow-exhibition-42479/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1bf916777c55aea8a249eb2f2cf319cc6caf2b38a6378d91d1f8fdf5bef0fb2e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/process-makes-practice-sharing-day-tickets-2002624928069?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Process Makes Practice is a free, drop-in exhibition at Camden Art Centre marking the culmination of a three-year programme supported by The Mildred Fund. Over three years the centre worked with seven artists, two schools and two community groups, including Sidings Community Centre and The Hive, on iterative creative processes without defined outcomes. The exhibition brings together installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections from those involved, with projects led by artists including Shepherd Manyika, Sam Williams, Sara Heywood, Eva Jonas, Nancy Allen, Lydia Paulett and Maymana Arefin. It offers an insight into the work of artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-60157/", "official_url": "https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/process-makes-practice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "National Portrait Gallery", "address": "WC2H 0HE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery exploring queer identity, community, and love through the lens of one of Britain's foremost photographers. It presents new portraits by Tim Walker, who spent five years photographing dozens of activists, performers, artists, and writers in his whimsical, fairytale-inspired style. Curated by Susanna Brown, the show combines exuberant portraits and fantastical landscapes in a celebration where everyone has the freedom to be themselves, accompanied by a new book with contributions by Travis Alabanza, Russell T Davies, Shon Faye, Lisa Power and Joelle Taylor.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tim-walkers-fairyland-love-and-legends-78924/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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"}]}