{"title": "East End Music on film, 1963-1975", "start": "2026-11-16T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Welcome to Idea Store", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music/pop"], "description": "A screening of short archive documentaries from 1963 to 1975 about East End music performers, including Queenie Watts, Kenny Lynch, Lionel Bart and Georgia Brown, and how they navigated their identity as 'Cockneys'. It is curated and facilitated by Bea Moyes, a Film Producer and Researcher specialising in research-led film and public history, who is an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, and CEA CAPA. The films reflect the culture of music in Tower Hamlets and how local performers helped shape the popular vision of what the East End was, driven by the interconnected worlds of theatre, popular music and film. The event runs from 2.00 to 4.00pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/east-end-music-on-film-1963-1975-111044/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/194d246fd95d0c784e26eff37ece525da7c28b1b6880dfb91dfd67bcc03454ab-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Welcome to Idea Store", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Re-sounding the East End", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T20:00:00Z", "place": "Idea Store", "address": "Churchill Place 2, E14 5RB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "history/local-history"], "description": "An evening discussion about the three sound art installations 'Everything is different, nothing has changed', set in the context of the East End's social and public history. It is led by curators and historians Nadia Valman, Tamsin Bookey, Rehana Ahmed and Alan Dein. The event is part of the Being Human Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/re-sounding-the-east-end-88042/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/689a13ea5043ba3c9ea06a9b69727dde21ecdd7f9ba3cff0889779a31c8080b8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Exploring History through Creativity", "start": "2026-11-10T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Poplar Union", "address": "Cotall Street 2, E14 6TL London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/london"], "description": "Free creative sessions exploring East End history through collage, photography, movement, singing, soundscapes and performance. They are facilitated by Tasnim Siddiqa Amin, a working-class Bangladeshi-British artist, theatremaker and activist from Poplar. Topics range from industrialisation, the dock strike and the match girls strike to the 1921 Poplar rates rebellion, London's first Chinatown, the closure of the docks and gentrification. 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It is run by BBC Introducing Live together with BBC Radio 1Xtra in partnership with V&A East Museum, celebrating the museum's exhibition The Music is Black: A British Story. A panel hosted by BBC Introducing's Angelle Joseph, with speakers including V&A East's Josephine Small, looks at key moments in Black British music history and how the UK industry can support young Black artists. An open mic hosted by BBC Radio 1Xtra Introducing's Theo Johnson gives nine artists the chance to perform live for BBC Introducing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/new-black-british-sound-x-bbc-introducing-40095/", "official_url": "https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/RwGL37RqpD/new-black-british-sound-x-bbc-introducing-nov-2026", "image": ""}, {"title": "“Estate. A Reverie” Film Screenings & Talkaoke – part of Estate Talks", "start": "2026-11-14T15:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T18:30:00Z", "place": "Outside Haggerston Community Centre", "address": "8 Lovelace Street, London, E8 4FF", "price": "Free - Booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/housing"], "description": "The final event of the Estate Talks series brings film screenings and Talkaoke, a pop-up talk show by The People Speak, together at Haggerston Community Centre. It features the award-winning film 'Estate. A Reverie' (2015, 83 mins) by resident filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman, made with residents over seven years, interweaving intimate portraits, residents' historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes to ask how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography. Also screened is 'Taking over King's Land' (2014, 23 mins) by Gillian McIver, following Nazir Tanbouli as he battles weather, vandalism and lack of funds to create a massive mural installation across a condemned housing estate in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics. The evening includes a free-flowing conversation around the Talkaoke table, with refreshments provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/estate-a-reverie-film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-tal-39535/", "official_url": "https://thepeoplespeak.org.uk/event/film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-talks/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ed5d15bcca3ae42ca1b5995bfc0f6e8dfd00147cc3502068b60943d1b51d117-2000.webp"}, {"title": "SE x EC1", "start": "2026-11-08T12:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Betsey Trotwood", "address": "Farringdon Road 56, EC1R 3BL London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/rock/garage"], "description": "SE x EC1 is a live music afternoon bringing the sound of the Thames Delta from Southend-on-Sea to a pub in central London. Four bands play: garage indie rockers Invaders, Permanent Firmament performing songs by songwriter Lance Baldock, Dark Globes with their noise-pop and lo-fi garage rock, and The Bromides, a London-based alternative noise-pop and garage rock band fronted by Simon Berridge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/se-x-ec1-42930/", "official_url": "https://www.thebetsey.com/music-events/se-x-ec1", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dbe6b7fc1aab3b328a8e9cf9cb24595d7c23ad0bdcf9805f8368be81415f6929-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mountview Presents: Mastering the Mic + Sounds of SE15", "start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Upstairs at the Gatehouse", "address": "North Road, N6 4BD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music"], "description": "An evening of live music celebrating up-and-coming talent. It is presented by Mountview and brings together performers from the Peckham and Mountview communities, with friends, family and neighbours invited to drink, dance and be merry.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mountview-presents-mastering-the-mic-sounds-of-se15-125194/", "official_url": "https://princeofpeckham.co.uk/listings/mountview-presents-mastering-the-mic-sounds-of-se15/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a8090fbc8fb3de3ef08e7e51f638de2a0b904736a8dad6b17edd215c9ced0897-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Terrorists", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Genesis Cinema", "address": "Mile End Road 93-95, E1 4UJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["history/politics/activism", "film/documentary"], "description": "A London preview screening of the documentary \"Terrorists\", followed by a Q&A with the directors. The film is a new documentary by Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell that examines the history of direct action and protest leading up to recent UK legislation, featuring the Suffragettes, the 1920s Poplar Council, the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, the Miners' Strike, the Wapping Dispute and Palestine Solidarity movements. It features among others Lowkey, Audrey White, Ken Loach, Peter Kennard and Tony Benn, with contributors including Alan Hardman, David Rosenberg, Stephen Kapos, Tayo Aluko, Hannah from the Global Sumud Flotilla, ex-miner John Dunn and peace activist Kevin Donellon. Music is by Lola Perrin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/terrorists-36225/", "official_url": "https://genesiscinema.co.uk/event/115434", "image": "https://noky.io/images/303347e5389c682f0dad25a162d31a552f248472050be3eabf1ad30076d366f0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lovers Rock & Comedy Link Up", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Broadway Theatre", "address": "Catford Road, SE6 4RU London", "price": "£35.00 - £37.50", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "37.50", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/world/reggae", "comedy"], "description": "Lovers Rock & Comedy Link Up is an evening combining Lovers Rock music with comedy. Harmony Productions and 908 Productions bring back this anticipated event, pairing some of the UK's finest Lovers Rock performers with top comedy talent for a blend of music and laughter. It is hosted by Robbie Gee and Felicity Ethnic and takes place at the Broadway Theatre in Catford.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lovers-rock-comedy-link-up-69597/", "official_url": "https://www.broadwaytheatre.org.uk/events/lovers-rock-comedy-link-up", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e47bb2bd576ecac9030aa18ac07345528b2bbbe3f8ab788808ac73f02c34513-1200.webp"}, {"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, "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": ""}, {"title": "Bleak Squad", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Victoria", "address": "Queensbridge Road 451, E8 3AS London", "price": "£18.85", "price_from": "18.85", "price_to": "18.85", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/rock/alternative"], "description": "Bleak Squad play a live concert at The Victoria, an intimate back-room live music venue in a historic East London pub on Queensbridge Road in Dalston, Hackney. The show is part of the Bleak Squad 2026 tour. The bill also features Jess Ribeiro, Marty Brown, Mick Harvey and Mick Turner. The venue's programme spans indie, alternative, post-punk and electronic music, and it has long been a place to catch bands on their way up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bleak-squad-61633/", "official_url": "https://dice.fm/event/6a0dde69d4a2b800013b6317", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d88cc0a50da264bdc350cc47dc20532aafe4ef5b4677b691b3bd3ee9b8bd9535-600.webp"}, {"title": "Live Music Saturdays", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Pavilion End", "address": "Watling Street 23, EC4M 9BR London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music"], "description": "Live Music Saturdays is an evening of live music at The Pavilion End, a pub on Watling Street in the City of London. Rising talents perform every Saturday, playing original music and crowd favorites in a great atmosphere. The performance is free with no tickets needed — just show up and enjoy. Bring your friends, grab a drink, and kick off your weekend with music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/live-music-saturdays-95023/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a25f39ff79eb4ba008d0cb4dca983d7821c6b11f4086df021594e94d6d6c5fa-600.webp"}, {"title": "Rock around Lee", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T21:30:00Z", "place": "Old Tigers Head", "address": "Lee High Road 351, SE12 8RU London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/local-history", "music"], "description": "Rock around Lee is a talk about the stars who lived in Lee at one time or another. It is given by Paul Wright and hosted by the Lee Manor Society. The long list of big names who lived in Lee includes David Bowie, Kate Bush, Manfred Mann, Squeeze, and Albert Lee. Doors open at 7pm and the talk begins at 7.30 pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rock-around-lee-36957/", "official_url": "https://leemanorsociety.org/event/rock-around-lee/", "image": ""}, {"title": "DONT LOOK BACK + BOB DYLAN CONCERT FOOTAGE", "start": "2026-11-15T17:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Nickel Cinema", "address": "Clerkenwell Road 117-119, EC1R 5BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music/folk"], "description": "The Nickel Cinema screens \"DONT LOOK BACK\" together with Bob Dylan concert footage. The event is hosted by The Nickel Cinema on Clerkenwell Road in London. The screening pairs the film with additional concert material of the musician.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dont-look-back-bob-dylan-concert-footage-42548/", "official_url": "https://thenickel.co.uk/screening/826", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1c67874c9e48f589d698bd32c55daf594e46ef643a3cf7d0b158efa6a9bdd028-2000.webp"}, {"title": "By Appointment Only: Romani art, culture & heritage", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Museum Docklands", "address": "No. 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, E14 4AL London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/roma-sinti"], "description": "A free display by the London Museum showcasing the work of British Romani artists who share their identity and experiences through visual activism. It centres on three key works by artists Corrina Eastwood, Delaine Le Bas and Dan Turner, with Eastwood as co-curator. Inspired by the trade and industry of London's Docklands, the artworks honour the livelihoods, creativity and craft of Romani communities. A timeline by John-Henry Phillips illustrates their history from 500 CE to 2022, challenging stereotypes and inviting better understanding and connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/by-appointment-only-romani-art-culture-heritage-70020/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/145ae4dd21979af50ece806d83519cb34737490716bbcd3f1eb43046d15c1846-1200.webp"}, {"title": "New Lands: lottie + Viewfinder", "start": "2026-11-17T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Ivy House", "address": "Stuart Road 40, SE15 3BE London", "price": "£7", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/rock/indie"], "description": "A new music night at a South London pub venue featuring two live acts. Headlining is lottie (working title), the new project of lottie pendlebury, known as goat girl, with experimental guitar-led songs of scattered melodies and offbeat rhythms, joined by a full backing band for the first time. Also playing is Viewfinder, the solo project of producer Joel Burton, who with Kit Mosely performs duo versions of songs written over recent years. The night is put on by The Ivy House.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/new-lands-lottie-viewfinder-44159/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0c53875cfaac825c44d4c0c0294b05df234dc4acb495e88e7b39644dda8f02b5-1200.webp"}]}