{"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. The William Morris Gallery offers these tours to local community groups, faith groups and charities, for groups of 10 to 20 people. 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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. They explore the importance of queer community in history and how homes served as a private haven against public norms, discussing how mainstream culture has co-opted these expressions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/uncovering-the-queer-roots-of-british-arts-and-crafts-40319/", "official_url": "https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/uncovering-the-queer-roots-of-british-arts-and-crafts/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b08c449ebf9740ebc8022d0049941305997081d399ec36eb57f9e2dd68ff0abc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Culture Hub annual tour of Koestler Awards Show at the Southbank", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Mosaic Reform Synagogue", "address": "Bessborough Road 39, HA1 3BS Harrow", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://choosemosaic.org/whats-on/book/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art", "society"], "description": "Culture Hub annual tour of Koestler Awards Show at the Southbank is a guided visit to the Annual Koestler exhibition, held at the South Bank Centre. The exhibition shows work by serving prisoners in His Majesty's Prisons and those on probation, and runs until 29th November. Mosaic Culture Hub is organising the visit with a guide, and artworks can be bought at the centre. Those who would like to attend are asked to contact culturehub@choosemosaic.org.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/culture-hub-annual-tour-of-koestler-awards-show-at-the-south-46188/", "official_url": "https://choosemosaic.org/event/culture-hub-annual-tour-of-koestler-awards-show-at-the-southbank/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/88bd784c2208ce927d223cdfab129c902728df85765c30f9d89a4213aa87c15b-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. 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Their pictures show them playing in Gunnersbury Park as part of its centenary celebrations, recreating childhood wonder through games like rolling down hills and making daisy chains. For these young people, nature is never mere scenery, but a place to be wild in, to wander through and to belong to.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/human-nature-36327/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f8f98935b86d21310a6a1ceb5cd3e0f1dd268cd6f1dcd033f90edb7b18076be-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Curator Tour – Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now", "start": "2026-11-11T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall Art Gallery", "address": "Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE London", "price": "Free. Booking required.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://onecitylondon.com/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition 'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now' at Guildhall Art Gallery. The gallery's curator guides visitors through works by over 20 major British artists transformed into tapestry by Dovecot's expert weavers. The tour explores how art and craft intersect and how the heritage of tapestry has become a thriving contemporary medium, with expert commentary and the chance to ask questions. The tour lasts approximately one hour, is designed for adults with accompanied children welcome (suggested minimum age 8), and places are deliberately limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/curator-tour-beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-37605/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c2efddba802b65606caa30901b5b082ca1db04fa0fd5f7d7f9aefface1933516-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Trip to the London Museum Docklands", "start": "2026-10-31T10:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Poplar Union", "address": "Cotall Street 2, E14 6TL London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/xBB43r0ZvakknUTYSyno", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "A guided trip to the London Museum Docklands, exploring the stories woven into the history of London's docks, from the slave trade and river policing to local communities and dockers' fight for workers' rights. It is part of Exploring History through Creativity, an adults-only series, with under-18s allowed only when supervised. This Halloween outing uncovers hidden histories and forgotten voices lingering in the Docklands' past. It is organised by Poplar Union and builds on their recent collage workshop.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/trip-to-the-london-museum-docklands-76763/", "official_url": "https://poplarunion.com/event/trip-to-the-london-museum-docklands/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1292bd3a902f8f45f7bcc7bbad048bd9beab8e5dd2b4a2c3ce1303455de6bfc0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "My Walthamstow exhibition", "start": "2026-10-30T09:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T17:30:00Z", "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": "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": "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. It is organised by the William Morris Society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/london-luminaries-online-talk-director-gabriella-esser-on-pr-42814/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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://qbcentre.org.uk/ticket-hub", "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": "Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "price": "£20 / Free for Members", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/date?cgid=375285", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "history"], "description": "A major art exhibition at Tate Britain celebrating the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, two of the most celebrated British artists of the twentieth century. 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": "Guided Tour", "start": "2026-11-01T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T11:00:00Z", "place": "Barts North Wing", "address": "St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE", "price": "£10.00, concessions available", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1998353437927?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "Guided Tour is a tour through Barts North Wing, which houses two of England's most important interiors: the Great Hall and the Hogarth Stair with its large paintings by William Hogarth. The tour explores the building and hospital's rich history, architecture and the people involved in its craftsmanship, and highlights the conservation work done to rescue and rejuvenate the Grade I listed building. The tours are for individuals, pairs and small groups of fewer than 8 people only.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/guided-tour-60006/", "official_url": "https://bartsnorthwing.org.uk/events/guided-tour-609-282-172-981-973-525-290-769/?occurrence=2026-11-01", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1066397197935f94dca77bad6e1daa2649b8a4e29bd16dff14ad48db9e436b02-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Highlights Tours – Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-23T00:00:00Z", "place": "Fashion and Textile Museum", "address": "Bermondsey Street 83, SE1 3XF London", "price": "£12.65 (Free (with exhibition ticket))", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://fashiontextilemuseum.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/83649?catID=71515", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/fashion"], "description": "A guided highlights tour of the exhibition Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell, lasting about 45 minutes for groups of up to 15 people. It is led by volunteer guides from the Fashion and Textile Museum, who introduce the pieces on display and the historical context behind the exhibition. Visitors can ask questions in an informal group setting, and exhibition entry is included with the ticket.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/highlights-tours-ossie-clark-celia-birtwell-69761/", "official_url": "https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/museumevents/highlights-tours/?date_from=20261104&date_to=20261223", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e60d171b5372ef938c70737b803464c2573d258fb3a26fcf4f01ec627c4b181a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Historic House Tour November 2026 - CANCELLED!!", "start": "2026-11-03T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T13:00:00Z", "place": "Hall Place and Gardens", "address": "Bourne Road, DA5 1PQ Bexley", "price": "£10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "A guided tour of the historic house at Hall Place, led by passionate guides who explore how the house has evolved and changed with each owner since the 16th century, with a few secrets revealed along the way. The tour is organised by Hall Place & Gardens, run by the London Borough of Bexley. After the tour there is time to visit the exhibition galleries with objects from the Bexley Museum Collection dating back to pre-historic and Roman times, as well as WW2 Hall Place. The tour takes place on the ground and first floor of the historic house, meeting at the single black door in front of the long drive and big lawn, and is suited to anyone interested in local history, historic buildings and the Tudor period.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/historic-house-tour-november-2026-cancelled-36363/", "official_url": "https://www.hallplace.org.uk/event/historic-house-tour-november-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1020209b2df23a93f803185753ac184e1fcd08910ce8e60bd6c4f839076d90cb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Uncommon Ground", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Designer Craftsmen", "address": "Rivington Street 24, EC2A 3DU London", "price": "Admission free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "Uncommon Ground is the Society of Designer Craftsmen's prestigious annual exhibition, held at Oxo Gallery on London's South Bank. It showcases the work of over 60 talented members of the SDC across a wide range of disciplines, from ceramics, glassmaking, furniture, mosaics and jewellery to metalwork, printmaking, textiles, paper, weaving and woodcarving & turning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/uncommon-ground-42036/", "official_url": "https://societyofdesignercraftsmen.org.uk/events/uncommon-ground", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c63fb25a714a95a38b8149d08537935b74a835a111008db697f203f05defee4b-600.webp"}]}