{"title": "Friday Lates: Hard Art x The National Gallery: The Fête of Britain", "start": "2026-11-20T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "From £8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "community"], "description": "An evening of talks, music and connection, 'The Fête of Britain' brings members of the Hard Art Collective into dialogue with the National Gallery's collection, exploring how art and culture help us understand our stories and imagine other ways of being. The programme includes a soundbath by RITES, a conversation with Brian Eno, Indy Johar, Liz Slade and Sivamohan Valluvan about the shared spaces where people gather, and a performance by The South East London Queer Choir. Panellists also include environmentalist and cultural strategist Daze Aghaji. The event is for everyone and tickets should be booked in advance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/friday-lates-hard-art-x-the-national-gallery-the-fete-of-bri-78919/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/friday-lates-hard-art-x-the-national-gallery-the-fete-of-britain-20-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/90f926c099bb9bb67047a5f971d1ec952be7e2648ea4a581ba926601eb2e7f93-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-20T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Late at Tate Britain: The 90s", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["music/electronic/rave"], "description": "Late at Tate Britain: The 90s is an after-hours evening at Tate Britain inspired by rave culture and underground music spaces in 1990s Britain. Across the gallery there are live performances, talks, workshops, music and creative activities reflecting on a music subculture marked by experimentation, self-expression and social change. The programme includes a new dance work by Trinity Laban students with Eve Stainton, DJ sets by DJ Millz and Distinction, Dazed's Music Nation documentaries, rave sets curated by Rave Archive UK, a panel on 90s music curated by Da Metal Messiah, and a rave flyer collage workshop. The evening is free, for ages 18 and over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/late-at-tate-britain-the-90s-87904/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/late-at-tate-britain", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e1d93783562781c20a3e50f370a83c8b203e9355933cf50b374368160a0e3f03-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Art of conversation: 10-minute Talk", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "A ten-minute gallery talk at the National Gallery called 'Art of conversation', part of a series of talks and conversations. Speaker Erin-Jane Golding, a multidisciplinary creative, artist and cultural programmer who develops events at the National Gallery, leads it, inspired by the exhibition 'Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation'. The talk asks how we should converse with art, challenging the worry that visitors need art-historical knowledge or the 'right' interpretation to engage with a painting. Drawing on her own reflections, Erin invites everyone to explore looking, questioning and interpretation, celebrating that there is no single way to make meaning from art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-of-conversation-10-minute-talk-78909/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/art-of-conversation-10-minute-talk-autumn-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bac510622656a1288bab8efe51b6b567a1ebb981f12ed44d3ff19f17ed58923-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Re-sounding the East End", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "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": "Friday Lates life drawing: 2B Or Not 2B Collective", "start": "2026-11-20T18:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing/figure-drawing"], "description": "A free evening life drawing session at the National Gallery's Friday Lates, held in the Social Space of the Roden Centre for Creative Learning for adults 18+, with two sessions that evening and materials provided by Stabilo. It is run by 2B Or Not 2B Collective, a People of Colour collective that uplifts marginalised bodies and makes art accessible, offering informal sessions with music for all levels of ability. The drawing is inspired by 'Mr and Mrs Andrews', reimagining Gainsborough's famous painting in the collective's own way. Afterwards, visitors can see the painting in the free exhibition 'Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/friday-lates-life-drawing-2b-or-not-2b-collective-78921/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/friday-lates-life-drawing-2b-or-not-2b-collective-20-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19e75076a3b8e813e537908332db8aa38498c33683a1edf7f3b1a1aabcf8fbc3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "if you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise Andrew Pierre Hart", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of International Visual Arts | Stuart Hall Library - iniva", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "This is an exhibition project titled 'if you like rice, you'll understand – Collective Noise', bringing together painting, photography, moving image, text and sound. It is a new project by artist and educator Andrew Pierre Hart, part of a joint programme between iniva and Chelsea Space at Chelsea College of Arts. Drawing on Stuart Hall's cultural studies legacy, it explores sound as a form of learning and cultural exchange, examining the relationship between sound and diasporic experiences. The project includes a cross-site exhibition, an events programme and a publication, supported by The Ampersand Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/if-you-like-rice-youll-understand-collective-noise-andrew-pi-60786/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aabf80b0df67e5692d00f33769a693ca39fc9b1eab2066da1de9d0767fe6eb43-1200.webp"}, {"title": "New Black British Sound x BBC Introducing", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T21:30:00Z", "place": "V&A East Museum", "address": "Carpenters Road 107, E20 2AR London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["society/black-culture/black-british", "music"], "description": "An evening of live music, networking and a panel conversation titled 'New Black British Sound x BBC Introducing' at V&A East Museum. 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": "Artangel and Nitin Sawhney present L'esprit d'accord", "start": "2026-11-13T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-13T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Round Chapel", "address": "1D Glenarm Road, London, E5 0LY, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental"], "description": "A one-evening music performance marking the launch of 'Earth Rising: Messages from the Pale Blue Dot' Volume II. Artangel presents Nitin Sawhney, who offers a new work unlike any he has created before, staged in Hackney's Round Chapel. He performs the title piece accompanied by Aref Durvesh, Eos Counsell, Shapla Salique, Ashwin Srinivasan, YVA and a string sextet, then develops the evening with improvised spoken word and further pieces from his catalogue. Seating is unreserved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/artangel-and-nitin-sawhney-present-lesprit-daccord-47046/", "official_url": "https://www.roundchapel.org/listings/nitinsawhney/artangel/fri-13-nov/round-chapel/hackney", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8e9e3be08fe537926ca22ffeb9a5353317eb1e58b11075a6b66ebb0ef3ca8081-600.webp"}, {"title": "Centre for Peace and Performing Arts presents Artists For Peace 2026", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T21:15:00Z", "place": "The Bhavan (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan)", "address": "4A Castletown Road, London, W14 9HE", "price": "£12/£15/£20", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "dance", "tags": ["dance/bharatanatyam", "society/peace"], "description": "Centre for Peace and Performing Arts presents Artists For Peace 2026, an evening of dance and movement. This year the artists explore the topic How Can Artistic Practices Bridge Diverse Voices and Weave Pathways to Peace? Performing artists include Dr Prathiba Batley, Anannya Mahanta Jugnarain, Daniella Zak Varghese, Ishika Biswas and Hiten Mistry, working across Bharatanatyam, Sattriya, Mohiniyattam, Kathak and contemporary practice. Ishika Biswas's latest work, Sandhi, premieres at The Bhavan for the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/centre-for-peace-and-performing-arts-presents-artists-for-pe-106067/", "official_url": "https://www.bhavan.net/events/centre-for-peace-and-performing-arts-presents-artists-for-peace-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/20fe34bdeec573596acf4c74f6b73cb2d77476bf6c1c699fb814c4d03ffa61b3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ways of Wellbeing: Art & Creative Health", "start": "2026-11-19T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T13:00:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "Free event", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/community-art", "wellness"], "description": "Ways of Wellbeing: Art & Creative Health is a free morning of talks and discussion about how the arts and creative practice support the wellbeing of children and young people, held at the South London Gallery's Clore Studio, with booking required. Organised by the South London Gallery and taking its Art Block space for children and young people as a starting point, the event brings together research, practice and public health perspectives, with speakers from ImpactEd, UCL and Ikon Gallery. It offers opportunities for discussion, reflection and exchange with colleagues across the arts, youth, education and wellbeing sectors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ways-of-wellbeing-art-creative-health-38711/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/ways-of-wellbeing-art-creative-health/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e46adbb504c0fa0a8796ae533d3dbeda418042626e7fc86be0e048a3ce663a0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Elaine Mitchener – LATE JOYS", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "£5 - £25", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/vocal", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "LATE JOYS is a one-off performance at the Linbury Theatre, part of the Royal Opera's Dark Nights series of one-off performances by vocal innovators and experimental composers. It is conceived by Elaine Mitchener, a contemporary vocalist, movement artist and composer, and devised with choreographer Dam Van Huynh, moving image artist Reece Ewing and her electro-acoustic group The Rolling Calf: Xhosa Cole, Jason Yarde, Mark Sanders and Neil Charles. The hour-long work unfolds as a reverberation of time and space, where presences are conjured through sound, movement and visual intensity, weaving between a shifting landscape where memory, inheritance and imagination converge. Drawing on the poetics of writers who have inspired Mitchener's practice, it invites audiences into new ways of sensing the past while reaching towards possible futures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elaine-mitchener-late-joys-74752/", "official_url": "https://www.rbo.org.uk/production/dark-nights", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fde093da0a62dc754b71f2b9e071746b0d5308d9603df2ca9848d83a38978a44-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spit Nights x Amnesty International UK", "start": "2026-11-08T19:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Amnesty International UK", "address": "Easton Street 1, WC1X 0DW London", "price": "from £17", "price_from": "17.00", "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music/jazz"], "description": "Spit Nights x Amnesty International UK is an evening of poetry, spoken word and live jazz. Spit Nights and Amnesty International UK explore the experiences, questions and stories that shape our sense of what's fair. It asks who gets heard, who gets a fair shot, who feels safe and who gets to belong.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/spit-nights-x-amnesty-international-uk-40766/", "official_url": "https://www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved/events/spit-nights-x-amnesty-international-uk/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07c68f3e9af204a47be227dcbef1b3188c08c3094fde5921173eb66c3b15e261-2000.webp"}, {"title": "First Light x Tate Modern", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["music/electronic"], "description": "First Light x Tate Modern is a late evening of music at Tate Modern, part of a new bi-monthly residency at The Corner. It is led by broadcaster and curator Rohan Rakhit, whose First Light team bring the spirit of their weekly radio show on Gilles Peterson's Worldwide FM into a physical space across four evenings through the year. Expect extended DJ sets and intimate live performances from both emerging and established artists across the UK's jazz-adjacent scene.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/first-light-x-tate-modern-87895/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/first-light", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c6b0cb5de34afb86ce7c64158406294af1c495419e4057c2b2dfcdc57ebb272-1200.webp"}, {"title": "sounding towards - -", "start": "2026-07-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Mosaic Rooms", "address": "Cromwell Road 226, London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art"], "description": "Mosaic Rooms presents sounding towards – –, a five-month project turning the gallery into a site for listening, sonic experimentation and conviviality. It features an installation From–To by Gaza's Dahaleez Collective, Common Frequencies by El Warcha Collaborative Design Studio, and a rolling programme of artist takeovers by Bint Mbareh, 1000 Pounds to Survive Us, felix taylor and Aditi Jaganathan. Instruments, recording devices, books and listening stations remain available for use, misuse and re-use, and Sunday Jams run throughout the project, free, open and bookable in advance. Initiated and developed by Angelina Radaković in conversation with the artists, the project is an experiment in institutional openness, asking what kinds of collectivities can emerge through shared acts of listening and convening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sounding-towards-39449/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68829d3c6e434a350b86c77f7ae7727218519c407c92dce5dc5fb9bef628c267-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Transnational Resistances", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Transnational Resistances is a two-day symposium at Tate Modern rooted in artistic practices of transnational resistance and solidarity. It is organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor, in collaboration with IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and supported by the Irish and UK Governments. Artists and academics explore support networks, feminist methodologies, memory work, counter-archiving and embodied knowledge across communities resisting erasure. The Friday programme includes workshops, talks, a communal meal, an audiovisual intervention and a keynote in Starr Cinema and Clore Foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transnational-resistances-87905/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/transnational-resistances", "image": "https://noky.io/images/95b14b0c428d32be58e657aa555606139f1b05612c7b1a26c2f664211fdb1632-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Whose Voices Will Announce It?", "start": "2026-11-20T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-23T16:00:00Z", "place": "Southwark Park Galleries", "address": "1 Park Approach, SE16 2UA London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art"], "description": "'Whose Voices Will Announce It?' is an exhibition gathering the work of 17 graduating sound artists of the MA Sound Arts course at London College of Communication, shown at Dilston Gallery in Southwark Park. Curated by Hannah Kemp-Welch with Irene Revell, it takes its impetus from curator Zdenka Badovinac's essay 'Unannounced Voices' and her insistence that the voices of change come unannounced. Through installation, video and performance, the works attend to a multiplicity of 'voices' within and beyond the gallery, from ancestors to queer loves to the air and soil. The show is part of the LCC Postgraduate Shows 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/whose-voices-will-announce-it-99473/", "official_url": "https://southwarkparkgalleries.org/lcc-ma-sound-arts-postgraduate-show-2025-whose-voices-will-announce-it/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/746be768fb9662d59c7f856348745cd706b298016fc12b3c3173c5689990931d-2000.webp"}]}