{"title": "Greece’s Gender Divide: Femicide Through the Lens", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Hellenic Centre", "address": "Paddington Street 16-18, W1U 5AS London", "price": "£5/£4 concession, free for members", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/gender"], "description": "A panel talk examining how films and media shape our understanding of violence against women and what that coverage distracts from. An all-female panel brings together former Judge Betty Iliadou, Dr. Tonia Kazakopoulou and Dr. Afroditi Koulaxi at The Hellenic Centre. They examine how femicide coverage, centred on victimhood and emotional spectacle, can distract from political and legislative failures and even shape judicial verdicts.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/greeces-gender-divide-femicide-through-the-lens-42429/", "official_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/event/greeces-gender-divide-femicide-through-the-lens/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Hellenic Centre", "address": "Paddington Street 16-18, W1U 5AS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Geography of Violence", "start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Irish Cultural Centre", "address": "5 Black's Road, Hammersmith, W6 9DT", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/violence-against-women"], "description": "The UK premiere of Maeve Murphy's award-winning trilogy of three short films, The Geography of Violence, which shines a light on gender-based violence. 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The event concludes with networking, and admission is free with advance booking required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-geography-of-violence-41577/", "official_url": "https://irishculturalcentre.co.uk/event/uk-premiere-screening-panel-discussion-the-geography-of-violence-by-award-winning-maeve-murphy/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8596cfc66c9b560937ecb3d60fbc49e3b29245bffd6311c5127a255a9a085694-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Annual Graduate Lecture 2026", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T20:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/feminism"], "description": "An annual public lecture hosted by Birkbeck's Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, with Professor Tanya Serisier speaking on 'Surviving Rape in Public: Survival Politics and Feminist Justice Work'. The lecture examines how a 'survivor politics' became a dominant feminist response to sexual violence, the impacts on public survivors, and a wider history of feminist justice work building collective responses. Professor Heike Bauer chairs and Professor Sally Wheeler, Vice-Chancellor, gives the welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences-annual-graduate-lectur-80554/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/65012/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences-annual-graduate-lecture-2026", "image": ""}, {"title": "Women’s Rage: A Global Phenomenon", "start": "2026-11-11T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/feminism", "literature"], "description": "A panel discussion on women's rage as a global phenomenon, from the Caribbean to India. It features Nicole King of the University of Oxford, Ana Nenadović and Amrita Shodhan of SOAS. The speakers explore feminine rage in literature, mythology and feminist activism, framing it as a tool for political transformation and resistance against patriarchy and racism. A drinks reception follows the discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/womens-rage-a-global-phenomenon-43668/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/womens-rage-global-phenomenon", "image": ""}, {"title": "Elegy", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/violence-against-women", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Elegy is a ritual performance and installation project by Gabrielle Goliath that gathers collective acts of mourning around lives and histories marked by violence, erasure and structural loss. Developed over more than a decade, it has been staged in Johannesburg, Cape Town, São Paulo, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich and beyond, and arrives in London following the cancellation of the South African Pavilion in Venice. Installed in the sonic chamber of Ibraaz's Minassa, voices and moving images immerse audiences in a space of mourning, kinship and collective care. Addressing rape culture and femicide in South Africa, the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namibia and the ongoing devastation of Palestinian life, it proposes mourning as a sustained practice of collective presence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elegy-36599/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bddd26bf2c80c57cde9f964f820a194720c5676bda6d23e076a328fea43bc74d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Pelicot Trial", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "London County Hall", "address": "Belvedere Road, SE1 7PB London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "society/feminism"], "description": "The Pelicot Trial is a one-off piece of documentary theatre staged at London County Hall. Created by Milo Rau and Servane Dècle, it explores the true events of Gisele Pelicot's rape trial, drawing on trial testimonies, police files, social commentary and psychiatric reports of the 51 men prosecuted. A company of 30 actors and public figures performs it, including Alfred Enoch, Juliet Stevenson, Adjoa Andoh and Rosie O'Donnell. The play is a tribute to a woman whose bravery sparked a global reckoning with sexual violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-pelicot-trial-63518/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a320a53b26af2ddd0e475f7e7df1e5b6b0833e138ea0c6ed76911a8b61f4bc2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Windows into the Unseen", "start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Albany", "address": "Douglas Way, SE8 4AG London", "price": "£0.00", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/feminism"], "description": "Windows into the Unseen is a free month-long exhibition in a public library, filling its windows and public-facing spaces with work by 16 women activist artists. It is presented by Sheroes Collective, an arts organisation that uses art by women activist artists to celebrate women and raise awareness about gender-based violence. The exhibition marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, bringing hidden and normalised forms of violence against women and girls into public view. Alongside installations and window interventions, it offers creative workshops and talks that create spaces for reflection, care and action.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/windows-into-the-unseen-38945/", "official_url": "https://www.thealbany.org.uk/events/windows-into-the-unseen", "image": "https://noky.io/images/09df3b50809619356e292f1ebef2d1b48d0674687631498397ca7a9d9add07ff-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Voice of Butterflies", "start": "2026-11-11T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/violence-against-women"], "description": "The Voice of Butterflies is an artivistic performance originally created to commemorate the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls, running as part of the VOILA! Festival at the Etcetera Theatre on Camden High Street. Created by the company Hilanderas, directed by Stephanie Prieto and performed by Stephanie Prieto and Esmeralda Sears, it draws an analogy between butterflies' lack of a physical voice and how trauma silences parts of the human body. The narrative follows a woman and her therapist on a regressive journey into childhood to uncover a secret held within the flesh, triggering a metamorphosis in which other women listen to the protagonist within the sound of her silence. After the 45-minute performance, offered in Latin American Spanish with English surtitles for ages 14 and over, Hilanderas hosts a Q&A and a Roy Hart-based workshop.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-voice-of-butterflies-60519/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-voice-of-butterflies/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e53b6b5efb173a3ed6ab8b18e3bd1a35a7ec13e53e468e751ee3a3fd1318a0a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Windows into the Unseen", "start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "Deptford Lounge Library", "address": "Giffin Street 9, SE8 4RJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/feminism"], "description": "Windows into the Unseen is a month-long exhibition transforming the windows and public-facing spaces of a public library. It is the first public library exhibition by SHEROES Collective, bringing together 16 women activist artists. Their installations and window interventions confront hidden and normalised forms of violence against women and girls, while amplifying stories of resilience, survival, and collective care. The show marks 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/windows-into-the-unseen-73939/", "official_url": "https://deptfordlounge.org.uk/whats-on/event/windows-into-the-unseen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2c17d7f175414bbde87b4270ce919f1462aa0a1bf77c43c4e2d0b7d360563e56-600.webp"}, {"title": "Gorgon Syndrome (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T17:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£14", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/violence-against-women", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "'Gorgon Syndrome' is a piece of physical theatre blending ritual, original music and sign language, part of the VOILA! Festival. It was devised and directed by Tatsiana Popova, Yana Alekseenko, Alana Ivory and Nadzeya Sheibak, and performed by them alongside Nela Agrenich and Sonia Rosa. Four women tell real stories of violence — a journalist, a wife, a stripper and a witness — while the figure of Medusa draws out the truths they are too afraid to tell themselves. Drawing on the myth of Medusa, the performance explores how sexual trauma settles in the body, reshapes everyday life and survives in silence, until trauma at last finds its voice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gorgon-syndrome-voila-festival-60522/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/gorgon-syndrome/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/517811a8246d215b160b7fca3f58816f3fb50a8b77c0785b6f9cfe054b92669a-1200.webp"}]}