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Touring from The Hepworth Wakefield and organised by it in collaboration with Orleans House Gallery, with artistic and curatorial collaboration from Kedisha Coakley, the show spans Moody's sculpture, poetry, writing and audio broadcasts. It traces his journey from dentistry training and self-taught carving to wooden figures of the 1930s and post-war experiments with concrete and resin, blending Modernism, spirituality and global mythologies. New commissions by Kedisha Coakley, Dexter McLean and Kat Francois respond to his ideas and legacy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ronald-moody-sculpting-life-37644/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d531996e609c593f27d02946225feae0fb66191343d2eba08ad05d10f36095cc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Book Launch Leila Aboulela: Writing as Refuge by Bhakti Shringarpure", "start": "2026-11-10T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/africa", "literature/biography"], "description": "A book launch for 'Leila Aboulela: Writing as Refuge' by Bhakti Shringarpure, the first full-length biography of the acclaimed Sudanese writer and the first in a forthcoming series of African writers' biographies. Shringarpure, a Paris-based writer, editor and producer, explores Aboulela's childhood in Khartoum, her migration to Scotland and her journey to becoming a writer, weaving together interviews and literary criticism. 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Details on how to join are sent through the interest group's mailing list, which can be joined by email.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/host-and-pathogen-seminar-yaw-bediako-60399/", "official_url": "https://www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/host-and-pathogen-seminar-yaw-bediako", "image": "https://noky.io/images/66b9fcb0a4c4775df6ad3d54e932a7ec5b00411687d166f9a23e8985996d8509-600.webp"}, {"title": "Our Planet Saved", "start": "2026-11-06T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:00:00Z", "place": "North Kensington Library", "address": "Ladbroke Grove 108, W11 1PZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment", "community"], "description": "Our Planet Saved is a discussion event in North Kensington about caring for the natural environment. It is hosted by Toby Laurent Belson, a multidisciplinary community artist, designer and educator who has run the community arts group Brownbaby in North Kensington since 2007. 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Author, historian and critic Colin Grant has travelled the country gathering stories of people who came to make a new life, including a Czech-Roma lawyer, an Iranian taxi driver, a Sierra Leonean actor and a Romanian police officer, asking questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration. He will be joined in conversation by actress, director and writer Anni Domingo and writer Isabelle Dupuy. The event takes place at Brixton Tate Library and is free to attend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-of-migration-to-britain-with-c-60892/", "official_url": "https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/events/what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-migration-britain-with-colin-grant", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f50cce3ac322c2eca82938db0a470ea07ed03c811cfbb47685448905a5da548a-1200.webp"}]}