{"title": "KIKU The Japanese Art of Good Listening", "start": "2026-10-28T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Amnesty International UK", "address": "Easton Street 1, WC1X 0DW London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kiku-the-japanese-art-of-good-listening-tickets-2002938163966?lid=0mz72f0w7r5x", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction"], "description": "An evening conversation and Q&A celebrating the book KIKU: The Japanese Art of Good Listening. Sociolinguist and author Haru Yamada shares insights from her decades of research on culture, communication and relationships, exploring how listening is an active, shared process that helps us connect and understand one another. Each ticket includes a copy of the book, and every ticket purchased supports Amnesty International UK's human rights campaigns.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/kiku-the-japanese-art-of-good-listening-40765/", "official_url": "https://www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved/events/kiku-the-japanese-art-of-good-listening/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3633d65c8e333dd7de1d5bd2f47bd1288d3407fe9114f0fa47803c54f033c1ae-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-28T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Amnesty International UK", "address": "Easton Street 1, WC1X 0DW London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Earshot Library-in-Residence", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-06-27T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "society/human-rights"], "description": "Earshot Library-in-Residence is a nine-month residency bringing sound into the Iqra as a site of sonic inquiry, where recordings are interrogated and listening is both exercise and method. It is presented by Earshot, the not-for-profit organisation founded by Lawrence Abu Hamdan that uses sound to defend human and environmental rights. The Library is organised across four bodies of work: From the Field, a multichannel audio experience of field recordings, and three listening stations — The Crack and the Boom on audio ballistic analysis, Authentic Audio on AI-generated voices and deepfakes, and The Sonic Identikit on profiling sounds and earwitness testimony. 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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-60786/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aabf80b0df67e5692d00f33769a693ca39fc9b1eab2066da1de9d0767fe6eb43-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Flows of Care", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T21:15:00Z", "place": "Firepit Art Gallery", "address": "Cutter Lane 10, SE10 0XX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness/meditation"], "description": "A two-part workshop on listening and self-care: how to really listen so someone feels heard, then tools for emotional regulation, mindfulness and self-care in daily life. 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Coinciding with Autumn Knight's exhibition I Can't Complain, she considers how complaint can bring people together, enabling new solidarities and alliances in the struggle for change. Ahmed is an independent queer feminist scholar of colour whose work is concerned with how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and institutional cultures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sara-ahmed-on-complaining-again-lecture-36637/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/lecture-sara-ahmed-on-complaining-again", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3eab35294f01b762fcd761e9d14415d5d3af9665def5caba0cc2a4cced5ed6f2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Concert and Bon Odori Dance Workshop", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths, University of London Campus", "address": "SE14 6NW London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance/folk-dance", "music/world", "occasion"], "description": "An evening combining a mini concert with a Bon Odori dance workshop at Goldsmiths. Goldsmiths students Emme Sum (vocals) with her band and Luke Wynn-Ruffhead (piano) perform music inspired by Japan, after which everyone is invited to learn Bon Odori, a traditional Japanese folk dance performed during the Obon festival to welcome and honour ancestors' spirits. Its simple, repetitive movements let anyone join the circle. The event follows the 'Crossing Borders: Japanese Popular Music, Culture and Identity' forum and is supported by the Japan Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/concert-and-bon-odori-dance-workshop-36269/", "official_url": "https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=16263", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2210ee9d4da5b0dea565e79b59a995780718ded0854540b8c52531ba92efb8f1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Open To Ideas Workshop: Forest Bathing in Lesnes Abbey Woods", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "place": "Lakeside Centre, Lakeside Centre, London, SE2 9AN, United Kingdom", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bowarts.org/shop/", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["nature/forest", "wellness/meditation"], "description": "An immersive forest bathing (shinrin-yoku) workshop in Lesnes Abbey Woods, part of the Open To Ideas programme of wellbeing sessions. 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Participants meet outside Abbey Wood train station and should bring something to sit on; healthy snacks are provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/open-to-ideas-workshop-forest-bathing-in-lesnes-abbey-woods-35045/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/open-to-ideas-workshop-forest-bathing-in-lesnes-abbey-woods/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/26701b87492f57ded5007c31ae26346a31aebeca93b918ae4a895834b4eb2208-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Herstories Book club", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Feminist Library", "address": "Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/feminism", "literature"], "description": "Herstories Book club is a book club meeting at the Feminist Library, reading The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda. The book offers feminist tales from Japan that blend humour, surrealism and sharp societal critique. Attendees can just show up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/herstories-book-club-39182/", "official_url": "https://feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/10/07/herstories-book-club-5/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d3674d13116df7a51199f2619de2e1dfef71c66511f98e77bc71d97ffabb45a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "New River Improvisations: A Workshop with Seijiro Murayama", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T21:00:00Z", "place": "New River Studios", "address": "Eade Road 199, N4 1DN London", "price": "£30 (Covers the full two-day workshop)", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "A two-evening workshop conceived as a single unit, based on improvisational practice. It is led by Seijiro Murayama, an improviser-percussionist born in 1957 in Japan who has released around fifty albums and co-authored the book Idioms and Idiots. The sessions use a simple yet effective method he has developed over the past 20 years from an outsider's perspective, as both a non-Westerner and a non-musician. Open to all levels, participants bring their instrument and a notebook, and Murayama improvises the process of the workshop itself.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/new-river-improvisations-a-workshop-with-seijiro-murayama-37335/", "official_url": "https://newriverstudios.com/event/new-river-improvisations-a-workshop-with-seijiro-murayama/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3441cdc45f12290054da77dc1b4ce6f8952a3f03744e4779e088d1bb152b6344-2000.webp"}]}