{"title": "Lunchtime Talk: Uncommon Ground. Drawing the Obscured Histories of Extraction", "start": "2026-11-20T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-20T13:00:00Z", "place": "Restored K6 phone booth", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A lunchtime talk examining how architecture can engage with the obscured histories of extraction, displacement and transformation that lie beneath the ground. It brings together Angela Ka Ki Lee of HAAU and Sara Ibrahim and Suzan Ibrahim of SUSA, drawing on drawing, research, material experimentation and spatial design to reveal connections beyond a site's visible boundaries. Chaired by Kay Sedki of The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, the discussion treats ground as a dynamic, contested territory and asks how buried histories might be made tangible. 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Historians, writers, artists, singers, musicians, dancers, storytellers and troubadours take audiences back to the medieval world and the intertwined histories of Britain, France and the wider European continent.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beyond-bayeux-stories-from-the-middle-ages-90540/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Reading Group on Quand tu écouteras cette chanson by Lola Lafon", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£7 standard, £5 members", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/contemporary-fiction", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A reading group held in French, dedicated to Lola Lafon's Quand tu écouteras cette chanson, with the author not present in person. 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