{"title": "Mother Tongue", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery", "address": "Conway Street 2, W1T 6BA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/ceramics"], "description": "Mother Tongue is an exhibition of ceramic sculptures by Avital Sheffer at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Sheffer, an artist based on the North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, draws on her ancestral heritage and experience of migration. Her intricately worked vessels are inscribed with patterns, symbols and fragments of ancient Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic script. The works explore how memory, language and identity are carried across places and generations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mother-tongue-70266/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d91170cac70f17d7fb26755178f85c49e64bb8be0e8d6e4891cb21264c8c6730-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery", "address": "Conway Street 2, W1T 6BA London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "My Mother Tongue Wants To Disown Me (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-02T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£11", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": "11.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/my-mother-tongue-wants-to-disown-me/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "My Mother Tongue Wants To Disown Me is a dramatic comedy, one woman show staged as part of the VOILA! Festival. Written and performed by Briana Croitoru and directed by Saphira Wing, it follows Madalina, a Romanian girl strained by her relationship with her culture and mother. Trying to erase parts of herself by changing her name and speaking only English, she clashes with her mom, then uncovers photos and letters revealing stories her mum never told her. The 60-minute play, recommended for ages 16+, is about the deep nostalgia we feel for home despite not being connected to it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/my-mother-tongue-wants-to-disown-me-voila-festival-60514/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/my-mother-tongue-wants-to-disown-me/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9642c8b6cd87d3116c676b04706f3511b5e0e7bed20052247216c27cc872852-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Muscle Memory", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Copperfield", "address": "High Street 212, E17 7JH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "\"Muscle Memory\" is a joint exhibition project at the Copperfield gallery in London, hosted together with galleries from Stockholm, Milan, Beijing and Shanghai and curated by Copperfield. It explores what is passed on through action rather than words or recorded history: the gestures, skills, mannerisms and dances handed down generation to generation. Works include Anna Gonzalez Noguchi's intimate pieces carrying her grandfather's orchid tradition, Rafal Zajko's ceramic relief made from his grandmother's sewing machine, Li Li Ren's sculpture about breath, Narges Mohammadi's video of sifting flour from sand, Aziza Kadyri's patchwork tapestry on needlework, and Luana Vitra's sculptures of iron and copper as a mineral memory. The exhibition runs weekly, Wednesday to Saturday from 12 to 6pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/muscle-memory-41304/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/501a58be9aadd9317d0a01197feb22ac56fac8bceebb008297316d5ce9f480c5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "70 years ACF - meins ist deins", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Austrian Cultural Forum", "address": "Rutland Gate 28, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The exhibition 'meins ist deins' marks the 70th anniversary of the Austrian Cultural Forum London and a decade of curatorial collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Curators Josie Sanne and Zaccaria Slater, graduates of MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, selected graduates from the Vienna academy to show alongside UK-based artists on the theme of sharing. Split into the categories 'meins' (mine) and 'deins' (yours), the show spans intimate memories, landscapes, tapestries on land ownership and a site-specific installation, exploring what it means to share a cultural identity. Visitors are invited to explore the ACF building itself, from the intern's office to the salon, library and basement gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/70-years-acf-meins-ist-deins-40985/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0f4337d1e86eb78fb1fa80ffc1355789712f73e2a087c78b8cf46dd09a8633c6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Mouthful Of Tongues", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £15)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/book/469096", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["music/singing", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "A Mouthful of Tongues is a solo performance in which a figure in a suit arrives on an empty stage and voices begin to fill the void from hard-to-locate places. It is created and performed by dancer and choreographer Stina Fors, a performance artist and experimental vocalist whose work centres on the voice. Built on several years of research into the relationship between body and voice, it uses distorted ventriloquism to let multiple identities be seen and heard. The piece explores what a body can hold and what it cannot contain, using the voice as a choreographic tool to ask what we do and do not give a voice to.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-mouthful-of-tongues-73828/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01bc47dc287f95c2b07c5b99e675c83680758cdaeabe92e11cb67439119350ef-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Message Is in the Pattern", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of International Visual Arts | Stuart Hall Library - iniva", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art"], "description": "The Message Is in the Pattern is the third edition of iniva's Post-National Digital Pavilion, a digital programme presented in collaboration with the British Council at the 61st Venice Biennale. Curated by Beatriz Lobo with programme support by Vasita (Pleng) Jirathiyut, it responds to Lubaina Himid's British Pavilion commission and explores how collective care, tradition-making and belonging are built through everyday practices such as cooking, braiding and gathering. Three artists, Anya Paintsil, Rajyashri Goody and Rose Afefé, are supported to make new commissions in their local contexts, while four writers from an international open call will respond to the works in a digital publication. The programme runs online from 1 May to 30 November 2026, continuing iniva's transnational, research-led public programmes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-message-is-in-the-pattern-60787/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a0979f0cd962a9acaffabcb74cfecb03fa4c4c6e1270c8b02b22bb88ad6ac3f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Voices in the Room", "start": "2026-06-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Foundling Museum", "address": "Brunswick Square 40, WC1N 1AZ London", "price": "Adult £14.50 (£13.50 online), Student (22+) £13 (£12 online), Reduced price £13 (£12 online), 21 & u", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "14.50", "tickets_url": "https://shop.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/products/general-admission", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Voices in the Room is a display of three contemporary artworks recently acquired by the Foundling Museum. The works are by Rachel Kneebone, Tamsin van Essen and Grayson Perry, and are shown for the first time as part of the permanent Collection. They offer fresh perspectives on the Foundling story, exploring care for children, memory, identity and belonging. Among them is Rachel Kneebone's ceramic sculpture Through a Glass III, 2023 and Tamsin van Essen's Entangled Roots, 2023.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voices-in-the-room-36164/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5828ed1dd8369ed5e60eeb98b48f39445d5b19874f03a955099fc4cc24132ae-2000.webp"}, {"title": "(M)Others Between Shores", "start": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£17.00 (General Admission, including £1.00 booking fee); concessions from £13.50", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://offwestend.com/tag/tickets-under-20/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "(M)others Between Shores is a movement-led ethnodrama exploring migrant motherhood and belonging. Created by Resonant Shore Theatre from the lived experiences of migrant mothers, it blends physical theatre, puppetry, live music and multilingual performance to show how migration reshapes motherhood, identity and belonging. The devised production traces journeys of displacement, resilience and rebuilding home across borders, transforming personal testimony into poetic theatrical language. From the creators of the award-winning Mothering Voices, this intimate ensemble piece celebrates the strength, care and courage of mothers forging new lives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mothers-between-shores-46242/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/22bbe87cd86c7f26618b7746b099c606c47af9378007858aed374e073964279f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Walking Tour: mapping histories of migration, community and public art with Kuda Mushangi", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "place": "Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, 181-183 Bow Road, London, London, E3 2SJ, United Kingdom", "address": "", "price": "£7.00 – £10.00 (£7 for concessions)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://bowarts.org/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/public-art", "history/migration", "community"], "description": "A guided walking tour exploring Bhajan Hunjan's public art, beginning with samples in the Nunnery Gallery before visiting her public commissions around the local area. It is led by Kuda Mushangi, an award-winning London-based artist and architect whose practice explores migration, memory and belonging. The walk takes in sites speaking to East London's histories of migration, settlement, activism and community-building, including works in Stroudley Walk and on St Paul's Way made with local schools and communities. Participants are invited to consider how public space holds multiple histories and to share their own memories and reflections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-pu-35044/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-public-art-with-kuda-mushangi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74d0ddaf428855060e861a2ad69f00fcdd7dcec0e4f8cfaea29d498f5555acf3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "THIIIRD AUTUMN Social", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T09:00:00Z", "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": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "THIIIRD AUTUMN Social is an evening for creatives who want meaningful connections in an industry that often feels like a solo pursuit. It is hosted by THIIIRD, whose socials are led by leading creative voices sharing their work and stories in an intimate Q&A. This edition features Kim Lang, a prominent voice in contemporary photography known for his bold, theatrical portraiture and narrative approach to individuality, identity, and cultural heritage. It is a space for candid conversation, real connection and potential collaboration, held in Peckham's Sojourner Truth building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thiiird-autumn-social-70555/", "official_url": "https://feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/10/28/thiiird-autumn-social/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1f63eef74843c68d3eb66c439d6e72aedfb381be7039b3dc7132db33b26a684-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Process Makes Practice is a free, drop-in exhibition at Camden Art Centre marking the culmination of a three-year programme supported by The Mildred Fund. Over three years the centre worked with seven artists, two schools and two community groups, including Sidings Community Centre and The Hive, on iterative creative processes without defined outcomes. The exhibition brings together installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections from those involved, with projects led by artists including Shepherd Manyika, Sam Williams, Sara Heywood, Eva Jonas, Nancy Allen, Lydia Paulett and Maymana Arefin. It offers an insight into the work of artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-60157/", "official_url": "https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/process-makes-practice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.webp"}]}