{"title": "Mushrooms are us: Badge Cafe", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Soho Poly", "address": "16 Riding House Street, W1W 7DT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mushrooms-are-us-badge-cafe-tickets-1999698598338?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["nature/fungi", "society/folklore"], "description": "Mushrooms are us: Badge Cafe is a hands-on workshop where participants of all ages create their own mushroom-themed badges, with all visual resources and tools provided. It explores why mushrooms have a special place in fairy tales and magical practices around the world, inviting learning through making and inspired by the cultural history of mushrooms and fungi. The tailored edition of the badge café is part of Being Human Festival, the UK's national festival of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. It takes place at GoTo at The Soho Poly.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mushrooms-are-us-badge-cafe-70649/", "official_url": "https://sohopoly.co.uk/events/mushrooms-are-us-badge-cafe/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Soho Poly", "address": "16 Riding House Street, W1W 7DT London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Autumn Badge Cafe", "start": "2026-11-04T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T14:00:00Z", "place": "The Soho Poly", "address": "16 Riding House Street, W1W 7DT London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://sohopoly.co.uk/events/autumn-badge-cafe-5", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "Badge Cafe is a friendly lunchtime drop-in where you make your own unique badges from old pictures, books and magazines. Hosted by Ben Walters, it offers free, easy and creative fun in a crafty utopian hangout, described by a punter as 'overt existential joy'. It is part of a series of Wednesday sessions at the Soho Poly running from late October to early December.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-badge-cafe-70645/", "official_url": "https://sohopoly.co.uk/events/autumn-badge-cafe-4/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Adult Garden Workshops", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Horniman Museum and Gardens", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["nature/fungi"], "description": "Adult Garden Workshops is a series of hands-on workshops for adults at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, exploring nature through creativity in its Gardens. On 8 November the session is the Guided Fungi Walk with Rights for Weeds. It is a guided walk through the Horniman Gardens with Rights for Weeds, searching for wild fungi, identifying them and discussing their ecology. The walk moves at a relaxed pace with plenty of space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/adult-garden-workshops-50302/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10379a07017624b9d93f8fed5bdbe479420040a65401a3e7b389a6c7453f8ed3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Guided Fungi Walk with Rights for Weeds", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T16:00:00Z", "place": "Horniman Museum and Gardens", "address": "", "price": "Adult £40", "price_from": "40.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.horniman.ac.uk/22806/23678", "category": "tours", "tags": ["nature/fungi", "food-drink"], "description": "Guided Fungi Walk with Rights for Weeds is a guided walk through the Horniman Gardens searching for wild fungi, identifying them and discussing their ecology. It is held at the Horniman Museum and Gardens and is perfect for adults. At a relaxed pace with room for chatting and note-taking, it covers why fungi matter, fungal storytelling and folklore, medicinal mushrooms, where to look for fungi, how to forage edible wild mushrooms sustainably, and the relationship between foraging and land politics. The walk ends at the Horniman Pavilion, where the group makes something edible to eat and enjoy together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/guided-fungi-walk-with-rights-for-weeds-50299/", "official_url": "https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/guided-fungi-walk-with-rights-for-weeds/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10379a07017624b9d93f8fed5bdbe479420040a65401a3e7b389a6c7453f8ed3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Doodle Café", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T15:00:00Z", "place": "The Soho Poly", "address": "16 Riding House Street, W1W 7DT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/doodle-cafe-tickets-2000982258801?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing", "wellness"], "description": "Doodle Café is an imaginative doodle story workshop where participants combine colour patches, outlines, words, doodling and drawing into a mixed media artwork. It runs weekly and is part of a soft launch of the Soho Poly Creative Health events. The workshop uses storytelling at its core, uniting images and words, with teas, coffees and snacks provided in a relaxed atmosphere of records and soft lighting. Attendees can bring their own materials or use what is in the room.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/doodle-cafe-70644/", "official_url": "https://sohopoly.co.uk/events/doodle-cafe-3/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Mushroom Music (and Dance) Gig", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-13T20:00:00Z", "place": "The Soho Poly", "address": "16 Riding House Street, W1W 7DT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mushroom-music-and-dance-gig-tickets-1999696509089?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/experimental-electronic", "nature/fungi"], "description": "Mushroom Music (and Dance) Gig is a live demonstration of music generated by plants and mushrooms. It is led by Brian d'Souza, known as DJ Auntie Flo, who has spent five years experimenting with making music from plants and fungi. Using plant biodata to trigger notes on a specially built modular synthesizer in a process called 'bionsonification', he crosses boundaries between the more-than-human fungal world and electronic music. The event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK's national festival of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mushroom-music-and-dance-gig-70650/", "official_url": "https://sohopoly.co.uk/events/mushroom-music-and-dance-gig/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e76a85a37a39dc0e894dbd72b53b2e10eef2668ffbee9cbbec3d7f428415832a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween Craft Workshop", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Dorich House Museum", "address": "Kingston Vale 67, SW15 3RN London", "price": "5 GBP", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/halloween-craft-workshop-tickets-2002218801333?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A family friendly Halloween workshop where participants make their own Halloween masks and posters. Local artist Anna Milgrom leads the session, held in the first floor modelling studio designed by Dora Gordine for her creative practice. It is open to people of all ages and abilities, with no previous experience required, and children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Everyone takes home their own mask or poster at the end.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-craft-workshop-35610/", "official_url": "https://www.dorichhousemuseum.org.uk/2026/09/25/halloween-craft-workshop-saturday-31-october-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f3605b746e358668e0b374259d33d602ef128c344c9d0d71de79b24d8b789d1f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fungi Walk: Citizen Science", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Bushy Park", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1995953816595?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "tours", "tags": ["nature/fungi"], "description": "Fungi Walks: Citizen Science is a guided 1.5-hour beginners' walk through Bushy Park to identify and record fungi. It is run by Gemma from the Help Nature Thrive team of The Royal Parks and is aimed at adults with an interest in learning more about the natural world. The walk covers fungi identification, citizen science recording, woodland ecology and climate resilience, and how fungi matter to a healthy and sustainable ecosystem. It starts and finishes at the Pheasantry Café.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fungi-walk-citizen-science-39690/", "official_url": "https://www.royalparks.org.uk/whats-on/fungi-walks-citizen-science", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f05f85a1671ed13029130e7e42d230be8338c10cca29cb070bc440e579317ba-1200.webp"}]}