{"title": "One Photograph / Different Perspectives", "start": "2026-11-07T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T17:30:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An artist-led conversation about how the context of a photograph shapes the way we see it. It accompanies Zhiyan Liu's photographic series Laoniang, which documents the everyday life of her maternal grandmother in rural China. Participants look closely at a single photograph from the exhibition and share their interpretations before learning the circumstances in which it was made, then extend the discussion to other works. Open to all, with no prior knowledge of photography required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/one-photograph-different-perspectives-39385/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/one-photograph-different-perspectives", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9a6013ec402eb7bb5eb72e41025df58ad474d4f401d471e524bd4a4d1c3a576-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T17:30:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Laoniang", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "place": "Koppel Collective", "address": "Adelaide Road 1, NW3 3QE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "Laoniang is a photographic exhibition by Zhiyan Liu, presented by The Koppel Project. It is an enquiry into kinship, ageing, domesticity and self-determination, centred on the photographer's maternal grandmother, now eighty years old, whose everyday life of working the land and caring for her home Liu has followed with her camera. Rooted in their close family relationship, the series considers how familiar routines carry knowledge and autonomy, and questions assumptions about later life, labour and care. The images invite viewers to look at a life that cannot be reduced to the perspectives or expectations of others.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/laoniang-42456/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/laoniang-zhiyan-liu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c722e40a70b4e39b1183adddd3b0fe6df5552555d0a01d8a21746c09052ae4b7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Laoniang", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "Laoniang is a photographic exhibition presented by The Koppel Project at Collective. It is the work of Zhiyan Liu, a London-based photographer, and centres on her maternal grandmother, whom she has called Laoniang since childhood. Through sustained engagement with the eighty-year-old's daily life — working the land, tending the courtyard, caring for animals and resting at home — the project explores kinship, ageing, domesticity and self-determination. It considers the tensions between familial care and personal autonomy, inviting a reconsideration of how lives are looked at and understood.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/laoniang-42455/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/laoniang-zhiyan-liu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c722e40a70b4e39b1183adddd3b0fe6df5552555d0a01d8a21746c09052ae4b7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Reclaiming the Archives", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00Z", "place": "St. Margaret's House", "address": "Old Ford Road 15-23, E2 9PJ London", "price": "£12–£17", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "17.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/stmargaretshouse/2364337/select-date?ref=website_widget&show_event_filter=false", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines"], "description": "\"Reclaiming the Archives\" is a hands-on creative workshop at which participants turn their personal photographs into a zine using stitch, writing and collage. It is facilitated by Caroline Lacoma, a London-based self-taught visual artist born in Guadeloupe whose work explores transformation, rebirth and the self. The workshop invites participants to consider the photographs they have inherited, collected or taken and the stories they tell about family, identity, memory and belonging. No previous artistic or zine-making experience is required, all materials are provided, and participants may bring printed photographs to work on.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reclaiming-the-archives-38782/", "official_url": "https://www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk/events/reclaiming-the-archives", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea9c53d56c3c2aafda236f2ac05744c2a292f8c209d434c19caef2c2a88ed03f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Knit & Knatter — 留白 / Beyond Emptiness edition", "start": "2026-11-09T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts/knitting"], "description": "The SOAS Library Knitting Club returns to the SOAS Gallery for a relaxed crafting social, held alongside the exhibition 留白 – Beyond Emptiness by Hong Kong architect and artist Raymond Fung. The session takes its backdrop from 留白 (liú bái), the art of \"leaving blank\" in traditional Chinese ink painting, about the meaning held within space and silence. It is a drop-in, not a class: there is no instruction and no fixed programme, just needles and conversation in the gallery's calm. Bring your own project — knitting, crochet, embroidery or any textile craft — and your own needles, hooks and materials; all skill levels are welcome and booking is essential as space is limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/knit-knatter-beyond-emptiness-edition-43663/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/knit-knatter-liubai/beyond-emptiness-edition", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8c436d7adda14312bd33958a1ba1e2866a811307916c3c3b15dc789700c678d6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Roots", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "from £665 + VAT", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/plants/trees", "art/photography"], "description": "\"Roots\" is a group exhibition at The Print Sales Gallery exploring trees, memory, cultural heritage and belonging through photography and mixed media across global landscapes. The show brings together works by Julie Cockburn, Paul Cupido, Gohar Dashti, Chrystel Lebas, Miho Kajioka, Michael Kenna, Ingrid Weyland and Pentti Sammallahti. It considers trees as living embodiments of origin, memory and belonging, symbols of cultural heritage and archives of collective memory. The works invite us to consider the reciprocal relationships between people and place and to act as guardians for the forests that sustain us.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/roots-39559/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f818861dcf24a700f3df307343302d93e76c7ef72f4fc42909ffec12726bdc94-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mnemosyne Grove: Photography, Memory and Time | Georgia Metaxas in Conversation with Dr. Marta Weiss", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Hellenic Centre", "address": "Paddington Street 16-18, W1U 5AS London", "price": "£5/£4 concession, free for members", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/books/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "A talk evening built around Mnemosyne Grove, a photography work that uses the olive tree to trace connections between land, family archives, migration and storytelling, drawing on the artist's Greek-Australian heritage through an olive grove in Palairos and the island of Ithaca. Australian artist Georgia Metaxas, now based in London, appears in conversation with Dr. Marta Weiss, Senior Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, discussing the making of the book and how the work has evolved towards an investigation of photography's relationship to time, repetition, return and regeneration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mnemosyne-grove-photography-memory-and-time-georgia-metaxas-39351/", "official_url": "https://helleniccentre.org/event/mnemosyne-grove-photography-memory-and-time-georgia-metaxas-in-conversation-with-dr-marta-weiss/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/914463d2d98dcf004a0b2af34c5f5571e0ffd331259f4da99d733ce447a58cd7-600.webp"}, {"title": "Health & Food Futures – Defying the Myth: How We Value Lives", "start": "2026-11-03T18:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Conduit", "address": "Langley Street 6, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/disability"], "description": "An evening conversation on how disability is seen and valued, built around a decade-long photographic project. Photographer Carol Allen-Storey joins Annalisa, Nicola and Shoulana — three mothers raising children with lifelong disabilities — for a candid talk moderated by CNN's Clarissa Ward. The event is a collaboration with Pranvera Shema Smith, founder of On Front Line, and includes a photographic portrait woven together with the families' own drawings, poetry and testimony. Attendance is open to Conduit members, with a cash bar available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/health-food-futures-defying-the-myth-how-we-value-lives-42247/", "official_url": "https://www.theconduit.com/insights/social-equity/defying-the-myth-how-we-value-lives/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7361e11534881499db70b2676ea68ddf14689335bfd1ec8d8dd33c45cad781b8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG: Being Poetic Ruins Life", "start": "2026-10-30T12:00:00Z", "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": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An art exhibition filling an entire contemporary art building with painting, ink works, handscrolls, garments, silk paintings, installation, video and text. It is the first UK institutional exhibition by Evelyn Taocheng Wang, a Netherlands-based artist, presented by the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art. Through her 'make-up box' approach and her unreliable narrator 'The Cultural Whore', the works move between fiction, autobiography and cultural projection to assemble an idiosyncratic portrait of Britain shaped by translation, misunderstanding, desire and performance. New commissions explore the Chinese diasporic experience and Britain's cultural image in China, drawing on motifs from Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, the film Titanic and Count Duckula, with paintings indebted to Agnes Martin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/evelyn-taocheng-wang-being-poetic-ruins-life-36261/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e27d2f903af4f6b46d48a95361c04a29a009319bbc0137b1c2f1d1d870e5d02b-1200.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": "Still Life", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00Z", "place": "The Koppel Project", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/multidisciplinary"], "description": "\"Still Life\" is an exhibition of works by Danlu Zheng, held at the Koppel Project. The London-based multidisciplinary artist, a graduate of Central Saint Martins, shows works spanning moving image, costume, photography and material experimentation. The exhibition traces her evolving investigation into the relationships between the body, materiality and the environment, examining processes of transformation in which states of completion, stability or disappearance give way to further possibilities. Its title evokes a productive tension between stasis and change, as regeneration is considered not a return to an original form but a process through which matter acquires new configurations and meanings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/still-life-42453/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/still-life-danlu-zheng", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34a10258b6e2a4747e11b00bd1fd7dcc9508646fd1f8ef831f9ff189749dd381-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Still Life", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/multidisciplinary"], "description": "\"Still Life\" is an exhibition bringing together works from different stages of Danlu Zheng's practice. Across moving image, costume, photography and material experimentation, it examines relationships between the body, materiality and the environment, and processes of transformation in which states of completion, stability or disappearance give way to further possibilities. The title evokes a tension between stasis and change, considering regeneration as a process through which matter acquires new configurations and meanings. Danlu Zheng is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and a graduate of Central Saint Martins, whose practice explores human existence, the natural environment and material transformation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/still-life-42452/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/still-life-danlu-zheng", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34a10258b6e2a4747e11b00bd1fd7dcc9508646fd1f8ef831f9ff189749dd381-2000.webp"}]}