{"title": "Our Adoption Project: A Soft Inheritance Launch Event", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00Z", "place": "The People Speak", "address": "Aberfeldy Street 27, London", "price": "Free - Booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/family", "art"], "description": "The launch of Soft Inheritance, an adoptee-led, multidisciplinary arts exhibition that explores adoption, featuring the Talkaoke talk show, which is spontaneous and open to all. The People Speak collaborate with Our Adoption Project on the event, which aims to challenge traditional narratives around adoption through reflection, storytelling and creative perspectives. The project foregrounds lived experience, examining family and identity beyond conventional framing and letting multiple viewpoints coexist. 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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. 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Neal Shasore, an architectural historian and founder of the School of Building, joins Michael Hall, author of A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the The National Trust. 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It was developed through a partnership between the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Kingston Race and Equalities Council, local residents and artists, authors, curators and researchers Jaixia, Rong, and Jacqueline from Sharp Raiser Limited, and is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The exhibition celebrates the borough's diverse communities and addresses the underrepresentation of marginalized perspectives within local heritage archives, while honouring half a century of Kingston Race and Equalities Council's dedication to race equality, grassroots leadership, and cultural advocacy. Visitors can discover poems, personal stories, interviews, memories and artworks created during the project and contribute something of their own to Kingston's growing Living Archive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/decolonising-kingston-the-living-archive-36790/", "official_url": "https://www.kingstonheritage.org.uk/events/decolonising-kingston-living-archive", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ce984631e8a6026bf07e259daf9699c69bfd68247f8eeca955640f22353b8582-600.webp"}, {"title": "Safe Harbour", "start": "2026-10-31T12:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T14:30:00Z", "place": "National Maritime Museum", "address": "Romney Road, SE10 9NF London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safe-harbour-november-tickets-1978095921149", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy"], "description": "Safe Harbour is a series of free workshops offering a safe space for foster and adoptive families with children aged under 13. 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It features an installation From–To by Gaza's Dahaleez Collective, Common Frequencies by El Warcha Collaborative Design Studio, and a rolling programme of artist takeovers by Bint Mbareh, 1000 Pounds to Survive Us, felix taylor and Aditi Jaganathan. Instruments, recording devices, books and listening stations remain available for use, misuse and re-use, and Sunday Jams run throughout the project, free, open and bookable in advance. 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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"}, {"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": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Arts Centre", "address": "Arkwright Road 52, NW3 6DG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "community"], "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, working with artists and young people in the local area. Over three years Camden Art Centre ran long-term programmes with seven artists, two schools and two community groups, embracing iterative creative processes without defined outcomes or expectations. The exhibition features installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections on the projects from those involved, offering insight into artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden. A Sharing Day on 29 October 2026 from 2–6pm offers workshops by some of the artists involved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-73862/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "November 2026: exhibitions and events in hARTslane", "start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "hARTslane", "address": "Hart's Lane 17, SE14 5UP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media", "society"], "description": "Soft Sell opens at hARTslane with an opening evening, a multidisciplinary exhibition by Kaitlin O'Connor. It explores how advertising, consumer culture and entertainment shape our identities, aspirations and ideas of empowerment. Three interconnected projects — No Body's Dead Yet, Perpetual Kittenhood and Neon Bodega Cats — combine illustration, moving image, installation and interactive objects to examine the blurring boundaries between personal identity and commercial culture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/november-2026-exhibitions-and-events-in-hartslane-69869/", "official_url": "https://www.hartslane.org/november-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b746e25c69200a2479adc33bf1931b3a3f032a4e4aec15b56c1d1617efc1609-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Storm: An Irish Nigerian Family Story", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Irish Cultural Centre", "address": "5 Black's Road, Hammersmith, W6 9DT", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://irishculturalcentre.co.uk/whats-on/?_sft_event_type=book", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word/storytelling", "society/queer"], "description": "An evening of storytelling, poetry, photography, film and music at the Irish Cultural Centre. Two London Irish Nigerian brothers, the poet and playwright Gabriel Gbadamosi and the retired storyteller David Gbadamosi, evoke the life of their older brother Storm, a gay black Irishman, and pay tribute to their younger brother Nick. Blending family memories and London lives with humour, tenderness and honesty, it is part memoir, part performance and part celebration of identity, belonging and bonds that endure across loss, with musicians The Quiery Brothers, Nessan and Eoin, with Gary Lilburn and friends.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/storm-an-irish-nigerian-family-story-41565/", "official_url": "https://irishculturalcentre.co.uk/event/storm-an-irish-nigerian-family-story/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7252f457e1657c92c2d0e762b559c5591eb34a07693dcc27b753c4bb9e49c1a3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "UNHEMMED BOOK LAUNCH & MORE THAN A BUNDLE STORY EXHIBITION SHOWCASE", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "price": "free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unhemmed-book-launch-more-than-a-bundle-story-exhibition-showcase-tickets-2002536317031?lid=0sdzs95i1xix", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/migration", "literature"], "description": "A one-night-only exhibition celebrating Turkish migration, heritage and community in London, alongside the launch of Emel Sevinç's debut novel 'Unhemmed'. The exhibition, 'More Than a Bundle Story', is an oral-history and cultural-heritage project curated by Emel Sevinç that preserves the experiences of Turkish-speaking migrants who arrived in Britain from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, many of whom worked in the capital's textile and clothing industry. Through photographs, recorded testimonies, personal memories and everyday objects, it explores migration, work, family, sacrifice, identity and belonging. The novel, set within London's Turkish garment industry, brings history and fiction together for one special evening, and everyone is welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unhemmed-book-launch-more-than-a-bundle-story-exhibition-sho-42961/", "official_url": "https://bigpennysocial.co.uk/whats-on/unhemmed-book-launch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d92d2a1c48a1fd36cedd456504196889700b8dc14e3daa98ae5b111c6d7dac01-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Knots Presents: Oscillations", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T22:00:00Z", "place": "ANNEX, 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/knotsnoise/2392847/r/website", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Knots Presents: Oscillations is an exhibition at ANNEX in Elephant and Castle, hosted by The Koppel Project, bringing together a network of artists, organisers and learners. It is curated by Knots, whose noise nights invite artists to meet through an exchange of ideas and collaboration, and it invites artists to respond through visual mediums speaking to collaboration and resistance in shared history, local communities, familial lives and the every day. Knots frames it against the rising influence of the far-right in the UK and beyond, using performance to build relationships, exchange knowledge and work in solidarity with communities resisting authoritarianism and injustice. The opening evening is followed by cross-disciplinary noise collaborations with Knots alumni and a short panel Q&A with the exhibiting artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/knots-presents-oscillations-42454/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/knots-presents-oscillations-annex", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e8c4c2a00a05ba4b41afd061a3d875c8e737070a1d5b100bc8610ae61659e961-2000.webp"}]}