{"title": "Polisonics: Community Listening in Action", "start": "2026-11-19T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T20:30:00Z", "place": "The Showroom", "address": "Penfold Street 63, London", "price": "Free, booking essential", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "society/activism"], "description": "A listening session exploring how sound and collective listening can reshape paradigms, challenge systemic inequalities, build communities and resist structural injustice. It is convened by Matt Lewis and Cecilia Wee of the Royal College of Art and facilitated by activist, academic and Migrant Champion for Hackney Manal Massalha, drawing on themes from the book Polisonics: Collective Listening and the Politics of Sound. Working with Radio Alhara, Radio Monteaudio and Grenfell impacted communities and members of the Grenfell Health and Well Being Service, the session features a series of sonic responses followed by discussion with audience members and contributors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/polisonics-community-listening-in-action-39708/", "official_url": "https://theshowroom.org/events/polisonics-community-listening-in-action", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T20:30:00Z", "place": "The Showroom", "address": "Penfold Street 63, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "sounding towards - -", "start": "2026-07-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Mosaic Rooms", "address": "Cromwell Road 226, London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art"], "description": "Mosaic Rooms presents sounding towards – –, a five-month project turning the gallery into a site for listening, sonic experimentation and conviviality. 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Initiated and developed by Angelina Radaković in conversation with the artists, the project is an experiment in institutional openness, asking what kinds of collectivities can emerge through shared acts of listening and convening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sounding-towards-39449/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68829d3c6e434a350b86c77f7ae7727218519c407c92dce5dc5fb9bef628c267-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Earshot Library-in-Residence", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-06-27T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "society/human-rights"], "description": "Earshot Library-in-Residence is a nine-month residency bringing sound into the Iqra as a site of sonic inquiry, where recordings are interrogated and listening is both exercise and method. It is presented by Earshot, the not-for-profit organisation founded by Lawrence Abu Hamdan that uses sound to defend human and environmental rights. The Library is organised across four bodies of work: From the Field, a multichannel audio experience of field recordings, and three listening stations — The Crack and the Boom on audio ballistic analysis, Authentic Audio on AI-generated voices and deepfakes, and The Sonic Identikit on profiling sounds and earwitness testimony. A public programme of case launches, workshops, and talks across the nine months treats sound as evidence, memory and witness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/earshot-library-in-residence-36598/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "if you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise Andrew Pierre Hart", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of International Visual Arts | Stuart Hall Library - iniva", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "This is an exhibition project titled 'if you like rice, you'll understand – Collective Noise', bringing together painting, photography, moving image, text and sound. 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. The project includes a cross-site exhibition, an events programme and a publication, supported by The Ampersand Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/if-you-like-rice-youll-understand-collective-noise-andrew-pi-60786/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aabf80b0df67e5692d00f33769a693ca39fc9b1eab2066da1de9d0767fe6eb43-1200.webp"}, {"title": "People's Justice: Towards an Understanding of Art Solidarity", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:30:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/activism"], "description": "A panel talk bringing together Alexander Supartono, Marco Baravalle, and Rehana Zaman to discuss art as a means of building solidarity. It forms the final chapter of Rakyat Pasti Menang, where Taring Padi presents works from People's Justice, a series rooted in the collective's commitment to art as a tool for political change and social transformation across borders. Drawing on the speakers' personal and collective experiences of constructing progressive alliances, the conversation examines solidarity as the formation of common practices against the co-optation, disciplining, and censorship of the global art-industrial complex.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/peoples-justice-towards-an-understanding-of-art-solidarity-49152/", "official_url": "https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/peoples-justice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4530f2b39e1c23d2c1a92b6c63f8994b8f6e3866b93f14940dffa9122f30497f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Re-sounding the East End", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T20:00:00Z", "place": "Idea Store", "address": "Churchill Place 2, E14 5RB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "history/local-history"], "description": "An evening discussion about the three sound art installations 'Everything is different, nothing has changed', set in the context of the East End's social and public history. It is led by curators and historians Nadia Valman, Tamsin Bookey, Rehana Ahmed and Alan Dein. The event is part of the Being Human Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/re-sounding-the-east-end-88042/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/689a13ea5043ba3c9ea06a9b69727dde21ecdd7f9ba3cff0889779a31c8080b8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Deep Listening Sound Journey", "start": "2026-11-17T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T20:30:00Z", "place": "Chats Palace", "address": "Brooksby's Walk 42-44, E9 6DF London", "price": "3 ticket price-points according to income (no questions asked)", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness/sound-healing"], "description": "Deep Listening Sound Journey is a deeply relaxing sound journey using the vibrational power of gongs and instruments, leaving participants energised and rejuvenated. It is led by Jon, a local community artist and sound therapist, who continues a decades-old relationship with Chats Palace and runs monthly sessions from June to November 2026. The session includes qigong and gentle movement at the beginning to get the energy moving, with participants describing feelings of love, joy and gratitude. Tickets are offered at three price points according to income, with no questions asked.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/deep-listening-sound-journey-35269/", "official_url": "https://jonpetter.com/sound-therapy/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/44fdb035a8df5160b36cfe8ac7a9558076f7c06dc4f571a036c9c84f58d37397-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Transnational Resistances", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Transnational Resistances is a two-day symposium at Tate Modern rooted in artistic practices of transnational resistance and solidarity. It is organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor, in collaboration with IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and supported by the Irish and UK Governments. Artists and academics explore support networks, feminist methodologies, memory work, counter-archiving and embodied knowledge across communities resisting erasure. The Friday programme includes workshops, talks, a communal meal, an audiovisual intervention and a keynote in Starr Cinema and Clore Foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transnational-resistances-87905/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/transnational-resistances", "image": "https://noky.io/images/95b14b0c428d32be58e657aa555606139f1b05612c7b1a26c2f664211fdb1632-1200.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": "5.00", "price_to": "10.00", "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"}, {"title": "The Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecture: Laudan Nooshin", "start": "2026-11-17T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T18:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland", "address": "Fitzroy Street 50, London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music"], "description": "The Royal Anthropological Institute 2026 Blacking Lecture and Inaugural Professorial Lecture, titled 'Building Bridges, Making a Difference: Reflections on Music Scholar as Cultural Mediator', followed by a drinks reception. It is given by Prof Laudan Nooshin of City St George's, University of London, who reflects on almost 20 years of applied work as a cultural mediator. Her talk covers projects including an educational trip to Iran, a collaboration with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a children's book project, a sound project in a historic house, and a Leverhulme Trust funded project on Polish refugees in Iran during World War 2. The lecture is free, with tickets booked in advance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-royal-anthropological-institute-blacking-lecture-laudan-64972/", "official_url": "https://therai.org.uk/events/the-royal-anthropological-institute-blacking-lecture-laudan-nooshin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9a5644f15abfcf1ebff40644700bce00a812e08da7a63ef62406bfb1bf30b817-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Trembling City: Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T16:30:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/war", "science"], "description": "A talk and conversation marking the worldwide launch of the book 'The Trembling City: The Sonic and Atmospheric Violence of Vibrational Warfare', held in the Majlis. Author Gascia Ouzounian joins artist and researcher Susan Schuppli in conversation. The book explores how sound and vibration act as instruments of violence in cities under occupation, siege, and war, from drone noise in Gaza to the skies above Beirut. It is part of 'The Trembling City: Sound and Spatial Justice', a series conceived by Ouzounian with Ibraaz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-trembling-city-book-launch-36607/", "official_url": "https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/the-trembling-city", "image": ""}, {"title": "On the Night of Separation, I Wanted to Tell You Something: Êvar Huseynî and WANAWAL", "start": "2026-11-19T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/languages"], "description": "An interactive exhibition at Somerset House by artist Êvar Huseynî, exploring how protest, music and celebration can resist the erasure of language and national identity. Drawing on a Kurdish feminist approach to listening as an active political gesture, it considers how shared practices of expression and gathering can sustain cultural memory in the face of suppression. Taking its title from a poem by the artist's father, it combines personal archives with materials from WANAWAL, the West Asian and North African Women's Art Library founded by Huseynî in 2019 and based at Somerset House Studios. On show are a newly produced film and musical composition made with Kurdish harpist Tara Jaff, alongside an installation of family photographs, archival sound and ephemera.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/on-the-night-of-separation-i-wanted-to-tell-you-something-ev-74820/", "official_url": "https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/g31-êvar-huseynî-wanawal", "image": ""}, {"title": "Dissidences 7. Sound, voice, word", "start": "2026-11-14T16:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "Free / £5/10 donations for the artists", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Dissidences 7. Sound, voice, word is a performance gathering poets, singers and performers in a semi-circle around a music improviser, reading, reciting, singing or babbling, with spontaneity and dissidence as the rules and the basis for a collective piece. The performers are Carla Cías with sound, Ivy Tsui with dance and voice, and Montse Gallego and Charlie Folorunsho with voice and words. Ivy Tsui is a Hong Kong-born, London-based dance artist and choreographer whose practice centres on improvisation and the relationship between movement, sound, memory, language and identity. Montse Gallego, a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Hundred Years Gallery, brings her poetry to the event alongside Charlie Folorunsho, who has played on the London improv scene at venues including Boat Ting and Hundred Years Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dissidences-7-sound-voice-word-36576/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/dissidences-7-sound-voice-word-saturday-14th-november-4-30/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Gigi Masin", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T23:00:00Z", "place": "EartH", "address": "Stoke Newington Road 11-17, N16 8BH London", "price": "£29.87", "price_from": "29.87", "price_to": "29.87", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/ambient"], "description": "EartH presents a live concert by Gigi Masin with special guests in the EartH Theatre. Drawing on his latest album, Movement, the Venetian artist presents a work in which rhythm becomes architecture and sound becomes motion. Through evolving electronic compositions and hypnotic repetition, Movement For investigates the physical and perceptual dimensions of listening, at the intersection of experimental and ambient sound practices and contemporary club culture. Tony Njoku is also on the lineup.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gigi-masin-35780/", "official_url": "https://earthackney.co.uk/events/gigi-masin-18th-nov-earth-london-tickets-av5x8x/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/51bb20e1380075928fb003f43c99ad847d09817960d2fa7c5ad8793243ff375d-2000.webp"}]}