{"title": "Rising and Sinking like Mountains in Streams", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Poetry Cafe", "address": "", "price": "Free, ticketed", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "nature/rivers"], "description": "A live poetry performance with sound and visuals, together with the launch of the project's digital publication. Rising and Sinking Like Mountains in Streams explores creative connections between the River Wye in the UK and the Red River in Hanoi, Vietnam. Initiated by Literature Across Frontiers and co-organised by ajar press, it brought together poets and artists from Vietnam and the UK as the 'RSMS collective', whose works across two residencies were shaped by ecological observation, deep listening, recordings, visual scores, graphic sound notations, collective writing and participatory co-creation. UK artists montenegrofisher (Luna Montenegro and Adrian Fisher) perform live with cellist Isidora Edwards, alongside work by Nhã Thuyên, Lowri Hedd Vaughan, Wanda O'Connor, Nguyễn Hữu Hải Duy and Thuỳ Dương, with support from the British Council's #ConnectionsThroughCulture programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rising-and-sinking-like-mountains-in-streams-95027/", "official_url": "https://poetrysociety.org.uk/event/rising-and-sinking-like-mountains-in-streams/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ce9cff8c62d008e6b93c6bd88d510e84494d2146256aad52548e4c36a7bc7a9-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Poetry Cafe", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "More Fire: Performance Poetry Ignited", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Woolwich Works", "address": "No 1 Street 11, SE18 6HD London", "price": "Cabaret Seats: £27 | Standard Seats: £22 (all prices include a £2 booking fee per ticket)", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "27.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word"], "description": "More Fire: Performance Poetry Ignited is a one-night spoken word show gathering radical and exceptional voices in performance poetry, never seen together on stage before. 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It is run by Resonance, a poetry collective from South East London made up of queer volunteers, which builds community, supports early-career artists and improves access to the arts for underrepresented groups. Fifteen readers take part across three sections, with ten advance slots and five available on the door, welcoming everyone from first-timers to regulars, with new work, rough drafts and old favourites all encouraged.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/resonance-open-mic-poetry-night-38493/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/resonance-open-mic-poetry-night/2026-11-04/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4d32ea18193ca9c826933a25c89dd3a5c0b53272b8d43fc8b005544b033f004c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "if you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise", "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-60786/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aabf80b0df67e5692d00f33769a693ca39fc9b1eab2066da1de9d0767fe6eb43-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Aayushi + Ray Vincent-Mills + Hannah Lou Clark", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Paper Dress Vintage", "address": "352a Mare Street, E8 1HR London", "price": "", "price_from": "14.04", "price_to": "14.04", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter"], "description": "A live music night at Paper Dress Vintage, the venue's bar and events space on Mare Street in London. The line-up was handpicked by Aayushi, a Birmingham-based folk singer-songwriter who writes strikingly tender songs blending poetry with vocals drawn from her Indian heritage, and has drawn nearly 10 million streams. She is joined by Ray Vincent-Mills, a Birmingham-based poet and performer whose work explores his identities as a BLACK, trans and queer artist through imagery that is abstract yet sharp. Hannah Lou Clark appears as Special Guest, with praise from NME, Guy Garvey, Steve Lamacq and Line of Best Fit.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/aayushi-ray-vincent-mills-hannah-lou-clark-61645/", "official_url": "https://paperdressvintage.co.uk/?p=18526", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89779fc7869450aa649c71b1b30646092fa0864ff262dcd3a75cee936ff8a035-600.webp"}, {"title": "Unhomed/Unravelled Shephali Frost – Poetry & Song", "start": "2026-11-14T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "£13", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "13.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/world/sufi", "literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening of poetry and song called \"Unhomed/Unravelled\" brings modern English poetry together with South-Asian songs and improvised music under the theme of Memory, Migration & Home. It features Shephali Frost, a bilingual poet in Hindi and English and singer of Sufi and Urdu songs, with Mark Hewins on electric guitar and synthesizer, Adrian Northover on soprano saxophone and Ansuman Biswas on fusion percussion. Hewins has toured with Lou Reed and the Bob Geldof band, Northover performs on the London and international improv and jazz scene, and Biswas draws on jazz, Indian classical and experimental music and has worked with the National Theatre, Royal Ballet and English National Opera.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unhomedunravelled-shephali-frost-poetry-song-36577/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-poetry-unhomed-unravelled/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9142d91a73e7ffd2219698a92e689246c11aba8f3668cb6962954182362cdea7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Long Poem Magazine - Issue 36 Launch", "start": "2026-11-07T13:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T15:30:00Z", "place": "The Poetry Cafe", "address": "", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "A launch event for Long Poem Magazine – Issue 36, held at The Poetry Cafe. 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It opens with participants collectively pulling out the archive, reading and scanning materials together, followed by readings from the archive and then from two contemporary poets, Lila Matsumoto and Sarah Riggs. The collection features historical and contemporary dissident, heretical, non-conformist and revolutionary poetries, and the series invites people to congregate and discuss these texts. The event is hosted by Danny Hayward, Lizzie Homersham, Luke Roberts, Aurelia Guo and Rowan Powell, and visitors may join for scanning, reading, or both.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/free-trials-3-mayday-rooms-radical-poetry-archiving-and-read-70040/", "official_url": "https://maydayrooms.org/event/free-trials-3-mayday-rooms-radical-poetry-archiving-and-readings/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1e1f0de6486572cd68612dfe17ac7829838b80f343e27b79db77caf6c275d98c-2000.webp"}, {"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": "TESTING GROUND - open mic poetry and performance", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T21:30:00Z", "place": "Bàrd Books", "address": "Roman Road 341-343, E3 5QR London", "price": "£6.00 (+£0.15 ticket service fee)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "TESTING GROUND is an open mic night of poetry, music and performance at Bàrd Books, where anyone can sign up at the door for a slot, assigned on a lottery basis. It is a welcoming night for first-timers and seasoned performers alike to try out new things. This edition features headline guest Cia Mangat, a London writer and zinemaker whose work has appeared in fourteen poems, gal-dem, Propel and bath magg, been broadcast by the BBC, and whose debut pamphlet is Lobe. She founded and edits Zindabad, a zine for people in diasporas worldwide, and facilitates writing and zine-making workshops.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/testing-ground-open-mic-poetry-and-performance-41015/", "official_url": "https://www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-details/testing-ground-open-mic-poetry-and-performance-5", "image": "https://noky.io/images/35e394fc8082cd3e1ec982f1dba926c866c710cf134c68f4b9ed0beefa27cab3-2000.webp"}, {"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. 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. 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": "Paola Estrella: Deep Time Currents", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Orleans House Gallery", "address": "Riverside, TW1 3DJ Twickenham", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "An exhibition at Orleans House Gallery running from early October to late November. It is a new iteration of Paola Estrella's ongoing project The Cenote Ring, bringing together painting, moving image, sound and garments. Rather than presenting nature as a static landscape, it proposes a world in constant movement, where memory, geology and imagination flow together. Moving between deep time and the present, the works reflect on cycles of creation and collapse, ecological fragility and the relationships between bodies, water and the Earth.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/paola-estrella-deep-time-currents-37645/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c4247e8454979896007e87739dc6f77a5198b985a436a962c7a4d0516c2ca389-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Creative Flow: From Limitation to Possibility", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T17:00:00Z", "place": "Firepit Art Gallery", "address": "Cutter Lane 10, SE10 0XX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness/meditation"], "description": "Creative Flow: From Limitation to Possibility is a mindful art and self-discovery salon at an art gallery. It explores imagination, possibility and the vision of a more whole, expansive self through symbolic painting and creative reflection. It is led by Octavia Xiaozi Yang, a jewellery designer and somatic art practitioner who founded Jewelology, mindful art and jewellery workshops that turn reflection into wearable pieces. She holds an MA in Jewellery Design and is trained in ISAT Guided Drawing and Clay Field.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/creative-flow-from-limitation-to-possibility-78667/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3acd982d9404c70ed56b91e03c655fc3a50c146cfe59c0ff7539408cc4b69cc3-1200.webp"}]}