{"title": "Rumba Rules, New Genealogies", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths CCA", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/world/african", "film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of the film Rumba Rules, New Genealogies (2020). It was produced by Twenty Nine Studio and directed by David N. Bernatchez and Sammy Baloji with the collaboration of Kiripi Katembo Siku. The film goes into the daily life of the Brigade Sarbati Orchestra, one of the great orchestras of the current generation in Kinshasa, with nearly thirty artists. Through studio work, rehearsals and concerts, it offers portraits of Congolese rumba as an essay on the meaning of self and rootedness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rumba-rules-new-genealogies-60635/", "official_url": "https://goldsmithscca.art/event/screening-rumba-rules-new-genealogies-2020/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/476aebbf9550c0061b29d48b3e955f9ea92987106b28623ab50cdec024a32d85-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths CCA", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Muguruza FM 40 Tour", "start": "2026-11-07T20:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music"], "description": "Four decades after first stepping onto a stage, Fermin Muguruza embarks on a large-scale tour, a collective journey celebrating 40 years of music, commitment, and cultural resistance. 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Through music, images, and memory, it draws a cinematic portrait of a creator who has turned his songs into tools of struggle, identity, and community celebration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/muguruza-fm-40-tour-74139/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/doc-n-roll-ff-muguruza-fm-40-tour-q-a", "image": ""}, {"title": "Film Africa 2026", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/africa", "film"], "description": "Film Africa 2026 is a festival of African cinema taking place across London, opening and closing at BFI Southbank. It is run by the Royal African Society and returns from 23 October to 1 November 2026. The programme brings together new voices, established filmmakers and essential works from across Africa and its diasporas, spanning features, documentaries, shorts, retrospectives and conversations. 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It brings together Chiara Ambrosio’s ‘Raft - A London Story’, a screening of work by The Parlour Collective, and Joseph Despins’s 1976 feature ‘The Moon Over The Alley’, with an opening performance from Bird Radio and James Hesford. Ambrosio’s film is described as a musical haunting and contemporary fairytale about a specific place poised between appearance and disappearance, seeking new forms of sanctuary and belonging; The Parlour Collective are artists working with site-responsive performance and film, exploring the psychological and somatic experience of landscape. Despins’s dark yet tender 1976 British experimental musical, scored by Galt MacDermont, explores the problems facing the multicultural residents of a Notting Hill boarding house destined for demolition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/raft-the-parlour-collective-the-moon-over-the-alley-39366/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/raftparlourmoon", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9083b82df6e14dd0f8bdaaa6996611a9b4d27dd5850e925237bea3a84bb36982-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nu Civilisation Orchestra", "start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Union Chapel", "address": "Compton Terrace, N1 2XD London", "price": "£30.00", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music/jazz"], "description": "An evening with the Nu Civilisation Orchestra, a five-piece ensemble led by Peter Edwards and featuring Mark Kavuma on trumpet, performing live to John Akomfrah's documentary 'The Stuart Hall Project'. Marking 100 years since the birth of Miles Davis, the musicians play his soundtrack live against the 2013 film's portrait of Stuart Hall, the co-founder of New Left Review and a leading voice in British Cultural Studies. Layered with archival footage and Hall's own reflections, the film explores identity, race and belonging, with the live score deepening its resonance. 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Made by Férid Boughedir, it traces the rise of African filmmaking after independence, following a generation of directors who challenged colonial images of the continent and told their own stories. Through archival footage, film excerpts and interviews with pioneering directors, it charts the movement's political and social struggles and its search for new cinematic voices and forms. The film remains an essential portrait of the birth of modern African cinema and of the filmmakers who changed how Africa was seen on screen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/camera-dafrique-36647/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/camera-dafrique/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c348eb8d9b78c8fee961044f31e4e42661c8ee66f13913590b59c4ff8e125f91-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Omega Wants to Dance", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "dance", "music"], "description": "A screening of the documentary film \"Omega Wants to Dance\", a journey in search of individual and collective identity through dance, music, thought and spirituality. It is directed by Ramón Tort and made in Spain, combining personal testimonies, historical events, fiction and an electrifying audiovisual collage. The film explores the many dimensions of dancing, from entertainment and catharsis to seduction and ritual, seen as one of humanity's most fundamental forms of expression. It screens as part of the music documentary series \"Música para tus ojos\" presented by the Instituto Cervantes in partnership with the IN-EDIT festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/omega-wants-to-dance-39227/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/omega-wants-to-dance/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/784310b71979fc01cce11028ee16fb33ab0304d9182a218a0cc2eb22edd6d866-600.webp"}, {"title": "Afro-Latin Fiesta: Message from Gambia ft Suntou Susso", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T22:30:00Z", "place": "The Fox & Firkin", "address": "Lewisham High Street 316, SE13 6JZ London", "price": "GBP 13–20", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/world/african"], "description": "Folktales presents Afro-Latin Fiesta: Message from Gambia, the final night of a UK headline tour, with live music followed by a late-night afterparty. The headliner is Suntou Susso & The Gambian Superstars, a first-time UK pairing of the kora maestro, singer-songwriter and composer with his homegrown band. Born into the ancient Griot tradition of the Mandinka people, he plays a 22-string kora rooted in a 700-year tradition, fusing Afro-Manding roots with jazz, funk, soul and contemporary sounds. The support is London trio Las Chanchas with Chicha and psychedelic cumbia, plus DJ Moussa, a French-Ivorian selector and one half of Mamoussa.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/afro-latin-fiesta-message-from-gambia-ft-suntou-susso-43994/", "official_url": "https://foxfirkin.com/event/suntou-susso/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc5cd7ffe79bfa6c29507be35f8efd47a9b7452dc8af05e135194f6047aaedf9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Before It Was Cool: The Brooklyn Beat From Lauterbach’s", "start": "2026-11-01T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/punk", "film/documentary"], "description": "Before It Was Cool is a documentary film followed by a Q&A. Filmmakers Michael West and Lia Komakhidze tell the story of Lauterbach's, an unassuming Brooklyn dive bar of the early 1980s that became the birthplace of a musical movement known as \"The Brooklyn Beat.\" Through intimate interviews, archival footage and animation, the film uncovers this overlooked chapter of New York music history and a community of punk, indie and alternative musicians who turned competition into collaboration. When the bar suddenly closed its community scattered, but the film celebrates this pre-gentrification Brooklyn and its enduring influence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/before-it-was-cool-the-brooklyn-beat-from-lauterbachs-39226/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/before-it-was-cool-the-brooklyn-beat-from-lauterbachs-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/18cb4ceff5d8aaea143fe2b02f87854c90c61b8b4a4c230267993efb14338a8a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Tracing Posterity: Screening and Scanning Social", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Women’s Museum", "address": "Barking Wharf Square 4-5, IG11 7DQ", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002211966891?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/black-history"], "description": "An evening of short films and archival footage followed by a communal scanning and sharing workshop. Curated by Abel Holsborough, it reflects on the representation of Black British histories in film archives and how selective memories are preserved. Led by and centring Black residents of Barking and Dagenham, it marks Black History Month and invites visitors to bring family photos, DVDs and tapes to be digitised for a borough-wide community archive. The programme includes Early Years by Morgan Quaintance, Super Sam by Sandi Hudson Francis, and Eileen's Party, a home movie by local resident Eileen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social-40351/", "official_url": "https://womensmuseum.org.uk/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76e5b14dc4792c68dfe22d592716439c2265ed022594685261aea3707f3fcd5-600.webp"}]}