{"title": "Shakedown", "start": "2026-11-05T20:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary feature built from more than 300 hours of footage, weaving together performances, backstage moments, interviews and club flyers into an atmospheric portrait of a space of refuge and celebration. Director Leilah Weinraub, who worked at the club as a photographer, brings an insider's view of the bonds between dancers and organisers, among them club creator and emcee Ronnie-Ron, star performer Egypt, community 'mother' Mahogany and 'Queen' of Shakedown Jazmine. The film presents eroticism as a shared ritual between the Shakedown Angels and their audiences, a language of lap dances and stripteases that complicates money, fantasy, labour and self-expression. It stands as an archival celebration of Black lesbian sensuality, preserving a community in defiance of the forces that seek to erase it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/shakedown-80689/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/nfts-collective-visions-of-pleasure-shakedown", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9cc5071313991f716e7cb71717a2bf92e5cffdbc3e0b9abde79e9f54c4996e78-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T20:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "“Estate. A Reverie” Film Screenings & Talkaoke – part of Estate Talks", "start": "2026-11-14T15:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T18:30:00Z", "place": "Outside Haggerston Community Centre", "address": "8 Lovelace Street, London, E8 4FF", "price": "Free - Booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/housing"], "description": "The final event of the Estate Talks series brings film screenings and Talkaoke, a pop-up talk show by The People Speak, together at Haggerston Community Centre. It features the award-winning film 'Estate. A Reverie' (2015, 83 mins) by resident filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman, made with residents over seven years, interweaving intimate portraits, residents' historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes to ask how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography. Also screened is 'Taking over King's Land' (2014, 23 mins) by Gillian McIver, following Nazir Tanbouli as he battles weather, vandalism and lack of funds to create a massive mural installation across a condemned housing estate in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics. The evening includes a free-flowing conversation around the Talkaoke table, with refreshments provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/estate-a-reverie-film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-tal-39535/", "official_url": "https://thepeoplespeak.org.uk/event/film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-talks/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ed5d15bcca3ae42ca1b5995bfc0f6e8dfd00147cc3502068b60943d1b51d117-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Second Daughter: She Was Never One Body pt II", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Eastway Baths", "address": "80 Eastway, E9 5JH London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film-video", "film/short-film"], "description": "An art exhibition with a short film screening, presented by Second Daughter at Eastway Baths. The works and films explore the body as a collective swarm, with pieces by Karolina Ursala Urbaniak, Keyannah Isaacs, Lottie Stephens, Holly Lou Jones, Eleanor Cox, Georgia Scholes and Kai Thaís, and films including Cailleach, Uproot, Dancing with Broken Feet, Choir of Catharsis and Know That As I Hex You, I Hug You. Film curation is by Lucy Chappell and artwork curation by Holly Lou Jones and Noda Lichen. Second Daughter celebrates dark cinema, art and performance exploring women's stories, made by anyone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/second-daughter-she-was-never-one-body-pt-ii-60442/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b729ec8bc12fc075cd3fe063f334b03ee0f2cdcd811785077d4da46481f84c6c-1200.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": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "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": "'RAFT' & The Parlour Collective & 'The Moon Over The Alley'", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Horse Hospital", "address": "Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10 standard, £15 solidarity", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "stage/musical"], "description": "An evening triple bill of films celebrating the entanglement of bodies and place, with a special focus on London and its shelters, rafts and sanctuaries. 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": "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": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "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": "The Films of Annette Kennerley", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "Free, booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "society/queer"], "description": "An evening screening of moving image works by East London artist Annette Kennerley, followed by a Q&A with the artist and filmmaker Sweatmother. Organised by UCL's Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, Cinenova, LUX and Spectra, it shows works recently digitised by students, exploring queer relationships, transgender lives and motherhood from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. The programme includes 'Bet Lynch's Earrings', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Red Sails', 'Boys in the Backyard' and 'Kelby'. The event is free with booking, runs about two hours and is 18+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-films-of-annette-kennerley-37112/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/the-films-of-annette-kennerley/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6422ce9d7dd00f3d32ca198d84350501ba6272616e63facdcb5570137e0cdd95-2000.webp"}]}