{"title": "Shinto craftsmanship in Ise: between people and kami", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Japan House", "address": "Kensington High Street 101-111, W8 5SA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history", "religion"], "description": "A talk about Shinto craftsmanship in Ise, the home of Ise Jingū, Japan's most important Shinto shrine. The speaker is Kawanishi Yōsuke, Shinto priest and President of Miyachu, an Ise-based maker of kami-dana (household shrines) and shingu (Shinto ritual implements) founded in 1938. He explores how craftsmanship can bridge people and kami, discussing the selection of natural materials, passing skills to future generations and sustaining these traditions in a changing world. The talk forms part of a programme presented with Ise City, within the Spotlight on Local Japan Programme with JNTO.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/shinto-craftsmanship-in-ise-between-people-and-kami-41598/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Japan House", "address": "Kensington High Street 101-111, W8 5SA London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Experience Ise's Okihiki Festival: make a zai and sing kiyari work songs", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Japan House", "address": "Kensington High Street 101-111, W8 5SA London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/japan", "religion"], "description": "A hands-on workshop about the Okihiki Festival of Ise Grand Shrine, part of Shikinen Sengū, the once-every-20-years renewal of Japan's most important Shinto shrine. Led by Kawanishi Masahiko of Miyachu, a sacred straw rope artisan from Ise who leads kiyari work songs in his local Okihiki group. After an introduction to the festival's history and significance, participants make zai, the signalling batons used to direct Okihiki processions, from wooden sticks and washi paper, and learn to sing kiyari uta, the rhythmic work songs chanted during the festival. The event forms part of a wider programme presented in collaboration with Ise City within the Spotlight on Local Japan Programme, organized with the Japan National Tourism Organization.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/experience-ises-okihiki-festival-make-a-zai-and-sing-kiyari-41599/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Profound Desires of the Gods", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Profound Desires of the Gods (神々の深き欲望) is Shōhei Imamura's final fiction film for almost a decade, shown in a screening at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Set on the fictional island of Kurage, said to have been forged by discarded objects thrown by incestuous brother and sister gods, it follows the outcast Futori family and Kariya, a Tokyo engineer sent to oversee the opening of a sugar manufacturing facility. Beneath the island's paradisiacal surface of lush forests and turquoise seas, Kariya discovers deep-rooted superstitions, privation and duplicities, and over the months he is slowly drawn into the Futori family's way of life. Tracing Japan's evolution from the agrarian to the industrial, the primitive to the modern, the film examines the entire strata of a society while insisting that our foundations remain as desirous and ritualistic as ever.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/profound-desires-of-the-gods-74140/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-profound-desires-of-the-gods", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dc5f2e82a69b5bebd3f0b42681d78f574662e3665b7eaefa0a396d93bfea69a6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Christmas Ceramics Workshop with Noriko Nagaoka", "start": "2026-11-15T12:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "place": "Kanpai", "address": "Druid Street 48, SE1 2EZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/ceramics", "occasion/christmas"], "description": "A hands-on Christmas ceramics workshop where you make your own stoneware ornaments. It is led by Japanese ceramic artist Noriko Nagaoka, who guides participants through shaping and decorating pieces with leaves, stamps and textures. Attendees can create one larger ornament or up to five smaller pieces and choose from five glaze colours; the ticket includes a 90-minute guided workshop, clay, tools, glazing and kiln firing, and a can of KANPAI Session Sake or a soft drink. No experience is needed, the workshop is family friendly, and finished ornaments can be collected roughly three to four weeks later in time for Christmas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/christmas-ceramics-workshop-with-noriko-nagaoka-36762/", "official_url": "https://kanpai.london/events/2026/4/26/christmas-ceramics", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8aba0561c6f6d64746ca01bb76b59e55f435e46490ac84b6e4ce86122d175530-2000.webp"}, {"title": "UNIQLO Tate Play: Make Studio: Hold / Release", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-10T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art", "dance"], "description": "UNIQLO Tate Play: Make Studio: Hold / Release is a family workshop at Tate Modern exploring holding on and letting go through movement, making and play. Visitors can move, melt and squeeze alongside artists Takeshi Matsumoto and Masumi Saito in a specially created video, then pull, stretch, connect, balance and transform materials, trace a line, hold a shadow or make something temporary together, inspired by artists who experiment with the body, materials and movement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/uniqlo-tate-play-make-studio-hold-release-87908/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/uniqlo-tate-play/make-studio-hold--release", "image": "https://noky.io/images/57d554a1427fd1201b8d07e0d6068675f610ab63dec95e7a803a863318c6a899-1200.webp"}]}