{"title": "Sophie Huckfield & Company – A Socially Useful Production: “The Participation Waltz”", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "Stanley Picker Gallery", "address": "Grange Road, KT1 2QJ Kingston upon Thames", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "history"], "description": "An exhibition at Stanley Picker Gallery that turns the space into a setting for making, gathering and performance around the 1976 Lucas Plan, a radical proposal by workers at Lucas Industries for socially useful production, and the play \"The Participation Waltz\" developed with Lucas workers by Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre. It is created by Sophie Huckfield & Company with Production Designer Rosanna Vize. The show is divided into two 'Acts': one set in the Lucas corporate offices with archival materials, the other the backstage of a working theatre with a recreation of the Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre stage and original and reimagined props. Talks, performances and collaborative activities throughout revisit this history with members of Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre and Lucas Workers sharing their stories, with scripts rewritten, objects remade and the play restaged.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sophie-huckfield-company-a-socially-useful-production-the-pa-42058/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c606f17ca361a8050baf2d028768869cdc8e22bbe21f63973721c67623c79058-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "Stanley Picker Gallery", "address": "Grange Road, KT1 2QJ Kingston upon Thames", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "FREE admission. 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It offers an insight into the work of artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-60157/", "official_url": "https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/process-makes-practice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Exploring History through Creativity", "start": "2026-11-10T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Poplar Union", "address": "Cotall Street 2, E14 6TL London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://poplarunion.com/event/trip-to-st-annes-church-to-see-the-limehouse-chinatown-exhibition-myths-and-realities/", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/london"], "description": "Free creative sessions exploring East End history through collage, photography, movement, singing, soundscapes and performance. 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This edition brings together artists who explore domestic architectures not simply as backdrops, but as sites of labour and performance that can take on a life of their own. Georgina Hill performs a work on the overlooked history of cottage industries in Britain, Alia Hamaoui reworks behind-the-scenes footage from the whodunit crime film 8 Femmes, and Beatrice Vorster presents BOO!, a performance made with Yasmin Vardi that deconstructs the ghost-movie genre. 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It moves between sincerity and absurdity as they explore ways of caring, committing and belonging while building a ceremony of their own. It was developed through The Yard Theatre's Live Drafts programme and a Making Space residency at Battersea Arts Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-radical-wedding-engine-39102/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_radical_wedding_engine", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2dc6814570f8d1cb38b7cd03aae09333a5208c91701521e32a9a1c531c5fb94c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "post-", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Heights", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A studio exhibition titled 'post-' at Heights. Curated by AxisAxis, it presents new works by Libby Hoffenberg and Louis Caseley. Responding to AxisAxis' site in a rapidly redeveloping Elephant & Castle, it explores how sites of artistic and administrative labour are continuously transformed, repurposed and reappropriated in both public and private spaces. It inhabits the gap between the expectations of a visionary future and the realities of a present that has failed to deliver.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/post-39387/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/295dd877a837fb8698840de0d4bf2b5ee6e63d8b635486313a8ee58e928dc4af-600.webp"}, {"title": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Arts Centre", "address": "Arkwright Road 52, NW3 6DG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "community"], "description": "Process Makes Practice is a free drop-in exhibition at Camden Art Centre marking the culmination of a three-year programme supported by The Mildred Fund, working with artists and young people in the local area. Over three years Camden Art Centre ran long-term programmes with seven artists, two schools and two community groups, embracing iterative creative processes without defined outcomes or expectations. The exhibition features installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections on the projects from those involved, offering insight into artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden. 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It is delivered by Outdoor People, a Hackney-based organisation helping children and families connect with nature through play, together with their experienced team of Playworkers. It is connected to the PlayWorks Studio, the independent successor to Assemble Play and linked to the Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble, which creates playful environments where children explore, build and imagine in freely chosen ways. Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult throughout, advance registration is free and recommended, and drop-in visitors are also welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/playworks-at-pitzhanger-free-family-play-38063/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fa504ac32034cfd7aefebd69fd96aa93aa334203a24f40ccb322c7c6d2a475fb-600.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": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/knotsnoise/2392847/r/website", "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": "party done: Performance by Samra Mayanja", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00Z", "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": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "party done is a solo performance by London-based artist Samra Mayanja, staged in the Lower Gallery as part of the setting of Autumn Knight's exhibition. It presents the aftermath of a party that may have just ended or may never have begun, with a cargo net of balloons lowered and some escaped balloons strewn on the floor. Moving along a lightbox, Mayanja may pop some of the balloons with sharp implements. She conceived the piece in direct response to the exhibition's themes and brings her own stories of complaint into the gallery, rehearsing and reworking them in the space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/party-done-performance-by-samra-mayanja-74130/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/autumn-knight-party-done", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee6e3edce865f4e0850e10bd5daeded2b844308d0486356b76dfd4b358fd6298-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Workshop: Freedom of the Press, 1986 Style, Print Design & History", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T13:00:00Z", "place": "The Rum Factory, 49 Pennington Street, Wapping, London, E1W 2BD", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bowarts.org/shop/", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design", "history"], "description": "A print design and history workshop where participants make their own news-inspired designs, learning about the 13-month Wapping dispute of 1986–7, when around 6,000 workers were sacked at the site and produced print in support of their cause. It is organised by Katherine Easthill, a doctoral researcher and graphic designer working on a PhD about The Wapping Post, a newspaper set up by sacked printworkers and journalists. Attendees will explore tabloid design techniques and contribute their final pieces to a collaborative publication to be distributed at a November exhibition. No previous design experience is required and all materials and tools are provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/workshop-freedom-of-the-press-1986-style-print-design-histor-35040/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/workshop-freedom-of-the-press-1986-style-print-design-history-4/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68adb383006715e9797e9db4ac2dd95c6b3e96d88cb1eaa60a8fc3598d0802cb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Living Image – Chapter 2", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Siobhan Davies Studios", "address": "St George's Road 85", "price": "Pay what you choose, £10 / £15 / £20; free tickets for support workers, carers and PAs", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Living Image – Chapter 2 is an evening of dance forming part of SDS' 20th anniversary celebrations. Five artists – Sheri King, Akeim Toussaint Buck, Subathra Subramaniam, Jules Cunningham and Charlie Morrissey – each remake Siobhan Davies' solo from her work Sphinx (1977) over five days. Their remakes conclude in public performances at Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St. George's Road, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6ER.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/living-image-chapter-2-76522/", "official_url": "https://www.southwark.gov.uk/southwark-presents/living-image-chapter-2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e47d47b6e637583decb4def12e5f445b352444d45eeddc830bd2d6077e28587-2000.webp"}]}