{"title": "Stories of Small Boats Crossings", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Queen's House", "address": "SE10 9NF London", "price": "Free Entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["community/refugees", "history/colonialism", "literature"], "description": "A free afternoon of craft and writing workshops at the Queen's House exploring how law shapes refugee boat journeys. Part of Being Human Festival, it features SOS MEDITERRANEE, an international maritime and humanitarian organisation running search-and-rescue missions in the Central Mediterranean since 2016, alongside a boat-making workshop, fridge-magnet poem making with legal treaty texts, and a flash fiction workshop inspired by the Crossings display.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stories-of-small-boats-crossings-87876/", "official_url": "https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/queens-house/stories-small-boats-crossings", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ead9164a1716dbdcfce5d1cae9780bde014cd4e8a051a3ed332a5eca878e046d-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Queen's House", "address": "SE10 9NF London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Conference - Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places, and Practices, 1500–Present", "start": "2026-11-11T09:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T17:00:00Z", "place": "National Maritime Museum", "address": "Romney Road, SE10 9NF London", "price": "Adult: £60 | Member: £55 | Early Career Researcher/Student: £30", "price_from": "60.00", "price_to": "60.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/maritime"], "description": "A two-day interdisciplinary conference on maritime histories from around 1500 to the present. It is co-convened by Royal Museums Greenwich and the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures at the University of Portsmouth. The conference brings new research on marginalised maritime communities and individuals to the forefront, including workers, makers, families, travellers, navigators and knowledge-keepers overlooked in archives and scholarship. People from all backgrounds, academic and non-academic, are warmly invited to attend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/conference-maritime-histories-from-the-margins-people-places-37284/", "official_url": "https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/national-maritime-museum/conference-maritime-histories-margins-people-places-practices", "image": "https://noky.io/images/611a6bbca41bb79388ca8ea847147219d1cb99d7df33e9425818f356dd21db77-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The SOAS Ceilidh Band: A Ceilidh for Calais", "start": "2026-11-08T19:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Jamboree", "address": "St Chad's Place 6, London", "price": "£8 at the door / £5 SOAS Students", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["dance/traditional/ceilidh", "community/refugees"], "description": "A ceilidh dance night with live traditional music from the SOAS Ceilidh Band, with all dances explained by caller Ed Emery. 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It is led by Freya Shi, a writer, poet, artist and holistic wellbeing facilitator, and blends guided breathwork, meditation, creative writing, optional sharing and a short sound bath. Materials come from The Feminist Library's collection and the 'Metal of Agency' chapter of Freya's book Unlearning, to Love, on setting boundaries, reclaiming sovereignty and healing from injustice. The session takes place in the library's conference room with a short break, limited to 12 participants, with signed copies available after.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tending-the-heart-writing-healing-through-injustice-39184/", "official_url": "https://feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/10/21/tending-the-heart-writing-healing-through-injustice/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c013bc81f1b9386df77308e18ec41e77b5d19328583b146bc4691148e3debf3c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Conference - Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places, and Practices, 1500–Present", "start": "2026-11-11T09:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T17:00:00Z", "place": "National Maritime Museum", "address": "Romney Road, SE10 9NF London", "price": "Adult: £60 | Member: £55 | Early Career Researcher/Student: £30", "price_from": "60.00", "price_to": "60.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/maritime"], "description": "A two-day interdisciplinary conference on marginalised maritime histories from around 1500 to the present. 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Facilitators introduce key concepts about fungal life and encourage rethinking mortality, decay, and death in creative, life-assertive, and regenerative terms, with participants creating their own zines and penning handwritten notes on biodegradable paper. The event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK's national festival of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. Those attending a separately booked fungus tour in Regent's Park may bury their notes in a designated area of the park.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/entangled-writing-and-thinking-workshop-70651/", "official_url": "https://sohopoly.co.uk/events/entangled-writing-and-thinking-workshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ca1a2001b58cb207d760bcab6a79fc0f85a14cd89057d755eb4551fefd04c9b-2000.webp"}]}