{"title": "The Baa-Ewe Tapestry", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Natural History Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.nhm.ac.uk/events/GENAD-ADM", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "nature/animals"], "description": "The Baa-Ewe Tapestry is a seven-metre tribute to the mischief maker Shaun the Sheep, inspired by the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry. A section of it was knitted by Olympic gold medallist Tom Daley, founder of the knitting and crochet lifestyle brand Made With Love. The artwork comes ahead of the release of the Sky Original feature film Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom. It can be visited free, drop-in, on the Ground Floor of the Darwin Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-baa-ewe-tapestry-41753/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8e130352ae268ecf42e594176258be73192f72c8a89696f72a93f56dddd13f69-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Natural History Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Guildhall Art Gallery", "address": "Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE London", "price": "Pay What You Can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tapinlondon.com/event/regulars-14xxodp/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now' is an exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery celebrating tapestry as a vibrant and evolving art form of the 21st century. Created in collaboration with Dovecot Studios, it brings together more than 20 artists, with works made through collaborations between Dovecot's master weavers and leading artists including David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare, Tania Kovats, Alberta Whittle, Rachel Maclean, Hurvin Anderson and Farshid Moussavi, alongside major new commissions. Presented to coincide with the Bayeux Tapestry's landmark return to the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years, it invites visitors to rethink what tapestry can be and explore its continuing relevance today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-exhibition-37555/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2bd1f5acd97f097608e6c31cae9c62a91b0a88ccbe3f16bc28298c43ee73a56a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tom Phillips featured in Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Flowers Gallery", "address": "Kingsland Road 84, E2 8DP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "Tom Phillips is featured in 'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now', an external exhibition at Guildhall, London, running from 23 October 2026 to 21 March 2027. Created in collaboration with Guildhall Art Gallery, it celebrates the Bayeux Tapestry's arrival in the UK and brings together more than 20 artists redefining tapestry today. The show includes 'After Benches', 1973, by Tom Phillips CBE RA (1937-2022), alongside collaborations with Dovecot's master weavers and artists such as David Hockney and Yinka Shonibare, plus new commissions with Hurvin Anderson and Farshid Moussavi. It invites visitors to rethink what tapestry can be and explore its continuing relevance in the 21st century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tom-phillips-featured-in-beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-69808/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1582e801cb01893193fe78daadd58d6617c169cb5d58a01400473425b167a141-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Curator Tour – Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now", "start": "2026-11-11T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall Art Gallery", "address": "Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE London", "price": "Free. Booking required.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://onecitylondon.com/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition 'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now' at Guildhall Art Gallery. The gallery's curator guides visitors through works by over 20 major British artists transformed into tapestry by Dovecot's expert weavers. The tour explores how art and craft intersect and how the heritage of tapestry has become a thriving contemporary medium, with expert commentary and the chance to ask questions. The tour lasts approximately one hour, is designed for adults with accompanied children welcome (suggested minimum age 8), and places are deliberately limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/curator-tour-beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-37605/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c2efddba802b65606caa30901b5b082ca1db04fa0fd5f7d7f9aefface1933516-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Threads of Ascent: Tapestries by Clare Woods", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "place": "Garden Museum", "address": "", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry", "nature/plants"], "description": "An exhibition of three large-scale handwoven tapestries by Clare Woods, shown at the Garden Museum. The artist made them in collaboration with weavers at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, working from small watercolours of climbing weeds. Bindweed on a high-security fence, a passion fruit vine over a Los Angeles chain-link fence, and common vetch in an abandoned allotment turn overlooked plants into monumental woven landscapes. The free exhibition coincides with a new display of the museum's 17th-century Mortlake tapestry, celebrating 400 years of tapestry-making in the UK.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/threads-of-ascent-tapestries-by-clare-woods-36213/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d75e7571b886b3334ff291c07370fe0a4fbcacbf88d3a12e976411f8b96bd210-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Act One Cinema", "address": "High Street 119 - 121, W3 6NA London", "price": "Pay What You Can", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "100.00", "tickets_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_797153.TcsSection_755", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["film/animation"], "description": "This is a cinema screening of the animated family film \"Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom\". It was directed by Matthew Walker and Steve Cox. On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch, and Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments. Things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/shaun-the-sheep-the-beast-of-mossy-bottom-34650/", "official_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=492371", "image": "https://noky.io/images/550e4bdd34d5ea9ef0728aa405b1d7b42c69201aa77826c8f0501cd780787fca-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tapestry Weaving", "start": "2026-11-04T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T14:00:00Z", "place": "West Ealing Community Library", "address": "Melbourne Avenue, W13 9BA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/textiles/weaving"], "description": "Tapestry Weaving is a weekly session at West Ealing Library where participants turn yarn into beautiful tapestries. It is run by West Ealing Community Library and happens every Wednesday. The sessions suit all skill levels, teaching new techniques while encouraging people to bring their own designs to life. The library invites everyone to enjoy creating woven art in a welcoming environment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tapestry-weaving-40271/", "official_url": "https://wecl.org.uk/activities-and-events/tapestry-weaving-40/2026-10-28/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7473d74a15b3dac36d7ccf8337656d31e114e7eafdf8244aefdf25507fd2fd0b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Larger Than Life: Starring Wallace & Gromit, Shaun and More", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-04T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lightroom", "address": "12, N1C 4DY London", "price": "Adults from £25; Students & Under 18s from £15; Under 3s go free in selected slots", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["film/animation"], "description": "Larger Than Life: Starring Wallace & Gromit, Shaun and More is a 50-minute looping immersive show at Lightroom, where state-of-the-art projection fills four 11-metre tall walls and the floor. It celebrates the 50th anniversary of the four-time Oscar-winning Aardman studio, telling how its legendary films and characters are built one tiny, hand-crafted move at a time. Visitors journey from the kitchen table where school friends Peter Lord and David Sproxton first experimented to the finished masterpieces, with iconic cinematic moments, archival treasures, new animation and a look behind the scenes at sets, props and an animator at work. Made in close collaboration with the Aardman production team and designed by Journey, it is suitable for ages 2 to 100.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/larger-than-life-starring-wallace-gromit-shaun-and-more-37020/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/81e8e707e94f4a97bd8772c798ae0912a0865bccc30cdda18b2c085436d1a52c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Fabric of Britain: Landscapes, Legends & Legacies", "start": "2026-04-20T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-30T17:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Antiquaries", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history"], "description": "The Fabric of Britain: Landscapes, Legends & Legacies is a display drawing on the collections of the Society of Antiquaries, which extend well beyond London and tell the stories of landscapes, people, and discoveries from across the British Isles and the European continent. The new display celebrates that geographic breadth, bringing together hidden gems from the Society's library, archive, and museum collections. From the shores of Scotland to the cathedrals of France, visitors will explore five curated cases highlighting ongoing collaborations and the future of antiquarian research, from hand-coloured etchings of the Bayeux Tapestry and the first-ever English county history (1576) to restored 15th-century St Etheldreda panels and Bronze Age weaponry anchored by the Beith Shield. The display is on the Ground Floor, open to Fellows and Affiliate Members during regular Library opening hours (Monday to Friday, 10am-5pm) and to members of the public attending a booked event in the building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-fabric-of-britain-landscapes-legends-legacies-38650/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad905ecc920682931b8ccc93c9701b06b482a563af11248aa8d1e43063077335-2000.webp"}, {"title": "CHARLIE SHEPPARD: DAISY CHAIN", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "8 Holland Street", "address": "Holland Street 8, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts/mosaic"], "description": "CHARLIE SHEPPARD: DAISY CHAIN is an exhibition of mosaic works held at the Kensington Gallery of 8 Holland Street. It presents a new body of mosaic works by Charlie Sheppard, a London-based artist whose practice centres on mosaic, spanning handcrafted ceramic works and large-scale murals. Daisy Chain celebrates the playful relationship between people and flowers, exploring how flowers invite our play yet resist full control. Sheppard uses organically cracked tile pieces as they lie, letting each crack inform the artwork as it happens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/charlie-sheppard-daisy-chain-34617/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6bc05e6599878ed2cb3673d145442ded2335bc55b50e6dd05b7b6248793f02de-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "The National Gallery", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "history/colonialism"], "description": "An exhibition at the National Gallery brings together a famous 18th-century portrait with a striking modern sculpture for the first time. British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare reimagines Thomas Gainsborough's 'Mr and Mrs Andrews' from about 1750 in his 1998 work 'Mr and Mrs Andrews without their Heads', shown alongside the painting that inspired it. The headless couple are dressed in West African textiles, questioning ideas about power, identity and wealth and linking the portrait to the colonial exploitation running through 1700s Britain. The exhibition marks the 300th anniversary of Gainsborough's birth and runs in the H J Hyams Room until 7 February 2027.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/yinka-shonibare-and-thomas-gainsborough-a-conversation-70007/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e89ec8bd33cee1f2e2f0cb096b2e7b9986d634c850a8f9accd3cf1640cc226da-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Bayeux Tapestry: Between Myth & History", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£20, conc. £18, students £15", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7121129.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry", "history/middle-ages"], "description": "A talk titled The Bayeux Tapestry: Between Myth & History at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. Michael Lewis, lead curator of the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, and Leonie Hicks, Professor of Medieval Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, discuss the significance of 1066 for the English and why the Bayeux Tapestry is such an important record of the Norman Conquest of England. The conversation examines the political circumstances depicted in the Tapestry and what purpose the embroidery might have had for those who created it. It is part of a series of curated events around the Bayeux Tapestry at the French Institute, held in English.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-bayeux-tapestry-between-myth-history-74180/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/the-bayeux-tapestry-between-myth-history/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41251f0f47e15e051bfae5be613dad7ea71aee22fbadd2f299a24554e6f7b682-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fête du cinéma d’Animation", "start": "2026-10-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "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": ["film/animation"], "description": "An animation festival for fans of animated films of all ages, offering new films alongside classic favourites. It marks the 25th Fête du Cinéma d’Animation, organised by Ciné Lumière with the Association Française du Cinéma d’Animation. The programme includes gems such as The Songbird’s Secrets, the Annecy & Cannes Festivals winner Dandelion’s Odyssey, and a celebration of Aardman's 50th anniversary with Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom followed by a clay stop-motion animation workshop. Many regular screenings during the celebration are also preceded by a short animation film.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fete-du-cinema-danimation-41544/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf822892d2d8d6fcc7c48f1f6a366be7233e7d87d80e697d6ebe1ccf1efab232-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "price": "Adults £15, concessions available. Tickets include entry to all exhibitions. Members go free.", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://qbcentre.org.uk/ticket-hub", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever is a new exhibition blending UK folklore, viral memes and 3D printed sculpture. It is created by London-based duo Vince Ibay and Jessica Miller, who work together as Fromm Studio. Visitors travel through two co-existing spaces, 'Dystopia' and 'Utopia', meeting animated figures of ancient legend and myth, from Cornish piskies to a Pied Piper of Hamelin with TikTok-style dancing rats. The exhibition explores how the digital landscape is shaping our modern lives and asks whether humanity's oldest stories still resonate and can offer perspective and hope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/faerdom-now-as-ever-38102/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bf92ecfadc45a060caf679a9b762cc13905c9fdabbd2e925b9b9e09923bd708-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Creative Embroidery (Autumn)", "start": "2026-11-02T10:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Landmark Arts Centre", "address": "Ferry Road, TW11 9NN Teddington", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/textiles/embroidery"], "description": "Creative Embroidery (Autumn) is a weekly embroidery class held on Mondays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm in the studio at the Landmark Arts Centre. It is taught by Sophie Long, an award-winning hand embroiderer, author and tutor with over 20 years' experience and a graduate of the Royal School of Needlework Apprenticeship, who worked on the lace appliqué for Catherine, Princess of Wales's wedding dress. The class is fun and relaxed, tailored to each individual regardless of skill level, letting participants develop new techniques, learn at their own pace and explore their creative ideas. No experience is required, hoops, scissors, fabrics and needles can be borrowed or purchased on the day, and the class runs in blocks of six weeks during the autumn term.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/creative-embroidery-autumn-36897/", "official_url": "https://www.landmarkartscentre.org/class/creative-embroidery-autumn/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/855aa1431859f86a81a183ec06561dd936331343abba8e8494826f5a1a2facac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Knit Wits Haus of SIBLING - An Archive Exhibition of SIBLING knitwear", "start": "2026-06-12T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-09T17:00:00Z", "place": "Kingston Museum", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/fashion"], "description": "An exhibition of SIBLING knitwear shaped by the rituals of a Saturday night, showing rare garments from Kingston University's Fashion Archive publicly for the first time since the brand closed in 2017. SIBLING was founded by Joe Bates and developed with collaborators Sid Bryan and Cozette McCreery, subverting knitwear's conventions with oversized silhouettes, clashing colours, graphic slogans and a deliberate embrace of the awkward and the joyful. The show is curated by Scarlett, J, Riya, Polina and Elisa, BA Fashion Promotion and Communication students at Kingston School of Art, part of Kingston University. Presented with The Community Brain, it invites audiences beyond the fashion industry to see garments as vibrant expressions of creativity, community and cultural resistance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/knit-wits-haus-of-sibling-an-archive-exhibition-of-sibling-k-36789/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/768510283c2b02cf59d3370005aa7cb331eec913d4f718e23810939081a93bd9-600.webp"}, {"title": "Voices in the Room", "start": "2026-06-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Foundling Museum", "address": "Brunswick Square 40, WC1N 1AZ London", "price": "Adult £14.50 (£13.50 online), Student (22+) £13 (£12 online), Reduced price £13 (£12 online), 21 & u", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "14.50", "tickets_url": "https://shop.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/products/general-admission", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Voices in the Room is a display of three contemporary artworks recently acquired by the Foundling Museum. The works are by Rachel Kneebone, Tamsin van Essen and Grayson Perry, and are shown for the first time as part of the permanent Collection. They offer fresh perspectives on the Foundling story, exploring care for children, memory, identity and belonging. Among them is Rachel Kneebone's ceramic sculpture Through a Glass III, 2023 and Tamsin van Essen's Entangled Roots, 2023.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voices-in-the-room-36164/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5828ed1dd8369ed5e60eeb98b48f39445d5b19874f03a955099fc4cc24132ae-2000.webp"}]}