{"title": "The Futures We Dream Author Panel", "start": "2026-11-18T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Deptford Lounge Library", "address": "Giffin Street 9, SE8 4RJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "The Futures We Dream Author Panel is an author event hosted by the library at Deptford Lounge, part of its Imagined Worlds season. Writers E. J. Swift, Temi Oh and Mahmud El Sayed discuss speculative fiction's ability to challenge assumptions, explore big ideas and offer fresh perspectives on our future. Expect a conversation spanning science fiction, fantasy and Arabfuturism, followed by audience questions. All welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-futures-we-dream-author-panel-73940/", "official_url": "https://deptfordlounge.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-futures-we-dream-author-panel/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a910087e99d8455c8bab4b0e183f584b0ccbdfa7f940a6c5fb8d999a9f92f33f-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Deptford Lounge Library", "address": "Giffin Street 9, SE8 4RJ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Digital Worlds, Alternative Futures: Kinnari Saraiya, Wendi Yan and Skawennati", "start": "2026-11-14T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "arebyte Digital Art Centre", "address": "25-27 Camden Road, London, England, NW1 9LN, United Kingdom", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art"], "description": "An afternoon of performances and artist talks titled Digital Worlds, Alternative Futures, taking place at arebyte Digital Art Centre as part of the exhibition SLIPSTREAM: Uncharted Realities & the Eternal Now. It features London-based interdisciplinary artist and dancer Kinnari Saraiya discussing her interactive installation In the Eye of a Dream, artist Wendi Yan presenting her film Dream of Walnut Palaces, and internationally exhibiting artist Skawennati performing with a destination she co-created in the virtual world Second Life. The event explores how digital tools can help reimagine cultural heritage, identity and alternative futures, and is hosted by Pita Arreola, arebyte's Head of Programmes and curator of the exhibition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/digital-worlds-alternative-futures-kinnari-saraiya-wendi-yan-34770/", "official_url": "https://www.arebyte.com/events/artist-talks-performance-slipstream", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Future is Not Lost by Matt Bluemink", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/book-presentation", "music"], "description": "A book launch and talk for \"The Future is Not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Creation of New Worlds\" by Matt Bluemink, held in the Studio at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Bluemink, a writer and philosopher and editor-in-chief of Blue Labyrinths magazine, presents the key ideas of his new book, with the talk moderated by theorist Alessandro Sbordoni. He argues, drawing on artists like SOPHIE, Arca and Iglooghost and on thinkers such as Bernard Stiegler and Gilbert Simondon, that the future has not disappeared but still speaks through music. The presentation and discussion are followed by a Q&A session.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-future-is-not-lost-by-matt-bluemink-36638/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/talks/matt-bluemink-the-future-is-not-lost", "image": "https://noky.io/images/81b9eddf57f849ec323a292938bb34a752f82bf992bead818dd301f945d9144b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Rain Dancing Impossible Worlds, an interactive exhibition curated by A-Gen-C", "start": "2026-09-24T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T18:00:00Z", "place": "Arbeit Studio", "address": "Green Lanes 310, N13 5TT", "price": "Free to attend", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "games/video-games"], "description": "Rain Dancing Impossible Worlds is an interactive exhibition of games, visual novels, interactive graphic novels and ceramic controllers, opening with an RSVP-only launch event and running until 21 November. It is curated by A-Gen-C, a new publishing house that commissions, publishes, archives and circulates visual novels, playable cinema, interactive literature and non-traditional animation. Centred on the idea of Impossible Objects, forms that challenge the boundaries of representation, materiality and world-building, the showcase presents interactive graphic novels by Anna Bunting-Branch, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Kinnari Saraiya, with bespoke ceramic controllers by Aliyah Hussain. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter's Being Human as Praxis, the works imagine objects and worlds that exceed physical limits, locating pasts, futures and imagined worlds in embodied present experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rain-dancing-impossible-worlds-an-interactive-exhibition-cur-87574/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/afa8a924031b4f366c54b4554908d2a9b5e0ccfe3b023d91bb36c27653b6bf07-600.webp"}, {"title": "Rediscovering the Strugatsky Brothers: A Talk with Mark Bould and Adam Roberts", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "film/science-fiction"], "description": "A talk, held both in person and online, about the Soviet science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who dominated the genre for over three decades. 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