{"title": "The Geography of Violence", "start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Irish Cultural Centre", "address": "5 Black's Road, Hammersmith, W6 9DT", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/violence-against-women"], "description": "The UK premiere of Maeve Murphy's award-winning trilogy of three short films, The Geography of Violence, which shines a light on gender-based violence. Irish Film & TV UK, in partnership with Wise Women, presents the screening as part of the lead-up to the 15th Irish Film Festival London. It is followed by a panel discussion and Q&A on Jennie's Law and the Wise Women campaign to make a publicly available register of domestic violence offenders available in the UK and Northern Ireland, with filmmaker Maeve Murphy and writer and actor Kellie Shirley on the panel. The event concludes with networking, and admission is free with advance booking required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-geography-of-violence-41577/", "official_url": "https://irishculturalcentre.co.uk/event/uk-premiere-screening-panel-discussion-the-geography-of-violence-by-award-winning-maeve-murphy/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8596cfc66c9b560937ecb3d60fbc49e3b29245bffd6311c5127a255a9a085694-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Irish Cultural Centre", "address": "5 Black's Road, Hammersmith, W6 9DT", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Women and the World Festival: British Shorts (Block 2) + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-09T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lexi Cinema", "address": "Chamberlayne Road 194b, NW10 3JU London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/women"], "description": "A festival screening of a block of British short films in competition, followed by a Q&A. 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The exhibition marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, bringing hidden and normalised forms of violence against women and girls into public view. 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The film is a new documentary by Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell that examines the history of direct action and protest leading up to recent UK legislation, featuring the Suffragettes, the 1920s Poplar Council, the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, the Miners' Strike, the Wapping Dispute and Palestine Solidarity movements. It features among others Lowkey, Audrey White, Ken Loach, Peter Kennard and Tony Benn, with contributors including Alan Hardman, David Rosenberg, Stephen Kapos, Tayo Aluko, Hannah from the Global Sumud Flotilla, ex-miner John Dunn and peace activist Kevin Donellon. Music is by Lola Perrin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/terrorists-36225/", "official_url": "https://genesiscinema.co.uk/event/115434", "image": "https://noky.io/images/303347e5389c682f0dad25a162d31a552f248472050be3eabf1ad30076d366f0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Annual Graduate Lecture 2026", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T20:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/feminism"], "description": "An annual public lecture hosted by Birkbeck's Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, with Professor Tanya Serisier speaking on 'Surviving Rape in Public: Survival Politics and Feminist Justice Work'. The lecture examines how a 'survivor politics' became a dominant feminist response to sexual violence, the impacts on public survivors, and a wider history of feminist justice work building collective responses. Professor Heike Bauer chairs and Professor Sally Wheeler, Vice-Chancellor, gives the welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences-annual-graduate-lectur-80554/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/65012/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences-annual-graduate-lecture-2026", "image": ""}, {"title": "NFF 2026: Women In Film - Shorts + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "£8 / £6", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film"], "description": "A screening of a selection of short films directed by women, spanning a diverse range of genres, styles and themes. 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The directors Wi Eun-kyoung and Son Gwang-min, Chang Seoyun, Seo Saerom and Bae Issac, and Choi Eunsoo present stories spanning fiction, documentary and animation. The films follow, among others, a pet groomer reunited with her niece, a young woman facing premature menopause, an art student afraid of touch, and a schoolgirl who wants to play football. The programme shares a determination to carve out paths of their own while delivering the pleasures of diverse genres and forms, with a total runtime of 84 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/womens-voices-shorts-programme-74150/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/lkff-women-s-voices-shorts-programme", "image": "https://noky.io/images/43568cb8275f26a61d95fc283c475b8a9a10987565c5f36ab7dc3e4d546361f0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Elegy", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/violence-against-women", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Elegy is a ritual performance and installation project by Gabrielle Goliath that gathers collective acts of mourning around lives and histories marked by violence, erasure and structural loss. Developed over more than a decade, it has been staged in Johannesburg, Cape Town, São Paulo, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich and beyond, and arrives in London following the cancellation of the South African Pavilion in Venice. Installed in the sonic chamber of Ibraaz's Minassa, voices and moving images immerse audiences in a space of mourning, kinship and collective care. Addressing rape culture and femicide in South Africa, the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namibia and the ongoing devastation of Palestinian life, it proposes mourning as a sustained practice of collective presence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elegy-36599/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bddd26bf2c80c57cde9f964f820a194720c5676bda6d23e076a328fea43bc74d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Collective in Residence", "start": "2026-05-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-04-30T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/law", "art"], "description": "Visible Justice Collective in Residence is a year-long residency by the research collective Visible Justice at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The collective, founded by David Birkin and Max Houghton in 2019 and based at University of the Arts London, rethinks the legal concept of habeas corpus through the visual arts, considering the body as a site of both injury and resistance. Through talks, performances, workshops and screenings, the programme explores sites of justice, censorship, proscription, abolition, occupation, displacement and gendered violence, bringing together artists, academics, writers and performers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/collective-in-residence-36642/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c9a21f4cfe7413e088b04b292fdd5e77fbe6d0ec863e52284c8a87e0d2eb5e8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Film Screening: South by South", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T20:45:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image", "film/documentary"], "description": "An evening screening of two films by Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir: the short 'Hairat', about a man in Harar who has bonded with hyenas for over thirty-five years, and 'Faya Dayi', a hypnotic blend of documentary and drama about the rituals and trade of the stimulant leaf Khat in Ethiopia. The films were programmed by A Month of Single Frames, a film collective led by Ufuoma Essi, Sam Williams and Tendai Mutambu dedicated to artists' moving image, with this event curated by South East London artist and filmmaker Ufuoma Essi. The screening contains depictions of drug use and addiction and themes of violence and political repression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-screening-south-by-south-38710/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/film-screening-south-by-south-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0b6105be0573e1ff52b0093fc32daa13f70574dd0e2d7f0ec170bf29c492c44d-600.webp"}]}