{"title": "The Manton Centre for British Art Lecture: Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Courtauld Institute of Art", "address": "Strand, WC2R 0RN London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "An annual lecture evening at The Courtauld, part of the Manton Centre for British Art, featuring the artist Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA in conversation with Professor Dorothy Price FBA. It is organised by Indie A. Choudhury and Professor Steve Edwards and supported by the Manton Foundation. Akomfrah is a pioneering artist filmmaker whose multi-screen installations explore memory, postcolonialism and time, often through the experience of global migrant diasporas, and he was a founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-manton-centre-for-british-art-lecture-sir-john-akomfrah-69717/", "official_url": "https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/the-manton-centre-for-british-art-lecture-sir-john-akomfrah-cbe-ra/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed77fb91a51975626a8b36f413595b3e3c6b92a6deb2790c36dd307384bb935e-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Courtauld Institute of Art", "address": "Strand, WC2R 0RN London", "tickets": "sold_out"}], "similar": [{"title": "Arcadia by Sir John Akomfrah", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Natural History Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image", "history/colonialism"], "description": "\"Arcadia\" is a multi-screen film installation about a global migration of people, nature and disease. 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Across five screens, imagery of deserts, ice fields, mountains and seas is set to a soundtrack of nature sounds, opera and poetry, asking how migration, colonialism and empire have shaped the planet and its legacies today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arcadia-by-sir-john-akomfrah-37307/", "official_url": "https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/arcadia", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87cfdafa70afbf36f276ba78f0bbea4e9f99d2506264574d3eb39780c75ad3e0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tate Britain Commission 2026: Zineb Sedira: When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/migration"], "description": "Tate Britain Commission 2026: Zineb Sedira: When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks is a major new site-specific installation filling the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain. British-French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira, who draws on family archives and the history of cinema, explores memory, migration and trauma, bridging the political and the poetic. Her monumental and intimate work, her largest UK commission to date, invites audiences to consider the emotional and geographical dimensions of displacement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tate-britain-commission-2026-zineb-sedira-when-words-fall-si-106531/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eecd79388f5c883fefc5dad875aa93a78c3b6112af139053e8f5c0f5aca37199-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Amar Kanwar", "start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Serpentine North Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "A major solo exhibition by the artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar, transforming Serpentine North Gallery into a meditative visual and sonic environment. 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Visitors encounter a trilogy of films, including Such a Morning (2017), The Peacock's Graveyard (2023) and the new seven-screen installation The Charcoal Man (2026), premiering at Serpentine, with the darkened galleries shown in very low light and moments of complete darkness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/amar-kanwar-38472/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e75635bbf02f40fbbb179b67fd202dfbf16baebc7e3c4474606c179f6eedc66d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "if you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise Andrew Pierre Hart", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of International Visual Arts | Stuart Hall Library - iniva", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "This is an exhibition project titled 'if you like rice, you'll understand – Collective Noise', bringing together painting, photography, moving image, text and sound. It is a new project by artist and educator Andrew Pierre Hart, part of a joint programme between iniva and Chelsea Space at Chelsea College of Arts. Drawing on Stuart Hall's cultural studies legacy, it explores sound as a form of learning and cultural exchange, examining the relationship between sound and diasporic experiences. The project includes a cross-site exhibition, an events programme and a publication, supported by The Ampersand Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/if-you-like-rice-youll-understand-collective-noise-andrew-pi-60786/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aabf80b0df67e5692d00f33769a693ca39fc9b1eab2066da1de9d0767fe6eb43-1200.webp"}, {"title": "White Cube x RA", "start": "2026-10-06T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/prints"], "description": "A free selling display of limited edition prints by Royal Academicians, shown in the Academicians' Room and the Belle Shenkman Bar in the Keeper's House, with artworks available for sale. The Royal Academy of Arts has partnered with White Cube, a contemporary art gallery founded in 1993 by Jay Jopling, curating the display together. It features seven- and ten-colour lithographs by Michael Armitage inspired by Ousmane Sembène's films and Kenyan cave paintings, a portfolio of four polymer-gravure etchings by Tracey Emin revisiting her Margate childhood, and meditative lithographs by Antony Gormley on the body in space. Sales support the artists, the RA and its Schools.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/white-cube-x-ra-38257/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1ff2b9129a37a3e0babf9b60bf7c0986896a08b981219f94554e0c89ded8cd65-600.webp"}, {"title": "Study Day – Sharing Strategies: caring for artist moving image in the margins", "start": "2026-11-06T09:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "Applications Closed", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image", "history/archives"], "description": "A study day of workshops, presentations and a roundtable on practical and ethical questions around acquiring, storing and presenting digital artists' moving image. It is delivered by LUX in partnership with UCL's Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media MSc, as part of the programme 'Sharing Strategies: Caring for moving image in the margins', with support from the BFI Screen Heritage Fund. The day is open to archivists, conservators, artist-filmmakers and anyone interested in conserving artists' moving image, including informal and grassroots collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/study-day-sharing-strategies-caring-for-artist-moving-image-37115/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/study-day-sharing-strategies-caring-for-artist-moving-image-in-the-margins/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/48a0048e1be78867b62680233f8df905a6f1d657d9150128039feab6e3a246c4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Oscar Murillo In Conversation", "start": "2026-11-13T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "£15 / £13 for Members, £13 Concessions, £5 Universal Credit and Pension Credit recipients, £5 for Ta", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An evening talk at Tate Modern's Starr Cinema with artist Oscar Murillo, joined by curator Emily Pethick and Tate curator Rosalie Doubal. Murillo's practice spans painting, installation, performance and participation, including his 2024 Turbine Hall installation The flooded garden. The conversation covers his ideas on community and shared culture, bodies of water, his 'social mapping' grown from the 15-year project Frequencies, and his painterly abstraction. The talk also marks the UK launch of the book Social Cataracts (2026), edited by Emily Pethick and Sarah Demeuse, which surveys his work from 2019 to 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/oscar-murillo-in-conversation-87913/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/oscar-murillo-in-conversation", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4a4a9fced7ba29ee942a8355d456384081f1fb090f605a7994cbc8c7bad85076-1200.webp"}, {"title": "George Clark and Eiko Soga", "start": "2026-09-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "George Clark is Camden Art Centre's 2026 Studio Residency Artist, presenting a residency in which he works in an on-site studio. Clark is a London-based artist, curator and writer working across film, installation and performance, focusing on moving image in the expanded field and the non-aligned histories of the global south. During the residency he collaborates for the first time with his partner, the artist Eiko Soga, exploring children's prelinguistic worlds and sonic resonances, from field recordings made in an anechoic chamber during a pregnancy to an active recording and experimental studio space. Inspired by the Maarui Children Farm in Tokyo and by the philosophies of Masanobu Fukuoka, the two look to bring children into their practices and work with natural processes and garden ingredients, stepping away from the fixed certainties of film production.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/george-clark-and-eiko-soga-50256/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32ec879ac1df4acfdabfc668c359fb098c3218349ca1a60815115557a2796007-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Framing Colonial Film Archives: Histories and Afterlives of Indian collections", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/archive", "history/colonialism"], "description": "An evening of film screenings, discussion and debate focused on the audiovisual heritage of the Indian sub-continent. It is presented by the Colonial Reels project team, who report back from their symposium on South Asian archive footage held in the British and Indian national film archives. Films from the British Film Institute, the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection and Wellcome Collection will be introduced by project members including Imruh Bakari, Haroon Forde, Jacqueline Maingard, Rosa Méthol, Emma Sandon and Angela Saward. Themes include colonial film historiography, indigenous erasure, plantations and refineries, the ecologies of the colonial short film, and the afterlives of colonial reels in British archives, followed by drinks and nibbles in the cinema foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/framing-colonial-film-archives-histories-and-afterlives-of-i-80524/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/67633/framing-colonial-film-archives-histories-and-afterlives-of-indian-collections", "image": ""}, {"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": "The Royal Anthropological Institute Blacking Lecture: Laudan Nooshin", "start": "2026-11-17T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T18:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland", "address": "Fitzroy Street 50, London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music"], "description": "The Royal Anthropological Institute 2026 Blacking Lecture and Inaugural Professorial Lecture, titled 'Building Bridges, Making a Difference: Reflections on Music Scholar as Cultural Mediator', followed by a drinks reception. It is given by Prof Laudan Nooshin of City St George's, University of London, who reflects on almost 20 years of applied work as a cultural mediator. Her talk covers projects including an educational trip to Iran, a collaboration with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a children's book project, a sound project in a historic house, and a Leverhulme Trust funded project on Polish refugees in Iran during World War 2. The lecture is free, with tickets booked in advance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-royal-anthropological-institute-blacking-lecture-laudan-64972/", "official_url": "https://therai.org.uk/events/the-royal-anthropological-institute-blacking-lecture-laudan-nooshin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9a5644f15abfcf1ebff40644700bce00a812e08da7a63ef62406bfb1bf30b817-1200.webp"}]}