{"title": "The power of place: how where you live shapes your health", "start": "2026-11-06T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/health", "wellness"], "description": "The power of place: how where you live shapes your health is a free interactive event open to everyone. It is hosted by Evidence Islington, Islington Council's Health Determinants Research Collaboration, as part of Being Human Festival, the UK's national festival of the humanities. Through interactive activities, creative workshops and research-inspired exhibits, visitors explore home, neighbourhood and borough, from practical ideas for improving wellbeing in living spaces to a music workshop on connection, belonging and community, and contributions to the Islington Wellbeing Map.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-power-of-place-how-where-you-live-shapes-your-health-84333/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-09T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Handle with Care: Conversations Through Objects", "start": "2026-11-14T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Forum", "address": "Bardolph Avenue 1, CR0 9BG Croydon", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/medical-history", "art"], "description": "Handle with Care: Conversations Through Objects is a drop-in object-handling event at Wellcome Collection, with different stations where you can touch and explore items from the collection at your own pace, alongside other creative activities. It is run by the venue's Visitor Experience and Engagement team and is for anyone interested in the connections between health, history and art. The session is relaxed, so you can move freely, leave and re-enter whenever you wish, and a chill-out space with low lighting, comfortable seating and sensory aids is available. The event is British Sign Language interpreted and takes place in the Forum, reached by lift or stairs to level 1 through the 'Being Human' gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/handle-with-care-conversations-through-objects-40250/", "official_url": "https://wellcomecollection.org/events/handle-with-care-conversations-through-objects-november-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4f881746466ba5f32eea8704ac4939aad3b179b5f639f74d5db5d86a49bdc8b4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Woodwork for Wellbeing", "start": "2026-11-03T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T18:00:00Z", "place": "St. Margaret's House", "address": "Old Ford Road 15-23, E2 9PJ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/making", "wellness/mental-health"], "description": "Woodwork for Wellbeing is a relaxed, open and social workshop series at The Create Place, running every Tuesday for over eight years. It is organised by St. Margaret's House and led by long-standing facilitator Barney. The sessions aim to help people who experience poor mental health by reducing isolation and improving wellbeing through making and learning together. No experience is necessary, with materials provided for craft, model making, DIY techniques and group or individual projects, and this 4-6pm mixed group session is free to attend, though registration is essential.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/woodwork-for-wellbeing-38781/", "official_url": "https://www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk/events/woodwork-for-wellbeing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/97bfbebeeae1903df3376bdcdfba9d630752158d53a65259e404302aa8ee090d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Centrepieces - Birds on a wire exhibition", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-01T17:00:00Z", "place": "Hall Place and Gardens", "address": "Bourne Road, DA5 1PQ Bexley", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/animals/birds", "art/contemporary"], "description": "Centrepieces – Birds on a wire exhibition is a showcase of community artwork from across Bexley, held in the Visitor Centre at Hall Place and Gardens. It is a response to the venue's \"Birds on a wire\" project, funded by the William Kendall Charity. The exhibition explores how being present within nature, being part of a community, and creating art can aid in improving mental health. 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The exhibition explores the people and places that have shaped art and activism across Britain over the last 200 years, highlighting individuals and communities who challenged social conventions and created new ways of living, working and imagining society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/free-community-group-tours-earthly-paradise-40318/", "official_url": "https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/free-community-group-tours-earthly-paradise/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/961365502e1e4d8bc486274302d0ab68a8adf9f15d0c676286343240de4c0d62-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Roots", "start": "2026-09-26T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Albany", "address": "Douglas Way, SE8 4AG London", "price": "£0.00", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["society/migration"], "description": "Roots is a series of social meet-ups held at The Albany, open to all ages and free to attend without booking. It is presented by The Albany Community Council, whose members all have strong connections to Deptford and Lewisham and help shape the venue's programme. The meet-ups are by and for sanctuary seekers – asylum seekers, refugees and migrants – together with allies, aiming to build more community in Lewisham. Each session is a drop-in workshop around gardening, food, tea making, art and culture, followed by a free lunch from the café; adults and families are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/roots-38948/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Built Environment", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00Z", "place": "North Kensington Library", "address": "Ladbroke Grove 108, W11 1PZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism/urban-development", "nature/environment"], "description": "\"The Built Environment\" is a public talk on flooding, drought and saving trees, part of the \"Our Eco Crisis\" series at North Kensington Library. It is hosted by Isis Amlak, a long-time local activist and campaigner for racial and social justice who sits on the board of the Octavia Foundation. Guests will speak about new development changes in the area and their effects, with recent local flooding that closed the Children's Library and the loss of mature plane trees in Holland Park among the concerns. The event will be live streamed to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-built-environment-37424/", "official_url": "https://northkensingtonlibrary.org/our-library-saved-event/the-built-environment/152", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a718205f705167b151f3b04b28dcc4af07bd9fca2e5be07794306ca42231359-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Creative Arts Space", "start": "2026-11-06T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:00:00Z", "place": "The Grove", "address": "9 Bruce Grove, Tottenham, London, N17 6RA, United Kingdom", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/painting/community-art"], "description": "Creative Arts Space is a welcoming, recovery-focused community space that brings people together through creativity, connection and shared ideas. Run across Haringey, it offers people with lived experience, local residents and the wider recovery community a chance to explore their talents, try new things, share skills and develop creative ideas. It is a supportive and inclusive environment where people can connect, collaborate and celebrate creativity. The event is for over 18s only.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/creative-arts-space-85885/", "official_url": "https://haringey.gov.uk/events/creative-arts-space", "image": "https://noky.io/images/60bf35bf6cddb1b7b7d859c0f63c623c5a181714029fcb58b0eb771bb67842b8-600.webp"}, {"title": "Art in Mind – Workshop for Wellbeing", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T20:00:00Z", "place": "Sands End Arts & Community Centre", "address": "SW6 3BB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Art in Mind – Workshop for Wellbeing is a relaxed creative session for slowing down and experimenting. It is run at Sands End Arts & Community Centre, where all supplies are provided, so no one needs to bring anything.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-in-mind-workshop-for-wellbeing-96242/", "official_url": "https://www.seacc.uk/events/art-in-mind-workshop-for-wellbeing/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b05bc32b82b68bb49f85fe1ae693216eb3c5a463d93cc025191b26957db26f3e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Changing Rooms: Celebrating Trans+ Domesticities", "start": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the Home", "address": "Kingsland Road 136, E2 8EA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/queer/trans", "occasion"], "description": "Changing Rooms: Celebrating Trans+ Domesticities is a day to night celebration launching a new display of trans homes and creativity in 2000s East London. It is funded by Hackney Pride365 Grants as part of Transgender Awareness Week and celebrates the opening of a new room display of A High-rise Flat in 2008, curated by a cohort of community researchers. The community-led programme includes trans+ 2000s themed screenings curated and hosted by TGirlsOnFilm, trans+ poetry readings with Gayathiri Kamalakanthan and Danni Spooner, a trans+ artists and makers market, a panel talk led by Trans Action for Housing Justice, and a cabaret with Major Dom, Jet Moon, Laz Lighning and Cyro.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/changing-rooms-celebrating-trans-domesticities-37223/", "official_url": "https://museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/changing-rooms-celebrating-trans-domesticities/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/54df97b475ae986c96fdd485ca6580a986a892b690439bffe55929fa26aa7aef-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Presents: Who Owns the Future?", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T21:30:00Z", "place": "Newspeak House", "address": "Bethnal Green Road 133-135, E2 7DG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai", "society"], "description": "An evening event titled 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Presents: Who Owns the Future?' about how local AI, community-owned computing and decentralised systems could put power back into people's hands. It is hosted by Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with Max Gershfield, John Evans and Edward Saperia listed as hosts, and presented by Newspeak House, the London College of Political Technology. The evening features live technology demonstrations, local and conversational AI, community compute, and decentralised democracy, plus conversations over food and drinks. No specialist technical knowledge is required, just an interest in the future and who gets to shape it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-presents-who-owns-the-future-92571/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b3e8990cafdb2b3b88cc7413b4b23bce65a7d84d909bf4ca4ebd991ed67918d3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Our Planet Saved", "start": "2026-11-06T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:00:00Z", "place": "North Kensington Library", "address": "Ladbroke Grove 108, W11 1PZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment", "community"], "description": "Our Planet Saved is a discussion event in North Kensington about caring for the natural environment. It is hosted by Toby Laurent Belson, a multidisciplinary community artist, designer and educator who has run the community arts group Brownbaby in North Kensington since 2007. A guest panel talks about what they are doing in North Kensington for the environment, as part of a series of discussions with guest panellists under the title Our Eco Action.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/our-planet-saved-37423/", "official_url": "https://northkensingtonlibrary.org/our-library-saved-event/our-planet-saved/149", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7bdac0aad00125cfb06a1badfd83d11d991c98d0947b42a5f5170403bd6fc7e4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Word Space", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Jamboree", "address": "St Chad's Place 6, London", "price": "Donations", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "Word Space is an open mic and poetry night with poem sharing, discussion, feedback and communal writing activities. It takes place at Jamboree, a music venue in Kings Cross, London, and invites people to bring pens, pencils and daydreams for a cosy, creative start to the week. It is a Pay What You Can event, where donations support independent, community art and help offer tickets to those who cannot afford one.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/word-space-60801/", "official_url": "https://www.jamboreevenue.co.uk/events/open-mic-and-poetry-night-in-london-10/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fa7925a8b7c8eddd343810a0cd31530ef1704754584d4e2ac4656953d47ed380-600.webp"}, {"title": "What is the scale of the estate?: Towards a trans-scalar sense of place", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T14:00:00Z", "place": "Department of Geography", "address": "Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/housing"], "description": "A seminar in the UCL Human Geography Seminar Series, open to staff, students and visitors. Professor Steven Pile of the Open University examines the social housing estate as a dynamic site of spatial negotiation, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, participatory mapping and a public art intervention on the Hilgrove Estate in north London. His co-authored paper argues that estates are neither purely hyper-local nor borderless, proposing a framework of trans-scalarity to capture how boundedness and openness coexist in everyday estate life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-is-the-scale-of-the-estate-towards-a-trans-scalar-sense-89040/", "official_url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/events/2026/nov/what-scale-estate-towards-trans-scalar-sense-place", "image": ""}]}