{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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. 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The Library is organised across four bodies of work: From the Field, a multichannel audio experience of field recordings, and three listening stations — The Crack and the Boom on audio ballistic analysis, Authentic Audio on AI-generated voices and deepfakes, and The Sonic Identikit on profiling sounds and earwitness testimony. 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The concert was born from a year of conversations in a community kitchen between musicians and people seeking asylum in the UK, and explores what home means, how we hold onto it and how we carry it with us when we have to leave. The programme moves across continents and centuries with music by Reena Esmail, Bushra el-Turk, Lembit Beecher, Piazzolla, Vaughan Williams and Copland, and forms part of City of London Sinfonia's wider season exploring asylum and migration in the UK. The orchestra was founded in 1971 by Richard Hickox, and the evening features Alexandra Wood, CLS Creative Director and Leader, with projection design by visual artist Majid Adin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/city-of-london-sinfonia-these-memories-may-be-true-40343/", "official_url": "https://wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/city-of-london-sinfonia-these-memories-may-be-true/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c928c52d2c79db515bf1118b6cba39d2f5366d85b79017f2b3e131976c57fcd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "L’Antidote + Naïssam Jalal & Roberto Negro: Landscapes of Eternity", "start": "2026-11-14T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Cadogan Hall", "address": "Sloane Terrace 5, SW1X 9DQ London", "price": "£42, £37, £34.50 (from £34.50, including a £4.50 transaction fee per booking)", "price_from": "34.50", "price_to": "42.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/world-jazz"], "description": "A double bill at Cadogan Hall as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, titled L’Antidote + Naïssam Jalal & Roberto Negro, with the subtitle Landscapes of Eternity. The first set features L’Antidote, a trio of Iranian percussionist Bijan Chemirani, Albanian cellist Redi Hasa and Lebanese pianist Rami Khalifé, who blend Persian rhythms, Mediterranean traditions, contemporary classical music and jazz in a work conceived during the pandemic and recorded in southern Italy. The second half brings together flautist Naïssam Jalal and pianist Roberto Negro performing Landscapes of Eternity, a project inspired by Jalal’s travels through North India that explores the connections between music, nature and spirituality in the Hindustani tradition. Together the two ensembles offer a celebration of musical dialogue across cultures, traditions and landscapes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lantidote-naissam-jalal-roberto-negro-landscapes-of-eternity-35211/", "official_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/ljf26-lantidote-plus-naissam-jalal-and-roberto-negro-landscapes-of-eternity/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5d3ef7b6d30a9e8011b470522198e0f37800d47b3289b04071997e10747d7b42-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hear it Live!", "start": "2026-11-12T15:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Horniman Museum", "address": "London Road 100, SE23 3PQ London", "price": "free, drop in", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/world"], "description": "Hear it Live! is a free, drop-in series of performances and talks at the Horniman Museum, drawing on its musical instrument collection and often featuring its historical keyboard instruments. On 12 November it features Saied Silbak, a London-based Palestinian composer and oud player born in the lower Galilee, performing at Gallery Square. Trained in both classical piano and the oud, he blends Arabic, Turkish, Indian, jazz, and Western classical influences, and has contributed to projects including Ken Loach's film The Old Oak. The series is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, which helped restore instruments including a 1668 Neapolitan virginals, an 1777 square piano, and an 1772 Kirckman harpsichord.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hear-it-live-78806/", "official_url": "https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/hear-it-live/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5657e667c7a15323ec6cc843eab15a2a63605425f0ca42a4ee5f54b8967946b4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Transnational Resistances", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Transnational Resistances is a two-day symposium at Tate Modern rooted in artistic practices of transnational resistance and solidarity. It is organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor, in collaboration with IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and supported by the Irish and UK Governments. Artists and academics explore support networks, feminist methodologies, memory work, counter-archiving and embodied knowledge across communities resisting erasure. The Friday programme includes workshops, talks, a communal meal, an audiovisual intervention and a keynote in Starr Cinema and Clore Foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transnational-resistances-87905/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/transnational-resistances", "image": "https://noky.io/images/95b14b0c428d32be58e657aa555606139f1b05612c7b1a26c2f664211fdb1632-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Elaine Mitchener – LATE JOYS", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "£5 - £25", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/vocal", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "LATE JOYS is a one-off performance at the Linbury Theatre, part of the Royal Opera's Dark Nights series of one-off performances by vocal innovators and experimental composers. It is conceived by Elaine Mitchener, a contemporary vocalist, movement artist and composer, and devised with choreographer Dam Van Huynh, moving image artist Reece Ewing and her electro-acoustic group The Rolling Calf: Xhosa Cole, Jason Yarde, Mark Sanders and Neil Charles. The hour-long work unfolds as a reverberation of time and space, where presences are conjured through sound, movement and visual intensity, weaving between a shifting landscape where memory, inheritance and imagination converge. Drawing on the poetics of writers who have inspired Mitchener's practice, it invites audiences into new ways of sensing the past while reaching towards possible futures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elaine-mitchener-late-joys-74752/", "official_url": "https://www.rbo.org.uk/production/dark-nights", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fde093da0a62dc754b71f2b9e071746b0d5308d9603df2ca9848d83a38978a44-2000.webp"}]}