{"title": "The UNESCO Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak: now, then and the future", "start": "2026-11-02T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Geographical Society", "address": "Kensington Gore 1, SW7 2AR London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://portal.rgs.org/event/book/MT261026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/conservation", "history"], "description": "A lecture about Gunung Mulu National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Sarawak, covering its past, present and future. It is given by Nina Anuar from the park, drawing on her 13 years of service there, and takes us from the pre-World Heritage era through challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and unprecedented floods to today's tourism and World Heritage destination. Robin Hanbury-Tenison, who led the 1977/78 Royal Geographical Society and Sarawak Forestry survey of the park, will say a few words of welcome. The talk also highlights accommodation, community engagements, visitor trends and future opportunities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-unesco-gunung-mulu-national-park-sarawak-now-then-and-th-41987/", "official_url": "https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/mulu-national-park-now-then-future/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6f48a5088c983afe662630cc6b84fc9f3bb71d727b34c0bae7606ca428967225-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-02T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Geographical Society", "address": "Kensington Gore 1, SW7 2AR London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "Walking Tour: mapping histories of migration, community and public art with Kuda Mushangi", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "place": "Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, 181-183 Bow Road, London, London, E3 2SJ, United Kingdom", "address": "", "price": "£7.00 – £10.00 (£7 for concessions)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://bowarts.org/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/public-art", "history/migration", "community"], "description": "A guided walking tour exploring Bhajan Hunjan's public art, beginning with samples in the Nunnery Gallery before visiting her public commissions around the local area. It is led by Kuda Mushangi, an award-winning London-based artist and architect whose practice explores migration, memory and belonging. The walk takes in sites speaking to East London's histories of migration, settlement, activism and community-building, including works in Stroudley Walk and on St Paul's Way made with local schools and communities. Participants are invited to consider how public space holds multiple histories and to share their own memories and reflections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-pu-35044/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/walking-tour-mapping-histories-of-migration-community-and-public-art-with-kuda-mushangi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74d0ddaf428855060e861a2ad69f00fcdd7dcec0e4f8cfaea29d498f5555acf3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Visions of Nature", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00Z", "place": "Natural History Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London", "price": "£9.95", "price_from": "9.95", "price_to": "9.95", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.nhm.ac.uk/events/VON-VONADM", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/conservation"], "description": "Visions of Nature is an interactive mixed-reality experience at the Natural History Museum in which you wear a headset and travel a century into the future to meet virtual plants and animals thriving across the globe. Over about 20 minutes you journey through eight ecosystems, from highlands and rainforests to the depths of the Arctic Ocean, seeing how human intervention and scientific ingenuity have helped species and habitats recover. It was imagined and co-produced by Saola, who benefited from the support of the French Centre National du Cinema, and runs in partnership with others. The experience is suitable for ages 10 and above.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/visions-of-nature-41752/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3b373a2ace666278d862c3b85d84ffff351b294ede607d0abd9d29bc11f86eeb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Walking Tour: Bhajan Hunjan’s studio visit and exploring public art in East London with Kuda Mushangi", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T13:00:00Z", "place": "Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, 181-183 Bow Road, London, London, E3 2SJ, United Kingdom", "address": "", "price": "£7.00 – £10.00 (£7 for concessions)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://bowarts.org/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/public-art"], "description": "A guided walking tour that begins with an introduction to 'Bhajan Hunjan: speaking through materials' at the Nunnery Gallery and a visit to the artist's studio at P1, where participants can meet and speak with her about her use of materials such as silk-screen printed glass, laser-cut acrylic and metal, and stonework in public art. Artist and architect Kuda Mushangi then leads a walk to explore Hunjan's public art commissions in East London, created with local schools and communities in Tower Hamlets, including Three Mills Pontoon (2011) along the Lea Canal and Stroudley Walk (2026), celebrating the legacy of the Suffragettes in Bow. The walk considers how public space can hold multiple histories and how art can function as cultural memory, touching on East London's histories of migration, settlement, activism and community-building, and themes of empire, displacement, resilience and cultural exchange. Participants are invited to share their own memories and reflections, and will gather at the Nunnery Gallery at 10.45am for an 11am start.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walking-tour-bhajan-hunjans-studio-visit-and-exploring-publi-35041/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/walking-tour-bhajan-hunjans-studio-visit-and-exploring-public-art-in-east-london-with-kuda-mushangi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7765bddff6be19007d3e05be8c6c571ca0183fe4d3b7802e43242547dff486e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Human Nature", "start": "2026-08-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-05-30T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gunnersbury Park Museum", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/local-history"], "description": "Human Nature is a free exhibition of photographs at Gunnersbury Park Museum. It was created by the museum's Young Curators, a group of young people who took part in two photography sessions led by Narvir Singh, a poet, artist, filmmaker and photographer. Their pictures show them playing in Gunnersbury Park as part of its centenary celebrations, recreating childhood wonder through games like rolling down hills and making daisy chains. For these young people, nature is never mere scenery, but a place to be wild in, to wander through and to belong to.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/human-nature-36327/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f8f98935b86d21310a6a1ceb5cd3e0f1dd268cd6f1dcd033f90edb7b18076be-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Redefining Cultural Heritage, from \"The Cradle\" to the Pavilion. Zulfiya Spowart and Maria Redaelli in conversation", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "£12, with national art pass and student discounts available", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "history"], "description": "An in-person talk at Pushkin House: artist Zulfiya Spowart and researcher Maria Redaelli in conversation. Starting from Spowart's work \"Beshik (The Cradle)\", shown at the Uzbekistan National Pavilion's 2026 exhibition \"The Aural Sea\" at the Venice Biennale, they discuss her experience as a participating artist. Drawing on Redaelli's research into the Central Asian Pavilion (2005–2013), which united artists from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and, from 2009, Tajikistan, they trace how the region has staged itself at Venice and how the shift to separate National Pavilions has reshaped how Uzbekistan's cultural heritage is presented globally. The talk is organised in collaboration with Vlad Strukov, Professor of Film and Visual Cultures at the University of Leeds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/redefining-cultural-heritage-from-the-cradle-to-the-pavilion-38084/", "official_url": "https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/6230", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3af831305ad3d928d0ba1a816417e03c2dcd4c7c5a96f132f6ea945049fffef9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gunnersbury Unlocked: From Private Grounds to Public Park", "start": "2026-03-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gunnersbury Park Museum", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "An exhibition celebrating Gunnersbury Park's 100th birthday, the first in a series of centenary exhibitions at Gunnersbury Park Museum. It traces how the park, once a private estate from the days of the Rothschilds, became a public park enjoyed by generations. It covers Gunnersbury's role in the World War II war effort and stories from employees, their families and the local community about sport, leisure, music, nature and wellbeing. It also features a 'thinking tree' where visitors can share their thoughts and feelings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gunnersbury-unlocked-from-private-grounds-to-public-park-36329/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2187e1475f9541b40d3eba0d04953c2f822ec5b4e35ebaf43110fa942c6f5b17-2000.webp"}]}