{"title": "THIIIRD AUTUMN Social", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T09:00:00Z", "place": "The Feminist Library", "address": "Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "THIIIRD AUTUMN Social is an evening for creatives who want meaningful connections in an industry that often feels like a solo pursuit. It is hosted by THIIIRD, whose socials are led by leading creative voices sharing their work and stories in an intimate Q&A. This edition features Kim Lang, a prominent voice in contemporary photography known for his bold, theatrical portraiture and narrative approach to individuality, identity, and cultural heritage. It is a space for candid conversation, real connection and potential collaboration, held in Peckham's Sojourner Truth building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thiiird-autumn-social-70555/", "official_url": "https://feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/10/28/thiiird-autumn-social/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1f63eef74843c68d3eb66c439d6e72aedfb381be7039b3dc7132db33b26a684-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T09:00:00Z", "place": "The Feminist Library", "address": "Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Laoniang", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "Laoniang is a photographic exhibition presented by The Koppel Project at Collective. It is the work of Zhiyan Liu, a London-based photographer, and centres on her maternal grandmother, whom she has called Laoniang since childhood. Through sustained engagement with the eighty-year-old's daily life — working the land, tending the courtyard, caring for animals and resting at home — the project explores kinship, ageing, domesticity and self-determination. It considers the tensions between familial care and personal autonomy, inviting a reconsideration of how lives are looked at and understood.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/laoniang-42455/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/laoniang-zhiyan-liu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c722e40a70b4e39b1183adddd3b0fe6df5552555d0a01d8a21746c09052ae4b7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Laoniang", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "place": "Koppel Collective", "address": "Adelaide Road 1, NW3 3QE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "Laoniang is a photographic exhibition by Zhiyan Liu, presented by The Koppel Project. 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The images invite viewers to look at a life that cannot be reduced to the perspectives or expectations of others.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/laoniang-42456/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/laoniang-zhiyan-liu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c722e40a70b4e39b1183adddd3b0fe6df5552555d0a01d8a21746c09052ae4b7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Roots", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "from £665 + VAT", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/plants/trees", "art/photography"], "description": "\"Roots\" is a group exhibition at The Print Sales Gallery exploring trees, memory, cultural heritage and belonging through photography and mixed media across global landscapes. The show brings together works by Julie Cockburn, Paul Cupido, Gohar Dashti, Chrystel Lebas, Miho Kajioka, Michael Kenna, Ingrid Weyland and Pentti Sammallahti. It considers trees as living embodiments of origin, memory and belonging, symbols of cultural heritage and archives of collective memory. The works invite us to consider the reciprocal relationships between people and place and to act as guardians for the forests that sustain us.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/roots-39559/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f818861dcf24a700f3df307343302d93e76c7ef72f4fc42909ffec12726bdc94-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Fairy tale fashion: Tim Walker at National Portrait Gallery", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "National Portrait Gallery", "address": "WC2H 0HE London", "price": "£23-£25", "price_from": "23.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/fashion-photography"], "description": "An exhibition of photographic portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. British photographer Tim Walker, known for his dreamlike, theatrical fashion photography for magazines such as Vogue, spent five years photographing activists, performers, artists and writers. The new body of work, \"Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends\", explores queer identity, community and love through fantastical sets, costumes and imagined landscapes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fairy-tale-fashion-tim-walker-at-national-portrait-gallery-70009/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71f39e710c161b88ed02d891151ed70a9bd160e1afb051b3e8c9b51162a5e990-1200.webp"}, {"title": "One Photograph / Different Perspectives", "start": "2026-11-07T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T17:30:00Z", "place": "Collective", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An artist-led conversation about how the context of a photograph shapes the way we see it. It accompanies Zhiyan Liu's photographic series Laoniang, which documents the everyday life of her maternal grandmother in rural China. Participants look closely at a single photograph from the exhibition and share their interpretations before learning the circumstances in which it was made, then extend the discussion to other works. Open to all, with no prior knowledge of photography required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/one-photograph-different-perspectives-39385/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/one-photograph-different-perspectives", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9a6013ec402eb7bb5eb72e41025df58ad474d4f401d471e524bd4a4d1c3a576-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zanele Muholi - Faces and Phases (2006-2026) UK Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-07T12:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00Z", "place": "House of Sisters Grimm", "address": "Eastcastle Street 23-25, London", "price": "£39 (with code MUHOLI39, excluding first row VIP)", "price_from": "49.00", "price_to": "95.00", "tickets_url": "https://houseofsistersgrimm.com/group-bookings/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography", "society/queer"], "description": "A UK book launch and signing celebrating twenty years of the portrait series Faces and Phases by South African photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi, winner of the 2026 Hasselblad Award. Edited by Renée Mussai and published by MACK, the book brings together more than 300 largely unpublished photographs, personal testimonies, essays and an interview championing the visibility and dignity of Black LGBTQIA+ communities. The launch, co-produced by Michael Burgess of Creative Resilience International with support from MACK and Southern Guild, includes an artist conversation, signing sessions, photographs and a reception, with INALA performances the same day. Books will be available to purchase at the launch.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/zanele-muholi-faces-and-phases-2006-2026-uk-book-launch-36562/", "official_url": "https://houseofsistersgrimm.com/events/zanele-muholi-faces-and-phases-2006-2026-uk-book-launch/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/465fcc573c28f3c4e78c80edb42382775284fc607b5bc0b34fbf76a02d9e227e-600.webp"}, {"title": "07.11| Salon Artystyczny POSK", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T20:00:00Z", "place": "Polish Social and Cultural Association", "address": "King Street 238-246, W6 0RF London", "price": "Wstęp wolny", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "art", "community"], "description": "Salon Artystyczny POSK is an artistic salon evening held in the Atrium of the Polish Social and Cultural Association in London, where admission is free. It is organised by the Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK), and the evening will be hosted by Agnieszka Kuchnia-Wołosiewicz. Artists, poets, musicians and young creators will meet at the event, with David Toya as the special guest.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/0711-salon-artystyczny-posk-63946/", "official_url": "https://posk.org/event/07-11-salon-artystyczny-posk/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/24d4eff8f894c1a441ca138166f03714de122e66d5ae566023b4f6dd226c43e0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Extra Second London", "start": "2026-10-31T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St. Margaret's House", "address": "Old Ford Road 15-23, E2 9PJ London", "price": "£4 (£5 for Open Mic + Guest)", "price_from": "4.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/stmargaretshouse/1432082/select-date", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word"], "description": "A cosy monthly evening of poetry, spoken word, music and discussion with open mic slots. 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Photographer Carol Allen-Storey joins Annalisa, Nicola and Shoulana — three mothers raising children with lifelong disabilities — for a candid talk moderated by CNN's Clarissa Ward. The event is a collaboration with Pranvera Shema Smith, founder of On Front Line, and includes a photographic portrait woven together with the families' own drawings, poetry and testimony. Attendance is open to Conduit members, with a cash bar available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/health-food-futures-defying-the-myth-how-we-value-lives-42247/", "official_url": "https://www.theconduit.com/insights/social-equity/defying-the-myth-how-we-value-lives/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7361e11534881499db70b2676ea68ddf14689335bfd1ec8d8dd33c45cad781b8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nicer Tuesdays: November", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T21:00:00Z", "place": "EartH", "address": "Stoke Newington Road 11-17, N16 8BH London", "price": "", "price_from": "13.48", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://link.dice.fm/ld7bf9f0c2f3", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "Nicer Tuesdays: November is an evening of talks by creatives, presented by It's Nice That and held in the EartH Theatre in Hackney. Speakers include Yinka Ilori, a multi-disciplinary artist and designer whose bold visual language draws on his British-Nigerian heritage; illustrator and designer DaRynci (aka Daryn Roongrawewan), who crafts ornamental icons and animations; and Simon Elvins and Roy Barker of London's independent creative and advertising company Wonderhood Studios, discussing their local Soho community work. The event takes place in partnership with Affinity and Cavalry by Canva, with drinks and snacks from sponsors El Rayo Tequila and Lovecorn when doors open. Doors open at 6pm and the talks begin around 7:15pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nicer-tuesdays-november-35765/", "official_url": "https://earthackney.co.uk/events/nicer-tuesdays-november-3rd-nov-earth-london-tickets-g5v6v2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6960451af14c854d2298197d05b241f2e5c576370dd70de48cf1281269e23759-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Made By Hands: The Fabric of Creative Action", "start": "2026-10-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-26T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Showroom", "address": "Penfold Street 63, London", "price": "Free, booking essential. Donations welcome.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000576910393?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/textile-art", "society/sustainability"], "description": "Made By Hands: The Fabric of Creative Action is an intergenerational textile workshop series held fortnightly at The Showroom in London. It is led by artist Kim Chin, a multidisciplinary artist, designer, facilitator, curator, and community organiser. Through textile banner-making, silk-screen print and conversation, participants will explore themes such as connection to place, re-claiming 'waste' within circular economic frameworks, and inspiring agency and action within communities, in the context of The Showroom's annual Mural Commission by Bahar Noorizadeh. No previous stitching or printing experience is necessary, and materials and refreshments are provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/made-by-hands-the-fabric-of-creative-action-39706/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/218baf90a22d4c481c50073b49e562b8cbeaca6a2bf4f04f3cee3bc39fe56bfe-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Meeting Mohini", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Horniman Museum and Gardens", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "society/queer"], "description": "Meeting Mohini is a free photographic display at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, shown in the Balcony Gallery above the World Gallery. It presents work by Zoya Thomas Lobo, India's first transgender photojournalist, and is her first solo exhibition and her first outside India. The photographs look at Koovagam, where thousands of transgender women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people gather each year in the Tamil month of Chithirai to reenact the story of Aravan, who was married for a night by Krishna in his form as the goddess Mohini. The images capture the joy of the wedding day, the sadness of the funeral ceremony, and life outside the festival in Mumbai, shining a light on one of the oldest recognised transgender and LGBTQI+ communities in the world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meeting-mohini-50301/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/268fd55d28ef2dfb5aa4ca932d7a9dca815bc14b312d6a36f4d761a0c04b20ab-2000.webp"}]}