{"title": "Tomorrow Is Built Today", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "Pay what you can by donation (suggested £10)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tomorrow-is-built-today-with-tim-oshodi-and-abel-holsborough-tickets-2002712732695?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/black-history", "society/housing"], "description": "A film screening followed by a discussion about how communities come together to imagine and build alternative futures in response to the housing crisis. The film, Tomorrow is Built Today, tells the story of Nubia Way in Downham, Lewisham, built in the 1990s by Fusions Jameen, London's first black housing co-operative, using Walter Segal's principles and self-builders who received long-term discounted rents in return for constructing their homes. Through interviews with the original self-builders, historians, architects and economists, this new documentary from the Architecture Foundation celebrates the legacy of Nubia Way and examines self-building as an act of resistance against housing discrimination faced by Black British communities. Afterwards, original self-builder Tim Oshodi joins artist Abel Holsborough to discuss connections between Nubia Way and House for Artists, a Barking-based artist residential project, reflecting on how housing can support creativity, collective care and shared ways of living; the event also includes a private view of Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tomorrow-is-built-today-40317/", "official_url": "https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/tomorrow-is-built-today/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/42a424aaeccdc4f1e967b7ca3abbf241be3b9e121dc2ab0c3f2556d5a769875a-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "FREE admission. Suggested donation of £5.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media", "history/social-history"], "description": "Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK is a major touring exhibition about the people and places that have shaped art and activism across Britain over the last 200 years. Presented by William Morris Gallery, it was developed in partnership with Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, Blackwell – The Arts & Crafts house in Bowness-on-Windermere, and Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, who work together as Four Lanterns as part of Art Fund's Going Places programme. Through objects, painting, drawing, photography, sound and archival material, it highlights individuals and communities who defied conventions and the homes they created to realise new visions of society, including William Morris's Red House, Charleston, Benton End, Prospect Cottage and Dial House. Curated by Hadrian Garrard, Linsey Young and Tayyabah Tahir, it also considers the role that money and class have played in access to these spaces and in imagining new ways of living.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/earthly-paradise-radical-living-in-the-uk-42812/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4606a47388641a9b47a51a7aac5b10ca924738564d500267f04b92c99fd67335-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tracing Posterity: Screening and Scanning Social", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Women’s Museum", "address": "Barking Wharf Square 4-5, IG11 7DQ", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002211966891?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/black-history"], "description": "An evening of short films and archival footage followed by a communal scanning and sharing workshop. Curated by Abel Holsborough, it reflects on the representation of Black British histories in film archives and how selective memories are preserved. Led by and centring Black residents of Barking and Dagenham, it marks Black History Month and invites visitors to bring family photos, DVDs and tapes to be digitised for a borough-wide community archive. The programme includes Early Years by Morgan Quaintance, Super Sam by Sandi Hudson Francis, and Eileen's Party, a home movie by local resident Eileen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social-40351/", "official_url": "https://womensmuseum.org.uk/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76e5b14dc4792c68dfe22d592716439c2265ed022594685261aea3707f3fcd5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Free Community Group Tours: Earthly Paradise", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/activism", "art"], "description": "Free guided tours for community groups of the exhibition Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK. The William Morris Gallery offers these tours to local community groups, faith groups and charities, for groups of 10 to 20 people. 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": "house london! | data hackathon", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T19:30:00Z", "place": "Newspeak House", "address": "Bethnal Green Road 133-135, E2 7DG London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/technology", "society/housing"], "description": "House London! is a one-day data sprint bringing together data scientists, urban planners, and policy thinkers to work with London's planning and housing data. Participants tell the most compelling, well-evidenced story they can from real datasets, shaping policy briefs, dashboards and models. It is the fourth in a monthly series hosted by House London!, organised by Jam Coombes, with cash prizes voted by fellow hackers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/house-london-data-hackathon-41764/", "official_url": "https://luma.com/m3pbljlh", "image": "https://noky.io/images/195bd0beac3dddd84dd248791055543f14c7864ef15dfd5f0e416e17374a5f6c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "'RAFT' & The Parlour Collective & 'The Moon Over The Alley'", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Horse Hospital", "address": "Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10 standard, £15 solidarity", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://gel.now/events/1212", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "stage/musical"], "description": "An evening triple bill of films celebrating the entanglement of bodies and place, with a special focus on London and its shelters, rafts and sanctuaries. It brings together Chiara Ambrosio’s ‘Raft - A London Story’, a screening of work by The Parlour Collective, and Joseph Despins’s 1976 feature ‘The Moon Over The Alley’, with an opening performance from Bird Radio and James Hesford. Ambrosio’s film is described as a musical haunting and contemporary fairytale about a specific place poised between appearance and disappearance, seeking new forms of sanctuary and belonging; The Parlour Collective are artists working with site-responsive performance and film, exploring the psychological and somatic experience of landscape. Despins’s dark yet tender 1976 British experimental musical, scored by Galt MacDermont, explores the problems facing the multicultural residents of a Notting Hill boarding house destined for demolition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/raft-the-parlour-collective-the-moon-over-the-alley-39366/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/raftparlourmoon", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9083b82df6e14dd0f8bdaaa6996611a9b4d27dd5850e925237bea3a84bb36982-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Uncovering the Queer Roots of British Arts and Crafts", "start": "2026-11-12T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "Pay what you can by donation (suggested £10)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uncovering-the-queer-roots-of-british-arts-and-crafts-tickets-2003053359519?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "An 'In Conversation' talk at the William Morris Gallery, part of the Earthly Paradise programme of talks. Neal Shasore, an architectural historian and founder of the School of Building, joins Michael Hall, author of A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the The National Trust. They explore the importance of queer community in history and how homes served as a private haven against public norms, discussing how mainstream culture has co-opted these expressions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/uncovering-the-queer-roots-of-british-arts-and-crafts-40319/", "official_url": "https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/uncovering-the-queer-roots-of-british-arts-and-crafts/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b08c449ebf9740ebc8022d0049941305997081d399ec36eb57f9e2dd68ff0abc-1200.webp"}, {"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": "BOOK LAUNCH: Revolution Under Construction: The SAAL Housing Process, 1974–76", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T20:30:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-confessions-of-a-london-river-hunter-by-john-rogers/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history", "literature"], "description": "A book launch for 'Revolution Under Construction: The SAAL Housing Process, 1974–76', an oral history of a remarkable Portuguese housing initiative after the fall of the dictatorship in 1974, followed by a Q&A.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-revolution-under-construction-the-saal-housing-p-41520/", "official_url": "https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-revolution-under-construction-the-saal-housing-process-1974-76/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/46a2b6630218e2b7d34810236a0ef9138a9c4c66b72e2d76217c8d90ea2a5056-2000.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": "post-", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Heights", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A studio exhibition titled 'post-' at Heights. Curated by AxisAxis, it presents new works by Libby Hoffenberg and Louis Caseley. Responding to AxisAxis' site in a rapidly redeveloping Elephant & Castle, it explores how sites of artistic and administrative labour are continuously transformed, repurposed and reappropriated in both public and private spaces. It inhabits the gap between the expectations of a visionary future and the realities of a present that has failed to deliver.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/post-39387/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/295dd877a837fb8698840de0d4bf2b5ee6e63d8b635486313a8ee58e928dc4af-600.webp"}, {"title": "Exploring History through Creativity", "start": "2026-11-10T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Poplar Union", "address": "Cotall Street 2, E14 6TL London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://poplarunion.com/event/trip-to-st-annes-church-to-see-the-limehouse-chinatown-exhibition-myths-and-realities/", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/london"], "description": "Free creative sessions exploring East End history through collage, photography, movement, singing, soundscapes and performance. They are facilitated by Tasnim Siddiqa Amin, a working-class Bangladeshi-British artist, theatremaker and activist from Poplar. Topics range from industrialisation, the dock strike and the match girls strike to the 1921 Poplar rates rebellion, London's first Chinatown, the closure of the docks and gentrification. Participants are invited to learn, explore and share their own stories.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/exploring-history-through-creativity-76781/", "official_url": "https://poplarunion.com/event/exploring-history-through-creativity-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c5c76c0955c5c805baaf8f696b98cfb96488c7969381c7253b9835346617cdf4-2000.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": "Decolonising Kingston: The Living Archive", "start": "2026-10-30T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T17:00:00Z", "place": "Kingston History Centre", "address": "", "price": "FREE Admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "The Living Archive is a community led exhibition exploring how history is recorded, who is remembered and how local people can become active authors of Kingston's story. It was developed through a partnership between the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Kingston Race and Equalities Council, local residents and artists, authors, curators and researchers Jaixia, Rong, and Jacqueline from Sharp Raiser Limited, and is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The exhibition celebrates the borough's diverse communities and addresses the underrepresentation of marginalized perspectives within local heritage archives, while honouring half a century of Kingston Race and Equalities Council's dedication to race equality, grassroots leadership, and cultural advocacy. Visitors can discover poems, personal stories, interviews, memories and artworks created during the project and contribute something of their own to Kingston's growing Living Archive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/decolonising-kingston-the-living-archive-36790/", "official_url": "https://www.kingstonheritage.org.uk/events/decolonising-kingston-living-archive", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ce984631e8a6026bf07e259daf9699c69bfd68247f8eeca955640f22353b8582-600.webp"}, {"title": "New Black British Sound x BBC Introducing", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T21:30:00Z", "place": "V&A East Museum", "address": "Carpenters Road 107, E20 2AR London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/buy-membership", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["society/black-culture/black-british", "music"], "description": "An evening of live music, networking and a panel conversation titled 'New Black British Sound x BBC Introducing' at V&A East Museum. It is run by BBC Introducing Live together with BBC Radio 1Xtra in partnership with V&A East Museum, celebrating the museum's exhibition The Music is Black: A British Story. A panel hosted by BBC Introducing's Angelle Joseph, with speakers including V&A East's Josephine Small, looks at key moments in Black British music history and how the UK industry can support young Black artists. An open mic hosted by BBC Radio 1Xtra Introducing's Theo Johnson gives nine artists the chance to perform live for BBC Introducing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/new-black-british-sound-x-bbc-introducing-40095/", "official_url": "https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/RwGL37RqpD/new-black-british-sound-x-bbc-introducing-nov-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7220b15f5dda4434b888bc624ed4ba543164d9dc44e7abfb29095f4d110f713b-2000.webp"}]}