{"title": "Unhomed/Unravelled Shephali Frost – Poetry & Song", "start": "2026-11-14T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "£13", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "13.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/world/sufi", "literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening of poetry and song called \"Unhomed/Unravelled\" brings modern English poetry together with South-Asian songs and improvised music under the theme of Memory, Migration & Home. It features Shephali Frost, a bilingual poet in Hindi and English and singer of Sufi and Urdu songs, with Mark Hewins on electric guitar and synthesizer, Adrian Northover on soprano saxophone and Ansuman Biswas on fusion percussion. Hewins has toured with Lou Reed and the Bob Geldof band, Northover performs on the London and international improv and jazz scene, and Biswas draws on jazz, Indian classical and experimental music and has worked with the National Theatre, Royal Ballet and English National Opera.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unhomedunravelled-shephali-frost-poetry-song-36577/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-poetry-unhomed-unravelled/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9142d91a73e7ffd2219698a92e689246c11aba8f3668cb6962954182362cdea7-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Aayushi + Ray Vincent-Mills + Hannah Lou Clark", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Paper Dress Vintage", "address": "352a Mare Street, E8 1HR London", "price": "", "price_from": "14.04", "price_to": "14.04", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter"], "description": "A live music night at Paper Dress Vintage, the venue's bar and events space on Mare Street in London. The line-up was handpicked by Aayushi, a Birmingham-based folk singer-songwriter who writes strikingly tender songs blending poetry with vocals drawn from her Indian heritage, and has drawn nearly 10 million streams. She is joined by Ray Vincent-Mills, a Birmingham-based poet and performer whose work explores his identities as a BLACK, trans and queer artist through imagery that is abstract yet sharp. Hannah Lou Clark appears as Special Guest, with praise from NME, Guy Garvey, Steve Lamacq and Line of Best Fit.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/aayushi-ray-vincent-mills-hannah-lou-clark-61645/", "official_url": "https://paperdressvintage.co.uk/?p=18526", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89779fc7869450aa649c71b1b30646092fa0864ff262dcd3a75cee936ff8a035-600.webp"}, {"title": "City of London Sinfonia – These Memories May Be True", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wilton's Music Hall", "address": "Graces Alley 1, E1 8JB London", "price": "£13.50 – £28.00 full price | £11.00 – £25.50 concession", "price_from": "13.50", "price_to": "28.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral", "society/migration"], "description": "City of London Sinfonia – These Memories May Be True is a 75-minute evening of orchestral music, words and stories at Wilton's Music Hall, with no interval. 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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": "Artangel and Nitin Sawhney present L'esprit d'accord", "start": "2026-11-13T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-13T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Round Chapel", "address": "1D Glenarm Road, London, E5 0LY, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental"], "description": "A one-evening music performance marking the launch of 'Earth Rising: Messages from the Pale Blue Dot' Volume II. Artangel presents Nitin Sawhney, who offers a new work unlike any he has created before, staged in Hackney's Round Chapel. He performs the title piece accompanied by Aref Durvesh, Eos Counsell, Shapla Salique, Ashwin Srinivasan, YVA and a string sextet, then develops the evening with improvised spoken word and further pieces from his catalogue. Seating is unreserved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/artangel-and-nitin-sawhney-present-lesprit-daccord-47046/", "official_url": "https://www.roundchapel.org/listings/nitinsawhney/artangel/fri-13-nov/round-chapel/hackney", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8e9e3be08fe537926ca22ffeb9a5353317eb1e58b11075a6b66ebb0ef3ca8081-600.webp"}, {"title": "JAS Musicals Ltd presents Sarang Fest", "start": "2026-11-13T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Bhavan", "address": "4A Castletown Road, London, W14 9HE, United Kingdom", "price": "£30/£25/£20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/world/indian/indian-classical", "dance/kathak"], "description": "An evening of Hindustani classical music and Kathak dance, pairing the sarangi with dance. 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Montse Gallego, a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Hundred Years Gallery, brings her poetry to the event alongside Charlie Folorunsho, who has played on the London improv scene at venues including Boat Ting and Hundred Years Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dissidences-7-sound-voice-word-36576/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/dissidences-7-sound-voice-word-saturday-14th-november-4-30/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Roundhouse Rising SouSou Unspoken – EP Release", "start": "2026-11-11T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Roundhouse", "address": "Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH London", "price": "£10.75", "price_from": "10.75", "price_to": "10.75", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/soul-funk/soul"], "description": "SouSou brings her EP 'Unspoken – EP Release' to the Roundhouse Davey Studio as part of Roundhouse Rising. SouSou is a South-East London based singer, born in France with Palestinian heritage, whose music fuses Arabic tradition with contemporary soul, inspired by artists like Fairuz and Yebba as well as French chanson. The EP gives voice to what had previously stayed quiet, tracing a personal journey through grief, memory and identity. At this launch event, each song becomes its own physical sensory world, with the performance happening in and around the audience in an immersive experience moving from silence toward voice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/roundhouse-rising-sousou-unspoken-ep-release-64966/", "official_url": "https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/rr-unspoken-ep-release-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7ce0f9738cbfb8610fd9f83a011d7bb5433b7f8fb74b33bee23b6f3f8519f276-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Balladeste", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Stone Nest", "address": "Shaftesbury Avenue 136, London", "price": "Free admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/contemporary-classical"], "description": "Balladeste is a live concert in which the duo launch their new album Imprints with an immersive in-the-round performance. Balladeste is a long-term collaboration between Preetha Narayanan (violin) and Tara Franks (cello), whose richly textured instrumental music is shaped by contemporary classical, Indian classical, baroque and folk. For this performance they are joined by guest artists Fred Thomas, Tullis Rennie, Debasmita Bhattacharya and Lucine Musaelian, and the night opens with a set from composer, producer and DJ Gabriel Prokofiev, founder of Nonclassical.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/balladeste-65385/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d169a8e5e725ec388ce5286b5dc6e1b72c939cfcfbda27ddcaa3ba22dddd1e9c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "More Fire: Performance Poetry Ignited", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Woolwich Works", "address": "No 1 Street 11, SE18 6HD London", "price": "Cabaret Seats: £27 | Standard Seats: £22 (all prices include a £2 booking fee per ticket)", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "27.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word"], "description": "More Fire: Performance Poetry Ignited is a one-night spoken word show gathering radical and exceptional voices in performance poetry, never seen together on stage before. It is presented by Apples and Snakes, the national organisation for performance poetry, and spotlights the transformative origins, present and future of the art form. The line-up includes The Last Poets, Michael Rosen, Inua Ellams, AFLO. the poet, Jordan Stephens, Rakaya Fetuga and David Okodeh, hosted by Yomi Ṣode. The evening of raw storytelling and unmissable energy is never to be repeated.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/more-fire-performance-poetry-ignited-40362/", "official_url": "https://www.woolwich.works/events/more-fire", "image": "https://noky.io/images/069f86da197260f99be8b5625e0d7039338f8d01164b76055dd345e28ef762bd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Rising and Sinking like Mountains in Streams", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Poetry Cafe", "address": "", "price": "Free, ticketed", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "nature/rivers"], "description": "A live poetry performance with sound and visuals, together with the launch of the project's digital publication. Rising and Sinking Like Mountains in Streams explores creative connections between the River Wye in the UK and the Red River in Hanoi, Vietnam. Initiated by Literature Across Frontiers and co-organised by ajar press, it brought together poets and artists from Vietnam and the UK as the 'RSMS collective', whose works across two residencies were shaped by ecological observation, deep listening, recordings, visual scores, graphic sound notations, collective writing and participatory co-creation. UK artists montenegrofisher (Luna Montenegro and Adrian Fisher) perform live with cellist Isidora Edwards, alongside work by Nhã Thuyên, Lowri Hedd Vaughan, Wanda O'Connor, Nguyễn Hữu Hải Duy and Thuỳ Dương, with support from the British Council's #ConnectionsThroughCulture programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rising-and-sinking-like-mountains-in-streams-95027/", "official_url": "https://poetrysociety.org.uk/event/rising-and-sinking-like-mountains-in-streams/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ce9cff8c62d008e6b93c6bd88d510e84494d2146256aad52548e4c36a7bc7a9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Our stories: Unplugged (2nd year)", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "East Street Baptist Church", "address": "100 East Street, London SE17 2DQ", "price": "General entry, Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/drum-and-bass", "religion/christian"], "description": "Our Stories: Unplugged is an evening of live music and art, featuring performances from drum and bass and spoken word to gospel and acoustic music, alongside personal stories and a short gospel talk. It is a publicly contributed event, not a council event, and is open to everyone whether Christian or not. Food and drinks will be available at the venue. Entry is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/our-stories-unplugged-2nd-year-76524/", "official_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-stories-unplugged-2nd-year-tickets-2002967894892?aff=oddtdtcreator", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a4432d64c802508fa800ec66c05538f7c2677afd046060405f59a1cffe7590eb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "New Wave Arab: Celebrating the Next Generation of Arab Artists", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Grand Junction", "address": "St Mary Magdalene Church, Rowington Cl, W2 5TF London", "price": "£18 (£12 Conc) + bf", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/world/arabic"], "description": "An evening of live music celebrating a new generation of Arab artists blending contemporary genres with live Arabic instrumentation. It is presented by SWANA Records and Marsm UK in collaboration with Grand Junction, as part of the Right Here, Right Now programme. Performing artists include Isadora, Vincent J, Layal, Awadh and Rhea Kattan. The event is supported by the DCMS and Arts Council England.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/new-wave-arab-celebrating-the-next-generation-of-arab-artist-36293/", "official_url": "https://grandjunction.org.uk/events/new-wave-arab/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d8f2f2bd1948cf2fa879cc32afdddcbda4df1fbb5d9a715c51823dba8ca8499-600.webp"}]}