{"title": "Voices for Dissent, Voices for Desire: Creative Writing Workshop", "start": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Autograph, London", "address": "", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "literature/creative-writing", "society/queer"], "description": "A creative writing workshop exploring the relationship between language, desire and representation. It is led by the Tamil London-based writer and poet Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, a recipient of the Poetry Archive Prize and the Disabled Poets Prize. Participants respond with guided prompts and reflective exercises to Autograph's exhibition Charan Singh: Your Tongue in My Mouth, which examines how South Asian queer narratives have been obscured and reshaped by colonial legacies. The ticket includes materials, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voices-for-dissent-voices-for-desire-creative-writing-worksh-34790/", "official_url": "https://autograph.org.uk/events/voices-for-dissent-voices-for-desire-creative-writing-workshop", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d4fd07a9d3d358afe7cbdd14b9d5eed226cc8d0871b43f19fb5e05efd1819aa9-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Autograph, London", "address": "", "tickets": "sold_out"}], "similar": [{"title": "Reclaiming the Archives", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00Z", "place": "St. Margaret's House", "address": "Old Ford Road 15-23, E2 9PJ London", "price": "£12–£17", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "17.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines"], "description": "\"Reclaiming the Archives\" is a hands-on creative workshop at which participants turn their personal photographs into a zine using stitch, writing and collage. It is facilitated by Caroline Lacoma, a London-based self-taught visual artist born in Guadeloupe whose work explores transformation, rebirth and the self. The workshop invites participants to consider the photographs they have inherited, collected or taken and the stories they tell about family, identity, memory and belonging. No previous artistic or zine-making experience is required, all materials are provided, and participants may bring printed photographs to work on.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reclaiming-the-archives-38782/", "official_url": "https://www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk/events/reclaiming-the-archives", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea9c53d56c3c2aafda236f2ac05744c2a292f8c209d434c19caef2c2a88ed03f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Queer Recipes Archive (Community Workshop)", "start": "2026-11-05T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T15:00:00Z", "place": "Chats Palace", "address": "Brooksby's Walk 42-44, E9 6DF London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines", "food-drink/food-culture", "society/queer"], "description": "Queer Recipes Archive is an interactive workshop-performance that explores who defines the \"traditional\" version of a dish and whose experiences its recipe leaves out, tracing how ingredients and techniques have changed through migration, labour, gender and power. Participants create a double-layered zine rewriting the recipe through their own memories and desires, adding to a growing archive of stories told through food, and take their zines home; all materials are provided and no cooking or writing experience is needed. It is led by artist-facilitators Jo Pereira da Costa, a sensory artist and performance maker who founded Aftertaste, a studio producing edible theatre through dinner-performances, and Rachel, an Anthropology of Food student at SOAS researching mustard and olive oil production for the Food Museum. The workshop is open to adults aged 18 and over, especially queer and trans folks and anyone interested in the social and cultural dimensions of food; it is free to attend with registration via DICE essential.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/queer-recipes-archive-community-workshop-35261/", "official_url": "https://chatspalace.com/events/queer-recipes-archive-free-workshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/efe93358e5b0e6ebb099789778b58d46cb68dbd425de6d8fbc538453c1615b5a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Collage Club at The Living Room", "start": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Christopher's", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/collage"], "description": "Collage Club at The Living Room is a welcoming space to get creative, experiment and meet others through collage. The first theme is The Double, exploring mirroring, copying, tracing, repetition and reflection through collage and conversation. Visual artist Rakesh Mohindra and artist/poet Patrick Cosgrove facilitate this session of a six-part series, with guided conversation and creative collage making; no previous experience is needed and all materials are provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/collage-club-at-the-living-room-93242/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad35719584259e447c44a7acfeaac8ead7c69e82db995e65209887c113f92e04-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Queer Recipes Archive", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T15:45:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "Free, booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["food-drink/cooking", "society/queer"], "description": "Queer Recipes Archive is a workshop at Set Social that invites participants to rethink recipes and the stories they tell, asking who decides what makes a recipe 'traditional'. It is presented by Edible Theatre, led by Jo Pereira da Costa and co-hosted by @pomegranate___seeds. The session begins with a reimagined recipe prepared and performed live, followed by a small tasting, exploring how migration, labour, gender and power shape what we cook. Participants then rewrite the recipe through their own memories and desires into a double-layered zine to take home, which can also join the growing archive; it is free with booking required, open to adults 18 and over, and no experience is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/queer-recipes-archive-38498/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/queer-recipes-archive/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c734fc1ed48d521c26d57076da89568e510fdade5bb076756fa22da91a4552f0-2000.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", "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": "Entangled Writing (and Thinking) Workshop", "start": "2026-11-14T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "place": "The Soho Poly", "address": "16 Riding House Street, W1W 7DT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing", "nature/fungi"], "description": "An interactive workshop exploring entangled writing as a way of unlocking new thinking about the life/death and human/more-than-human crossroads. Facilitators introduce key concepts about fungal life and encourage rethinking mortality, decay, and death in creative, life-assertive, and regenerative terms, with participants creating their own zines and penning handwritten notes on biodegradable paper. The event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK's national festival of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. Those attending a separately booked fungus tour in Regent's Park may bury their notes in a designated area of the park.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/entangled-writing-and-thinking-workshop-70651/", "official_url": "https://sohopoly.co.uk/events/entangled-writing-and-thinking-workshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ca1a2001b58cb207d760bcab6a79fc0f85a14cd89057d755eb4551fefd04c9b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "THIIIRD AUTUMN Social", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Feminist Library", "address": "Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL", "price": "", "price_from": "9.38", "price_to": "9.38", "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"}, {"title": "Touch Grass Day-Tripper — upcycling", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00Z", "place": "Firepit Art Gallery", "address": "Cutter Lane 10, SE10 0XX London", "price": "GBP 6.13", "price_from": "6.13", "price_to": "6.13", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/textile-art", "diy/sewing"], "description": "Touch Grass Day-Tripper: Wild Creatives (Upcycling) is a hands-on beginner-friendly workshop where you hand-sew and embroider a personal charm from fabric remnants to decorate your favourite bag or keys, using upcycled materials to reduce textile waste. It is run by Touch Grass CIC, an outdoor community for queer women, trans and non-binary people of colour, and is an exclusive event for queer women, trans and non-binary people of colour. The session is facilitated by Tiana, a Greenwich-based designer, stylist and maker known for her sustainable crochet accessories made from upcycled materials, a Kingston School of Art graduate who has collaborated with brands like Puma and Selfridges, appeared on BBC's Make It at Market (Season 3), and led workshops at the V&A Museum and Somerset House. The workshop is hosted to celebrate the launch of Touch Grass's first exhibition, Earth to Us, an archive of queer folk of colour in nature; materials and light refreshments are provided, attendees must be 18 or over, and the venue's ground floor is accessible, with the nearest step-free station being North Greenwich.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/touch-grass-day-tripper-upcycling-78663/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6ece9bf5e32c0961ba536ad7ca8d7f5430c8d280841def182e03249e68e933cd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tending the Heart: Writing & Healing through Injustice", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Feminist Library", "address": "Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL", "price": "PWYC–£12", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing", "wellness"], "description": "An intimate workshop of writing, reflection and gentle practice for those carrying the weight of injustice, held under the Scorpio New Moon. It is led by Freya Shi, a writer, poet, artist and holistic wellbeing facilitator, and blends guided breathwork, meditation, creative writing, optional sharing and a short sound bath. Materials come from The Feminist Library's collection and the 'Metal of Agency' chapter of Freya's book Unlearning, to Love, on setting boundaries, reclaiming sovereignty and healing from injustice. The session takes place in the library's conference room with a short break, limited to 12 participants, with signed copies available after.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tending-the-heart-writing-healing-through-injustice-39184/", "official_url": "https://feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/10/21/tending-the-heart-writing-healing-through-injustice/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c013bc81f1b9386df77308e18ec41e77b5d19328583b146bc4691148e3debf3c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Walk to Write", "start": "2026-11-14T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T12:30:00Z", "place": "Park Wide", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing", "nature"], "description": "Walk to Write is a 90-minute guided walk in Crystal Palace Park that uses walking, observation and creative writing to explore how movement, attention and place can open up new ways of seeing and writing. It is led by Taran Khan, who developed the approach with groups of non-professional writers, including Afghan women writers at risk. Participants interact with sensory cues and objects along the route to generate ideas, images and stories, working with accessible prompts and pushing through creative blocks. Taran chose the park for its range of landscapes, histories and conflicting narratives to encounter while walking; the small group walk ends near the Concert Platform.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/walk-to-write-69724/", "official_url": "https://www.crystalpalacepark.org.uk/whats-on/walk-to-write-1s1r", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e259b1eeae98d88da7144d97f224dc85e27f8c84a05d8da61326798741b8ca61-1200.webp"}]}