{"title": "What The Dresses Know book launch", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tenderbooks", "address": "Cecil Court 6, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tenderbooks.co.uk/collections/artist-books", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/modernism", "literature"], "description": "A book launch celebrating the publication of What The Dresses Know by Sophie Oliver, published by Manchester University Press. The book offers a new account of pioneering modernist women and their radical experiments, told through the clothes they made and wore, from a dress Vanessa Bell rescued from the London Blitz to Frida Kahlo's huipiles and a waistcoat embroidered for Gertrude Stein by Alice B. Toklas. Using these garments, Sophie Oliver, a distinctive new voice in cultural criticism, explores how modernist women used clothes to think through the contradictions of the modern world and to make history during years of tumultuous change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-the-dresses-know-book-launch-76839/", "official_url": "https://tenderbooks.co.uk/blogs/events-window/what-the-dresses-know-book-launch-friday-6-november-6-8pm", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aee4059e8474e9e3bc21a0f0280c66bbbb7d3f0b59fd83c62a5653486bd6f5ee-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tenderbooks", "address": "Cecil Court 6, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "LAUNCH: Four Essays on Embroidery by May Morris", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "price": "Free (RSVP required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://housmans.com/shop", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["diy/textiles/embroidery", "literature/non-fiction/essay", "history"], "description": "A launch event and panel discussion for the book \"Four Essays on Embroidery\" by May Morris, published by Gauze Bonnet Press. The book gathers four of Morris's essays on embroidery as a craft, an art form and a political practice, examining its history, stitches and colour theory through her feminist and socialist outlook, with an introduction by art historian A.M. Dodds. The panel, chaired by Megan McInerney with panelists A.M. Dodds, Isabella Rosner and Kate Bugos, discusses May Morris's life and legacy, the history of embroidery, and women in the Arts and Crafts movement. 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The writer and critic is joined by Devorah Baum to discuss the novel, a fictional account tracing the lives and imagined interconnections of Edith Stein and Gillian Rose. Their talk explores psychoanalysis in the creative process, the relationship between biography and fiction, and how fiction can engage with history and identity. 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The novel intertwines the lives of Edith Stein, the German-Jewish philosopher and Catholic convert, and Gillian Rose, philosopher of German-Jewish thought and Jacqueline's sister.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-house-two-women-book-launch-with-jacqueline-rose-36181/", "official_url": "https://www.freud.org.uk/event/in-house-two-women-book-launch-with-jacqueline-rose/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/04e2d9b0e09a2d9c23794cc69a217901eab3ce78ed6bf2447adb0bc9c98ede39-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Herstories Book club", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T14:30:00Z", "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": ["society/feminism", "literature"], "description": "Herstories Book club is a book club meeting at the Feminist Library, reading The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda. 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Poet-mediums Sophie Herxheimer and Clare Pollard will commune with the spirits of these subversive, darkly imaginative outsider poets, sharing their lives, works and influence, with readings haunted by their ghosts and compered by poet Helen Bowell of Dead [Women] Poets Society. The group, who since 2015 have been resurrecting women and non-binary poets of the past, will continue the resurrections with an open mic where poets and performers of all and no genders may take the stage; for every poem of your own, you should also read one by a dead woman or non-binary poet. 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It spans the 1920s to today and celebrates the innovative designer's influence. The show traces the fashion house's groundbreaking origins and its evolution under current creative director Daniel Roseberry. 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Inspired by British ecology, seasonality and the culture and music arising from their intertwining, it is an honouring of slowness and deliberate attentive craft. It showcases a collection of garments made over the past year and a half, with cloth hand-dyed in partnership with Frankie Tobin using foraged plants from London and Oxfordshire. The show features traditional and contemporary folk music and poetry from performers including Michael Rice, Lileth Chinn, Hani Hooper, Holly Kirkby and D.R.R. 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The book is a group biography whose five subjects are experimental health clinics that transformed medicine: a HIV research facility in New York City, a psychiatric clinic in France, a feminist-led health centre in Geneva, a sex clinic in Berlin and a preventive health centre in Peckham. Loiseau's investigation draws on his own encounters with medical care and interludes addressed to his mother, a health worker who shaped his life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-death-of-the-clinic-by-benoit-loiseau-book-launch-talk-36636/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/talks/book-launch-talk-the-death-of-the-clinic-by-benoit-loiseau", "image": "https://noky.io/images/548e4db8e0f12f5b9e9f22af9b87cb6b0984dd5aa27402296a45999414788dde-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Rab-Rab, Three Men in a Tub (of Publishing Avant-Garde Literature)", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening book talk, held both in person and online, devoted to the avant-garde literature published by Rab-Rab Press. It brings together Sezgin Boynik, founder of the Helsinki-based press, poet and translator Eugene Ostashevsky, and artist and curator Nikolay Karabinovych, moderated by Isabel Jacobs. They will discuss the eight-volume bie-bao series on the Futurist poet and typographic artist Iliazd, and the new publication of Shop-Signs in Kharkiv by the 1920s Ukrainian modernist Maik Yohansen. Topics range from Futurism to language politics, poetry to typography, alongside other titles such as a new translation of Varlam Shalamov's The Twenties.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rab-rab-three-men-in-a-tub-of-publishing-avant-garde-literat-64276/", "official_url": "https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/6658", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d5b0786d8cb77c96da1cbca758175a460df1a309a4b557d97cc6b463c84a5a47-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Black History Month 2026: Bobbin ‘n’ Weavin – Mending Workshop", "start": "2026-10-31T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Oxford House", "address": "Derbyshire Street, E2 6HG London", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002619783682?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/sewing", "society/identity"], "description": "Bobbin ‘n’ Weavin is a hands-on mending, patching and sewing workshop where guests bring their own garments to be repaired and adorned with cultural symbols, exploring heritage, identity and material culture. It is led by artist Martin King, who also offers alterations, and treats the mending as both a material and a cultural repair. Participants receive a reflective prompt beforehand and an encouraged reading list spanning works by authors such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Audre Lorde. Taking place on Halloween, the workshop invites thought on how we may mask or unmask our identities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/black-history-month-2026-bobbin-n-weavin-mending-workshop-41800/", "official_url": "https://www.oxfordhouse.org.uk/event/black-history-month-2026-bobbin-n-weavin-mending-workshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63f8977d09e2de904d1050e189a2120f200b42057b9c341a9ea3597ecfd66149-2000.webp"}]}