{"title": "Zearo: It follows me quietly still – Opening reception", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Sunday Painter", "address": "117-119 South Lambeth Road, SW8 1XA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "society/queer"], "description": "A solo exhibition of new work by Zearo, held at The Sunday Painter gallery. Its centre is a single sixteen-metre chalk pastel painting that envelops the gallery's main space. The work takes New Park in Taipei as its point of departure, one of the earliest sites in the Sinophone world where queer men gathered openly, showing it as a place of refuge and exposure where desire finds expression under the shadow of social judgement. Drawing on medieval compositional structures and Chinese handscrolls, the image unfolds as the viewer walks along the wall, considering how longing and connection persist across time.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/zearo-it-follows-me-quietly-still-opening-reception-70671/", "official_url": "https://thesundaypainter.co.uk/exhibitions/81-zearo-it-follows-me-quietly-still/overview/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72f1b5d564f007509fef065b1c280ed5e5719561787dbfb0f75bf2b3c19331da-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Sunday Painter", "address": "117-119 South Lambeth Road, SW8 1XA London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Sunday Painter", "address": "117-119 South Lambeth Road, SW8 1XA London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Art on Your Doorstep", "start": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Art on Your Doorstep is a free outdoor exhibition bringing life-size reproductions of National Gallery masterpieces to Brentford, displayed across the town in fine detail and complete with their frames. It is part of The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep, a national touring project taking works from the nation's collection beyond Trafalgar Square to twelve towns across the UK. Brentford is one of those twelve towns, with up to 30 masterpieces exhibited, shaped by this year's Creative Mile theme of 'Love' and by the people, landmarks and history of Brentford. Visitors to Boston Manor House can see three masterpiece reproductions: one by the café terrace and two photo stand-ins inside the House.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-on-your-doorstep-35024/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc999c3f25e613b04ee7dac017aa6cdd1309692f498f2aea24ec5c49e803c497-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Queer Diary: Zine-Making Evening", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "place": "London LGBTQ+ Community Centre", "address": "Hopton Street 60-62, SE1 9JH London", "price": "Pay What You Can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines"], "description": "Queer Diary: Zine-Making Evening is a crafting workshop where LGBTQIA+ adults can make their own personal Queer Teenage History Zine, collaging, doodling and writing to a throwback soundtrack. All materials are provided, including paper, scissors, felt-tips and old teen mags to cut up, and attendees may bring a favourite object, picture or memory as inspiration. It is brought to you by the team behind Queer Diary, the night where LGBTQIA+ adults read their teenage diaries on stage. Booking is essential and spaces are limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/queer-diary-zine-making-evening-41650/", "official_url": "https://londonlgbtqcentre.org/event/queer-diary-zine-making-evening/2026-11-05/", "image": ""}, {"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, "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": "SCRAPBOOKING + ZINE MAKING: MANOS QUEER x TAC", "start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "Dalston Superstore", "address": "Kingsland High Street 117, E8 2PB London", "price": "Free, with optional pay-what-you-can tickets", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines", "society/queer"], "description": "SCRAPBOOKING + ZINE MAKING: MANOS QUEER x TAC is a free scrapbooking and zine-making workshop with doodling, scrapping and sticking. It is run by Manos Queer in collaboration with the Trans Artists Collective and hosted at Dalston Superstore, which donates the month's posters to be ripped up. The space is open to all levels and is focused on trans+ and queer folks coming together to make things. Attendance is free with a booked ticket, and optional pay-what-you-can tickets help support the spaces.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/scrapbooking-zine-making-manos-queer-x-tac-35525/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/39241378fd88dad7247d1163b3f89b0a409e7c33afb375c937e16e106e3c2a95-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Knit & Knatter — 留白 / Beyond Emptiness edition", "start": "2026-11-09T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts/knitting"], "description": "The SOAS Library Knitting Club returns to the SOAS Gallery for a relaxed crafting social, held alongside the exhibition 留白 – Beyond Emptiness by Hong Kong architect and artist Raymond Fung. The session takes its backdrop from 留白 (liú bái), the art of \"leaving blank\" in traditional Chinese ink painting, about the meaning held within space and silence. It is a drop-in, not a class: there is no instruction and no fixed programme, just needles and conversation in the gallery's calm. Bring your own project — knitting, crochet, embroidery or any textile craft — and your own needles, hooks and materials; all skill levels are welcome and booking is essential as space is limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/knit-knatter-beyond-emptiness-edition-43663/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/knit-knatter-liubai/beyond-emptiness-edition", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8c436d7adda14312bd33958a1ba1e2866a811307916c3c3b15dc789700c678d6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Aligned – a Solo Show by Ayush Sinha", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "place": "Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan", "address": "4a Castletown Road, W14 9HE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "\"Aligned\" is a solo art exhibition of paintings shown at an art gallery in London. It is by the artist Ayush Sinha, whose works explore the quiet power of geometry through rhythm, balance and colour. Circles, lines and intersecting forms become symbols of connection, energy and contemplation, inviting viewers to find harmony within structure and stillness within movement. Together the paintings form a meeting point between abstraction, spirituality and the human experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/aligned-a-solo-show-by-ayush-sinha-34977/", "official_url": "https://www.bhavan.net/events/aligned-a-solo-show-by-ayush-sinha/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b31d415b2ee3b81edb862899236894f6ee5e36084c88470af43caf2115c5ecc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Meeting Mohini", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Horniman Museum", "address": "London Road 100, SE23 3PQ London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/queer/trans", "art/photography"], "description": "Meeting Mohini is a free photographic display at the Horniman Museum. It looks at Koovagam and spotlights Indian transgender culture through the lens of Zoya Thomas Lobo, India's first transgender photojournalist. Her images follow the ancient Hindu festival celebrating the marriage of the goddess Mohini to Aravan, which thousands of transgender women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people gather each year to reenact. It is her first solo exhibition and first outside India, also centring her own experiences in Mumbai.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meeting-mohini-36549/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/268fd55d28ef2dfb5aa4ca932d7a9dca815bc14b312d6a36f4d761a0c04b20ab-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "National Portrait Gallery", "address": "WC2H 0HE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery exploring queer identity, community, and love through the lens of one of Britain's foremost photographers. It presents new portraits by Tim Walker, who spent five years photographing dozens of activists, performers, artists, and writers in his whimsical, fairytale-inspired style. Curated by Susanna Brown, the show combines exuberant portraits and fantastical landscapes in a celebration where everyone has the freedom to be themselves, accompanied by a new book with contributions by Travis Alabanza, Russell T Davies, Shon Faye, Lisa Power and Joelle Taylor.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tim-walkers-fairyland-love-and-legends-78924/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG: Being Poetic Ruins Life", "start": "2026-11-04T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths, University of London Campus", "address": "SE14 6NW London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An art exhibition filling an entire contemporary art building with painting, ink works, handscrolls, garments, silk paintings, installation, video and text. It is the first UK institutional exhibition by Evelyn Taocheng Wang, a Netherlands-based artist, presented by the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art. Through her 'make-up box' approach and her unreliable narrator 'The Cultural Whore', the works move between fiction, autobiography and cultural projection to assemble an idiosyncratic portrait of Britain shaped by translation, misunderstanding, desire and performance. New commissions explore the Chinese diasporic experience and Britain's cultural image in China, drawing on motifs from Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, the film Titanic and Count Duckula, with paintings indebted to Agnes Martin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/evelyn-taocheng-wang-being-poetic-ruins-life-36261/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e27d2f903af4f6b46d48a95361c04a29a009319bbc0137b1c2f1d1d870e5d02b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "hARTslane Open Studios + Window Artwork Launch", "start": "2026-11-07T17:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "place": "hARTslane", "address": "Hart's Lane 17, SE14 5UP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "society/queer"], "description": "hARTslane Open Studios + Window Artwork Launch is the official unveiling of the new artwork 'Grow and Bloom' by Usva Inei, created for hARTslane's Window Project. The piece is a spray painted flower bouquet in trans flag colours, whose flowers carry historical and cultural meaning for the LGBTQ+ community, signifying celebration, remembrance, resistance, and representation. It responds to current anti-trans politics in the UK and the recent supreme court ruling, aiming to provide hope, representation, and recognition for trans and queer communities. Usva Inei is a trans non-binary visual artist and artist educator working through painting, textiles, and printmaking, whose practice is strongly linked to working with communities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hartslane-open-studios-window-artwork-launch-97847/", "official_url": "https://www.hartslane.org/grow-and-bloom/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/348a6f62e97a39856f61d71ddaf069a62deebd3b7bdcaa7d24ceb712e9ccf121-2000.webp"}]}