Join us to shake it out into the weekend at our monthly programme of social dances ...

A launch for ‘Covert’ issue 4, featuring readings from Shabnam Shabazi, Zita Holbourne, Niharika Jain, Sheyna Lam, Jasmine Sharif, Seema Kapila and others. There will also be open mic slots of up to 3 ...

Running from 18-23 February 2025, Imagine Festival will transform the Southbank Centre into a vibrant cultural playground for the February half term with a fun-filled range of events for children and ...

Explore poetry off the page in Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut solo exhibition, where poems exist as sculpture, objects and textiles. Papachristodoulou’s object poems encourage interactive and shared ...

Olulode’s painting imagines an intimate moment between a queer couple at the start of their romance ...

Find it with us, as futuretense returns in 2025 with more of the best new and upcoming artists performing live, and free. Yes, that’s right, we said free. Twice a month we set up or Queen Elizabeth ...

Over the dark winter nights, our site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour – explore to discover them all. Each artist uses light and colour in playful ways, at the same ...

Blackwells Bookshop is hosting an event of readings from four poets on their latest collections. The four poets include: Sarah Holland-Batt reading from The Jaguar, Jenny Lewis reading from From Base ...

Hayward Gallery senior curator Yung Ma introduces the exhibition Leap Year which features 120 works by the Korean artist Haegue Yang. As Yung Ma explains, Yang is best known for turning mundane ...

A small group session where poets can get feedback on new work or work in progress. This is one of a number of small online workshop sessions hosted by Live Canon. Each session will have a maximum of ...

Taiwanese artist Huang Po-Chih uses the personal narratives of workers to investigate globalised trade, with a focus on the textile industry in East Asia. Drawing upon his family heritage – ...

World-class artists and emerging stars bring us music from across the jazz world and beyond Get in the swing of the festival – a highlight of London’s cultural calendar – with the sounds of some of ...