Season Butler ruminates on the restorative potential of the humble jigsaw puzzle in our latest long read.
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A two-part event looking at how prisons seize time as a form of punishment and resources to reclaim landscapes from state entities
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Hosted by Maya Jaggi.
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An opportunity to see how new platforms contrast with original archives.
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Are you living your life in sleep mode – a deceptive term meaning never fully on or off? Curator Sarah Cook explores the politics of how we spend our time.
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Skate at Somerset House returns this winter with new partners Moët & Chandon
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Join our mycologist-in-residence for a hands-on mushroom growing workshop with your own.
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Critically acclaimed and Mercury Music Prize nominated treasures, Doves return after nearly a decade away from the limelight.
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Tatale is a restaurant, telling pan-African stories through food, art and culture.
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Emerging Strategies for Interdependence. A day-long gathering to explore and strategise how art and culture can play an active part in reconfiguring ownership.
/whats-on/beyond-cultures-of-ownership
Solaris2 is a diverse production company with a reputation for hard hitting short form content that tells the story of underprivileged communities, particularly the Black community.
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An exhibition of photographs by Bleddyn Butcher, tracking Nick Cave’s creative career from the apoplectic extravagance of The Birthday Party to the calmer disquiet of 2013’s Push The Sky Away.
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An event celebrating the eclectic music of the clubs and parties that the celebrated Malian photographer frequented and chase away the January blues.
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How does the digital era affect our emotional lives? Does it connect or alienate us? Do real connections fade away with the continuous technological advancement?
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An afternoon of music and celebration on the closing weekend of Hassan Hajjaj: La Caravane.
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IAM explore the post-technological futures of everything by digging into their 2018 research theme: “The Subversion of Paradoxes”.
/whats-on/defrag-iam
Random Acts is Channel 4’s TV and online short film strand, showcasing some of the boldest work from animators, artists and writers around the UK.
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Aiysha Nazir reflects on her creative industry placement with Somerset House resident organisation Royal Society of Literature.
/blog/starting-out-creative-career-part-one
Paul Maheke discusses his complex creative process, and the racial politics of the art world.
/blog/get-stand-now-qa-artist-paul-maheke
Meet the minds behind the image making in this one day masterclass.
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