Restraint, breaking convention, and the personal experiences driving her music: musician Karen Gwyer on her new piece commissioned for this year’s ASSEMBLY series.
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Join Somerset House mycologist in residence Darren Springer for a step-by-step guide to starting your own mushroom farm at home.
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A weekend festival celebrating and interrogating the making of independent media, in an age of infinite information.
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Meet our first intake of young people who worked across Somerset House.
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Meet industry experts as they introduce key exhibits in the gallery.
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Somerset House Director Jonathan Reekie selects his cultural highlights of 2017.
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Black Business Incubator at Somerset House Announces New Cohort of 15 Creative Entrepreneurs
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Our digital strand of the Creative Careers & Skills programme at Somerset House, bringing you fortnightly bite-sized snippets of inspiration over lunch-time sessions.
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An evening of poetry, performances and live music exploring Black diasporic identity.
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Watch a talk exploring the organic phenomena of mycelium both in the natural world and in design
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Now Play This curators with a panel of writers, curators, designers & makers.
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Historic England’s first major exhibition, told the story of key public art created between 1945 and 1985, the exhibition followed the fates and fortunes of site-specific sculptures and reliefs.
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Artists exploring solutions for social and environmental issues via everyday scenarios.
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Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane’s Lancaster Place commission continues their collaborative exploration of the ‘grey areas’ of England’s narratives, focusing on the notion of the ‘right to remain’.
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In this Upgrade Yourself session, we were delighted to be joined by all-round creative Amzy OBR, ... Future Culture X. Amzy spoke openly with Somerset House Future Producer Jahnavi Inniss, discussing some ... Amzy quickly became the go to capture some of the most memorable moments in recent popular culture. ...
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Vogue Rites invites you to The Heatwave Kiki Ball, a sizzling celebration of summertime.
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A full-day programme of screenings, discussion and performance reflecting on Artificial Intelligence and its reshaping of the very essence of relationships.
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TidalCycles meetups are a series of informal, participatory meetups focusing on Alex Mclean’s open source, accessible livecoding platform.
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Black Girl Fest Studios curate an afternoon of dance, breathwork and movement activations for young Black people.
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Gain knowledge and insight into working as a sculptor, filmmaker and visual artist and what it takes to exhibit across institutions, museums and international art fairs.
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