Join our family workshop looking at how hairstyles can shape surprising character traits in the age of social media selfies.
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Join us for a workshop creating Japanese anime-style self-portraits.
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Build confidence or improve your skills at our annual sell-out Skate School and Kids Skate Club.
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A special exhibition by the 2020–2021 Master of Photography, Shirin Neshat, presented as part of Photo London, opening from 01 September in anticipation of the fair’s arrival.
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Festival director Holly Gramazio selects highlights of this year's festival of games and play.
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Explore the interaction between creativity, the natural sciences and technology with an open mind, in this hour long hands on activity assisted by the Bjork Biophilia app.
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Led by disabled artist Raquel Meseguer Zafe, this session explores rest and horizontality as methods for artistic strategy.
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Somerset House Studios announces a new rolling programme of workshops, conversations and peer-to-peer meetups
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Publisher Margaret Busby explores the rise of Carnival as a means of celebration and defiance for the Windrush generation
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Listen back to a performance by Jacob Samuel and Samir Kennedy that looks into the existence of infinity with contributions from Coby Sey, Beatrice Dillon and more
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Photo London’s ninth edition returns to Somerset House with the very best in past, present and future photography.
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A creative writing workshop looking at, feeling, smelling, listening and tasting 8 ordinary objects, which inspired Clare Whistler's project Gifts.
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Discover what you can expect from Collect: International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design presented by the Crafts Council.
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Learn about the whole process of electronic circuit production: from prototyping circuits on breadboards to etching your own PCBs and learning KiCad.
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A 3 day mini course where you will build Oi Kant, a strange sounding drum-ish machine from Ewa Justka, as well as learn how to make weird acid lines using SuperCollider.
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Join us for a talk with artist Clare Whistler and filmmaker Nichola Bruce, before a screening of their film GIFTS.
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Live performances of Imran Perretta’s original score for a string quartet, Requiem For The Dispossessed.
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Artist duo YARA + DAVINA discuss their outdoor installation Arrivals + Departures with Somerset House Director Jonathan Reekie.
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Somerset House generated over £2 million through its commercial events activity last year.
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In this Grounding Practice workshop with Kaiya Waerea, participants will use image making, collage and assemblage to construct constellations of crip futurity.
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