Join us for inspiring talks, workshops, and mentoring sessions plus music and performances, connecting you with trailblazing creatives and industry experts.
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Featuring contributions from Adam Christensen, Carolyn Lazard, Hardeep Pandhal, Imran Perretta, Tabita Rezaire & more.
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Multidisciplinary artist Deborah-Joyce Holman screens four contemporary short films.
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Elaine Mitchener explores diverse strategies for making group music.
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Connecting emerging creatives under 30 with trailblazing creatives and industry experts.
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An exhibition from the dark side, celebrating our greatest cultural provocateurs and visionaries.
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CAConrad invites poets to this episode of Transmissions, an online platform commissioning artists and bringing people together to share their work.
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Upgrade Yourself Festival is back, connecting emerging creatives ages 16 to 30 with trailblazing creatives and industry experts.
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A creative studio imagining near futures through collaborations, commission and cultural programming.
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The first major UK retrospective of works from the celebrated French-Moroccan photographer, video artist and activist Leila Alaoui.
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As the New Year swings into view, we’re delighted to share the news of a full year of extraordinary culture at Somerset House.
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This drop in session invites young people pursuing careers in the arts to speak to some of those working within the creative industry.
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This Autumn, Somerset House presents 24/7, a landmark exhibition examining our inability to switch off from our 24/7 culture.
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Sian Fan’s interdisciplinary practise combines technology and performance to explore mixed identities, existing between worlds and what it means to be human in the digital age.
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Wild Life Drawing is a drawing class with a difference. Instead of human life models, the subjects are real animals.
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A talk exploring Black radicalism, anti-capitalist place-making and abolitionist geography.
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The National Saturday Club’s annual Summer Show presents the exhilarating work of the next generation of creative thinkers and innovators.
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Vivienne Griffin kick starts the I Should Be Doing Something Else Right Now Live programme with a broadcast exploring themes of connection and commonalities.
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Fashion designer and Somerset House Studios artist Gareth Pugh shares his experience of growing up in Sunderland.
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Join animator Lauren Orme to harness their imaginations and create dream like figures through drawing and 3D modelling.
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