This summer the Foundling Museum presents a new family-friendly exhibition exploring how Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s much-loved character Hetty Feather has brought the history of London’s Foundling Hospital to life.
On Saturday 9 September WMC – The Camden College will be holding an open day for the whole community (near and far) to come along to. The Open Day is free so why not come along and see what WMC – The Camden College have to offer.
This is the UK’s first exhibition of architectural backdrops from classic anime films. It features over 100 exquisite technical drawings and watercolour illustrations from some of the most influential productions in the genre’s 1990s heyday, including Production I.G’s artwork for Ghost in the Shell.
Now in its second year, London Podcast Festival returns with a mouth-watering line-up including familiar faces and new additions. We welcome back Maximum Fun with Judge John Hodgman and a debut UK show from Jordan, Jesse Go!.
The Alan Turing Institute, BenevolentAI, The Francis Crick Institute, The Knowledge Quarter, Wellcome Trust and UCL are inviting you to the second Artificial Intelligence in Bioscience Symposium that will be held at the British Library on the 14 September 2017.
Holborn Community Association’s 1A Arts team and the Francis Crick Institute are delighted to invite Knowledge Quarter partners, staff and friends to a special drinks reception at the premiere screening of a short film made by local young people.
Sharing the work of this year’s graduating Central Saint Martins students, Creative Unions celebrates the power of designers to challenge isolationism. From a board game to solve conflict to a sustainable solution for the housing crisis and fashion that’s part-propaganda, Creative Unions demonstrates how the next generation of designers are responding to current contexts with urgency and ingenuity.
The Cloud Nine Festival is returning to Cumberland Market after the highly successful inaugural festival on the site last year. Created and delivered by a partnership of three local organisations: West Euston Partnership, Fantasy High Street and Old Diorama Arts Centre, the festival will once again offer a day of free arts activities, performances and workshops to local residents and other members of the community.
FutureLearn, the leading social learning platform, is delighted to support National Coding Week’s goal to give adults the opportunity to learn some digital skills with a beginners coding class for adults. This evening class is aimed at adults who are complete beginners to coding; no experience is required.
Personal testimony. Public protest. Art and culture. We tell the story of love, legislative change and the battles for equality experienced by gay men and women in the UK.
Fake news, Brexit and Trump: data is the new power in politics that everyone wants to control. How can our personal data be used to shape opinions, debates, and even win elections? Is big data threatening democracy? Who should we trust and what is the future of data in public life? In this Data Debate, a panel of experts will discuss what the future of data in public life could look like.
Join the British Library for a day of free workshops, talks and events to give you the know-how to turn your great idea into a business. Make your business idea a reality. Hear from experienced entrepreneurs and learn how to stand out from the online crowd, raise finance for your business and much more. You’ll have the chance to meet like-minded people and talk to seasoned business experts and entrepreneurs.
The Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central Saint Martins, UAL has set up Makeright, a ground-breaking design course for prison inmates. The programme aims to develop resilience and empathy among inmates, whilst giving them the opportunity to learn design skills and gain qualifications.
Recovery is a journey taken by many but sometimes never seen by us all. Some of us are at the start, ever so reluctant to take that first step. And then there are others lost in the middle and reaching out for a guide. Join us for an afternoon of journeying with an alternative view to mental health and its numerous impacts when viewing recovery from within.
Most people agree that the ‘blockchain/DLT’ (Digital Ledger Technology) is one of the emerging technologies with the highest potential of worldwide system change. At the same time, most people agree that Climate Change is the defining challenge of our time. Now the question: what happens if you tackle this urgent problem with such a promising technology?
Curated by Dr Jacqueline Riding, Basic Instincts explores Georgian attitudes to love, desire and female respectability through the radical paintings of Joseph Highmore. A highly successful artist and Governor of London’s Foundling Hospital, Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) is best known as a portrait painter of the Georgian middle class.
The Foundling Museum displays a series of five previously unseen sculptures by acclaimed artist Rachel Kneebone, providing a resonant counterpoint to their exhibition Basic Instincts. Rachel Kneebone is a British artist whose intricate works address and question the human condition.