Displaying items from UCL Special Collections, this exhibition examines the actions and reactions attending the women's suffrage movement from the 1860s up to the Representation of the People Act 1918. Satirical commentaries including Laurence Housman's Anti-Suffrage Alphabet are set alongside campaign literature and petitions for and against legislative change.
Charles Dickens: Man of Science aims to reveal Dickens not only as a scientific enthusiast, but as the key communicator of science in the Victorian age. Displaying his writings alongside artefacts, instruments, and texts of the developing sciences, we share the story of Dickens’s friendships and scientific passions
Commissioned by the Foundling Museum, Jodie Carey has created three new site-responsive installations in response to the Foundling Hospital story. Displayed within the exhibition gallery and amongst the historic Collection, these monumental pieces are imbued with a sense of remembrance and emotional trace.
The Knowledge Quarter is delighted to invite partner organisations to attend a Diversity Roundtable, facilitated by Gamiel Yafai, Managing Director of Diversity Marketplace.
The event will act as a space for skills sharing and networking between Knowledge Quarter partner organisations to try and see what the challenges facing practitioners in this area are, examples of innovative projects from partners and opportunities for collaborations.
On 1 June, in a parking space in East London, North London, Richard Woods create Upgrade – a month-long site-specific installation that engages with issues of housing and urban regeneration.
Universal Music, the UK’s leading music company have partnered with the National Portrait Gallery for an exclusive insight into the music business with Rebecca Allen, President of Decca Records and singer-songwriter Imelda May, one of biggest-selling UK female artists of the year. The discussion is aimed at anyone wanting to break into the music industry – on and off stage - and will include the opportunity to meet both Rebecca and Imelda.
The Knowledge Quarter is delighted to invite staff from Knowledge Quarter organisations to the next in our series of private breakfast views. It will be on this occasion hosted at the British Library. KQ staff and partner organisations will have the opportunity to have an exclusive look at James Cook: The Voyages the British Library's new blockbuster exhibition.
A major new commission by artist Fiona Crisp that uses photography, moving image and sound to approach the material environments where scientific experiments that challenge the limits of our imagination are carried out.
Over a weekend in June, musicians and poets spanning genres from classical and folk to contemporary, world and hip hop come together for a programme of concerts, live music, talks, workshops and readings. This year we’ll be celebrating how poetry and lyrics have articulated great moments of change throughout history, experiencing the legacy of famous classic poets on composers and songwriters, hosting a party premiering new poetry commissions inspired by one of hip-hop’s biggest names, and much more...
In honour of Open Garden Squares Weekend, chef Mickey Reedy has put together a 4 course menu of vegetarian delights inspired by the most delectable of gardens: the kitchen garden!
The Knowledge Quarter has been scoping the potential for joint destination marketing by Knowledge Quarter partners to increase the number of visitors to Knowledge Quarter institutions and customers for Knowledge Quarter products. Over the summer we have recruited a Marketing and Strategy Masters student to work with Knowledge Quarter partners on a potential joint marketing strategy. We would like to invite you to a workshop where we will present some of the early evidence of our mapping and desk research to stimulate discussion.
The Wiener Library’s exhibition tells the story of the Third Reich’s campaign against ‘degenerate’ art and this response in London in 1938. The exhibition features a number of the original artworks from the New Burlington Galleries’ exhibition, including works by Emil Nolde and Max Slevogt, presented with the stories of their lenders in 1938. The show will also include items from The Wiener Library’s unique archival collections.
For the second year in a row, the Skip Garden is throwing open it's gates for an evening of music and food, while raising funds for The Starfish Project.
Scored with fragments of Mozart’s requiem, metronomic taps on a typewriter and live vocals by South African Hlengiwe Lushaba, Linyekula’s piece is a poetic, political fairy tale.
Dorothy L Sayers, one of the “golden age” of crime writers between the first and second world wars, lived and worked in Holborn and Bloomsbury – as did her alter ego, Harriet Vane and other familiar characters from the novels and short stories. See places from which she took inspiration for her detective fiction; find out more about Sayers' characters and about the woman who brought them all to life.
Aeffect have launched four workshops within the theme of Futureality that are open to the public, with only 20 limited places available per workshop for professionals, designers and researchers who are facing the future oriented, strategic decisions in their practice.
In partnership with the English Fold Dance and Song Society Mind in Camden are inviting Camden residents to their FREE Musical Instrument workshop taking place at Cecil Sharp House. You’ll have a chance to try out a range of different musical instruments or you can bring one of your own.
Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting. With the latest developments in the Brexit saga, and democracy feeling the strain on a global scale, The Politics Festival (22–24 Jun) returns to Kings Place to ask what might happen next and what should happen.
Central Saint Martins is delighted to invite staff and friends from Knowledge Quarter organisations to a private tour of our 2018 Degree Show Two. The tour will be led by Dean of Academic Programmes, Anne Smith, with disciplines stretching from design and fashion to drama and cultural enterprise. Whatever the material or process, you will find work challenging the world to be a better, bolder place.
Keen to play light-hearted drawing games and test your visual thinking powers? Want to do that while meeting like-minded folk over a drink?
Then join for this fast-paced evening of inky fun hosted by Scriberia's Academy team. They'll set the kind of tests they play in-house to keep your pens lively and your minds sharp.
The members of Camden Tour Guides Association welcome their fellow Knowledge Quarter partners for an exclusive breakfast guided walk around the historic St Pancras Old Church, its fascinating churchyard and over the new slender and refined Somers Town Bridge into the exciting Kings Cross City Quarter and London's most unique park.
At a time when more diverse voices are being heard and celebrated in the creative industries and beyond, the LSBM Lighthouse Programme is delighted to host a special event on the re-publication after 74 years of one of the first novels in English by a Muslim woman: Iqbalunnisa Hussain.
On Saturday 30 June The Working Mens College will be holding an open day for the whole community (near and far) to come along to WMC-The Camden College to find out more about their courses starting in September 2018.
As part of Noh Reimagined two leading neuroscientists, Professor Semir Zeki and Professor Atsushi Iriki, will examine curious connections between the 650-year-old tradition of Noh and the mechanisms of our brain.