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!

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.

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.