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Holloway Prison has been an important landmark in Islington for over 150 years. Thousands of women passed through its doors until it closed in 2016. This exhibition explores their stories.

 In Victorian Britain, a women's place was considered to be in the home and children were treated as "expendable". On this walk through some of Bloomsbury's Squares, we hear about the first hospital specifically for children; a hospital founded thanks to the efforts of two sisters seeking care for their grandmother who had suffered a stroke and meet some the women pioneers of medicine and science.

Each year Tête à Tête now takes over Riverside Studios for three weeks in August with a mix of musicians, singers, performers and dancers who are given free rein to present their work, some of which is still in progress. The categories include dance, mime and media technologies

Remember how you used to draw with confidence and joy as a child? What happened? Why did you stop? This workshop will help you rediscover that natural instinct for expressing yourself through drawing, and along the way you will see how drawing can give clarity to your thoughts, trigger memories, invigorate passions and solve problems.

In this striking exploration of memory, choreographer and director Wayne McGregor’s trademark sleek, athletic style combines with live accompaniment from electronic music innovator Jlin. Knowledge Quarter Special Offer: Get £26 tickets for £15!

The Foundling Museum presents Balls, a new film by Foundling Fellow Lily Cole exploring connections between the Foundling Hospital story and Emily Brontë’s much-loved novel Wuthering Heights. 

EXCLUSIVE OFFER: £58 seats for £20* The seductive new musical, Carmen La Cubana, explodes onto the Sadler’s Wells stage this summer in a cocktail of Cuban flavour.