Knowledge Quarter Private View: Captain Cook at the British Library

The British Library 96 Euston Rd, Kings Cross , London , United Kingdom

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.

Free, Booking Required

Poetry and Lyrics Festival

Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United Kingdom

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...

Varies

The Kitchen Garden Supper

The Skip Garden Tapper Walk, London, United Kingdom

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!

£35.74

Summer Get Together

The Skip Garden Tapper Walk, London, United Kingdom

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.

£16.31

LIFT Festival: Faustin Linyekula

The Place 17 Duke's Road , London , United Kingdom

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.

£13 – £17

Dorothy L Sayers Bloomsbury – Guided Walk

Holborn Station Kingsway, London

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.

£8 – £10

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