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.
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.
Don’t miss designjunction’s engaging talks programme - based around the theme 'where design meets'. The two-day programme features some of the best names in design including Sir Kenneth Grange, Julio Terra (Kickstarter), 2LG Studio, Dejan Sudjic (Design Museum), Tina Norden (Conrad) and many more.
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.
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?
The Knowledge Quarter is delighted to invite Knowledge Quarter partners, staff and friends to a special drinks reception and performance of Writeback by Scene & Heard. Scene & Heard is a unique mentoring project that partners the inner-city children of Somers Town, London with volunteer theatre professionals. Writeback is Scene & Heard's latest performance.