KQ Events – Knowledge Quarter

KQ Miniseries: What is light in the Knowledge Quarter?

October 22, 2021

The Bloomsbury Festival celebrates contemporary Bloomsbury; a hotbed of creativity and pioneering development which has one of the youngest and most diverse populations in the country. This year, the KQ will present an hour of lightning talks at the Bloomsbury Festival exploring everything from enlightenment to illumination, from scientific, cultural, and historic perspectives.

KQ Private View: Outwitting Cancer - Making Sense of Nature's Enigma

October 6, 2021

Join the Knowledge Quarter for the first of our post-lockdown in person private views, in partnership with the Francis Crick Institute. Through an immersive art-installation, and a series of extraordinary films, you’ll discover the big questions, hopes and challenges that drive these remarkable scientists to try and outsmart this constantly evolving disease.

KQ Virtual Private View: Joy and Tranquillity

September 30, 2021

Join the Knowledge Quarter for our series of Virtual Private Views, showcasing the cultural offering of our square mile in the digital realm. This Summer, the Wellcome Collection launches On Happiness, a season of free events, activities and two exhibitions - Joy and Tranquillity - which bring together voices from across the cultural, scientific and spiritual fields to reflect on the elusive subject of happiness.

KQ Networks: Community Engagement Officers Meeting

September 28, 2021

Join fellow community engagement officers on the afternoon of Tuesday 28th September for a virtual coffee.

KQ Virtual Private View: Senate House Library 150

September 7, 2021

Join the Knowledge Quarter for our series of Virtual Private Views, showcasing the cultural offering of our square mile in the digital realm. Senate House Library is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founding collections this year with an online gallery of 150 unique and treasured items, charting the growth of the Library in becoming one of the UK’s largest academic libraries for arts, humanities and social sciences.

KQ Private View: Quentin Blake's Gifted

August 24, 2021

Join the Knowledge Quarter for our series of Virtual Private Views, showcasing the cultural offering of our square mile in the digital realm. The Foundling Museum present an incredible gift of works from Sir Quentin Blake, with newly commissioned poetry that responds to his drawings as part of the Foundling’s programme of live and digital events – What do you think about when you think about nothing?

KQ Diversity Roundtable: Gender Equality and Women's Networks

May 18, 2021

Join the Gender Equality and Women's Networks at the British Library and British Medical Association on the afternoon of 18th May for a virtual coffee where we will explore the collaboration and evolution of staff diversity networks.

KQ Virtual Private View: The Silk Road, A Living History

May 13, 2021

Join the Knowledge Quarter for our series of Virtual Private Views, showcasing the cultural offering of our square mile in the digital realm. The Aga Khan Foundation UK present an an exclusive virtual private view of their open-air photography exhibition about the people, places and cultures encountered across 17 countries between the UK and China along the ancient Silk Road.

KQ Exhibition Professionals Meeting: Emotional Evaluation of Exhibitions

April 27, 2021

Join KQ Exhibition Professionals on the afternoon of 27th April for a virtual coffee where we will explore the theme of ‘Emotional Evaluations of Exhibitions’.

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