Partner Events

Digital Library of the Middle East

May 26, 2017

The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) will bring together a publicly available, online platform for noteworthy Middle Eastern collections from around the world. Committed to international cooperation in the region and around the world, we propose a discussion that outlines the platform, the creation process, and the importance of collaboration.

Mr A moves in mysterious ways (New exhibition running from 15 May to 25 July)

May 15, 2017

Mr A moves in mysterious ways is a new exhibition displaying works from the Adamson Collection. The Adamson Collection is one of the world’s largest collections of artworks made by psychiatric patients. It consists of approximately 6,000 paintings, drawings and sculptural objects by the residents of Netherne, a long-stay British mental hospital.

The BMA Garden for Health & Wellbeing

June 17, 2017

This year the BMA garden will be part of the Open Garden Squares Weekend. Through interactive exhibits and onsite experts, our garden will showcase local community organisations using gardens to improve health, wellbeing and nutrition of patients and communities in London.

The Great Get Together

June 17, 2017

As part of 'The Great Get Together', join your neighbours in a simple act of friendship and sharing. Actors will be on hand to read your stories aloud and bring much-loved tales to life.

Jo Brocklehurst: Nobodies and Somebodies (Exhibition runs until 14 May 2017)

April 26, 2017

Jo Brocklehurst: Nobodies and Somebodies Exhibition at the House of Illustration. Drawing live in fetish clubs, punk squats and on the performance scene of 1970-90s London, Berlin and New York, Jo Brocklehurst's artwork is a unique record of subculture.

Conservation at the British Library

May 4, 2017

As part of London Craft Week members of the British Library Conservation team will demonstrate conservation techniques used to protect one of the most significant library collections in the world.

Chelsea Fringe Festival

May 25, 2017

The garden of the British Medical Association is on the site of Charles Dickens’ original house and will be the setting for an afternoon of lectures and discussions on how gardens, plant medicines and urban landscape can contribute to the health and wellbeing of patients and communities.

Living Proust and the belle époque

May 11, 2017

The School of Advanced Study at the University of London are holding their annual Living Literature event on 11 May, at Senate House, 6.30-10pm. They have an amazing array of programming lined up for the evening, recreating Proust’s classic novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’.

ACE Dance and Music - Ten

April 25, 2017

Inspired by global migration, TEN is centred around the relationship between two brothers. Full of intense physical power and very human fragility, TEN explores the concepts of moving away, looking at how and why people choose unimagined destinies over the lives they’d always thought they’d live.