Taiwanese artist Huang Po-Chih uses the personal narratives of workers to investigate globalised trade, with a focus on the textile industry in East Asia. Drawing upon his family heritage – ...

Housing the world’s largest public collection of modern poetry, we are the National Poetry Library; free to join across the UK, and London’s only space dedicated to poetry study. Founded by the Arts ...

The Koestler Awards is an annual programme encouraging people from the UK’s criminal justice system to change their lives through the arts. Jeremy Deller and John Costi have selected artwork from over ...

Over the dark winter nights, our site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour – explore to discover them all. Each artist uses light and colour in playful ways, at the same ...

World-class artists and emerging stars bring us music from across the jazz world and beyond Get in the swing of the festival – a highlight of London’s cultural calendar – with the sounds of some of ...

Explore poetry off the page in Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut solo exhibition, where poems exist as sculpture, objects and textiles. Papachristodoulou’s object poems encourage interactive and shared ...

Our regular free events are open to all, and bursting with creativity Come and take part in our regular free events, offering creative activities, workshops, social gatherings and family entertainment ...

Poetry open mic for people of all experiences and levels. Sign up on the day between 1.00 and 1.30pm. Time willing, everyone will get 5 minutes (or 3 minutes each if it’s particularly busy). Or just ...

Running from 18-23 February 2025, Imagine Festival will transform the Southbank Centre into a vibrant cultural playground for the February half term with a fun-filled range of events for children and ...

A launch for ‘Covert’ issue 4, featuring readings from Shabnam Shabazi, Zita Holbourne, Niharika Jain, Sheyna Lam, Jasmine Sharif, Seema Kapila and others. There will also be open mic slots of up to 3 ...

Find it with us, as futuretense returns in 2025 with more of the best new and upcoming artists performing live, and free. Yes, that’s right, we said free. Twice a month we set up or Queen Elizabeth ...

Hayward Gallery senior curator Yung Ma introduces the exhibition Leap Year which features 120 works by the Korean artist Haegue Yang. As Yung Ma explains, Yang is best known for turning mundane ...