Events
Hear directly from artists, designers, researchers and more about the ideas and thinking behind the work of this year’s graduates. Our programme of digital events run from 25 June – 3 July, and includes crits, webinars, meet the maker presentations, online tours and Q&As.
All 139 Events
Sunday 16 July 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A collaborative performance with friends & family, wearing MGDS clothes that come to life through the sounds and words of Miles and Michael Daniel.
Sunday 16 July 15:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Practical workshop delivered by textile graduate Isabel Fletcher. Limited spaces, bookable via eventbrite.
Sunday 16 July 15:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A performance with Marina Patalano that explores the ‘occult’ - derived from the Latin occulere to mean anything hidden or concealed secret; communicated only to the initiated; recondite; mysterious.
Sunday 16 July 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join Chloe Johnson (MA Fashion) and Yanna Marie Orcel (MRes Fine Art & Humanities / BA Art Therapy) as they sit down to discuss “To Be Free Is Very Sweet”
Sunday 16 July 14:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Animation screening 2
Thursday 13th July: 15:50-17:00
Friday 14th July: 12:00-13:08
Saturday 15th July: 13:35-14:43
Sunday 16th July: 15:15-16:23
Sunday 16 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Block print the elements of architecture on textiles to create a unique surface design pattern that you connect with and can take home!
Sunday 16 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Wrestling champion Rhubario's purpose is announcing Anibbles using strength of voice, body, and mind.
In this event she will declare the name of each Anibble as her power grows stronger!
Sunday 16 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Objects and movements form the basis for functional transformation. This performance interrogates the relationship between the individual and their environment.
Sunday 16 July 13:45 ( GMT + 0.0 )
OT Xintong Qin will be guiding us into a 20 minutes Wild Dog Trespass.o૮o･`з･´oა ﾉ.
Sunday 16 July 13:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily live performance by Haewon Jeon. The act of opening an object and continuous reproduction of meaninglessness to explore the aesthetics of art labour versus modularised manufacture systems.
Sunday 16 July 13:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A spacial, experiential lecture that aims to explore the commodification of dirt as a method of environmental, ecological, and cultural conservation and activism.
Sunday 16 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Drop in practical workshop delivered by Textiles graduate Monika Dolbnaik.
Maximum of 15 participants at one time.
Sunday 16 July 12:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Three practitioners bring to the table conversations on developments of the languages surrounding one of humanities earliest technologies.
Sunday 16 July 12:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join Xanthe on a guided tour through Persephone’s Cup, where she will discuss themes, provide tips & tricks, anecdotes & take related questions.
Sunday 16 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Textiles tour guided by textile collective MONO.
Sunday 16 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A series of stories, questioning the protection of community - Indonesian-born Chinese female, and culture - the challenges faced in preserving traditional craftsmanship in the era of capitalism.
Sunday 16 July 11:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Drop in practical workshop delivered by textile graduate Charlotte Karin.
Maximum of 15 participants at one time.
Sunday 16 July 11:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Meanwhile Garden is a community garden aimed to help people recover from the trauma of the Covid Lockdown. The seeds will be transported back to and grow in the Meanwhile Garden.
Sunday 16 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily performance schedule for MA Contemporary Art Practice
Sunday 16 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Animation screening 1
Thursday 13th July: 12:35-14:11
Friday 14th July: 14:49-16:25
Saturday 15th July: 16:24-18:00
Sunday 16th July: 12:00-13:36
Sunday 16 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The Waiting Room at Truman Brewery, teleports the audience into Stone’s re-imagined reality.
Sunday 16 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A verbal illustration of how words leave marks on our bodies.
Saturday 15 July 15:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Animation screening 1
Thursday 13th July: 12:35-14:11
Friday 14th July: 14:49-16:25
Saturday 15th July: 16:24-18:00
Sunday 16th July: 12:00-13:36
Saturday 15 July 14:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A collection of performance works from the Information Experience Design Programme
Saturday 15 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Female stories of performativity, power and dress are central to Emily's practice, by investigating structures and materials that exist in proximity to the body.
Saturday 15 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Wrestling champion Rhubario's purpose is announcing Anibbles using strength of voice, body, and mind.
In this event she will declare the name of each Anibble as her power grows stronger!
Saturday 15 July 13:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily live performance by Haewon Jeon. The act of opening an object and continuous reproduction of meaninglessness to explore the aesthetics of art labour versus modularised manufacture systems.
Saturday 15 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The Short Big presents Bare Witness, Don't Claim Me: On freeing desire
Saturday 15 July 12:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
How different do volunteering-based research and community-based research inform the outcomes? How has volunteering inspired us to tailor actions and art responses for, in and with the communities?
Saturday 15 July 12:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Animation screening 2
Thursday 13th July: 15:50-17:00
Friday 14th July: 12:00-13:08
Saturday 15th July: 13:35-14:43
Sunday 16th July: 15:15-16:23
Saturday 15 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Textiles tour guided by graduates Charlotte Karin, Xiaoyu Zhu and Monika Dolbnaik.
Saturday 15 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Immersive performance taking place in the Textiles event space located on T2.
Saturday 15 July 11:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join Xanthe on a guided tour through Persephone’s Cup, where she will discuss themes, provide tips & tricks, anecdotes & take related questions.
Saturday 15 July 11:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Meanwhile Garden is a community garden aimed to help people recover from the trauma of the Covid Lockdown. The seeds will be transported back to and grow in the Meanwhile Garden.
Saturday 15 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily performance schedule for MA Contemporary Art Practice
Saturday 15 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
At House of Annetta behind Truman Brewery, The Black Alchemisphere continues...
Saturday 15 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The Waiting Room at Truman Brewery, teleports the audience into Stone’s re-imagined reality.
Saturday 15 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A verbal illustration of how words leave marks on our bodies.
Saturday 15 July 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A—Z and Shoreditch Arts Club presents a chapter from the Historical Futurist Alyse Stone’s ground-breaking solo show: The Black Alchemisphere.
Friday 14 July 17:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
‘Stand in the darkness’ is a term that links my work to my own creative process by standing in possibility, standing in feeling and holding this as a creative guide.
Friday 14 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily performance schedule for MA Contemporary Art Practice
Friday 14 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A performance by visual artist Niharika Kumar.
Friday 14 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
School of Communication screenings from Animation, Information Experience Design & Visual Communication
Friday 14 July 16:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Jenna is a biodiversity and climate scientist expressing her artistic side through circus and dance. She will be engaging your senses through circus showcasing, tricks, illusion and colour with music.
Friday 14 July 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Creating the self through movement, flow and a form of meditation has been part of Ella Shiraz's creative process as a multidisciplinary textiles artist and dancer throughout their practice.
Friday 14 July 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A recital, of an oboe and Lute. Playing Lucei de Yavington.
Friday 14 July 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
How can collaborating with a machine change the way we view what it means to be a human, to be creative, to think?
Friday 14 July 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Structurally Screwed? is a discussion between Stacie Woolsey, Rathna Ramanathan, Laura Gordon and Ruben Pater on systemic issues faced by creative higher education institutions.
Friday 14 July 14:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Jiarui Wang reads her book, ENT (Ear, Nose & Throat), a personal and intimate reflection on education, ideology and writing.
Friday 14 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Friday 14 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
At House of Annetta behind Truman Brewery, The Black Alchemisphere continues...
Friday 14 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Wrestling champion Rhubario's purpose is announcing Anibbles using strength of voice, body, and mind.
In this event she will declare the name of each Anibble as her power grows stronger!
Friday 14 July 13:45 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Animation screening 1
Thursday 13th July: 12:35-14:11
Friday 14th July: 14:49-16:25
Saturday 15th July: 16:24-18:00
Sunday 16th July: 12:00-13:36
Friday 14 July 13:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily live performance by Haewon Jeon. The act of opening an object and continuous reproduction of meaninglessness to explore the aesthetics of art labour versus modularised manufacture systems.
Friday 14 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Angelica Ellis in conversation with Claudia Walker on the topic of exploring aesthetics and beauty when designing for people with disabilities.
Friday 14 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Objects and movements form the basis for functional transformation. This performance interrogates the relationship between the individual and their environment.
Friday 14 July 12:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join Xanthe on a guided tour through Persephone’s Cup, where she will discuss themes, provide tips & tricks, anecdotes & take related questions.
Friday 14 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Textile tour guided by graduates: Mehak Verma, Penelope Brook and Isabel Fletcher.
Friday 14 July 11:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Meanwhile Garden is a community garden aimed to help people recover from the trauma of the Covid Lockdown. The seeds will be transported back to and grow in the Meanwhile Garden.
Friday 14 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily performance schedule for MA Contemporary Art Practice
Friday 14 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Animation screening 2
Thursday 13th July: 15:50-17:00
Friday 14th July: 12:00-13:08
Saturday 15th July: 13:35-14:43
Sunday 16th July: 15:15-16:23
Friday 14 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The Waiting Room at Truman Brewery, teleports the audience into Stone’s re-imagined reality.
Friday 14 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A verbal illustration of how words leave marks on our bodies.
Thursday 13 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
School of Communication screenings from Animation, Information Experience Design & Visual Communication
Thursday 13 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
At House of Annetta behind Truman Brewery, The Black Alchemisphere continues...
Thursday 13 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily performance schedule for MA Contemporary Art Practice
Thursday 13 July 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Visual Communication screening: 17:00-18:00
Thursday 13 July 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
“ACCESS" is an Event where the audience will follow a series of instructions to co-create a new text.
Thursday 13 July 14:45 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Animation screening 2
Thursday 13th July: 15:50-17:00
Friday 14th July: 12:00-13:08
Saturday 15th July: 13:35-14:43
Sunday 16th July: 15:15-16:23
Thursday 13 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Wrestling champion Rhubario's purpose is announcing Anibbles using strength of voice, body, and mind.
In this event she will declare the name of each Anibble as her power grows stronger!
Thursday 13 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
On Commons: Pedagogy as Medium, a thought-provoking roundtable discussion around pedagogies and their influence in informing models of critical practice within design education and the industry.
Thursday 13 July 12:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Objects and movements form the basis for functional transformation. This performance interrogates the relationship between the individual and their environment.
Thursday 13 July 12:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join Xanthe on a guided tour through Persephone’s Cup, where she will discuss themes, provide tips & tricks, anecdotes & take related questions.
Thursday 13 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Textiles tour guided by graduates: Flo Sargent, Lily McDonell and Julie Heaton
Thursday 13 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join graduates Katerina Knight, Line Maria le Fevre, Adama Conteh and Isabel Fletcher in conversation with Richard McVetis and Neil Musson.
Thursday 13 July 11:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Animation screening 1
Thursday 13th July: 12:35-14:11
Friday 14th July: 14:49-16:25
Saturday 15th July: 16:24-18:00
Sunday 16th July: 12:00-13:36
Thursday 13 July 11:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Meanwhile Garden is a community garden aimed to help people recover from the trauma of the Covid Lockdown. The seeds will be transported back to and grow in the Meanwhile Garden.
Thursday 13 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Live performance piece by Junhao Wang. Immersive throughout the Textiles exhibition space.
Thursday 13 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The Waiting Room at Truman Brewery, teleports the audience into Stone’s re-imagined reality.
Thursday 13 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Visual Communication screening: 12:00-12:33
Thursday 13 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A verbal illustration of how words leave marks on our bodies.
Thursday 13 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily performance schedule for MA Contemporary Art Practice
Tuesday 11 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
'In Plain Sight'. V&A/RCA MA History of Design Graduate Symposium.
Tuesday 4 July 18:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Publication launch of Extending Family, created by MA Writing students in collaboration with the Foundling Museum.
Monday 3 July 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A series of short films from MA1 FASHION giving an introduction to our design languages, process and practices.
Monday 3 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily performance schedule for MA Contemporary Art Practice
Monday 3 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Practical workshop delivered by textile graduate Zoë Daley. Limited spaces bookable via eventbrite.
Monday 3 July 13:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Throughout the workshop participants will explore translating your hand work from written formats to 2D to 3D forms, interrogating the transformation of the same concept or object
Monday 3 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A tour of the Textiles festival by MA Textiles students exhibiting.
Monday 3 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A collection of students’ work communicating their imagined near future worlds and articulatin emerging programmes of use.
Monday 3 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The Unbounded Perspectives exhibition-integrated workshop
Monday 3 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Drop in collaborative textile making delivered by artist Joanne Lamb.
Sunday 2 July 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Practical workshop delivered by Textiles graduate Chloe Grieve. Please note this is a drop-in workshop, guests are welcome to pop by throughout, but there is a maximum of 15 participants at one time.
Sunday 2 July 14:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The dialogue critiques the current fashion system, emphasising the need to rethink the relationship between designers and wearers.
Sunday 2 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Mah-e-Nau in conversation with her husband about their life as immigrants.
Sunday 2 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily performance schedule for MA Contemporary Art Practice
Sunday 2 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Skinned is a conversation between two artists and lovers which interrogates the concepts of body, time and space.
Sunday 2 July 13:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
On top of two existing parallel runways (‘=’), imagine adding a diagonal runway to create a non-equal sign ('≠'). What will this act provoke? What is its socio-political significance?
Sunday 2 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join Alice Taylor and Justine Masché as they introduce their mutual explorations into acts of contemplation, re-attachment and the importance of empathy for our social and natural environments.
Sunday 2 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Practical workshop delivered by textile graduate Chloe Grieve. Please note this is a drop-in workshop, guests are welcome to pop by throughout, but there is a maximum of 15 participants at one time.
Sunday 2 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
An introduction to “AreoPrana” a new breath focused yoga flow designed specifically for an Air-Bound London.
Sunday 2 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A tour of the textiles festival by MA Textiles students exhibiting.
Sunday 2 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Drop in collaborative textile making delivered by artist Joanne Lamb.
Saturday 1 July 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The event delves into non-logocentric modes of (re)collection, forming a sonic manifestation of contemporary narratives of home.
Saturday 1 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Come and hear students from the Writing MA read short extracts from their projects.
Saturday 1 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily performance schedule for MA Contemporary Art Practice
Saturday 1 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Un/tied: Cult Trans & Kinships presents a performance that focuses on kinship within the trans community.
Saturday 1 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Practical workshop delivered by textile graduate Zoë Daley. Limited spaces bookable via eventbrite.
Saturday 1 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A tour of the Textiles festival by MA Textiles students exhibiting.
Saturday 1 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
“Bus Stopping” is a co-op game workshop that gets you to think about the various ways to respond to small irritating situations on the bus. Game strictly for bad actors!
Saturday 1 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The Unbounded Perspectives exhibition-integrated workshop
Saturday 1 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A collection of students’ work communicating their imagined near future worlds and articulating emerging programmes of use.
Saturday 1 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A day as a work of art, a performance by Gianna T explores the creative potential found in misalignment and unlearning of conventions.
Saturday 1 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Attendees are encouraged to co-construct the Rhizomatic word map, which serves as the foundation of the project ≠. Bring your own individual ideas, anecdotes, and viewpoints to co-construct “≠”!
Saturday 1 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Drop in collaborative textile making delivered by artist Joanne Lamb.
Friday 30 June 18:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Ancient spiritual practices and future rituals is explored through ambient electronic music, generative digital moving images, and 3D printing technology, connected by interactive programming.
Friday 30 June 17:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A satirical fashion performance depicting the joy found in dressmaking and the play with identity, in hopeful anticipation for the future of queer people.
Friday 30 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A conversation about accessibility, disability and fashion. Beth is creative who has firsthand experience of challenges that come with existing within the industry as a disabled person.
Friday 30 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Daily performance schedule for MA Contemporary Art Practice
Friday 30 June 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A dance performance by Xin Lou & YiJun Deng from China, two professional dancers dressed by XiaoHui Wu (Siu).
Friday 30 June 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A live discussion with researcher and curator Mercedes Paramour on Harielle's practice, including her work with Haitian metal artisans Serge Jolimeau and Rony Jacques.
Friday 30 June 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Screening of media from the School of Communication students: Digital Direction, Information Experience Design and Visual Communication
Friday 30 June 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Drop in performance that allows audience to explore body knitting.
Friday 30 June 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Participants are invited to be live on Instagram using their own account, which will capture the Instagram live stream, which will capture the live stream, which will capture the live stream.
Friday 30 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Drop in collaborative textile making delivered by artist Joanne Lamb.
Friday 30 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
An experimental, collaborative sound-making workshop and Parade by commissioned artist Lucie Stepankova.
Thursday 29 June 18:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Skinned is a conversation between two artists and lovers which interrogates the concepts of body, time and space.
Thursday 29 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
An edited showreel produced by Clare Hamman giving an overview of the work of the Curating Contemporary Art MA1 projects 2023.
Wednesday 21 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A (closed) calligraphy & zine-making workshop