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Our exhibitions might be closed for now but our new online cultural programme is now live. Reflecting on our response to isolation and a renewed appreciation of our shared wellbeing, the themes of connection and commonality are explored throughout, values which have always been integral to Somerset House as the home of a community of artists, makers and creative practitioners.

CONNECT LIVE

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THU 07 MAY | 21.00 – 22.00 & FRI 08 MAY | 09.00 - 10.00

Transmissions Episode 3

Episode 3 is brought to you by artist and poet Tarek Lakhrissi, entitled 'Your world is already ending'

Tune in to live sessions, talks, and artist broadcasts

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FORTNIGHTLY FROM 30 APR

Upgrade Yourself: Peer Exchange

bringing you fortnightly bite-sized snippets of information, innovation, and inspiration over lunch-time sessions.

MONTHLY FROM 28 APR | 18.00 - 19.00

I Should Be...

...Doing Something Else Right Now. Six artists live stream a performance from home in this monthly quick fire commissions.

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ONLINE WORKSHOP

Grow Your Own Mushrooms

Somerset House mycologist Darren Springer shares a step-by-step guide to starting your own mushroom farm.

Join in, learn skills, be inspired and find activities to do at home

Online Workshop

Mindful Mushroom Collage Workshop

Discover the art of collage with artist Seana Gavin.

6, 13 & 20 May

Mutant Promise

A series of online artist-led workshops for progressive music making in isolation.

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THU 14 MAY

Upgrade Yourself: Evi Kalogiropoulou

Evi discusses working as a professional artist funded by institutions, and how she balances this with creating and exhibiting commercial work.

Online Workshop

All Our Children | Flag Making Workshop

Award-winning fashion designer Bethany Williams invites us to make a flag to pass on a message to our future generations.

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PAUSE

Oh! My Friends - A film by Andy Holden

Exploring the meaning of friendship, Andy Holden introduces his film Oh! My Friends, the latest film in our Pause series.

Content to explore in your own time

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Juliana Huxtable on the 5 works that shaped her practice

We invited Juliana Huxtable to share with us the five most important works that have influenced and shaped her practice.

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'I Leaf' and 'Slow and Low'

Watch Vivienne Griffin kick start the I Should Be Doing Something Else Right Now Live programme with a broadcast of two new works

LISTEN

STUDIOS PLAYLIST 002

Introducing a new weekly playlist guided by the contents of the week's digital programme and its associated artists, music in its surrounding orbit.

DEEP LISTEN

Baroque Sunbursts: k-punk revisited

This week's Deep Listen focuses on the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher, known best for his k-punk blog and the incendiary Capitalist Realism.

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Upgrade Yourself: Maeve Brennan

Rewatch the first Upgrade Yourself: Peer Exchange, with artist and filmmaker Maeve Brennan who shared skills in filmmaking.

Listen

hmurd mix

Drawing together computer music, club music, and even something from the RuneScape soundtrack, originally released ahead of AGM at Somerset House Studios in 2018.

Somerset House Studios

An experimental workspace for artists, makers and thinkers.

SUPPORT OUR ARTISTS

Please help us to support artists in this uncertain time. We would be truly grateful if you would donate to Somerset House’s Crisis Fund and ensure we can help to sustain our artist community.

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