The capital's largest annual festival of architecture and design. Two days of special tours and the chance to explore the secret parts of the building usually hidden from public view.
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A Q&A exploring what it's really like on a creative industry placement at Somerset House.
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A celebration of the renowned illustrator creator of some of the most iconic fashion images of the 20th century.
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Chris Zhongtian Yuan works with video, sound, poetry and performance to re-imagine our relationships to land, body and language across time and space.
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Following his Harvester workshop over the weekend, Johann Diedrick present his work and perform with the Harvester instrument.
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The first event in this series is a talk by multidisciplinary and award winning artist Mykki Blanco, following a short residency at Somerset House Studios.
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Soft Identity Makers will serve as a “national identity-making space” where Puerto Rico will generate identities for each visitor, no matter where they’re from or their national condition.
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Somalia’s exhibition traces the history of Somali architecture before and after the civil war.
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Curated by multi-disciplinary artist Ronan McKenzie and presented by Netflix, this pop-up exhibition commemorates the cultural impact that Top Boy has had on British television.
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Lionbeat is a bass culture development agency. They utilise bass culture for community benefit through a variety of innovative strategic programmes, such as BASSisbikes and GEARS.
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To celebrate designer Bethany Williams’ flag commission we met with Bethany and collaborator The Magpie Project to learn more.
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Taking place in the crypt below our courtyard featuring music visuals by Wang Fujui, Lu Yi, Meuko! Meuko!, TZU NI & LTY.
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Exploring the state of nightlife and the London–Manchester interplay with an evening of panels, installations & music.
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Producer, vocalist performance artist and art curator.
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Rahemur Rahman is a British Bangladeshi menswear designer and a graduate of Central Saint Martins.
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Actor & writer Alice Lowe joins us to discuss the delivery of her ‘demon child’ – her directorial debut Prevenge.
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Somerset House Studios joins the 2018 Pride in London celebrations with a screening of Queertopia, a series of artist films curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley for Daata Editions.
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Take part in a new photographic artwork celebrating multicultural British identity
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