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The Voices of A Tempest in Three Acts

A three-part event programme exploring modes of resistance, resilience and alternative futures. →

Charles Jeffrey

Upgrade Yourself Live with Charles Jeffrey and Claire Moore

Join an intimate conversation with Charles Jeffrey and hairstylist Claire Moore. →

Suzanne Treister, Scientific Dreaming/Wild Flowers (pages 44-45), Photograph 33 x 44 cm 2022. Courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

Somerset House Studios

Dreaming Quantum Futures

What futures are possible when quantum physics and the unconscious come together? →

Alicaì Harley standing in front of an orange background

Upgrade Yourself Live with Alicaì Harley

Join us for episode two of Upgrade Yourself Live featuring intimate conversation and Q+A with Alicaì Harley. →

A photo of Remi Burgz. Remi is smiling and looking direct to camera. Either side of this image are bars of colour, using the Upgrade Yourself colour scheme of green and blue.

Upgrade Yourself Live: Remi Burgz

An intimate conversation and Q&A with the local energy provider, BBC 1Xtra/BBC3 presenter and DJ Remi Burgz. →

Aerial view of the Nelson Stairway, Somerset House, Image by Kevin Meredith

Historical Highlights Tour

In this one hour experience, you'll take a walk through the varied and surprising history of Somerset House. →

An artwork by Zadie Xa entitled The Word for Water is Whale. It is a painting of sea life, with shells, seaweed, whales and fish swimming up streams of water. There is a border of blue waves around this busy scene.

New Worlds: Nonhuman Storytelling Ecological Futures

A talk proposing a way through an apocalyptic present by thinking and feeling with other species. →

An artwork. A woman stands, wrapped in a foil blankets, that cover her body and hair. In the background are snow-capped mountains and a body of cool blue water.

New Worlds: Machine Magic / Techno-Poetics

A talk exploring where ancient mythologies intersect with emergent technologies like artificial intelligence and game engines. →

An artwork by artist Lawrence Lek. A digital render of a landscape. In a green valley surrounded by trees and rugged mountains is a videogame amphitheater with a pool at the centre.

New Worlds: Polysonic Worlds

Lawrence Lek and Evan Ifekoya explore sound as a world-building technology. →

A designed graphic for New Mystics. Symbols such as a wolf, clouds, a snake, a leaf, a pyramid and lips are displayed in a circle on a colourful gradient background of green and blue.

New Worlds

Artist and writer Alice Bucknell presents a new series of talks, screenings and performances, aimed at helping us to envision better future worlds. →

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