The 2024/5 edition of ICA's core youth programme, offering free artist-led creative workshops for people aged 16-30.

Drawing on the importance of making work with and for your friends, this evening celebrates the launch of A Nice Magazine by Hanna Moon. Working at the intersection of photography, art and fashion, the panel discusses self-portraiture, humour and vulnerability in art practice.

Challenging the notion of mental health as primarily an individualised, pathological issue, this panel aims to reframe it as a collective experience shaped by the conditions of capitalism and globalised trauma.

New Contemporaries and ICA curatorial staff lead a tour of the exhibition, discussing overarching themes and concerns across the works on show, as well as individual practices of the artists.

Join the Young New Contemporaries artists for this drop-in making session and create your own artwork inspired by the YNC’s practices, and the exhibiting New Contemporaries artists they’ve collaborated with.

An afternoon dedicated to thoughtful and inclusive discussions, that explore the role of artists in society today. Convened by artist and educator Elle Reynolds, this event aims to envision innovative possibilities for an artist-centred and sustainable art world. 

How do we medicate ourselves, and why can’t we cure the people we love? Celebrating the launch of Body High, the author Ryann Donnelly will be in conversation with art & culture journalist and curator Amah-Rose Abrams.

Who is art for? How can art spaces better reflect and serve the needs and realities of young audiences? What does youth voice sound like at ICA? 

Join independent arts publisher Montez Press for a showcase evening of two of our latest releases: Pay It Forward by SoiL Thornton and Prepositions by Timmy Simonds and Aaron Lehman. Come and celebrate with a night of performances and readings by CAConrad and the authors, as part of their European debut tour. 

Join us for the In the Studio artist talk series, spotlighting artists and bringing them into dialogue with our audiences. This special talk features New York-based artist Baseera Khan and marks the first time they will be in conversation about their work in London. 

Join art critic and historian Élisabeth Lebovici for the UK section of the annual International Association of Art Critics (AICA) lecture.

Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti will be in conversation with Gurmeet Sian to discuss his latest book exploring the possibilities of finding joy and meaning in urban density. 

Speaking Futures is the ICA’s new flagship programme of talks, performances and workshops celebrating artists as catalysts for imagining and shaping the future.

Join us for the launch of Speaking Futures x Diasporas Now. The kickoff event features artists Nour Jaouda and Helen Cammock alongside curator and artist Amal Khalaf. Together they will explore artists as catalysts for imagining and shaping the future.

Boundary breaking nightlife platform BOUDICA will host an evening of workshops for women, non-binary and trans+ beginners who want to take up the art of DJing. 

A series of performance-based work in progress crits led by Diasporas Now in collaboration with 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning. The first session in the series showcases work in progress by transdisciplinary artist Joshua Woolford.

Join Alessia Arcuri for a workshop in response to Nora Turato's pool7, exploring the body as a language-machine – one that sometimes fails, overworks, or breaks down.

The third event in Speaking Futures x Diasporas Now explores movement and performance with dancer, artist and body-focused researcher SERAFINE1369, multidisciplinary creative, Ivan Michael Blackstock and curator Meneesha Kellay. 

An evening of film and discussion revolving around the launch of Ben Rivers’ new book Urthworks.

Join artist Nora Turato and exhibition curator Andrea Nitsche-Krupp for an in-depth conversation about Turato’s practice and her newest work, pool7 – the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK . 

Celebrate the launch of Harland Miller: XXX. A new artist’s monograph from Phaidon focusing on Miller’s playful and now iconic Letter Paintings.  

Leading artists Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey join us to discuss their practice and the upcoming exhibition, Hardcore / Love at Conditions, Croydon.

An evening to celebrate and experience the collaborative endeavours of this year’s ICA Creatives in a cross-disciplinary takeover of the theatre space.

Sounding Futures is the first live collaborative performance by Diasporas Now co-founders – RIEKO, Lulu Wang, and Paola Estrella – alongside special guest artists. The event is part of the live art platform’s yearlong residency at ICA. 

SHERELLE teams up with He.She.They to host a live panel + AMA exploring the power of underground spaces, DIY culture, and why these physical hubs matter more than ever. With party and SHERELLE DJing in the bar area post-talk. 

Join us to celebrate the UK launch of Rosanna McLaughlin’s Against Morality, an incisive reassessment of the role of political values in contemporary art.

Montez Press Radio presents a special broadcast of Stand Up Fall Down live from the ICA  –an evening of sharp, subversive performances using humour to critique the collapse of the welfare state.

From the trans independent publishers that brought you Letter To My Little Queer Self and The Butch Monologues, join us for the launch of their new collection.

As part of Diasporas Now year-long residency, we're collaborating with 198 Contemporary Arts in Brixton on a series of work in progress performances led by resident artists.

Calling all publishing creatives and DIY makers! Take part in GLUE, ICA’s new book fair and creative programme taking place across 13 and 14 September.

Visit Different Gravy’s pop-up darkroom for a self-portrait workshop with photographers Alex Picasso and Louie Stewart.

Hot Potato’s new exhibition, Sign Up, uses collaboration as a tool to respond to the increased threat of civic censorship and silencing of artists who use their platform to speak out.

Using a photographic backdrop inspired by the North and West African tradition of studio portraiture, Sana Badri set up a makeshift studio in the empty ‘Plot 9’ in Shepards Bush Market.

Join Verso authors Holly Smith and Jessica Field as they discuss the rich history of working-class resistance within Britain's social housing.

Join Eva Fotiadi, author of Exhibiting for Multiple Senses, for a discussion on artistic and curatorial research practices.

PRIM - the library and creative agency dedicated to supporting queer creatives of Black ancestry - is bringing an afternoon of queer publishing and zine-making.

Join Toe Press’s drop-in workshop to learn the principles of basic 3-hole zine construction. Afterwards, get expressive and play around with an array of collage materials to fill in your very own take home zine.

Hot Potato and contributing artists discuss a new age of censorship and its impact on the arts.

Join Montez Press for a series of readings from their 2025/2026 programme.

Join Effects journal for the launch of their newest issue Holes. The event will include artist readings and a Q+A.

Join us for the launch of Practicing Dying, the debut book and literary anti-memoir by Charlotte Northall, who will be in conversation with writer and critic Charlie Porter.

Fashion East celebrates its 25th anniversary at the ICA with a cultural hub and programme of activations.

This retrospective exhibition offers an intimate look back at Fashion East’s dynamic history.

Dazed’s Fashion Features Director Emma Davidson chairs a special panel to celebrate Fashion East turning 25!

Come and get your hands on the Fashion East anniversary issue of Dazed! 

A programme of films exploring how dance and movement bring fashion to life.

A programme of short films capturing fashion’s most visionary designers in their own words. 

Dazed Club Creative Director Jack Sunnucks hosts a special panel to celebrate Fashion East turning 25!

Join us for an evening of live poetry to celebrate the launch of Chris McCabe’s new collection, Hedonism. Featuring readings by McCabe, London legend Iain Sinclair and leading voices in contemporary poetry. 

The 2025/2026 edition of the ICA's core youth programme, will take a multidisciplinary, genre-fluid approach to creativity in collaboration with Diasporas Now.

An exciting new offer for ICA Members, the Reading Group is a space to explore art, books and ideas that pertain to the ICA's progressive, cross-disciplinary programme.

Join photographer Liz Johnson Artur and designer Martine Rose for an evening of film and conversation to celebrate the launch of Johnson Artur’s new book.

Join artists from Conditions Studio Programme 2025 for an evening of film and conversation, showcasing newly completed works.

The first iteration of PULSE showcases a site-responsive performance by Biogal, exploring the collision of queer identity, global crisis, and institutional complicity through protest and pop-fuelled defiance. 

Join The Toe Rag to celebrate the forthcoming ‘Pastoral’ issue. Artist Nina Coulson is offering a four-leaf clover with every magazine.

Join us for an evening of conversation to celebrate the launch of Stephanie LaCava’s new novel Nymph.  

Why do we need artist collectives and how do they form? Join us for the next event in the Speaking Futures x Diasporas Now programme: an evening of conversation exploring artist collectives.

Join us for an insightful conversation about the development of Sasraku’s work in the context of her new show at the ICA.

Celebrating the launch of Julie Béna’s first monograph, featuring a live Q&A with Nicoletta Lambertucci and a special screening of Béna’s STRAKATI (2022). 

Join us this weekend for two special talks presented in collaboration with RGA, Gabriel Moses Educational Program. 

Celebrate the launch of Short Form with a screening and discussion featuring Simran Hans, Adam Curtis, Jonathan Glazer, Walter Stern, and Iris Luz. 

Join ICA Creatives alumni Ishy Pryce-Parchment for a reading group in response to Tanoa Sasraku's solo exhibition Morale Patch. 

Sports Banger joins Tanoa Sasraku for a conversation on artist’s books, moderated by ICA Exhibitions Curator Andrea Nitsche-Krupp, to celebrate the launch of Sasraku's new ICA publication. 

The launch of Zagora, 1967 by James Becket marks the first public unveiling of his photographs capturing life under Greece’s junta.

Join HOUSE OF DREAD for their annual gathering, Thinking Wid Silence – an evening of reflection and resonance exploring how silence shapes Black histories, cultural memory, and collective inheritance. 

Diasporas Now member Paola Estrella and ICA Creatives come together for an evening work-in-progress presentation, opening up their evolving creative practice to audiences.

 A discussion of Claire-Louise Bennett's latest novel, exclusively for ICA Members

Join BULLYACHE for a high-energy workshop fusing movement, club sonics and cross-media play. 

An evening talk with BULLYACHE, offering space to unpack their process and the hybrid performance language they've become known for. 

Celebrate the launch of FIELDNOTES Issue 7 with readings by dove, Christine Kirubi, Ektoras Arkomanis, Richard Phoenix, and others. 

Join us for this very special in-conversation between Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao, photographer Agata Grzybowska, and editor Liv Constable-Maxwell, to celebrate the launch of Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream.