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

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.