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

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.

Are you aged 16-30 and interested in making or curating film? Would you like to learn more about Black culture and history, and the role of archives?

Join the editors and artists behind And Then It Fades (Away) for a conversation tracing the shifting terrain of contemporary Lithuanian photography.

Join Douglas Cantor for an evening celebrating the publication of A Rosa is a Rose, published by miłość, featuring a reading and conversation exploring the tender, hope-laden world of Dallas Paloma.

A collaborative poetry workshop exploring immersive sensory writing, contemporary ecopoetics, and radical community authorship inspired by fieldnotes collective editorial practice.

Celebrate the publication of Tendrils with readings and conversation on poetry, ecology, care and imagining collective futures together.

 A discussion of Olga Ravn's latest novel, exclusively for ICA Members.

Join us for a mindful gathering blending journaling, movement, and film to explore renewal, growth, and our relationship with nature.

A conversation with Anton Jäger, Vincent Bevins, and Nihal El Assar exploring the restless contradictions of our fragmented, hyper-political moment.

Join artist Tegen Williams for a creative drawing class in response to Laura Lima: The Drawing Drawing.

INFERNO 2026 Summit brings together artists, organisers and cultural workers for a one-day gathering at the ICA, reflecting on how queer nightlife and artistic practice continue to function as vital sites of connection, survival and imagination. 

Join us for a special evening with leading artists John Akomfrah and Julianknxx. Working across film, sound and archive, both artists use moving image to tell powerful human stories that question the structures and systems we exist within.