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Professor Joanne Leal welcomes you to Arts Week 2023.

Hear first-hand accounts from LGBT+ people about their experiences in their own country and on arrival in the UK, addressing the particular challenges they face going through the UK asylum system.

Workshop exploring the recent explosion in Generative Artificial Intelligence and its potential impact on museums.

Rediscover the lost world of Westminster in a walking tour, looking for the remains and memories of the medieval settlement.

Best-selling author Jo Baker returns to ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú to read from her new novel, The Midnight News - a gripping story of World War II intrigue, love, and danger.

British/Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari discusses the act of documentation and how it affects contemporary life, especially for those who become ‘undocumented’ through various legislative means the world over.

Interactive guided well-being workshop based on the Feldenkrais Method, to explore how enlivening the body can enrich the imagination.

Artists Rose Biggin and Keir Cooper discuss their genre-defying punk prose rendition of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and its vivid repurposing of narratives of pleasure and power.

Launch of a special issue of ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú School of Arts’ Dandelion Journal on the theme of intersectionality and the arts.

Workshop using archival material from a historic clinical trial involving pregnant women as a springboard for conversations about public health messaging, uncertainty, and risk during pregnancy.

Cutting-edge new performance and film works investigating how and what we see.

Julia Bell reads from her memoir, discusses the process of turning memory into poetry, and answers questions from the audience.

Taking inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, this interactive workshop considers our connection to trees.

‘Reproduction NOW’ is a panel exploring fertility and reproduction. It is time to take stock. Have promises been delivered? Where have we ended up? What future do we face?

Stories of celebration and resistance from the Wards Corner Latin market.

Live listen of 1941 radio play The City Wears a Slouch Hat, a kaleidoscopic trip across a city with music composed by John Cage and words by avant-garde poet Kenneth Patcham.

A walk through the wild side of Renaissance London, starting at Southwark Cathedral and ending at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Work in progress from ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s theatre and creative writing students: from workshops to finished pieces, experience the processes and products of our creative factory.

This panel launches Radio Myles, a new podcast produced by ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú's Toby Harris on Irish writer Flann O’Brien / Myles na gCopaleen / Brian O’Nolan.

Acclaimed nature writers Nicola Chester and Nick Acheson join ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú research fellow Michael Warren to discuss the topic of local living.

A devised performance with live bread, in response to the life and visions of medieval mystic Margery Kempe.

Experts in urban planning and digital culture ask: what happens when places achieve celebrity status online?

Dramaturgs Emily LeQuesne, Emma Jayne Park and Hanna Slättne talk about different and unusual dramaturgical practices, share their experiences as dramaturgs in the current UK theatre landscape, and discuss the challenges of the industry.

Guided walk visiting places from the past and highlighting the legacy the nineteenth century has left behind.

Author Tim Phillips talks to ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s Bill Bowring about his book, The Curtain and the Wall, and his experiences of walking the route of the Iron Curtain and meeting the people whose lives have been shaped by the its presence.

A triple bill of research-led films from the Derek Jarman Lab: The Plastic Phoenix (about the now-defunct Bakelite Museum), Aerial Bodies (about female barrage balloon operators) and Submerged Reliquary of a Kentish Saint (about Derek Jarman’s archive).

Leading scholars on work and writing in seventeenth-century England share their ideas. Join us to hear James Amelang, Jane Whittle, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin and many more.

Workshop performance exploring the question: does anyone still consider access to theatre to be a right worth fighting for?

Conversation with prolific Singapore-based Filipino writer Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, on his International Rubery Book Award shortlisted collection The Infinite Library and Other Stories, his influences and writing craft, and the state of speculative fiction in Southeast Asia today.