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.

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.

A multimedia event from the Erotic Review exploring what it means to possess a body –digital, real and imagined – through video, readings and discussion shaped by the Autumn/Winter issue.

Led by Paola Estrella and Joshua Woolford, this second term of ICA Creatives × Diasporas Now focuses on translating ideas and stories across artistic mediums. 

The ICA, WePresent and The Messy Truth copresent a one-day salon examining the dual image worlds we navigate today. Hosted by Gem Fletcher, the day brings together artists and photographers including Rene Matić, Elle Pérez, Jack Davison, Hanna Moon, Ronan McKenzie and more.

Gem Fletcher is joined by Jack Davison, Ronan Mckenzie, and Hanna Moon, three artists who have taken risks in an attempt to create new models of publishing, exhibiting and making.

Gem Fletcher is joined by Bruno Ceschel (SPBH Editions/Mack), Brian Paul Lamotte (Designer) and Lillian Wilkie (Editor and co-director of Bound Art Book Fair) to explore what is next for PhotoBook publishing.

In an era of rising authoritarianism, the work of art is perhaps more consequential than ever. How can we use photography to preserve history?

What is the role of a photographer in today's chaotic media landscape?

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

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

A series of talks and workshops hosted by ICA in partnership with Croydon based studio and education initiative Conditions.