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Talks & Engagement
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Current ProgrammeSeries
ICA Creatives x Pesolife
7 August 2024 – 31 August 2025
The 2024/5 edition of ICA's core youth programme, offering free artist-led creative workshops for people aged 16-30.
Speaking Futures x Diasporas Now
30 April 2025 – 30 April 2026
Speaking Futures is the ICA’s new flagship programme of talks, performances and workshops celebrating artists as catalysts for imagining and shaping the future.
DJ workshops with BOUDICA
Tue, 6 May
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. 
Speaking Futures
WIP: Sharing Space with Joshua Woolford
Tue, 13 May
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.
body language: broken printer 
Thu, 15 May
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.
Speaking Futures
Live Art: Body as a Language
Wed, 21 May
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. 
Keep the Drums, Lose the Knife
Thu, 29 May
fynn studio present an evening of film, discussion and live drumming to explore how rhythm and activism have the power to heal. 
Artist Talk
Nora Turato: pool7
Sat, 7 June
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 . 
GLUE: Book Fair and Creative Programme
13 – 14 September 2025
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.