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?

Theatre and opera director Fabio Cherstich presents Visual Diaries, a poignant lecture-performance honouring 1980s New York artists lost to the early AIDS epidemic.

To celebrate the release of Water Over Thunder: Selected Writings by celebrated photographer Larry Sultan, we’re screening two of his favourite films, Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1974) by Bruce Conner and Safe (1995) by Todd Haynes.

Join us for a visual presentation by Alessandro Sbordoni exploring the evolving role of images in the age of artificial intelligence and video monetisation, followed by a conversation with British philosopher Matt Bluemink.

Led by artist Lulu Wang, this final term of ICA Creatives × Diasporas Now explores the body as a creative engine. Across six weeks, participants will develop artistic manifestos and experiment with movement tools, body-generated sound and live archiving to build collective performance structures.

 A discussion of Robert Glück's 80s classic, exclusively for ICA Members.

What does it mean to be a citizen today and what spaces can we still call free? In this special talk and screening, Karen McCarthy Woolf discusses her new book Unsafe. Situated in the midst of a reckoning with a politics of enclosure in London and LA, Unsafe is an immersive meditation on place, the body, nature and the self.   

This iteration of PULSE presents London-based artist Linn Phyllis Seeger’s three-channel moving image installation The (Un)event.