Join The Poetry Society for their midsummer open mic. The Repeat Beat Poet will perform a headline set, and then there will be an open mic where you will get the chance to read your work. Doors to The ...

Milton Keynes Literary Festival launches a competition to anyone living, working or studying in Bucks, Beds or Northants aged 14 or older, to submit a story (fictional or factual) or a poem around the ...

A panel of artists, activists and architects share stories of housing activism in past movements and present-day campaigns. Artist Sonia Uddin’s project Dokhol দখল ’84 is an important starting point ...

For centuries, even the most gifted composers have found themselves persecuted or marginalised simply because of who they were. As a gay man in Tsarist Russia, Tchaikovsky knew what it was to be an ...

Join Michael Symmons Roberts (poet, writer and broadcaster) for a reading of Auden’s poems accompanied by visuals of Moore’s illustrations and a discussion about the relevance of this encounter ...

The Transforming Words Foundation presents the Black in White Poetry Competition 2025, helping to illuminate race-related issues that many people of colour experience. The competition aims to help ...

The Grammy Award- and Mercury Prize-winning UK singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer has produced choice cuts on Frank Ocean’s Blonde, Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. and Dave’s We’re All ...

Inspired by London’s youth clubs, move through a day of DJs, craft, games and performances curated by young creatives – all at your own pace. Hosted by Izzy Withers and Stems by Mar!k, the event flows ...

The Young Poets Network is joining up with the Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) for this new challenge. This new challenge invites you to write a poem in response to MPT’s archive. The archive ...

Focussing primarily on her books ‘Written in the Dark’ and ‘Living Pictures’, poet Polina Barskova will explore the construction of siege narratives both in situ and in retrospect, as well as the ...

The Hayward Gallery will present the first London retrospective of acclaimed British artist Linder from 11 February to 5 May 2025. Offering an illuminating overview of this iconic artist’s 50 ...

The Arts Richmond Poetry Prize 2025 is inviting entries of poems on the theme of ‘Changes’. Poems can be up to 40 lines in length. A panel appointed by Arts Richmond will select 40 poems to be judged ...