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HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Join us this August for This Bright Land: a summer celebration of community and culture.
Step into a magical world, created by @SomersetHouseStudios artists @garethpughstudio and @mccollywood, transforming our courtyard into a wonderland open to all. We’ll be bringing you:
✨ Friday Night Parties hosted by creative collectives
💃🏽 Open-air Vogue Balls, staged in collaboration with @voguerites
🎵 Sunday Street Parties by guest curators
💄 Futuristic Clubhouse by @maccosmeticsuk, featuring free drop-in events and make up sessions
💐 Wonder Garden by @jomalonelondon, featuring floral pathways and unique sensory breakout spaces
🎪 Pop-up experiential zones by @forestessentials_uk, @cliniqueuk, @drjart_uk, @bobbibrownuk, @originsuk, @avedauk, drawing inspiration from different corners of the globe
🎡 A 35m observation wheel offering breath-taking views of London's skyline
🎤 Performances, talks and workshops by established creatives and grassroots communities
🍲 Global Street food market by @BlackEatsLDN and delicious gin cocktails by our drinks partner @bombaysapphireuk.
Open 1-29 August.
Sign up for more information via link in bio. #ThisBrightLand
Location: Somerset House
Upgrade Yourself Festival powered by @Squarespace starts this Friday!
Trailblazing creatives and industry experts will share the tools, hacks and skills to manage finances and budgeting, burnout, self-care, and figuring it out (whilst paying the bills!).
If you’re 16-24 years old, join us for two days of talks, workshops and mentoring sessions.
It’s all FREE and there will also be free food & drinks by @wingstopuk, @proper, @pokehouse_uk, @karmadrinks.
Book your FREE tickets now via link in bio.
Location: Somerset House
The Bank Holiday Weekend is here! If you’re venturing out and about this weekend, stop by our beautiful fountain courtyard to admire the neoclassical architecture, grab a coffee, of simply to enjoy a moment of tranquility in the sunshine. ⛅
📸: @arthurheathtaylor
Location: Somerset House
🧵 Two weeks remain until we open Eternally Yours, our free summer exhibition exploring ideas of care, repair and healing.
Showcasing diverse examples of creative reuse, from historical samples of the Japanese art of Kintsugi and Boro to works from contemporary artists who put repair at the heart of their practice, #EternallyYours explores the unexpectedly hopeful and healing stories that repair reveals.
16 Jun - 25 Sep
Find out more and book tickets via link in bio.
Photo: @CeliaPym. Norwegian Sweater Annemor Sundbø’s Ragpile Collection, White Wool Darning, 2010. Courtesy of Celia Pym.
Location: Somerset House
📢 Calling all 16-24-year-old creatives! Join us for Upgrade Yourself Festival powered by @Squarespace. Tag your friends! 👀
Get exclusive access to trailblazing creatives and industry experts via talks, workshops, and mentoring sessions in our FREE festival.
🎤 Featuring speakers @runthecheck, @bola_sol, @theblackwellbeingcollective, @habkat. Hosted by @suprinax.
🖊️ Workshops with @ashleybloomimages @joinmultiverse and @Squarespace and free headshots by @coutneyhughcampbell.
🍔 FREE food & snacks by @wingstopuk, @proper, @pokehouse_uk, @karmadrinks.
10-11 June, FREE
🔗 Book now via link in bio.
Location: Somerset House
The National Saturday Club (@natsatclub) present their annual Summer Show featuring the exhilarating work of the next generation of creative thinkers and innovators.
The exhibition will present the work of 1,500 13–16-year-old Club members from across the country.
5-12 June. Find out more via link in bio.
Prints galore! Join us this weekend at the @londonoriginalprintfair.
Discover works from 48 international publishers and galleries showcasing the very best in printmaking, from the world’s masters to emerging contemporary artists.
Location: Somerset House
Celebrating Black Businesses ✨
Earlier this week, we celebrated the achievements of the first 15 early-stage businesses that participated in the Black Business Incubator programme, sponsored by @Morgan.Stanley.
The entrepreneurs presented their business progress and goals and met with other guests to network and explore new opportunities for partnerships.
If you're an early-stage Black entrepreneur and you're interested in the programme, you can apply now for the third cohort of #BlackBusinessIncubator via link in bio.
Location: Somerset House
Just Announced! 💥 @mabel will round off this year’s Summer Series with @AmericanExpressUK.
One of the UK’s most positive, candid and important voices, Mabel will perform her multi-platinum singles as well as songs from her new album ‘About Last Night’ in a special headline set on the closing night of our #SummerSeriesGigs.
🎫 Tickets go on general sale on Wed 1 June, 10am BST - link in bio.
Location: Somerset House
The @londonoriginalprintfair is now open! 🎉
Featuring 48 internationally renowned print dealers, the Fair is a celebration of printmaking in all its forms, spanning six centuries from the 15th century works of Dürer and his contemporaries to that of emerging contemporary artists.
Until Sunday 29 May. Tickets via link in bio.
📸: Takis Zontiros
Location: Somerset House
Filmmakers & artists: Want to share your work and exchange ideas with other creative practitioners?
Sign up for a creative show and tell session with writer, director and moving image artist @akinoladaviesjr.
The room will provide access to CDJs, PA, wall projection and TV screen, alongside the space to interact with fellow attendees.
Part of @somersethousestudios's programme #GroundingPractice.
Wed 01 June. Find out more via link in bio.
Location: Somerset House
Join us on Wed 22 June for the second @Morgan.Stanley Lates at Somerset House with The @Courtauld.
Get after-hours access to our upcoming exhibition, Eternally Yours and experience a live workshop with artist Abigail Conway, curator tours & pop-up talks, a DJ set from @scarlett_omalley, Balkan inspired street food from @spasiadinkovski and many more special experiences.
Tickets are FREE, whilst after hours free entry to The @Courtauld’s major exhibition Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Bergen will be free to under-25s.
Book now via link in bio.