The Koestler Awards is an annual programme encouraging people from the UK’s criminal justice system to change their lives through the arts. Jeremy Deller and John Costi have selected artwork from over ...

Explore poetry off the page in Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut solo exhibition, where poems exist as sculpture, objects and textiles. Papachristodoulou’s object poems encourage interactive and shared ...

Olulode’s painting imagines an intimate moment between a queer couple at the start of their romance ...

Kamancheh virtuoso and composer Kayhan Kalhor presents an album inspired by Iranian classical poetry and the music of Mohammad-Reza Shajarian. Lost in the Desert Sky is a tribute to Mohammad-Reza ...

Celebrate Banger Factory Records with some of the very best performers on today’s British jazz scene ...

Conductor and arranger Guy Barker is joined by Peter Edwards this year as a special guest conductor for a programme of soul music, jazz-infused contemporary R&B, epic jazz songs and funk, with plenty ...

Over the dark winter nights, our site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour – explore to discover them all. Each artist uses light and colour in playful ways, at the same ...

Come and get snug as a bug while National Poetry Library puppets Federico and Firebird share some of their favourite poems, nursery rhymes and rhyming stories. Join us for a welcoming, playful session ...

An unforgettable evening features Beethoven’s monumental Choral Symphony with its climactic ‘Ode to Joy’, performed by the renowned Philharmonia Orchestra.