Events
Hear directly from artists, designers, researchers and more about the ideas and thinking behind the work of this year’s graduates. Our programme of digital events run from 26 June – 4 July, and includes crits, webinars, meet the maker presentations, online tours and Q&As.
All 136 Events
Wednesday 21 July 10:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
New sculptures and installations by RCA Graduate 2021 Judith Burrows
located in a pop-up gallery in a converted shop.
Friday 16 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
RCA2021 MA Animation Screening 3 Programme 3
Friday 16 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
RCA2021 MA Animation Screening 3 Programme 3
Friday 16 July 10:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )
RCA2021 MA Animation Screening 2 Programme 1
Friday 16 July 08:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
RCA2021 MA Animation Screening 2
Thursday 15 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
RCA2021 MA Animation Screening 1 Programme 3
Thursday 15 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
RCA2021 MA Animation Screening 1 Programme 1
Saturday 10 July 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Discover and explore work of the graduating class of 2021 from the School of Architecture in-person at the Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping.
Sunday 4 July 19:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Welcome to the SORRY CRISPS spaceship, you are all the luckiest surviving humans to hear the final declaration given to you by the Ministry of Defense in order to enter our wonderful new world.
Sunday 4 July 17:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A talk with Joe Bennett that will dig into the nitty gritty of working in the animation industry as an independent artist.
Sunday 4 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Raising your vibrations to eternal life • with Rieko Whitfield & Léa Porré
Sunday 4 July 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
In the meantime… invites you to a live panel discussion, amplifying and offering a stage for contributors to share their thoughts on extending the legacy of Somers Town.
Sunday 4 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join me as I read two recipes that set up the conditions for two instances where the body is disrupted.
Sunday 4 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
RCA 2021 Animation graduates discuss their films and wider practices. Edwin Rostron is an artist and curator based in London.
Sunday 4 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
RCA 2021 Animation graduates discuss their films and wider practices. Edwin Rostron is an artist and curator based in London
Sunday 4 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Suitable for beginners, this alternative processes course introduces participants to the use of a traditional Victorian photographic technique as a way of creating unique images from home.
Saturday 3 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Come celebrate the closure of RCA2021 at Export Radio! Featuring DJ sets and performances from a freshly graduated RCA cohort!
Saturday 3 July 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join me as I read two recipes that set up the conditions for two instances where the body is disrupted.
Saturday 3 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A discussion around institutional critique, casts as artifacts and the relationship that exist/should exist between museum—artwork—audience
Saturday 3 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A panel talk about materials, traces, and emotions
Saturday 3 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
RCA 2021 Animation graduates discuss their films and wider practices. Hosted by artist Ian Gouldstone
Saturday 3 July 12:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Performance #11 - Anti-system witchcraft and Sensual
Pleasure action in the physical exhibition.
Saturday 3 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Seeking new boundaries in the medium of moving image, final year MA IED - Moving Image Design students display a breadth of sensitivity, enquiry and innovation in their collective body of work.
Saturday 3 July 09:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Matrilineal Mythologies is a collaboration between Jesse May Fisher (Contemporary Art Practice) Paola Estrella (Contemporary Art Practice) Katrina Wilde (Textiles) and Rita Silva (Photography).
Saturday 3 July 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A workshop introducing participants to game design and practical exercises to translate real-world stories into impactful interactive experiences.
Saturday 3 July 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A panel discussion surrounding the theme ‘Gender, Identity & Relationships’ chaired by Ioli Fillipakopoulou.
Friday 2 July 19:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A fantastic music showcase that involves several RCA 2021 graduates from different schools.
Friday 2 July 19:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Short Circuit Transitions invites you on an electrifying transition, through the works of 15 international up and coming contemporary artists, presented live from their studios.
Friday 2 July 18:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Expel the toxins from your body and mind at a virtual spa experience with Shinhoo Lee, Daniel Hopp, and Chloe Langlois.
Friday 2 July 18:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Seeking new boundaries in the medium of moving image, final year MA IED - Moving Image Design students display a breadth of sensitivity, enquiry and innovation in their collective body of work.
Friday 2 July 17:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
What does digital intimacy feel like? How do we attempt to connect, touch and locate each other through screens, and through our creative practices?
Friday 2 July 17:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
White Noise is the Royal College of Art - SoC's experimental sound and performance monthly series where students come together to make the air move
Friday 2 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Are You There (2021) is a 30min digital séance, an experimental interactive lecture where the boundaries between physical and virtual being are explored through magic.
Friday 2 July 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join me as I read two recipes that set up the conditions for two instances where the body is disrupted.
Friday 2 July 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
In Limine is a liminal space of transition between the digital space and the physical world.
Friday 2 July 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A talk on keeping one's research and interests in animation alive within the suboptimal context of commercials.
Friday 2 July 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A chat with Sophie Koko Gate about how to survive and thrive IRL (in real life) and in other dimensions as an animator.
Friday 2 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Jewellery and Metal invites you to our second discussion around significant themes which impact our graduates' production of work.
Friday 2 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
How identity and its constituents manifests in sculptural practice.
Friday 2 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join Ceramics & Glass graduates as they discuss their work with a celebrated writer critic.
Friday 2 July 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Panel Discussion with Invited Guests, followed by Q&A from IDE and audience.
Friday 2 July 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
With Olivia Ahmad, Artistic Director, House of Illustration and Editor, Varoom! Magazine.
Friday 2 July 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Studio AKA partner, BAFTA-winning director, and Royal College of Art MA Animation graduate Philip Hunt gives a personal recap of his pathway from graduation into the animation industry.
Friday 2 July 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Clemancy will be making a selection of IED works that inspire, delight and challenge her. She will be presenting and discussing these pieces in an open crit with students.
Thursday 1 July 18:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
From Checkered Reality to Reality Check: A Provocation around the sensual, the forgotten, the blood-economy and the cruel
Thursday 1 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Behind the scenes of the Royal College of Art Ceramics & Glass department.
Thursday 1 July 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
VR Projects organised in collaboration with artist Ian Gouldstone.
Thursday 1 July 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Philosopher and writer Dario Dipaolantonio will join the graduating artists to present their joint publication AFTER THE HIGH TIDE
Thursday 1 July 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Screening of a short film, led by MA Painting student Margaux Derhy, that tells the story of a family sleeping in the sky.
Thursday 1 July 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Diasporas Now is a live-streaming platform for multidisciplinary artists from various non-Western backgrounds that use performance as radical acts of self-representation.
Thursday 1 July 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Recent MA Animation graduates Laura Jayne Hodkin and Natasza Cetner will talk about their experiences after RCA
Thursday 1 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
How absurd the world has become? How could absurdity shape the global issues?
Thursday 1 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
RCA Sound Design 21 Festival: Leave No Trace is a collaborative event celebrating the works of Royal College of Art's Sound Design students.
Thursday 1 July 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A conversation with Samia Ahmed and Tim McCourt on the ins and outs of the incredible, BAFTA-nominated animation studio.
Thursday 1 July 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join Ceramics & Glass graduates as they discuss their work with a celebrated writer critic.
Thursday 1 July 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Jewellery and Metal invites you to our first of two discussions around significant themes which impact our graduates' creative practices.
Thursday 1 July 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Koji Yamamura looks back at his last 20 years works and introduces his new first feature film and new short too.
Wednesday 30 June 20:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Mutuality in the Biosphere event brings together information experience design students' final projects that invite alternative ways of thinking and living with other-than-human species.
Wednesday 30 June 19:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
MA Photography graduate Sten Link has invited photographer Shannon Taggart to a Q&A on the topic of photography and mediumship
Wednesday 30 June 18:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
An active collaborative exchange of ideas, methods and recipes for the assemblage and repurposing of affective matter and waste.
Wednesday 30 June 18:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
This event is a joyous two day journey with, in and through sound and brings together a collaborative group of artists, designers, musicians and engineers from the RCA.
Wednesday 30 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
How is photography and creative practice employed as a tool to challenge the white cis hetero-patriarcal gaze or simply just ignore it completely?
Wednesday 30 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
In Chaos as a Catalyst, Dr. Leila Sheldrick and panelists, Nick, Seetha, Christian, Maraid and Jothi, take you on a journey of uncertainty and responding to change through evolving design practices.
Wednesday 30 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The celebrated American poet and essayist Susan Howe will read from her some of her work, and be in conversation with Jeremy Millar, Acting Head of Programme for MA Writing.
Wednesday 30 June 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
In this talk, Federico Campagna will explore the deep relationship connecting game design and everyday world-building.
Wednesday 30 June 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Lucy Gallwey and Sarah Mercer from RCA Drawing will be joined by students Woo Jin Joo, MA Textiles and Ronan Porter, MA Painting as they explore how drawing is significant to their practices.
Wednesday 30 June 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Mutuality in the Biosphere event brings together information experience design students' final projects that invite alternative ways of thinking and living with other-than-human species.
Wednesday 30 June 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join British/Venezuelan art historian Cecilia Fajardo-Hill for a talk about forgotten and neglected archives.
Wednesday 30 June 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A conversation with 24 Memes Per Second – the internet community posting a nonstop flood of experimental animation content since August 2020
Wednesday 30 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Panel Discussion with Adam Zaretsky, Felipe Shibuya, Roberta Buiani, J.J. Hastings, Dalila Honorato and Charlotte Jarvis
Wednesday 30 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
An exploration of light, water, pixels and other materials as interdependent, embodied methods of research and resistance.
Wednesday 30 June 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join Ceramics & Glass graduates as they discuss their work with a celebrated writer critic.
Wednesday 30 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
An intimate walk through into a selection of 2021 textile graduates design studios and home hacked spaces.Revealing a maker's perspective and final pieces to the audience.
Wednesday 30 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Blinkink’s Head of Music Videos, Josef Byrne, will be giving an in-depth talk on how a production company finds and develops talent.
Wednesday 30 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A selection of Print students will present brief insights and commentary about their practices as they graduate from the Print programme at the RCA.
Wednesday 30 June 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
What does it mean to make and share artworks on screens within an educational context that encourages an expanded and expanding understanding of what the photographic material is?
Wednesday 30 June 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
In conversation with Morgan Quaintance, Ludovica Bulciolu and Duruo Zheng
Wednesday 30 June 09:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
In this roundtable discussion, practicioners, educators and academics offer their perspectives on the role of comics as a valuable accessibility tool for neurodiverse readers.
Wednesday 30 June 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Modified Pecha Kuchas provide a dynamic way for our graduates to present a body of work - each student will have exactly 3 minutes and 20 seconds and 10 images to tell their story.
Wednesday 30 June 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Rise and shine with Breakfasts at Export Radio! Featuring RCA's graduates talks, performances, sonic pieces and much more...
Monday 28 June 18:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join History of Design students and practitioners from Google and Serpentine Galleries as they discuss the challenges and opportunities in connecting the digital and physical within the cultural space
Monday 28 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
sculpt is a response to the RCA Showcase 2021 as a superheated set of symbols
Monday 28 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join us as we talk horseshoes, music, old brains, diagrams and more with @LaMemeYoung to try and chart new relationships between experimental art and popular culture.
Monday 28 June 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Artist Taysir Batniji discusses the ways in which his practice investigates infrastructures of power and oppression, blurring the lines between art and reality.
Monday 28 June 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
They will introduce what the NFB is, and what is a producer’s job. The talk will be followed by a Q&A.
Monday 28 June 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The session will cover a thematic review of work, providing the chance to meet the makers, hear their narratives, comments and work.
Monday 28 June 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Collaborations: Marta Gualda
Monday 28 June 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A discussion exploring the darkroom, a darkened space where images emerge, representation is challenged, and identities are dismantled and reconstructed.
Monday 28 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
This second part of the event is a round table discussion with two guests, Giorgia Lupi and Charlotte Lengersdorf.
Monday 28 June 12:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join Edwin Heathcote, Architecture and Design critic of the FT, and students and staff, to discover the graduating work of 2021.
Monday 28 June 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Angelique Spaninks will be making a selection of IED works that inspire, delight and challenge her. She will be presenting and discussing these pieces in an open crit with students.
Monday 28 June 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Collaborations: Jesús Martínez Sevilla
Monday 28 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
We are delighted to invite you to the Textiles Private View of our 2021 graduating cohort.
Monday 28 June 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Ghost's journey over the past three years. Collective, films, stories, love for 2D animation.
Monday 28 June 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A panel of invited artists will explore the need for a diversity of working practices that operate outside traditional studio and gallery contexts, engaging the broader community.
Monday 28 June 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Rise and shine with Breakfasts at Export Radio! Featuring RCA's graduates talks, performances, sonic pieces and much more...
Monday 28 June 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
This is intended as an open platform in which the role of the commercial sector, its importance (or lack thereof!) and where is sits within the larger Arts Ecosystem can be discussed.
Monday 28 June 08:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Marie-Margaux is an animation director and co-founder of Moth Studio, known for its perceptive and emotive storytelling with a strong emphasis on character and design as communication.
Sunday 27 June 18:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
For our inaugural pilot event, CAP TV presents a fast forward view of CAP student works in glorious prime time with our mystery host. A chance to glimpse at 60 works in one hour
Sunday 27 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Animators in Conversation: Past, Present and Political
Sunday 27 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
When storytelling draws from lived experience, how can narratives become meaningful and generative, not just inward- (or backward-) looking?
Sunday 27 June 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
A panel discussion surrounding the theme ‘Fiction vs Reality’ chaired by Katerina Athanasopoulou.
Sunday 27 June 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Collaborations: Sofia Yanes Buraya
Sunday 27 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
We are delighted to invite you to join us on a virtual tour around the studio of the artist Mila Dolman, followed by a conversation with the curator Farah Piriye.
Sunday 27 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Online Guest Talk and Roundtable session by Christopher Sleboda and Kathleen Sleboda. Hosted by Can Yang.
Sunday 27 June 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Collaborations: Claudia Jofré Montijano (live streaming)
Sunday 27 June 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Seasoned stop motion animator Tim Allen will reveal some of his earliest experiences approaching animation companies and lessons learnt along the way.
Sunday 27 June 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
(recorded) (subtitled, original Spanish version) Workshop. Araceli Castro
Rosas ––within 40 years of experience in the field of vegetarianism––, present her
thoughts and recipes with Nopal.
Sunday 27 June 09:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Form-Bridging is an on-going experimental process in deepening and defining the Neobridge Model.
Saturday 26 June 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Collaborations in a safe-space: (onsite) (live streaming)
Saturday 26 June 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Animation in Ugly is a combination of puppeteering and computer simulation and varies between physically accurate and broken.
Saturday 26 June 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Collaborations: Ariana. S Cota shared the space with: Carmen Martos Almenara; Storytelling
Saturday 26 June 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
This moderated tour showcases GID projects from water-consumption to space food design and more. Discover GID students as they share highlights and interesting aspects of their work.
Saturday 26 June 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Royal College of Art Ma Print graduates present new publication projects.
Saturday 26 June 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Anna Ginsburg explaining her creative process for a selection of films, focusing on those which have been self initiated / the most important to her and her career.
Saturday 26 June 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Collaborations: Rocío Fajardo Fernández: (recorded) video
Saturday 26 June 09:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Michael Eglin, fishmonger&owner of James Nash&Son will lead a virtual tour of the ‘Barter Outlet’ exhibition, followed by a panel discussion with Richard Martin, Jessie Brennan and Pat Wingshan Wong.
Friday 25 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Friends of the School make a public address to the graduating cohort and their guests, in celebration of the myriad of works and practices on show in RCA2021.
Friday 25 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
The two-phased project set up with a series of educational and research purpose art communication events.
Friday 25 June 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Rory Sutherland, Vice Chair of Ogilvy and behavioural science expert will talk with the RCA Service Design graduates on the new ideas they will be presenting in RCA2021 across 7 themes.
Friday 25 June 12:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Part of a series of RCA 2021 Graduate Show events examining critical perspectives on technology.
Friday 25 June 09:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Talk Shop is back for an RCA 2021 Show event!
Thursday 24 June 18:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Discover the work of the graduating class of 2021 from Architecture and Interior Design.
Thursday 24 June 17:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )
To mark the ending of their time in the ADAM office, ADAM's final collaborative act has been to build a book which chronicles their time in the space together
Thursday 24 June 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Overview of the projects of the Facing Forward show and meet the students of the Class of 2021
Thursday 24 June 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
You're invited to join the Private View of the IDE Class 2021 where graduates will be presenting their final projects in PechaKucha style.
Thursday 24 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
During this workshop we will explore the collaborative aspect of artificial intelligence through sprint-like drills with the Royal College of Art students, the Makerversity Community and Computers.
Thursday 24 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Please join us at the School of Design: Opening Event for an insightful glimpse into our dynamic programmes, featuring this year's graduating students' projects.
Thursday 24 June 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Join students, alumni and staff from the School of Communications' opening event to our exhibition on the RCA2021 online discovery platform.
Thursday 24 June 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Part of a series of RCA 2021 Graduate Show events examining critical perspectives on technology.
Tuesday 1 June 09:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )
Rise and shine with Breakfasts at Export Radio! Featuring RCA's graduates talks, performances, sonic pieces and much more...