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 25 June – 3 July, and includes crits, webinars, meet the maker presentations, online tours and Q&As.

All 46 Events

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Reading and Q&A with Olivia Laing

Thursday 30 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
  • Humanities
  • Curating & culture
The Writing programme hosts award-winning author Olivia Laing in conversation about her most recent book, Everybody: A Book About Freedom, and more.
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An Evening with Design Products

Thursday 30 June 16:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Product design
An event to communicate, demo, catalyse and open up discussions around the work of the 2022 graduating students
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Information Experience Design Screening

Thursday 30 June 16:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

Please join us for screenings of the Royal College of Art's Information Experience Design Programme graduating cohort.
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Project Showcase: Reset for the planet and Commerce

Thursday 30 June 14:45 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Environments
RESET Commerce explores new ways of saving and spending in our complex and digitalised world.
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Visual Communication Screening

Thursday 30 June 14:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

Please join us for screenings of the Royal College of Art's Visual Communication Programme graduating cohort.
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Panel Discussion: Manifesting Intent

Thursday 30 June 13:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Deep Connections
Panel Discussion: Manifesting Intent
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Encounter

Thursday 30 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Environments
Guided tour of applied arts degree show with two invited guests
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Now Is The Time Of Monsters

Thursday 30 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Deep Connections
  • Contemporary art
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born” - A critical discussion organised by the students of MA Contemporary Art Practice.
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Project Showcase – Reset Learning & workplace

Thursday 30 June 11:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Deep Connections
  • Environments
Project Showcase - Reset Learning & workplace
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CAP Performance

Thursday 30 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
  • Deep Connections
  • Contemporary art
Daily performances from the graduating students of MA Contemporary Art Practice.
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Deadlift

Thursday 30 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
Deadlift is a durational performance, an activation of sculpture. It explores intersections between sports culture, physical comedy, figurative sculpture and gender.
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Animation Screening

Wednesday 29 June 18:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

Please join us for screenings of the Royal College of Art's Animation Programme graduating cohort.
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Project Showcase – Reset Wellbeing

Wednesday 29 June 15:45 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
RESET: Wellbeing
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Visual Communication Screening

Wednesday 29 June 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

Please join us for screenings of the Royal College of Art's Visual Communication Programme graduating cohort.
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Project Showcase – Reset Community

Wednesday 29 June 14:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Deep Connections
RESET: Designing new ways of moving forward. The Final Show of the RCA Service Design cohort of 2022.
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Panel Discussion: “So… What now?”

Wednesday 29 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • The Big Beyond
A panel with Faculties of the Service Design Course discussing the theme of Spaces, Community, and Wellbeing
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MSO: Agent Recruitment Event

Wednesday 29 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

Ministry of Situational Oddities (MSO) has one primary objective: to witness and document the ‘strange occurrences’ that manifested in according to your impending Anthropocentric Extinction. 

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Project Showcase: Reset Spaces

Wednesday 29 June 11:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Environments
RESET Spaces is a showcase of projects exploring new ways of living in, moving through, and engaging with our cities, planet, and space.
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CAP Performance

Wednesday 29 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
  • Deep Connections
  • Contemporary art
Daily performances from the graduating students of MA Contemporary Art Practice.
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Borderlines of Textiles practice – Redefining Textiles

Wednesday 29 June 10:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • The Big Beyond
Speakers from RCA Textiles discuss expansive textiles practices, which stretch and pull at the edges of the field and walk new borderlines for what is defined as a textile practice.
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David Campany: Reading Photographs

Wednesday 29 June 10:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Environments
A tour of the Photography show with David Campany
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Press RESET: Opening Seminar

Tuesday 28 June 15:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Deep Connections
  • Service Design
Service Design Opening Seminar
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Animation Screening

Tuesday 28 June 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

Please join us for screenings of the Royal College of Art's Animation Programme graduating cohort.
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Huaco de Maíz (vessel made of corn

Tuesday 28 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

A food workshop exploring how relics are deeply linked to personal cultural significance and the narratives we tell ourselves.
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City of Scars Symphony Concert

Tuesday 28 June 12:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )

City of Scars is a language translation and sound art project undertaken by converting the traces of construction sites to natural language and music notes.
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Being With

Tuesday 28 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • The Big Beyond
Being With, is a personalised guided tour of the Sculpture graduate exhibition led by noted theorist Jonathan Miles and accompanied by some exhibiting students.
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CAP Performance

Tuesday 28 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
  • Deep Connections
  • Contemporary art
Daily performances from the graduating students of MA Contemporary Art Practice.
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Deadlift

Tuesday 28 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
Deadlift is a durational performance, an activation of sculpture. It explores intersections between sports culture, physical comedy, figurative sculpture and gender.
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GID22 Film Screening

Sunday 26 June 15:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Design
An opportunity to see the GID22 Documentary (runtime approx 15 mins)
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Visual Communication Screening

Sunday 26 June 15:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

Please join us for screenings of the Royal College of Art's Visual Communication Programme graduating cohort.
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Information Experience Design Screening

Sunday 26 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

Please join us for screenings of the Royal College of Art's Information Experience Design Programme graduating cohort.
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Paint with plastics Workshop

Sunday 26 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Environments
  • Textiles
Paint with plastics is a collective workshop using recycled EPE (expanded polyethylene) flakes.
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Changing The Hair

Sunday 26 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • The Big Beyond
Changing The Hair is an intermittent unscheduled performance by Congcong Wu and friends.
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Animation Screening

Sunday 26 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

Please join us for screenings of the Royal College of Art's Animation Programme graduating cohort.
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CAP Performance

Sunday 26 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
  • Deep Connections
  • Contemporary art
Daily performances from the graduating students of MA Contemporary Art Practice.
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The meeting place of social and environmental justice – Sustainability and Activism

Sunday 26 June 10:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • The Big Beyond
  • Textiles
Hope, innovation and the symbiotic link between women and the handmade are discussed in this event whıch considers sustainability as the meeting place of environmental and social justice.
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Towelling

Saturday 25 June 13:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
  • Deep Connections
A performance of a towel folding ritual
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Paint with plastics

Saturday 25 June 11:30 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Environments
  • Textiles
Paint with plastics collective workshop
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Animation Screening

Saturday 25 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

Please join us for screenings of the Royal College of Art's Animation Programme graduating cohort.
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CAP Performance

Saturday 25 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
  • Deep Connections
  • Contemporary art
Daily performances from the graduating students of MA Contemporary Art Practice.
Image of the letters C, A and P in curvy lettering, and pink text reading 'Performance Space', on top of a blue and white swirly background.
CAP Performance

Saturday 25 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
  • Deep Connections
  • Contemporary art
Daily performances from the graduating students of MA Contemporary Art Practice.
A photograph of a hand reaching down and holding the melted-looking bar of a weight-lifting barbell, which appears to be made from a soft, translucent amber-coloured material.
Deadlift

Saturday 25 June 11:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
Deadlift is a durational performance, an activation of sculpture. It explores intersections between sports culture, physical comedy, figurative sculpture and gender.
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Tradition and Innovation in contemporary Textiles practice

Saturday 25 June 10:15 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Deep Connections
  • Textiles
The rich heritage of textile practice offers a wealth of inspiration and points of departure for innovation. How do we draw on and adapt techniques, materials and values within textile practice?
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Karaoke With Collective Simultaneous Translation

Friday 24 June 18:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Deep Connections
Performance A Call and response . A mike open to the public; a public open to the mike.
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Deadlift

Friday 24 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
Deadlift is a durational performance, an activation of sculpture. It explores intersections between sports culture, physical comedy, figurative sculpture and gender.
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For Monument’s Sake

Friday 24 June 17:00 ( GMT + 0.0 )

  • Bodies
  • Environments
A group of performers will animate the inner core of For Monument's Sake, bridging public and intimate space through encounter and conversation.