Speaking Futures is the ICA’s new flagship programme of talks, performances and workshops celebrating artists as catalysts for imagining and shaping the future.

The 2025/2026 edition of the ICA's core youth programme, will take a multidisciplinary, genre-fluid approach to creativity in collaboration with Diasporas Now.

Join us for this very special in-conversation between Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao, photographer Agata Grzybowska, and editor Liv Constable-Maxwell, to celebrate the launch of Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream.

A multimedia event from the Erotic Review exploring what it means to possess a body –digital, real and imagined – through video, readings and discussion shaped by the Autumn/Winter issue.

Led by Paola Estrella and Joshua Woolford, this second term of ICA Creatives × Diasporas Now focuses on translating ideas and stories across artistic mediums. 

Join the editors and artists behind And Then It Fades (Away) for a conversation tracing the shifting terrain of contemporary Lithuanian photography.

Join Douglas Cantor for an evening celebrating the publication of A Rosa is a Rose, published by miłość, featuring a reading and conversation exploring the tender, hope-laden world of Dallas Paloma.

A conversation with Anton Jäger, Vincent Bevins, and Nihal El Assar exploring the restless contradictions of our fragmented, hyper-political moment.

A series of talks and workshops hosted by ICA in partnership with Croydon based studio and education initiative Conditions.