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War Studies @warstudieskcl.bsky.social · 29d

🎨 The Guardian (@theguardian.com) cartoonist Ella Baron’s exhibition reveals the unseen toll of the #UkraineWar through intimate drawings and testimonies—capturing trauma, memory & hope.🖊️

“There’s nothing left to draw of an amputated limb but memories.” — Ella Baron

🔗Register: bit.ly/4g99jJJ

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Ella Baron @ellabaron.bsky.social · 23d

My exhibition ‘Battles of the Mind’, explores trauma & imagination through drawings I made in Ukraine in collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières & The Guardian. Join me for the launch at King's College London Bush House this Thursday 18th September by registering here 🖤 tinyurl.com/dvhfnfc9

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Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social · May 20

🗣️ Is AI a tool for enhancing creativity or does it pose a threat to authentic human expression?

Join us and @aiatkings.bsky.social for the discussion featuring @drkatedevlin.bsky.social, @clemicollett.bsky.social, Genevieve Liveley and Sarah Perry.

🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏰ 19:30-20:45
🎟️ Register ⤵️

The Digital Futures of Literature

Join us to explore the future of AI and literature.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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KCL Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences @kingsnmes.bsky.social · May 15

Gaming, media and digital arts professionals - join our Arts & Creativity Hub at the Informatics Industry Showcase 2025 to explore how AI is transforming creativity! 🎮🎨

📅 11 June
⏰ 14.00 - 17.00
📍Bush House, WC2B 4BG

Register ⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/informatic...

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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · May 20

Fascinating insights tonight for opening of the King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence @aiatkings.bsky.social and brilliant programme of events 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/serie...

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King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence @aiatkings.bsky.social · May 13

Johanna Walker, Lucy Bell, James Joshua Otto, @mtrc.bsky.social and Jennifer Ding will follow the performance of Humans in the Loop with a panel discussion.

Supported by @kingsnmes.bsky.social and King's Culture.

Tickets: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-l...

Humans in the Loop

Join us for a workshop concert of a new AI musical, written by humans.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Apr 28

👏 Congratulations to Sofía Ramírez Sandoval (CMCI MA) and Lilien Ezeugwu (CMCI PhD), who have been selected as King’s Student Fellows for the Venice Fellowships Programme, supported by the British Council and @kingscmci.bsky.social.

Read more about their creative projects 🔽

King's announces its 2025 Venice Student Fellows

Sofía Ramírez Sandoval (CMCI MA) and Lilien Ezeugwu (CMCI PhD) will participate in the 2025 Venice Biennale.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · Apr 1

Love hearing expert musical input from Dr Flora Willson 🎶 🎭 @kingsmusic.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social
for the epic opera Turandot @royaloperahouse.bsky.social

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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · Mar 31

Join a hands on workshop with artist & anthropologist Liz Hingley (SIM project) and explore some of the intricate ties between smartphones, mobility, and belonging 🔨📲🌏 The map was part of London Design Festival at #V&A last year.

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/bonds...

@kingsartshums.bsky.social

Bonds Beyond Borders Workshop with Artist Liz Hingley

Join The SIM Project workshop! Hand stamp a meaningful number onto a SIM-sized plate and pin it to our world map of personal communication.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · Mar 24

The UK Chancellor will set out the #SpringBudget this week.

Dr Daniele Girardi (@kcl-spe.bsky.social) explains how the Spring Statement works and what is expected to be announced…

#KingsQs 🧵⬇

a piggy bank with coins falling into it

ALT: a piggy bank with coins falling into it

media.tenor.com

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · Mar 24

The Oxford Street consultation is still open, and I’m urging all Londoners to have their say on the proposed plans for one of the city’s most iconic locations.

You have until 2 May 2025 to share your views:

Oxford Street Transformation

This public consultation – which will run from 28 February 2025 to 02 May 2025 - is about gathering your views on the proposed establishment of a new Mayoral Development Corporation to unlock the true...

haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk

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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · Mar 24

The Eye Bach Choir welcomes you along to this May 18th afternoon performance in Suffolk with works by 20th & 21st century composers 🎶💛Conductor Benedict Collins Rice. Early 🐤 ticket discount available. Buffet refreshments included 🍰🍓

eyebachchoir.co.uk/forthcoming-...

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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · Mar 11

Imaging Peace now open on the Strand - new outdoor exhibition featuring global community peace photography projects by Dr Tiffany Fairey @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social produced by King's Culture 📸🌏 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/imaging...

(c) Ro Yassin Abdumonab/ Rohingyatographer

Imaging Peace to open on the Strand

‘Imaging Peace’ a new outdoor exhibition featuring global community peace photography projects and research by Dr Tiffany Fairey, to open on the Strand.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · Mar 11

Waymarkers to open in The Curiosity Cabinet @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social a living exhibition and intimate archive from artist & anthropologist Liz Hingley/ the SIM Project, sharing stories of mobility and belonging 📸🌏📱 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/waymark... @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social

Waymarkers to open in The Curiosity Cabinet

Waymarkers, a new exhibition from artist and anthropologist Liz Hingley, to open in The Curiosity Cabinet on London’s Strand this Spring.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · Mar 8

This time last year we were GLOWing on the Strand 💚 for International Women’s Day @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social #digitalart #iwd #artists #outdoorart #immersive

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King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership @giwlkings.bsky.social · Mar 5

NEW: Men and women belonging to Gen Z are more divided than those of any other generation on key questions about feminism, gender roles and women’s rights

Read our new 30-country study with @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social for #IWD2025: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gen-z-m...

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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · Mar 7

“It can feel like we are on the verge of the World War Three. And broken Britain is quite depressing, isn’t it? Before, I’d have been really worried. Now I’m just happy to go down with the ship. My job from now on is just to try and keep up the good vibe” ❤️❤️ tinyurl.com/55ac3k6z

Anna Chancellor: ‘There’s nowhere I’ve not cried’

Two years ago, the actress’s daughter, Poppy, died of leukaemia aged 36. Here, she talks about grief, and why in a strange way loss has been the making of her

www.thetimes.com

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Feb 25

Publishing today!
'The Strand: A biography' is the first history of one of London's most extraordinary streets, revealing how it grew in importance over millennia until everything that mattered converged on the Strand.
Available now in this stunning hardback edition. #London

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · Feb 25

Two young ladies walking along a pavement holding the skirts up to avoid the rain The Strand near Charing Cross Station London, 1900 s
Credit & Photo by Museum of London /Heritage Images/science Photo Library

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theoldbuilding @theoldbuilding.bsky.social · Feb 26

St Mary le Strand is a striking Baroque church in London, designed by James Gibbs and completed in 1724. It stands elegantly on a traffic island along the Strand, originally intended as one of Queen Anne’s “Fifty New Churches”. #historicarchitecture

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Feb 25

🇺🇦 On 27 February, the exhibition ‘Ukraine: Architectures of Despair and Hope’ opens at Europe House in London.

Curated by Dr Gabriele Salciute Civiliene @kingsdh.bsky.social, it sheds light on the fragility of architecture and the resilience of Ukrainians. Read more ⬇️

#Ukraine

'Despair and hope': new exhibition shows Ukraine's architecture safeguarded through technology

‘Ukraine: Architectures of Despair and Hope’ gives a glimpse of destroyed cultural and residential architecture of Ukraine since 24 February 2022.

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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · Feb 25

Hearing about Edible Incredible 🌱 brilliant scheme and community of growers & food mapping across #Lambeth borough and the UK 🌱 part of Vital Communities london.sciencegallery.com/vital-signs

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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · Feb 20

A ring and its world: Anglo-Saxon Exeter and Devon, 29 March 2025, 10.30-4.15pm, RAMM and Cathedral, £25/30

A day of exploration of everything Anglo-Saxon, including a chance to see rare charters, objects and coins from the period, as well as this stunning ring!

rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/a-r...

A gold ring with intricate intertwined designs which look like creatures or people, on a reflective black surface and black background

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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · Feb 21

COLLECT 2025 - the leading international art fair for contemporary craft and design
27 Feb - 02 Mar 2025 www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/col...

Collect 2025

Presented by the Crafts Council, Collect is the leading international art fair for contemporary craft and design. The fair showcases the best work created by living artists in the world today.

www.somersethouse.org.uk