Upcoming Events
5x15: Art Experts on the Art That Changed Them
Five leading cultural figures each deliver a fifteen-minute talk on an artwork that holds particular significance for them.
Royal Geographical Society, SW7
Royal Geographical Society, SW7
Featuring Talks By:
Geoff Dyer
on a photograph that has had a lasting impact on his way of looking at the world.
Ekow Eshun
on an artwork that has shaped his thinking about identity, beauty and power.
Andrew Graham-Dixon
on his favourite painting by Vermeer, re-seen through his radically new interpretation of the artist’s greatest works.
Katy Hessel
on an artwork by a woman artist that transformed how she sees the story of art.
Sir Grayson Perry
on an artwork that has influenced his creative life and ideas about art.
5x15: Art Experts on the Art That Changed Them
Five leading cultural figures each deliver a fifteen-minute talk on an artwork that holds particular significance for them.
Royal Geographical Society, SW7
5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - May 2026
Join us at The Tabernacle in May for an evening of cutting-edge thinking, intriguing stories and inspiration.
The Tabernacle, W11
The Tabernacle, W11
Featuring Talks By:
Nick Crane
on the secret history of Britain's footpaths
Hannah Critchlow
on the future of the brain in the age of AI.
Jill Dawson
on the remarkable life of an occult artist.
Blake Morrison
on the challenges, ethics and charms of memoir.
Philippa Perry
on therapy and her cosy crime caper.
Tim Spector
on fermentation and the life-changing power of microbes.
5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - May 2026
Join us at The Tabernacle in May for an evening of cutting-edge thinking, intriguing stories and inspiration.
The Tabernacle, W11
Union Chapel, N1
Featuring Talks By:
William Dalrymple
on the story of zero: how Indian numbers conquered the world.
Alice Loxton
on England’s greatest love story and the building of the Eleanor Crosses.
Peter Frankopan
on The United States at 250: the little-known background to the Declaration of Independence.
Gary Younge
on the story of Georges Dukson, a Black resistance fighter erased from the Liberation of Paris.
Kate Williams
on who really killed Anne Boleyn.
5x15: History's Untold Stories
For this special 5x15, five leading historians will each tell a surprising story from the past, from the medieval world to the modern age.
Union Chapel, N1