Booking now open: King’s Arts & Humanities Festival (15 – 24 October 2014)

This year’s Art & Humanities Festival at King’s College London, 15 – 24 October 2014, explores ‘underground’ literally and metaphorically through immersive events, theatre, music, exclusive underground tours, film screenings, specially commissioned site specific performances and a range of debates about art, history, politics, freedom, protest, death and creativity.

Festival Director, Professor Max Saunders, Director of the Arts & Humanities Research Institute commented: “The ‘underground’ is irresistibly fascinating to the human mind and it is a potent cultural and political metaphor. We chose this theme for the Festival not only to demonstrate the cross-section of Arts and Humanities at King’s but also to bring together a diverse number of writers, academics, performers and artists to explore the creative, destructive and enduring impact of the underground.”

The Festival promises to be exciting, thought-provoking and above all, entertaining, with something for everyone. There are over fifty events being run during the Festival and the vast majority of them are free of charge although advance booking is recommended.

Highlights of the Festival include:

– Robert Newman brings his latest show A New Theory of Evolution to the Festival, a tour de force that whirls the audience from altruistic vampire bats and laidback rats to WH Auden’s last poem, the polar jet stream and Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with his postman.

– Join electro-acoustic group Trio Aporia in the disused Aldwych Underground Station. Baroque flute, harpsichord and viola da gamba will permeate this unique acoustic space.

– You can rebuild society and try to avoid the mistakes of the past with Interactive theatre-makers Coney in Early Days (of a better nation). The war is over and the nation lies in ruins. You and fellow survivors must find safety and start to rebuild. You decide the rules you are going to live by.

Click here to learn more about this year’s festival.