Improvised music from a quartet of Coby Sey, Miriam Adefris, Elliot Galvin, and Tom Skinner, and a reading by dove, Christine Kirubi

Salon for the City is London's longest running cultural event. Every month we take a look at the City through a different lens with two amazing speakers in the historic location of London's only surviving 18th century Horse Hospital.

An evening of short films followed by a projection of living archival materials with live musical accompaniment, all centred around the genocide in Gaza.

A celebration of the culture of Skoob Books, where we make new friends and thank our old friends for coming all these years. Books for sale, drinks, shop history, a show and tell of our ephemera collection. Plus a quiz with rich prizes!

(A)MOL presents: Conna Haraway, Burning Pyre & Mirror Organs: A late Sunday afternoon offering of downtempo, trip-hop and dub-infused electronics.

Concrete Atlantis present a spectral Sussex harvest of words spoken by Justin Hopper, unseen pictures from Rachel Poulton and live music from Gilroy Mere

Salon for the City is London's longest running cultural event. Every month we take a look at the City through a different lens with two amazing speakers in the historic location of London's only surviving 18th century Horse Hospital.

Re-Enchantment is an interdisciplinary network exploring art, literature, and criticism. With readings from Annakeara Stinson, Becka White, Iqbal Hussain, MPS Simpson, and Thảo Tô.

Harry Hill, one of Britain’s best loved comedians, contributes a 20 minute club set and a musical collaboration for the ages. With performances from metaphysical power-trio Beau Flies, a solo double bass set from Olie Brice, Paul Morley reading from his acclaimed book about Yoko Ono, and a set of poetry by Dorothy Spencer.

Researchers and musicians Michael Speers and Regan Bowering talking about drums

UCL Special Collections and Monitor Books present Slowly, slowly, the tongue unrolls: an evening of poetry and sound bringing together some of the most interesting experimental poets and artists at work today.

Day 7 of Disappearing Images, and the final event of the festival. Featuring live performance from Capital City with Wounder, and Angusraze.

Day 6 of Disappearing Images. Plastique Fantastique present SYNCRET-TEK ANGEL, featuring Gentle Stranger, dove / Christine Kirubi and National Rails.

Day 6 of Disappearing Images. Jeremy Gilbert and Stephen Coates discuss what it means to excavate, recover, archive and understand the lost and disappearing histories of minor cultures, countercultures and bohemian radicalism.

Salon for the City is London's longest running cultural event. Every month we take a look at the City through a different lens with two amazing speakers in the historic location of London's only surviving 18th century Horse Hospital.

Dark-edged spoken word from Cheshire cats, lively talk about space age buildings in the footballer belt and live music for dancing to astronomical architecture.

Mark Pilkington, author of the UFO meta-conspiracy classic Mirage Men, presents a curated selection of his favourite filmic artefacts from the flying saucer era and beyond. Against the backdrop of the longest sustained wave of UFO coverage in the United States since the 1940s—culminating in a series of inconclusive congressional hearings—this lecture examines how moving images shape belief, doubt, and wonder.

Two films. Two sound systems. One evening exploring what happens when technology becomes ritual, and machines become the medium of devotion. This event centres the apparatus: the speaker stack, the camera, the signal chain — instruments of extreme and intimate expression.

Salon for the City is London's longest running cultural event. Every month we take a look at the City through a different lens with two amazing speakers in the historic location of London's only surviving 18th century Horse Hospital.

Often dismissed as gratuitous or artistically empty, gore remains one of horror cinema’s most contested pleasures. This lecture reframes gore as an aesthetic practice rooted in tactility, craft, and collaboration. Tracing the devaluation of gore films and their fandoms, it situates graphic violence within broader artistic traditions and examines practical effects as a form of resistance to digital smoothness.

Salon for the City is London's longest running cultural event. Every month we take a look at the City through a different lens with two amazing speakers in the historic location of London's only surviving 18th century Horse Hospital.

Mindwarcinema present a screening of the cult classic The Arrival (1980), directed by Ruth Norman of The Unarius Academy of Science. The screening will be accompanied by an in conversation between Tanner F Boyle, author of Getting Spooked and The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction) and Mark Pilkington (author of Mirage Men and publisher of Stranger Attractor Press).

His House (2020) is a ghost story about displacement, precarity, and the inescapable afterlives of empire. This lecture situates the film within a global “horror cinema of precarity” that uses the genre to address marginalised experiences. Drawing on postcolonial Gothic and hauntological theory, it explores how Britain’s imperial and capitalist legacies haunt the film atmospherically rather than corporeally.

Salon for the City is London's longest running cultural event. Every month we take a look at the City through a different lens with two amazing speakers in the historic location of London's only surviving 18th century Horse Hospital.

From Greed (1924) to post-apocalyptic cinema, the desert has served as one of horror’s most unforgiving landscapes. This lecture, presented by Ken Hollings for Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, traces how the American desert became a site of monsters, mutations, and moral collapse, shaped by atomic testing, exploitation cinema, and low-budget genre filmmaking.

Join us for an evening of readings and talks to celebrate the launch of Sightlines, a new series of books by Mack looking at architecture from distinct points of view, each taking the perspective of a particular entity, history, discipline, or form of writing.

This lecture, presented by Nedim Hassan for Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies examines how metal fans and musicians were cast as “folk devils” within the 1980s culture wars, and how a cycle of horror films—including Trick or Treat and Black Roses—absorbed and refracted these anxieties.

Salon for the City is London's longest running cultural event. Every month we take a look at the City through a different lens with two amazing speakers in the historic location of London's only surviving 18th century Horse Hospital.