Free arts and culture events
Exhibitions, performances, screenings and talks on art, music, film, theatre and design, opened to the public by universities.
480 upcoming events, 43 of them you can join online
Coming up
Events 1–20 of 465, soonest first
Tuesday 27 October
- 10:00 AM in MinneapolisIn person
Sequins: Flash and Substance | GMD Exhibition
College of Design · McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108
Exhibition on view at the Goldstein Gallery in McNeal Hall.
- 5:00 PM in the UKIn person
Dressed for Dissent: Decolonial Fashion and the Queer Struggle for Palestine
University of Oxford · St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building
Speaker: Dr Roberto Filippello All welcome, no booking necessary. The event will be chaired by Professor Pascal Menoret
- 6:00 PM-8:00 PM in Zurich
LECTURE SERIES DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE: NEW ARCHITECTURAL GENERATION SWITZERLAND
ETH Zurich
TYPE / FIGURE: HAUS SCHOLL, 125 (Responder CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN) IEA Ring lecture
- 6:00 PM-10:30 PM in ZurichIn person
Michael Taussig: "Postcards for Mia - The Role of Images in Ethnographic Notebooks and in Our Ways of Thinking" at Cabaret Voltaire
ETH Zurich · Spiegelgasse 1, Cabaret Voltaire
For more than half a century Michael Taussig has drawn and painted in his ethnographic fieldwork notebooks. Cabaret Voltaire shows the postcards addressed to Mia together with drawings and…
- 5:30 PM-8:00 PM in the UKIn person
Art Night School
Birmingham City University · Birmingham School of Art: Margaret Street
Night School opens the doors of the Birmingham School of Art, Margaret Street to the public on the last Tuesday of the month. The final Night School of this academic year is on Tuesday 24th March.
- 6:00 PM-8:00 PM in the UKIn person
Mission Money - A LEGO Space Adventure! (Derry/Londonderry Campus)
Ulster University · Ulster University, Derry-Londonderry Campus, Northern Ireland
Blast off into a LEGO® adventure where families explore money, budgeting, saving and decision-making through LEGO® Serious Play®. Children and adults aged 6–99 will…
- 6:30 PM-7:30 PM in the UKIn person
Storytelling: The State of Water with Kirsten Milliken and Peter Chand
University of Aberdeen · The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Fl. 7, Craig Suite
Part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival Go Local Programme and the Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival
- 2:00 PM-3:30 PM in CalgaryIn person
Film Viewing: Canada's Dark Secret
University of Calgary · G43A
Canada's Dark Secret (2017): In 1996, the last residential school in Canada wasclosed down, bringing to light horrifying stories about the methods used to sever indigenous children from the influence…
- 1:30 PM-3:30 PM in CaliforniaIn person
Power, Art, + Practice with Prof. Matthew Morrison, Usha Iyer
Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA) · Harmony House, 561 Lomita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305
The Institute for Diversity in the Arts invites you to an open class session of Intro to IDA: Power, Art, + Practice featuring Associate Professor in the Department of African and African American…
- 6:00 PM-7:30 PM in RaleighIn person
Physical Comedy
Division of Academic and Student Affairs · Frank Thompson Hall - University Theatre, 150, 2241 Dunn Ave., Raleigh, NC 27695
Physical comedy often involves gaffs, sight gags, takes and general tomfoolery. University Theatre will host a workshop on the safe approach to creating comedy through physicality.
- 7:00 PM-11:00 PM in New YorkIn person
Dance Workshop with Michael Heatley, Artistic Director of Hit the Ground Running Dance Theatre Company
Cornell University · Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Dance Studio Theatre (SB10), 430 College Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for an inspiring dance theatre workshop led by acclaimed artistic director Michael John Heatley of Hit the Ground Running Dance Theatre Company.
- 7:00 PM-8:30 PM in Chapel HillIn person
Price Cone Liptzin Lecture with Guy Mossman
Hussman School of Journalism and Media · Carroll Hall, Knight Learning Lab (Carroll Hall 111), 211 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC
Hosted by the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, the fall 2026 Price Cone Liptzin Lecture will feature alumnus Guy Mossman ’04 (M.A.), an American cinematographer whose work bridges intimate…
- 7:30 PM-9:00 PM in Rochester, New YorkIn person and online
Eastman Jazz Voice Ensemble
University of Rochester · Hatch Recital Hall, 26 Gibbs St, Rochester, NY 14604
Watch the livestream
- 7:30 PM in New YorkIn person
Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories performed by Jack Yarbrough (CU Music)
Cornell University · Barnes Hall, 129 Ho Plaza Cornell University: Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
In celebration of Morton Feldman's (1926-1987) centennial, pianist Jack Yarbrough performs his landmark work Triadic Memories (1981). Described by Feldman as "the biggest butterfly in captivity" and…
- 6:00 PM-7:00 PM in CalgaryIn person and online
Celebrating Queer Intersectionality Film Series: Disability & Drag Performance - In-Person
University of Calgary · MacEwan University, SAMU Building, 2nd Floor, Edmonton, AB, The Lookout
Scroll down to complete the form below and "Register" to join us In-personat MacEwan University, SAMU Building (Edmonton) The UCalgary Faculty of Social Work Queer and Trans Action Group (QTAG)…
- 5:30 PM in CaliforniaIn person
The Unbroken Sky: Film Screening and Fireside Chat with Francisco Jiménez
Center for Latin American Studies · El Centro Chicano, 514 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
RSVP for the event
- 6:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person
The Offline Dream Program: Three Takes on Film, the Internet, and Instanternity
CREEES Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies · Encina Commons, Room 123, 615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
As part of their Repetition and Contingency series, held across U.S. universities, Bara Kolenc, Gregor Moder, and Jure Simoniti (Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana) explore…
- 7:00 PM in Los AngelesIn person
ON DURATION: A Talkback with Raegan Truax and Alexis Bard Johnson
Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative · ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007
ADMISSION: Admission is free and open to everyone. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Tuesday, September 1, at 10 a.m.
Wednesday 28 October
- 10:00 AM-3:00 PM in the UK
Picture Gallery Public Opening
Royal Holloway, University of London
The Picture Gallery in our stunning Grade I listed Founder's Building houses the Thomas Holloway collection of Victorian paintings including works by William Powell Frith and John Everett Millais.
- 10:00 AM-3:30 PM in the UKIn person
Poetry in the Making: Education in a Cost-of-Living Crisis
University of Manchester · Manchester Cantral Library, St Peter's Square, Manchester M2 5PD
What does education feel like during a cost-of-living crisis? Drop in to this creative, participatory event and explore that question through conversation, poetry and illustration.…
On now: exhibitions and series
Running over several weeks.
- Aberdeen Artworlds: The Linklater Collection · University of Aberdeenuntil Sunday 6 December
- Helios by Luke Jerram · University of Birminghamuntil Friday 13 November
- The Music Is Black Festival - UCL talks and screenings · University College Londonuntil Thursday 3 December
- From Concept to Icon: A celebration of UCL’s Wilkins Building by the Survey of London · University College Londonuntil Wednesday 28 July 2027
- From Around Here: Creative Responses to Birmingham’s Southside · Birmingham City Universityuntil Saturday 29 May 2027
- Schinkel in Manchester 1826-2026 · University of Manchesteruntil Saturday 2 January 2027
- Community Cinema - Autumn 2026 programme · University College Londonuntil Wednesday 9 December
- Exhibition: The Team Behind the Team · Loughborough Universityuntil Friday 30 October
- [Exhibition] A History of Black Theatre in Manchester 1827-2025: Celebrating presence · University of Manchesteruntil Friday 30 October
- The Great Thaw · University of Birminghamuntil Friday 8 January 2027
- New Exhibition: The North Revisited · University of Manchesteruntil Sunday 24 January 2027
- Remembering the Disappeared · ESRC Festival of Social Scienceuntil Friday 18 December
- Creative Cwtch: Money, Memory and the Cost of Getting Older · ESRC Festival of Social Scienceuntil Saturday 7 November
- Tactile: Technician Exhibition 2026 · Birmingham City Universityuntil Thursday 5 November
- Off the Press/Off the Wall: Livres d’Artistes and Other Works from the Collection of Rice University · Rice Universityuntil Saturday 31 October
Recently held
The kind of arts and culture events universities open to the public. These have finished.
- Tue 27 OctPast eventCreatively being a Social Scientist · ESRC Festival of Social Science
- Mon 26 OctPast event“Cities of Islamic Art: From Historical Visual Systems to the Formation of Contemporary Islamic Art in North America.” · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mon 26 OctPast eventA Pictorial Dragon: The Art of Fernando Birri Exhibit · Brown University
- Mon 26 OctPast eventA Special Screening of How We Grieve, A Traumedy Docuseries · The University of Texas at Austin
- Mon 26 OctPast eventAdrian Della Rossa: A Dream · University of Southern California
Where these events come from
- Stanford University (34)
- ESRC Festival of Social Science (33)
- University of Southern California (29)
- University of Chicago (26)
- University of Manchester (22)
- Brown University (21)
- Rice University (21)
- University of Calgary (19)
And 62 more universities: see them all in the catalogue.