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Lunchtime Lectures: Lost Music Venues
This event is part of the free lunchtime lecture series. No booking is required.
Join Curator Harriet Reed for a preview of the V&A’s upcoming display ‘Lost Music Venues’. Opening 30 May 2026, the display will celebrate grassroots and independent music venues as centres of creativity, for musicians, promoters, graphic designers and photographers. Featuring around 50 ‘lost’ spaces across the UK from the 1980s–2010s, the display will shine a light on both their cultural contribution and the challenges they face.
Harriet Reed is Curator of Contemporary Performance and Project Curator, David Bowie Archive.
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Header image: White Heat indie night at Madame Jojo’s, 13 April 2005 photographed by Gregory Nolan. Museum no. S.1378-2025 © Gregory Nolan