Architecture Groups London

FREE Walking Tour of Marylebone

[Please follow 👉this link👈 to reserve your place with the tour guide before you RSVP](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-square-route-around-marylebone-tickets-1992480225992?) *Let me know if it sells out and you can have my spare ticket* Walk with us through some of London’s historic urban squares to discover stories of these elegant spaces and the people who lived in them. The importance of providing open spaces in the capital, especially in residential areas, was recognised as early as the 1600s, with the laying out of the first planned estates and the emergence of the distinctive London garden square. Today these urban squares are some of the most admired features of London’s streetscape and have long attracted many famous residents from the arts, literature, music, politics and other fields. Followed by social at a venue near Manchester Square. *See comments below for updates*

London Built Environment August 2026 Mayfair Networking Breakfast

IMPORTANT: PLEASE BOOK YOUR TICKET USING THE EVENTBRITE LINK London Built Environment is the Capital's only business network dedicated to professionals working within London’s property based and related industries. Our networking events are extremely relaxed and casual affairs and attended by a wide range of business sectors with everyone from developers & solicitors to architects, investors to estate agents... Each ticket includes teas, coffees and juices and a full breakfast food buffet (including vegetarian options) and your own printed attendee sheet to take away. Join us for our August 2026 Business Networking Breakfast at the Fabulous Bonds of Mayfair - in their private lounge for a delicious breakfast, drinks and the opportunity to talk property, make new friends and seek out fresh business leads. • No Speeches • No Talks or Schedule • No Membership Fees • No Sales Presentations Just pure relaxed networking in a friendly environment. Running for over a Decade our events are a proven, cost effective and fun way to generate new business.

AWS London Well-Architected User Group July Meetup... Summer Special!

Hi Architects, **[Pls Note different venue and timings this month.]** Welcome to our the July AWS London Well-Architected User Group Meetup!!! 🥳🥳🥳 As this is our last before the summer and as we had to cancel June's due to the excessive heat, we have arranged a something special for July. July's meetup will be held at: Amazon/AWS (LHR14), 60 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2FD We have three amazing speakers with spectacular presentations: * Alam Ahmed \- Cloud / DevOps Engineer @ BOXXE \| Terraforming The Well\-Architected Way * Sudipto Ghosh \- Fullstack Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase \| sudiviz: X\-ray vision for your cloud infrastructure * Storm Manterola \- Solution Architect @ Amazon Web Services \| Agentic Operations Center: context\-aware infrastructure So come join us at 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start, including drinks, snacks and friendly networking after our talks :-) **Please remember to bring a government ID such as driving license or passport for registration.** The AWS London Well-Architected Meetup is the latest chapter in the most popular AWS Meetup group globally. At each meetup we cover off various pillars of AWS best-practice in detail including insights from industry leaders that specialise in the Well-Architected Framework.

EGYPT, EUSTON & THE COPTIC EXPRESS

(pictured: Greater London House\*) On this walk we’re going to: · explore the rare\*\* Egyptian Revival, which used Obelisks, the Scarab, Lotus, and Sphinx, the ‘pylon’ wall and cavetto cornice, richly coloured and decorated, · review the progress of the HS2 tunnels and terminus at Euston, and study the much-criticised 1960’s National Rail station, · see actual Egyptian columns, with palm-leaf capitals, inscribed with hieroglyphs, AND the trilingual ‘document’ which first made it possible, in 1802, to translate Egyptian, · go to the 2nd-ever Pizza Express in Coptic Street: over white wine and snacks, I will point out the interior features of the Dairy Supply Company (forerunner of Express Dairies) whose former purpose-built premises—still largely unaltered--the restaurant now occupies, PLUS outline the history and buildings of the Egyptian Coptic Christian Church\*\* in England. We’ll meet\*\*\* at Mornington Crescent Station, designed in his ‘oxblood terracotta’ style by Leslie Green, for the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway in 1907, and see the refurbished and renamed Carreras’ 1928 cigarette factory\*, largest example of the Egyptian Revival in the UK. (A year from now, 16m below this point, the 7 km long HS2 tunnels from Old Oak Common, started in January, and funded by the taxpayer, are expected to emerge) To Britons, the Pharoahs’ Egypt was unknown, out of reach, and beyond understanding. It was Napoleon’s invasion, and his defeat by Nelson, in 1798, that sparked off a wave of sensational interest in its motifs, and their application to all areas of design, especially in France and Britain. ‘Egyptomania’ was infectious, and Egyptian Revival architecture was seen as fresh, different and modern. Architects and designers, previously strait-jacketed within the Greek- and Roman-Revival styles, delighted in the sudden availability of new shapes and forms, plentiful colour and surface decoration. The massive pylon architrave and giant cavetto cornice lent themselves to powerful compositions for Synagogues, mausoleums and prisons, in Europe, America and Australia. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the first performance, in Cairo, in 1871, of Verdi’s Aida, set in the palaces, temples, halls and dungeons of Ancient Egypt, and the erection, in 1878, on the Victoria Embankment, of the 1500 BC red granite obelisk called Cleopatra’s Needle, found in a sandbank near Alexandria, kept interest alive. Discoveries of tombs and mummies continued throughout the 1800’s until Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankamen’s tomb in 1922 led to a another wave of buildings which blended Egyptian motifs with Art Deco. Most recently, the storehouse of Egyptian motifs was plundered by Post-Modernist architects, notably ‘Naked Gardener’ Ian Pollard in 1988, at the Warwick Road Homebase, described by Oliver Wainwright as ‘a camp Egyptian fantasy with friezes of Gods wielding power-tools’. The Egyptian features were over-painted white by its owners soon after opening, and it was closed and demolished in 2014. In an ironic echo, among the HS2 preparatory work, over the past 10 years, was clearance of the St James’ Gardens graveyard, containing about 60,000 souls, and respectful removal of their remains. In fact, HS2 have cleared an 11-platform wide swathe of city, including mature trees and 2 big office blocks, erased Cardington Street, truncated Drummond and Coburg Streets, and restricted Hampstead Road. But while they were busy with that preparatory work, the scale of the project halved, from 530 km length to 230 km, from 11 destinations to 1, from 18 trains per hour to 9, and from a target train speed of 250 mph to 200 mph. However, unintended and temporary, a charming maze of car-free passageways has been created on the west side of the station: we will use one to access the station. But key piece of the HS2 connectivity diagram, the new Euston station complex, including a combined Euston Square and Euston tube station, and a pedestrian subway under the Euston Road, will not be complete until ‘2033…or 2043’. Public funding has been ruled out, and a recently-promised planning application for an over-site development will not be lodged for until a year from now. Ambitions for the station have been dramatically reduced, from aiming for a world-class, 300m longtitudinal concourse above 11 platforms, covered by a dramatic ‘tee-pee’ roof by RIBA Gold Medal and Stirling Prize winners Grimshaw Architects, to 10, and now to only 6, fitted into the west side of the National Rail station. Abandoned designs cost £250m. It was just before the election of 2010 that the Brown government announced their intention to build a high-speed railway between London, the Midlands, the North of England, and Scotland, having made sure the Conservatives would support it. It was claimed it would have the capacity equivalent of 2 full-size motorways, at half the cost. Now, official policy, stated by Heidi Alexander, Minister of Transport, is that HS2 *will* be completed, but at the lowest possible cost, even if this extends the programme. For example, it was recently suggested that Avanti West Coast’s current 150mph Pendolino trains will use the now-surplus capacity on the HS2 tracks and in its stations. Therefore, with new interest, we will review the existing station, designed by British Rail, in a more confident age, which soldiers on, with minimal ‘wow factor’ and amid relentless criticism, valiantly coping with the highest UK mainline station footfall (that is, excluding tube and overground traffic). It uses a rational, modernist design, and durable materials: polished black granite, white mosaic and dark grey engineering brick, and a low, utilitarian trainshed, appropriate for a fully-electrified railway, which doesn’t need headspace for diesel exhaust, and so allowed a parcels depot to cover the entire north half above the platforms, to get parcels to trains without circulation conflicts. Crossing Euston Road, we are expected for a very fast group visit to The Petrie Flinders Institute of Archeology at UCL. We will follow their ’10 objects route’ giving human interest context: Pharaohs’ spells, mummy portraits (of the deceased’s face), pottery, a bead-net dress and a faience ‘ankh’, the symbol for life. Then, using the less-busy Montagu Place entrance, we will go through the Sculpture Gallery of the British Museum\*\*\* to see 4 actual, real, Ancient Egyptian columns, decorated and incised, dating from the 1st millennium BC, AND the actual, real, 200 BC Rosetta Stone, found by Napoleon’s army, and since 1802 the most-visited thing, in the 2nd most-visited place in the UK! We exit by the South Portico, and the walk will end at the ‘Pizza Express’ in Coptic Street, 400m from Tottenham Court Road Station. This is a shorter walk, only 2.5 km, out of deference to the heat, but full of interest! Hope you can come! Andy \*converted to offices, refurbished and renamed ‘Greater London House’. \*\* Egyptian Revival and Coptic Church examples in London are few and far between, but we’ll see as much as possible and I will show numerous pictures and diagrams during the introduction and later discussion. \*\*\*the route will be shaded if it is sunny, and there will be access to cooled interiors. Bring sun-block or a parasol and as little else as possible. Your bag may be searched as we enter the British Museum. PS feel free to call me on 07722 547310 if you are planning to attend but get delayed.

July 27 - London AI, ML, and Computer Vision Meetup

Join our in-person meetup to hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics across AI, ML, and computer vision. **[Register to reserve your seat!](https://voxel51.com/events/london-ai-ml-and-computer-vision-meetup-july-27-2026)** **Date, Time and Location** Jul 27, 2026 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM BST Imperial College London, Skempton Building (LT201), South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ **UniLight: Unified Multi-Modal Lighting Representation** Lighting has a strong influence on visual appearance, yet understanding and representing lighting in images remains notoriously difficult. UniLight introduces a joint latent space to unify previously incompatible lighting representation - environment maps, images, irradiance and text descriptions. Modality-specific encoders are trained contrastively to align their representations, with an auxiliary spherical-harmonics prediction task reinforcing directional understanding. Our joint lighting embedding enables applications such as retrieval, example-based light control during image generation, and environment map generation from various modalities. *About the Speaker* [Zitian Zhang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ztzhang76) \- is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Université Laval\, and a research scientist intern in Adobe Research London\. He focuses on image understanding\, generation\, and lighting representations through foundation models\. **LoST: Level of Semantics Tokenization for 3D Shapes** Tokenization is fundamental to generative modeling and especially important for autoregressive 3D generation. However, current 3D shape tokenizers rely on geometric level-of-detail hierarchies that are token-inefficient and poorly aligned with semantic structure. We propose Level-of-Semantics Tokenization (LoST), which orders tokens by semantic salience so early tokens produce complete, plausible shapes and later tokens refine detailed geometry and semantics. LoST is trained with Relational Inter-Distance Alignment (RIDA), a semantic alignment loss that matches relationships in 3D shape latent space to those in DINO feature space. Experiments show that LoST achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction and efficient high-quality AR 3D generation while using only 0.1%–10% of the tokens required by prior methods. *About the Speaker* [Niladri Dutt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/niladridutt) \- is an ELLIS PhD student at University College London \(UCL\)\, sponsored by Adobe Research\. He is advised by Prof Niloy Mitra \(UCL\) and Duygu Ceylan \(Adobe\)\. **Material selection in 2D and beyond - methods, tricks and applications** In this talk, we'll explore reasoning about images from a material-centric perspective, namely through the lens of material understanding. Materials distinguish themselves by their response to light, which is governed and modelled through physical properties like roughness or gloss - however, understanding such properties is a non-trivial task for current algorithms and models. We'll see how we can select materials similar to a given query material, significantly improve selection fidelity and eventually even venture beyond 2D, to enable selection in the 3D domain. *About the Speaker* [Michael Fischer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-fischer-32b43b1a4/) \- is a research scientist at Adobe research London\. He obtained his PhD from University College London \(UCL\)\, advised by Niloy Mitra and Tobias Ritschel\. Michael has authored several top\-tier publications \(CVPR\, ICCV\, SIGGRAPH\, \.\.\.\) and is a recipient of both the Meta PhD scholarship and the Rabin Ezra scholarship as well as the Eurographics PhD Thesis award 2026\. **Lessons from the Trenches of Agentic Engineering** A candid lessons-learned from running an agentic engineering consultancy with clients ranging from federal governments to early-stage AI startups. I'll cover what's held up under real production pressure, what I tried and abandoned, and the approaches that are quietly dead but still being sold. Expect specifics, opinions, and a few uncomfortable conclusions. *About the Speaker* [John Adeojo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-adeojo/) \- runs Brainqub3 an agentic engineering consultancy serving clients from federal governments to early\-stage AI startups\, and recently served briefly as CTO of a pre\-seed AI startup\. He previously led the data science function at RBS International and held senior IC roles at HSBC\, NatWest Group\, and Shawbrook Bank\. **Building Real-World Computer Vision Systems** This talk will explore practical workflows for building, evaluating, and improving modern computer vision systems. We’ll dive into real-world approaches to dataset curation, model analysis, multimodal AI workflows, and production-ready vision pipelines using open-source technologies. The session is designed for engineers, researchers, and AI practitioners looking to better understand how teams are developing and scaling computer vision applications today. Expect practical demos, technical insights, and discussions around the evolving AI tooling ecosystem. *About the Speaker* [Harpreet Sahota](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harpreetsahota204/) \- is a hacker\-in\-residence and machine learning engineer with a passion for deep learning and generative AI\. He’s got a deep interest in RAG\, Agents\, and Multimodal AI\.

Rye & Winchelsea by High Speed Rail

We will take the javelin railway from St Pancras to visit the historic towns of Rye & Winchelsea in East Sussex. Rye is a medieval town suspended in time with cobbled streets & ancient passageways leading to Tudor & Georgian architectural treasures. The town has several medieval churches & the Ypres Tower which affords fine views along the coast . Rye has many literary links; Henry James & EF Benson lived here & set some of their works in the town. Winchelsea is an “Antient town” one of the original Cinque Ports. Built in the 13th century on the orders of Edward 1, it is the best preserved medieval Bastide towns in Southern England. The stone gateways within the town walls allow access to the captivating town with many fine Georgian streets. Winchelsea has many links to artists; Turner & Millais were inspired by its charms Plan is to alight in Winchelsea to explore the town before having lunch at the pub by the town square. We will then do the 1066 walk passing Camber Castle to reach Rye. Walk is around 4 miles. We will then explore Rye with a late afternoon tea stop in one of the tea gardens. Regular trains back so people can leave at any time. Option for a coastal walk after to Camber Sands & beaches. Meet from 10.00am at Benugo cafe, balcony opposite Betjeman statue. South Eastern Javelin trains depart from platforms 11-13, 10.35am. £5 for meet up fees. A good knowledge of English history is required for this event. Frequent trains back to London so people can leave at anytime.

Data-Oriented Architecture, Shading Languages and Lessons from Teaching C++

We're back for a summer event with talks from Aliaksandr Zhorau, Aleksei Ozeritskii and Tobias Wood **As usual we'll need your full name for the door list, so we'll be asking for this on registration** (as this may be different to your username). This data will only be used for the door list/ registration and not published anywhere or used for other purposes. If you'd like to speak at a future event please get in touch at [cppldn.uk/speak](http://cppldn.uk/speak). **Here's the approximate schedule:** **18:30** *Doors open* **19:00** "Intro and news" - *Phil Nash* **19:10** "Entity Component Systems: A Data-Oriented Architecture for Modern CPUs" - *Aliaksandr Zhorau* Designing cache-friendly and parallel simulation systems. Overview of entity component system paradigm. **19:50** *break* **20:10** "Bringing SYCL to Apple Metal" - *Aleksei Ozeritskii* We present a Metal GPU backend for AdaptiveCpp that translates generic LLVM IR to Metal Shading Language via structured control flow lifting and address-space-aware code emission. **20:50** "What Teaching C++ Has Taught Me About C++" - *Tobias Wood* Imagine, if you will, a large computer room filled with twenty-year-old second-year undergraduates. Most have never used a terminal before. Some don't know what files and folders are. You have 12 weeks to teach them "Object-Oriented Programming" using C++. Where do you start? Where do you finish? What do you do in between? Which parts of a language almost half a century old do you include and which do you drop? And ultimately, what do you end up learning yourself in the process? **21:00** *Conclusion, and moving on somewhere else* \-\-\- **About the speakers** *Aleksei Ozeritskii* is a senior C++ engineer working on high-performance systems, GPU computing, and compiler technologies. His background includes distributed systems, numerical algorithms, and low-level performance optimizations. Aleksei enjoys solving complex technical problems and sharing ideas with the developer community. *Aliaksandr Zhorau is a* game development engineer with over 15 years of experience in game engine development for massive online games. Aliaksandr possesses deep expertise in ECS paradigm for video games. *Tobias Wood* is a physicist who has spent his career bouncing around the electromagnetic spectrum, learning C++ along the way. His first real C++ experience was working in the space industry designing telecommunications satellites, but then he went back to university to complete a PhD shooting lasers at stuff to work out whether it was cancer, which disappointingly involved only a little bit of C++. He then swapped to MRI where he has spent 15 years writing a lot of C++ to make interesting pictures of brains.

London Built Environment August Property Sector Networking At The Gherkin

IMPORTANT: PLEASE BOOK YOUR TICKET USING THE EVENTBRITE LINK London Built Environment is the Capital's only business network dedicated to professionals working within London’s property based and related industries. Our networking events are extremely relaxed and casual affairs and attended by a wide range of business sectors with everyone from developers & solicitors to architects, IFA's to estate agents... Each ticket includes two drinks (alcoholic or soft) a food buffet (including vegetarian options) and your own printed attendee sheet to take away. Join us for our August 2026 City Business Networking Reception at the World Famous Sterling Bar At The Gherkin In the Heart of The City of London in their private lounge for music, drinks, some of their fantastic food and the opportunity to talk property, make new friends and seek out fresh business leads. • No Speeches • No Membership Fees • No Sales Presentations The Gherkin is one of the most iconic architectural spots in London and the stylish Sterling Restaurant sits at its base. Food is all freshly prepared and there’s a great range of wine and drinks to accompany a meal or just to complement good conversation. The glass walled, main bar offers plenty of space and great views out onto the concourse and the impressive architecture and unique design make The Sterling a trendy spot in the centre of the City. We’ll be sampling some of their delicious menu at the event. A relaxing and productive way to end the working day and line-up meetings for the rest of the year – just don’t forget to bring your business cards... Running for over a Decade our events are a proven, cost effective and fun way to generate new business.

Composition in ballet photography with Julia.

Londroid at Google

Be part of the next Londroid event on Tuesday 28 July 2026, hosted at Google in King's Cross. Join us for a special meetup this month to celebrate 5 years of Jetpack Compose in collaboration with Google. Hosted at the Google office, with tech talks from Google speakers, an AMA (a chance to meet the Jetpack Compose team and ask questions), and networking and celebration. **Please note that government-issued photo ID is required for entry to the venue.** **Tickets:** We have 100 tickets available. Don't miss out. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn for updates. **Schedule:** 17:30 - Doors open & registration 18:00 - Nick Butcher - What's new in Compose? 18:30 - Louis Pullen-Freilich - Making Modifiers Meet the Mark 19:00 - AMA: Meet the Compose Team Engineers, hosted by Rebecca Franks, with Clara Bayarri, Nick Butcher, Jossi Wolf, Andrei Shikov, and Louis Pullen-Freilich 19:45 - Social & happy hour 20:30 - Guest departure **Talks** **What's new in Compose? - Nick Butcher** At Google I/O 2026, we officially declared a "Compose First" standard for Android development, transitioning the View system into maintenance mode. Jetpack Compose is the recommended framework for all new UI, delivering native performance, significant productivity gains, and the most efficient path to building adaptive apps. This session will talk about the latest changes in Compose. **Making Modifiers Meet the Mark - Louis Pullen-Freilich** This session explores the evolution of modifiers in Jetpack Compose, the inception of Modifier.Node, and a massive team effort to rewrite core modifiers. Learn how we successfully improved performance across the framework without breaking the critical public APIs relied upon by every app. **Our Hosts and Sponsors** **Google** Google brings together world-class engineering, design, and product thinking to build technology that works for everyone. As the team behind Android and Jetpack Compose, they continue to shape how developers build mobile experiences across the globe. **Novoda** Novoda is a digital product agency dedicated to building high-quality mobile software. Their team of engineers helps companies scale, modernise, and improve their development practices to deliver exceptional digital experiences. We look forward to seeing you there.

Beyond the Code: Designing Services That Stand The Test of Time

We have a very special meetup for our July edition! We are delighted to welcome Paul Grenyer, Software Engineer, Leader, Writer, Speaker and currently Senior Team Lead at Haven to discuss: **Beyond the Code: Designing Services That Stand the Test of Time** As software engineers, it’s easy to get lost in the excitement of implementing clever business logic: the algorithms, the workflows, the elegant domain models. But the success (or failure) of a service rarely hinges on its core logic alone. What really separates a fragile prototype from a resilient, scalable system is everything that happens around that logic: the invisible scaffolding that shapes how a service behaves, communicates, and recovers when things go wrong. In this session I’ll explore the often-overlooked aspects of building robust services. The decisions that make the difference between smooth operations and painful refactors months down the line. I’ll unpack how thoughtful design choices early on can pay dividends in maintainability, observability, and security later. Whether you’re building your first microservice or managing an ecosystem of services, you’ll leave with practical ideas for designing services. Key Takeaways: * Why the non-domain aspects of a service are often what determine its long-term success * How to think holistically about design, structure, and reliability * Strategies for evolving your services without introducing chaos **About Paul:** Husband, father, software engineer, metaller, I have been writing software for over 40 years and professionally for more than 25. In that time I have worked for, and in, all sorts of companies from two man startups to world famous investment banks and insurance companies. I have built and run three limited companies, none of which made me a millionaire and two of which threatened my sanity on more than one occasion. I was a founding member of both SyncNorwich and Norfolk Developers, two of the most successful tech and startup community groups in the East of England. I created and chaired the hugely successful Norfolk Developers Conference (nor(DEV):con) for seven years bringing in speakers and delegates in the sphere of software engineering from around the globe. I am currently a Software Engineering Team Lead at Bourne Leisure, the owners of Haven holiday parks. I loathe the word Entrepreneur, not least because I struggle to spell it and it reminds me of Del Boy from the 80s sitcom Only Fools and Horses. I see Entrepreneurship as a side effect of the creative process of problem solving, rather than a career path in its own right. Despite having dealt with the world of business from directors of the board down, I have kept both feet firmly on the ground, even when my head has been in the clouds, with healthy doses of Heavy Metal, Science Fiction and Formula One and long hair until it started falling out in 2013. Now I can add author to the mix, having written my first book, So You Think You Can Lead a Team?, based on 25 years of lessons, mistakes, and unexpected leadership journeys. Oh, and I love good tea too! https://www.linkedin.com/in/pgrenyer/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- This is a great opportunity to learn, share and discuss some of the most important topics related to software engineering we are facing, so come along with your thoughts, concerns, questions and ideas to make this talk as interactive as possible. All levels welcome - no need to bring your laptop as this is a non hands-on session. **Food and Drinks** Pizza and drinks will be provided upon arrival sponsored by [Codurance](https://www.codurance.com/), with vegetarian and vegan options available.

V&A Friday Late: A Night of Art, Music, and Connection! 🎨🎶

Join us for an electrifying **Friday Late** at V&A South Kensington. This monthly event (held on the last Friday, except January, May, and December) transforms the museum into a vibrant hub of contemporary culture, featuring **live performances**, **interactive installations**, **thought-provoking talks**, and **pulsating DJ sets**. It’s the perfect blend of art, music, and social connection! 🎭🎤 More details about the theme of the event: **https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/aMyarPgp8E/friday-late-september-ldf-2025** ### **What to Expect:** * **Art & Inspiration**: Wander through the V&A’s breathtaking galleries, showcasing everything from Renaissance sculptures to modern couture, all illuminated under the magic of late-night vibes. * **Live Performances & DJs**: Groove to eclectic beats from top DJs and experience boundary-pushing performances by emerging artists. * **Interactive Workshops**: Engage in hands-on activities, from crafting your own designs to joining thought-provoking discussions. * **Social Vibes**: Meet new friends, spark conversations, and connect with fellow art enthusiasts in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere. 🤝 ### **Admission Details:** * **Free for the first sign-ups** secure your spot early! * After the free allocation you will have to buy your RSVP through the meetup app. Please show your RSVP on the meetup app to the host on arrival. * If you end up paying a late comer fee you are paying for signing up late and having the privilege of joining and mingling with our group and entry to the afterparty. Hosts will be checking RSVPs on the meetup app. ### **Schedule:** * **6:45 PM – Meet & Mingle**: Gather at the **Porter Gallery entrance in the DOME room**. Enter via the **Cromwell Road entrance**, head to the circular reception area (now a lively bar), and look left. From **Exhibition Road**, ask an attendant for the Porter Gallery. Enjoy drinks, chat, and soak in the atmosphere for 30 minutes. 🍹 * **7:15 PM – Explore or Stay**: Choose your adventure! Split into small groups to explore Friday Late events (pop-up performances, installations, or talks) or stay in the DOME room to keep mingling. 🗺️ * **8:15 PM – Reconvene**: Regroup at the DOME room meeting point to share your evening’s highlights. ### **Why You Can’t Miss This:** The V&A Friday Late is a cultural playground where art, music, and connection collide. Whether you’re an art aficionado, a music lover, or just looking to meet new people, this night has it all. With free entry for early birds, a stunning museum setting. it’s the perfect way to kick off your weekend! 🌟 **Join us for a night of creativity and connection at the V&A Friday Late! Sign up now and let’s make February unforgettable!** 🎉 ## **About the V&A South Kensington** Nestled in the heart of London’s cultural quarter, the **Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)** in South Kensington is the world’s leading museum of art, design, and performance. Founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the V&A houses over **2.7 million objects** spanning 5,000 years of human creativity—from ancient ceramics to modern fashion. Its stunning architecture, including grand galleries and intricate mosaics, complements its diverse collections, making it a global destination for inspiration. 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But hosting isn’t easy—it takes resources, effort, and heart. 💖 Please consider supporting our hosts with a donation to keep the good vibes flowing and help us make London the ultimate social hub! 🚀 Below, meet our hosts for this event and see how you can chip in to fuel their amazing work. **Zen & The Meetup Groups** *The Visionary Social Connector* Zen, our AI guru with 25 years in the game, founded these meetups to transform his own social skills and now helps others do the same. From sparking in-person networking to coordinating epic events, Zen’s passion for connection is unstoppable. Help him keep the momentum going! Support Zen: Donate to cover event planning tools, venue bookings, and more. **[Donation Link](https://paypal.me/Zenswalks)** \*\*\*\* **Disclaimer, Liability Waiver & Media Consent** By attending this event, you acknowledge and agree to the following: **Organiser Identity** – The organiser operates under the community name **“ZEN”**, which is used as an alias for privacy and branding purposes. By joining, you understand that “ZEN” refers to the organiser and/or designated hosts of this event. **Assumption of Risk** – You understand and accept that participation in any social, recreational, or group activity involves inherent risks, including but not limited to personal injury, illness, property damage, or other unforeseen incidents. You voluntarily choose to attend at your own sole risk. **Personal Responsibility** – You are solely responsible for your own safety, health, wellbeing, and personal belongings at all times. It is your responsibility to exercise good judgment, act responsibly, and take appropriate precautions before, during, and after the event. **No Organiser Liability** – The organiser, hosts, volunteers, and the community known as **ZEN** accept no responsibility and shall not be held liable for any injury, loss, damage, accident, theft, or any other issue that may arise as a result of your participation. **Guests** – If you bring guests, you accept full responsibility for their conduct, safety, and understanding of this disclaimer. **Independent Event** – This event may be held in conjunction with other social or non-singles meetup groups. ZEN is not responsible for the actions, behaviour, or arrangements of any third parties. **Media Consent** – By attending this event, you consent to being photographed, filmed, or recorded. You grant ZEN and its organisers the irrevocable right to use such images and recordings for promotional, marketing, social media, and community purposes without compensation or further approval. If you do not wish to be photographed or recorded, it is your responsibility to inform the organiser in advance and to remove yourself from areas where filming or photography is taking place. **Acceptance of Terms** – By attending, you confirm that you have read, understood, and accepted this disclaimer. You release ZEN, its organisers, hosts, volunteers, and members from all claims, demands, or causes of action, whether known or unknown, arising out of your participation or the use of photography/videography captured at the event. Your attendance at this event signifies your full acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree, you should not attend.