Creative Arts

The Nicholson Center is pleased to support events in the Creative Arts, by sponsoring and co-sponsoring lectures and workshops by writers, musicians, and artists involved in creative work either in Britain or with relevance to British Studies.

Featured Event

Bríona Nic Dhiarmada and Jane Ohlmeyer – “From that Small Island” – screening and Q&A, 11/4, 7.30pm

On November 4, 2025, the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago, in partnership with the Nicholson Center for British Studies and Chicago Irish Film Festival, hosted a screening of the documentary From that Small Island. The story of the Irish, produced by...

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Bhanu Kapil: How to Wash a Heart

Bhanu Kapil: How to Wash a Heart

In 2021, Nicholson collaborated with the Hong Kong Literary Festival and the University of Chicago Contemporary Migrations Working Group in hosting an online reading by and discussion with the prize-winning British Asian poet, Bhanu Kapil. Kapil’s latest work, How to...

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