5x15 | 5 speakers 15 minutes each

"the optimism we need is going to come from our fellow human beings"

Elif Shafak

5x15 EartH Hackney

"A luminous evening – hopeful, heartfelt & deeply inspiring."

Akram Khan Company

"The line-up, under any circumstances would have been intriguing... the event was sold out... there was an electricity in the room..."

The New Yorker

"5x15's packed soirees feel like an evening of offline, communal surfing, it's due as much to the eclectic menu of speakers as to the short time allotted to each..."

The New York Times

"The ability to 'think intelligently' about subjects that tickle, exercise and expand your mind is at last tangible with entertaining talks at 5x15."

The Telegraph

"a brilliant concept of five 15-minute talks delivered by significant voices..."

The Financial Times

Upcoming Events

Wed, May 13, 7:00pm

5x15: Art Experts on the Art That Changed Them

Five leading cultural figures each deliver a fifteen-minute talk on an artwork that holds particular significance for them.

Royal Geographical Society, SW7

Featuring Talks By:

Geoff Dyer

on a photograph that has had a lasting impact on his way of looking at the world.

Ekow Eshun

on an artwork that has shaped his thinking about identity, beauty and power.

Andrew Graham-Dixon

on his favourite painting by Vermeer, re-seen through his radically new interpretation of the artist’s greatest works.

Katy Hessel

on an artwork by a woman artist that transformed how she sees the story of art.

Sir Grayson Perry

on an artwork that has influenced his creative life and ideas about art.

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Wed, May 13, 7:00pm

5x15: Art Experts on the Art That Changed Them

Five leading cultural figures each deliver a fifteen-minute talk on an artwork that holds particular significance for them.

Royal Geographical Society, SW7

Mon, May 18, 7:00pm

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - May 2026

Join us at The Tabernacle in May for an evening of cutting-edge thinking, intriguing stories and inspiration.

The Tabernacle, W11

Featuring Talks By:

Hannah Critchlow

on the cutting-edge neuroscience of the future.

Jill Dawson

on the most famous occult artist you've never heard of.

Blake Morrison

on the challenges, ethics and charms of memoir

Philippa Perry

on therapy and her cosy crime caper.

Tim Spector

on fermentation and the life-changing power of microbes.

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Mon, May 18, 7:00pm

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - May 2026

Join us at The Tabernacle in May for an evening of cutting-edge thinking, intriguing stories and inspiration.

The Tabernacle, W11

Mon, Jun 22, 7:00pm

5x15: History's Untold Stories

For this special 5x15, five leading historians will each tell a surprising story from the past, from the medieval world to the modern age.

Union Chapel, N1

Featuring Talks By:

William Dalrymple

on the story of zero: how Indian numbers conquered the world

Alice Loxton

on England’s greatest love story and the building of the Eleanor Crosses

Peter Frankopan

on The United States at 250: the little-known background to the Declaration of Independence.

Gary Younge

on the story of Georges Dukson, a Black resistance fighter erased from the Liberation of Paris

Kate Williams

on who really killed Anne Boleyn

TICKETS & INFO

Mon, Jun 22, 7:00pm

5x15: History's Untold Stories

For this special 5x15, five leading historians will each tell a surprising story from the past, from the medieval world to the modern age.

Union Chapel, N1

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5x15 produces events of ideas, insight and inspiration for the world’s leading organisations and most discerning audiences. We bring internationally acclaimed speakers to the stage to share stories that are informative, provoking, and above all, entertaining.

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Wade Davis @ 5x15 - Cultures at Risk

27 Mar 2018

Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic.

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5x15: Art Experts on the Art That Changed Them

5x15: Art Experts on the Art That Changed Them

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - May 2026

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - May 2026

5x15: History's Untold Stories

5x15: History's Untold Stories

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