Kings Place is an adventurous music and arts venue with an ambition to inspire local community and promote the power of the arts in our society. Its venues enable learning, discovery, debate and experiences that are powerfully intimate, enabling human connection between artists and audiences.
The dedicated and supportive team programmes a series of festivals and events, developing cross-arts collaborations and artistic relationships that deliver unforgettable live experiences.
The award-winning concert series, Unwrapped, is our flagship programme, exploring big ideas and overarching themes across the year. Kings Place is also the UK’s home of live podcasting as creators and hosts of the London Podcast Festival.
Run as a registered charity under the name of Kings Place Music Foundation ((KPMF, charity number 1107839), it does not receive regular public funding. Income is generated through ticket sales, donations, grants, and the staging of world-class conferences and events.
Our Values:
We value excellence
We aim for the highest standards across everything – both on and off stage in order to provide value to our audiences and partners.
We value diversity
We know that the more diverse and inclusive we are as an organisation, the stronger, more creative, more resilient and relevant our work will be
We are generous
We are rooted in partnership. We extend our collaborative ethos to each other and share our building with everyone.
We are enterprising
Our entrepreneurial business model requires us to be innovators. We are always looking for new and better ways to help culture thrive.
We are agile
Our independent, nimble spirit is part of our DNA. We are quick and free to respond to an environment where no one day is the same as the next.
We are Kings Place, the cultural pulse of King’s Cross.
Kings Place strives to offer a supportive environment for artists from under-represented backgrounds to build their audiences and communities. It signed up to the Key Change Pledge in 2019 and is a member organisation of Black Lives in Music, and a signatory to its charter of aiming to reflect London’s ethnic mix across all levels of the organisation, from artistic programme to work force, partners and audiences.