EVENT 30/04/26

The Guilty Feminist and The Nerve present The Road to Gilead

The Guilty Feminist and the Nerve come together to present the latest event on the theme of The Road to Gilead.

The Guilty Feminist aka Deborah Frances-White will be joined on stage by the journalist and author Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Nerve co-founder Carole Cadwalladr to discuss the fall out from the Epstein files. How the survivors have been failed and what chance there is of those in power being held to account. As with all Guilty Feminist events there will be music, comedy and as Deborah says; “deeply motivational conversation on social justice. Come and join this moment of joyful resistance!” Join us.

TICKET INFORMATION From £17 & prices include a £2 venue restoration levy. Members should have received a code to obtain 20% discount.
VENUE Leicester Square Theatre
RUNNING TIME 2 hrs including interval
AGE ADVISORY 14+

EVENT 22/05/26

How to Academy / Nerve conversation between Carole Cadwalladr and Karen Hao

Tickets now on sale for a conversation between the award-winning US tech journalist Karen Hao and Nerve co-founder Carole Cadwalladr that we are hosting with How to Academy.

Karen Hao is the author of Empire of AI: Sam Altman, ChatGBT, and the Global Resistance, an eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping our planet subtitled “Inside the reckless race for total domination”. Tickets available to buy here.

VENUE Conway Hall, London, WC1

EVENT 19/05/26

Natasha Walter on her new book ‘Feminism for a World on Fire’ in Bristol

We are coming to Bristol to celebrate the publication of Nerve contributing writer Natasha Walter’s urgent new book Feminism for a World on Fire (published by Virago) at Bookhaus, Wapping Wharf on Tuesday 19 May. Natasha’s books include Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism, The New Feminism and Before the Light Fades. She is the founder of Women for Refugee Women. Natasha will be in conversation with the investigative reporter Sian Norris.

Buy tickets for £7 here 

Members have been sent link for £4 tickets.

EVENT 02/07/26

A conversation with Dave Eggers
in Manchester

The great American writer Dave Eggers will join us for an onstage conversation at the Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester on Thursday 2 July to mark the publication of his new novel Contrapposto. Dave Eggers came to literary fame in 2000 with his best-selling debut, the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Since then his work has included What Is the What, The Circle and A Hologram for the King. He is also the cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centres and Voice of Witness, an oral history book series that illuminates the stories of those impacted by human rights crises. Contrapposto is a love story that is, according to his publishers Canongate: “Twenty years in the making, a novel about art, life and the complicated beauty of both.” 

To book tickets, click here. They are £7 for members (full price £11). Members should have received a discount code by email. An Eventbrite fee (£1.30) will be added at checkout.

ExCLUSIVE FILMS FOR MEMBERS: 1

Stewart Lee in conversation with Sleaford Mods

On 13 January, the Nerve's weekly columnist Stewart Lee sat down on stage at Rough Trade in Nottingham with the Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn. Their entertaining talk covered how they all started their careers, the music they love, Nottingham, the cost of living and more.

Members have been sent a private link to view a recording of the event online. Any problems, as ever, email us at [email protected]

EXCLUSIVE FILM 2

Stewart Lee and Carole Cadwalladr at 21Soho

At a special Nerve members’ evening on 10 December 2025, our columnist Stewart and co-founder Carole had a wide-ranging discussion and took audience questions about Stewart’s career, how he finds inspiration for his columns, the absolute state of world politics and, naturally, much more.

Film coming soon… we’ll update this space after we send the link out to members.

EVENT
25/03/26

Nerve screening of Orwell: 2+2=5 at Bertha DocHouse

We are hosting a screening of Orwell: 2+2=5 at Bertha DocHouse at Curzon Bloomsbury on Wed 25 March, 7pm.The film will be followed by a live Q&A with director Raoul Peck in conversation with Dorian Lynskey, Nerve theatre critic and the author of many books including Ministry of Truth - a biography of 1984.

For tickets click here

MEMBERS’ EVENT

The Laugharne Weekend

The Nerve is media partner of the 2026 Laugharne Weekend in the town in Carmarthen, South Wales. The line up includes Martin and Eliza Carthy, Gwenno, Tanita Tikaram, Jeremy Deller, Tessa Hadley, David McAlmont and Zakia Sewell. It will be a busy weekend for the Nerve’s Stewart Lee who is booked for three events: with Armando Iannucci, co-founder Carole Cadwalladr and finally via video link (good luck with that!) with the comic author Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta).

There is a special price for Nerve members. Tickets are available to book for £145 (normal price £165) via a code emailed to members. Email us at [email protected] if you need us to send the code again.

https://www.thelaugharneweekend.co.uk/

MEMBERS’ EVENING
19/02/26

Ece Temelkuran in conversation with Carole Cadwalladr in Manchester

The Turkish writer and political thinker Ece Temelkuran will be in conversation with Nerve co-founder Carole Cadwalladr in Manchester on 19 February. Ece, the author of How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism will talk about her new book Nation of Strangers - described as being “for anyone who feels alienated by an ever more monstrous world.” 

Thursday 19 February, International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester. Doors open 6.30, event starts 7pm. Tickets on sale now, with a discount for Nerve members. Members have been sent a booking discount code. Email us at [email protected] if you have not received this.

To buy tickets click here

ExCLUSIVE FILM FOR MEMBERS 13/02/26

Laura Poitras in conversation with
Carole Cadwalladr

A special event for Founder members - sponsored by Netflix. A free screening of Laura Poitras’ documentary Cover-Up followed by a Q&A.

Poitras’s film, a portrait of the American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, has been described as “a brilliant and unflinching epic about truth” and is nominated in the best documentary category in the 2026 Baftas.

Date: Friday 13 February, 6.00 for 6.30pm in Soho.

Running time: 2 hours.There will be pre-film drinks and post-film drinks and canapes.

Founder members have been notified by email with details of how to reserve tickets. Do email us at [email protected] if you have questions.

EXCLUSIVE FILM for members
12/02/26

The Voice of Hind Rajab exclusive screening

The free screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director Kaouther Ben Hania. Tickets will be allocated on a first-come basis (two ticket maximum per member)

Hind Rajab is the five-year-old Palestinian girl who, on 29 January 2024, spent over three hours speaking on the phone to the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency call centre on the West Bank. Hind was trapped in her family’s car 52 miles away. The extraordinarily powerful film won the Grand Jury prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival, where it received a 23 minute standing ovation, and is nominated for a BAFTA as well as best international feature film at the Oscars.