South East Cultural Assembly: Programme

ONCA is delighted to be partnering with Culture Declares Emergency, University of Sussex and De La Warr Pavilion to bring you the South East Cultural Assembly.

On Monday 22 April, we will gather in Bexhill-on-Sea for a day of collective enquiry where we’ll consider how to move beyond worry, overwhelm, guilt, stagnancy and other blocks to taking action for climate justice. Please see the programme below and go here if you’d like to book a ticket.

We look forward to welcoming you soon and exploring pathways to action by nurturing enquiry, participation, community-building, radical care and collaboration at this historic event.

Photograph is of poet, curator, writer and activist Zena Edwards at the Culture Declares Emergency launch in London, 2019.

2024 Associate Artists

Save The Date: South East Cultural Assembly

Monday 22 April

2023 Exhibitions

Round up

Persephone Pearl

at O N C A

Olive trees burn during a wildfire in Greece. Several hundred year old olive tree burns from inside and that is why it is extremely hard for firefighters to control and extinguish the fire in olive trees fields. When trees die by fire, they release into the atmosphere the carbon stored within them. This is why the effect of wildfires on emissions is among the most feared climate feedback loops - that the world's forests, which have typically been carbon sinks, would become carbon sources, unleashing all that stored gas.More burning only means more global warming, which only leads to more burning. Severe heat and drought fuel wildfires. Rising temperatures evaporate moisture from the ground, drying out the soil, and making vegetation more flammable. As drought and heat continue with rising greenhouse gas emissions, we expect more wildfires in years ahead. The fact that global warming is now hitting its wealthiest citizens is a sign of just how hard, and how indiscriminately, it is hitting.

Lost Species Day 2023: Can We Live?

15 November - 10 December

A Tribute to Grace Moulding

By Persephone Pearl
A photo of a white woman with red/ brown hair, surrounded by colourful flowers, foliage and waxy red lillies. She is wearing a black silk dress and has earth on her hands and looks at the camera with an ambiguous expression.

Green Curtain Award 2023 Winner: Studio Bartels, Irma

Review by Zoë Alexander
A photograph of Iman Isaacs and Eva Bartels during a performance of IRMA in Cape Town, 2022.

O N C A Green Curtain Award 2023 Winner: IRMA

Brighton Fringe