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HELEN GOODWIN: IMPERMANENT EDGE

Online

Click here to continue the Impermanent Edge tour. is the opening venue for Impermanent Edge, a virtual tour of photographic/site responsive work by Brighton-based artist Helen Goodwin. We are exhibiting the work online only. It is part of a micro-commission from Edgelandia and Penned in the Margins to create a response to the changing environment […]

Weaving connections webinar: Extracting Us exhibit collective reflections

Extracting Us brings together reflections and creative work from thirteen artists-activists-researchers in relation to diverse extractive contexts, and responses from virtual visitors and participants over the past month. Through facilitated conversation with co-curators and artists, this event will begin to weave together the threads that connect the contributions, and consider some collective learnings and potential […]

Meet the Artist: Jaye Ho

Online

The Vanishing Act is first 2020 online exhibition with an accompanying window display. We invite you to join us online where we’ll be hosting a conversation with artist Jaye Ho, with BSL interpretation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbLEOWIA6Q   This brilliant exhibition includes a series of portraits of war criminals and piles of skulls from genocide victims. The Vanishing […]

Youth Climate Summit: Visible Mending workshop

Online

This free sewing workshop will combine visible mending - a simple clothing repair technique - with conversation and creativity, developing participants’ skills and building agency for change. The session is part of DResscue, online and in-person programme of sewing and mending workshops and educational community events. Sally Bourner and Persephone Pearl are running it as […]

Art and Conflict: Panel Discussion

Online

Join Jaye Ho for an online panel discussion exploring the relationship between art and conflict. This event is a part of The Vanishing Act exhibition by artist and human rights policy adviser Jaye Ho. Panel speakers include artist and former mental health campaigner Dr Errol Francis, award winning Iranian animator Majid Adin, and transitional justice […]

Lost Species Day 2020: An Evening with Sadiah Qureshi, Audra Mitchell & Suzanne Dhaliwal

Online

Join us online for an evening with scholar-activists Audra Mitchell, Sadiah Qureshi and Suzanne Dhaliwal discussing historic and ongoing connections between colonialism and extinctions, exploring assumptions embedded in much mainstream environmental campaigning, and celebrating intersectional environmental work. Watch a recording of this event here (click the CC button on the menu bar for subtitles). Lost […]

Lost Species Day 2020: Stones Have Laws – film screening & discussion

Made collaboratively with a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony Suriname, 'Stones Have Laws' (Dee Sitonu a Weti) blends myth and storytelling with ethnographic filmmaking. Join us to watch it online together as part of the Lost Species Day 2020 weekend gathering. STONES HAVE LAWS - TRAILER from VRIZA on Vimeo. Stones Have Laws […]

Lost Species Day 2020: Rituals for the Anthropocene?

Online

From the mundane to the epic: discover some of the diverse possibilities of what a ritual for the Anthropocene might be. This event aims to inspire and give confidence to participants to hold their own ceremonies, as well as to explore some of the tensions in the term. The event will take place in two […]

Hili Greenfeld: MaGifa

Online

.tribe-events-event-image img { pointer-events: none; } MaGifa is an online exhibition of new works by Israeli artist Hili Greenfeld. Hili was scheduled to be artist in residence in July last year, with a subsequent solo exhibition following in August, but the ongoing coronavirus outbreak meant this couldn’t take place. Click here to view the exhibition […]

Podcast Making: 6 Week Online Course with Billie Eliot

Learn the art of podcast making in this 6 week course with radio and podcast producer and teacher, Billie Eliot Turner. In this course you will get the opportunity to gain new skills, connect with like-minded artists, feel held in a community going through the same process, be taught, enthused, supported and encouraged by Billie […]

Beyond Ruin: Meet The Artists

Join us and some of the artists from our current exhibition Beyond Ruin for this online event exploring the themes behind the artists' work. **Join the event using this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85892656200** Co-director Amie Rai will chair a discussion drawing out the connections between the artists' practices and the questions their work raises in relation […]

O N C A Bedroom Hootenanny #1: Black Belt Eagle Scout

Somewhere between a slumber party, a punk show, a conversation and a mixtape, this Bedroom Hootenanny is not your average Zoom show. Join community artist and curator Nadia Buyse as she invites some of her favourite musicians from around the world for some songs, stories, laughs, and comradery. Nadia's first Bedroom Hootenanny guest is radical […]

Write Your Own Story with Ollie O’Neill: LGBTQIA+ poetry workshop

Join award-winning poet Ollie O'Neill for a writing workshop for LGBTQIA+ participants We are delighted to welcome award-winning poet Ollie O'Neill to to host 'Tell Your Own Story' - a writing workshop for LGBTQIA+ participants aged 18+ . Ollie will bring a range of poems by herself and other authors and we will explore ways […]

Um Outro Céu website tour & film screenings

Come to the UK launch of Um Outro Céu - mapping environmental conflicts in N.E. Brazil and showcasing new work by indigenous artists Join Um Outro Céu (meaning Another Sky in Portuguese) researchers and artists to learn about this project and website that document and celebrate the emergence of different forms of resistance, narratives, constructions […]

Susuana Amoah: Curating Chromophobia

Join us for a talk and screening by artist-curator Susuana Amoah that delves into the question: What do white walls have to do with whiteness?  Chromophobia and White Cube Galleries is a video-essay by Susuana that discusses the implications of white cube aesthetics in contemporary art galleries, specifically looking at the connections between chromophobia, the […]

kin’d & kin’d: field fairing, with Merrie Joy Williams

An invitation to all who are curious: join kin'd & kin'd for more eco-poetry at kin’d & kin’d (Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler) return for their third Changing Everything Carefully series at . They say: 'We want to investigate and celebrate diverse views and thinking about ways of making eco-poetry, and we are proud to […]

On Police & Prison Abolition in the UK: talk with Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper

Online

Join us for a talk by Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper on the arguments for police and prison abolition in the UK and how these connect to climate justice. Expect a presentation by Adam followed by an opportunity to ask questions. Tickets are free or by donation - select your preferred ticket option (free or donation) at […]

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Please contact or 01273 607101 if you have specific access needs, please note the gallery is wheelchair accessible but the toilet is up five stairs. We have hearing assistive technology and our staff have Basic BSL & Deaf Awareness training. For more information about access and facilities at ONCA please click here.

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