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 […]
Political Drag with Leah Kirby AKA Cyro: creating art inciting change and incorporating non-Western performance techniques, Leah Kirby / Cyro explores socio-economic and political issues through non-traditional formats. Thursday 24 June 2.30 - 4.30pm, online via Zoom In this workshop, Cyro dissects their practice and techniques when it comes to building drag performance around the […]
Part of The History Bois residency at Barge, this online workshop run by poet, drag king and artist SL Grange is for folks wanting to connect with their Queer tr/ancestors. Using writing, drawing and performative processes, we’ll create our own rituals and art to uncover, honour and meet lost queer heroes. If you already know […]
Show Thyself! At this workshop, multi-disciplinary artists SL Grange & E.M. Parry invite you to an exploration of historically-inspired queer self-fashioning. Saturday 26 June, 2.30 - 4.30pm, Barge. For Barge directions and accessibility information click here. Combining creative writing with photographic portraiture and dressing up, we will guide you through a gentle, playful process that […]
For this experimental art/science workshop aboard the Barge, we will look at how to gather data about bats, and ways to share this data in creative and unusual ways. Bats live all around us, roosting in trees and our homes, foraging for insects in parks and woodland. But they are also very vulnerable to humans […]
Join artist Maggie Scott aboard the Barge for an introduction to wet felting processes and create your own piece of textile art to take home. Well-known for her sumptuously crafted felt textiles to wear, for the last decade Maggie’s exhibition works draw on the aesthetic and symbolic potential of the laborious process of felting. Her […]
‘I mean river as a verb. A happening. It is moving with me right now.' - Natalie Diaz in ‘The First Water is the Body’ The third happening in field fairing, the eco-poetry series with kin'd and kin'd, will be a participatory online workshop. It will take the elements as a starting point and look […]
Join artist Anna Perach for a creative exploration building wearable sculptural masks aboard the Barge. During this two hour workshop, Anna will introduce the process of creating a 3D mask sculpture using hand stitch and patchworking fabric. No previous experience is necessary and all tools and materials will be provided. If you would like to […]
Join artist and organiser Carmen Papalia for this online workshop that accompanies our current group exhibition Making Care which features his work. Open Access: Accessibility As Temporary Collectively-Held Space - Workshop with Carmen Papalia In 2015 Vancouver-based artist Carmen Papalia responded to the failures that he experienced as a recipient of institutional disability support services with Open […]
Family/intergenerational workshop to explore feelings surrounding biodiversity loss, and the power of individual and collective action. Join artist Lou Chapelle for a creative intergenerational workshop and a private view of her collaborative holographic video piece ‘Voicing Silence’ created with University of Leeds, Manchester Museum, and Corridor8. You’ll be invited to play with poetry, stop motion […]
Join the CDE Southeast Coastal Hub at Hastings Common Room for a free Letters to the Earth workshop that explores the subject of the climate and ecological emergency. Letters to the Earth is a creative participatory campaign launched in 2019 in collaboration with Culture Declares Emergency. It has generated, received and amplified thousands of letters […]
Intro to sewing is the perfect workshop for absolute beginners as well as people who want to build confidence on a sewing machine. Join us on board Barge and learn the processes involved in making your own made-to-measure LB pullover designed by Paper Theory. At the end of the workshop, you'll leave wearing your hand-made […]
Coastal habitats: a new 6-week eco-poetry course led by kin’d & kin’d This exciting new eco-poetry course, inspired by the extraordinary Planet Earth Museum & Gardens at Paradise Park, Newhaven (which explores the evolution of single-celled beings to humans up to the present day’s ecological challenges to our planet) will take place at Planet Earth […]
Water has many practical and symbolic meanings, across cultures, geographies and identities. Join Lilith Archive and the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics for the screening of several relevant short films around water, reflections on its personal and political significance, and a workshop guided by the question, “What does water mean to you?” The […]
This workshop is ideal for those that have used a sewing machine before but want to build confidence and develop skills further. Make your own made-to-measure Block Tee designed by Paper Theory. You will learn how to make bias binding, edge stitch and sew tricky right angles. At the end of the workshop, you’ll leave […]
Are you interested in decolonial approaches to curatorial practices in art galleries? PhD student and Stuart Hall fellow Susuana Amoah is running a series of online action research workshops to examine the role of the curator in facilitating cultural equity in public art galleries, imagine new approaches to curatorial practice and co-create a framework for […]
Join us in the gallery for an evening of talks from inspirational movement leaders and a workshop exploring the strategic use of litigation as a tool for activism. Killer corporations with headquarters in London are promoting extractivism in the Global South, violating human and ecological rights. Communities such as the Yukpas (in Colombia) have a […]
We're offering arts and crafts workshops on Barge at Brighton Marina during the school holidays. All the sessions will be very relaxed and informal so there's no need to book, just drop-in for as long or as little as you like. July 2, 11-1pm : Weaving With Stick Looms An introduction to weaving using wool, […]
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