Planet LOL asks, “When you realise your planet is teetering on the brink of extinction do you simply shrug and put the kettle on?” Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom and Compassion, is coming to Brighton Marina. To be honest, Sophia has been split into two human forms, as a punishment, and they are coming to Brighton […]
clothes swap is back! This year our annual clothes swap will take place onboard Barge at Brighton Marina - a large, well ventilated space for a joyful evening of swap shopping and hanging out. Tickets are £1.50 online / £2 on the door. All funds will go towards supporting environmental and creative learning projects. How […]
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 […]
Join artist Alicia Radage on the Barge for a sharing of outcomes from their September residency. UK based artist Alicia Radage's work manifests through performance, video, photography and digital collage. Radage works to unpack histories of colonisation pertaining to the gendered body & geography – seeking alternatives to a reflexive politics of occupation. Radage's practice […]
This August, we are excited to welcome artist/makers from the Project Art Works collective on board the barge. Through their group residency, artists Paul Colley , Lucy, Aida Ashell and Mark Lockton (pictured in featured image above) will use the Barge’s unique location as a base to explore creative processes, influenced by the surrounding landscapes and […]
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 […]
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 […]
We Elizabethans - a cluster of sibling works: Closet Dramas - photographic exhibition; Fag Ends // Fag Breaks - installation & performances; A Lucky Resurrection - live writing / seance. Closet Dramas: An enigmatic cast of queer and unruly characters haunt, provoke and flirt with the viewer. Drawing on the historical genre of the closet […]
Barge Community Mornings are BACK ON BOARD from May 7! We are excited and delighted to be re-opening the Barge after the long closure due to the pandemic. Community Mornings are all about… well, whatever you want them to be. Come for a chat, work on some sewing with our Dresscue project, make some crafts, have […]
Join us aboard the Barge this Autumn and investigate Art in Nature as part of Nature2020 programme. community artist Sally Bourner will facilitate a relaxed and creative afternoon for children aged 6-11 years. Through creative activities we will explore our local living coast; stones, shells and seaweed will all become tools to make marks and […]
As part of our ongoing focus on social inclusion and wellbeing, Barge supports its associated practitioners to facilitate a range of free/cheap activities for the local community to take part in. Our instructor, Lisa, is a Level 2 registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Australia, and Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). […]
Join Mosaic Artist Caroline Budden on the Barge for a fun morning making Valentine-inspired heart mosaics. In this one hour workshop for beginners, children will learn how to design and create a personalised mosaic made from reclaimed materials. Each participant will come away with a small heart decoration made for their self, and one for […]
Join us for a Hatha Yoga class at the Barge at the Brighton Marina. On Friday mornings between 9.30am and noon, the Barge becomes a free space for the local community to meet, chill, play or explore. We aim to host activities downstairs for people to take part in for free, with donations welcome. Class […]
New language is being invented to describe the unprecedented psychological landscape of our times: eco-anxiety, climate grief, solastalgia*. These are terms used by climate psychologists to describe the emotional impacts of climate change which are finally starting to be recognised in Europe, the USA and other wealthy economies, yet are still seldom discussed. The most […]
Join artist Margot Minnot Thomas on the Barge for a festive evening workshop! We will be using a very old printing method called cyanotype. Discovered in the mid-1800s, cyanotype was pioneered by the first published female photographer, Anna Atkins. Coating paper with this light-sensitive emulsion makes deep blue prints once exposed to UV light. We […]
Please join us at Barge on November 21st for an exhibition and talk (6pm) about and Schools Without Walls’ proposals for a trail of signage and sculpture along the Undercliff Path. Our artists have worked with children from local schools St John The Baptist, Longhill and St Margaret’s to learn about the Marine Conservation Zone […]
Join facilitators and local craft maker Rebecca Tucknott at Brighton Marina for another exciting creative workshop on the Barge. Kids will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of designs made from using laser cutter to make bold and brilliant pendants and badges to take home. The workshop will last for 2 hours and […]
Come and celebrate seventh birthday with us! Join us at the Barge at Brighton Marina for bingo fun, and help us to raise funds for our work aboard this lovely space. With your support, we can work with more local community and educational groups to develop accessible creative learning projects that encourage people in environmental […]
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