The Future is a Collective Project

Places still available on the following workshops:

Tue 22 Sep, 6.30 - 8pm
Cairo Clarke - Listening with our whole bodies

This workshop is led by curator and writer Cairo Clarke and is centred around the American writer and academic Sadiya Hartmnan’s idea of “sonic accountability”, which broadly questions what we want the world to sound and feel like.

Tue 29 Sep, 6.30 - 8pm
Tyreis Holder -"Poetry is not a luxury" - Audre Lorde

In this workshop, artist and poet Tyreis Holder will delve into some of the history of how colonialism has shaped the emotional processing of black people, and lead a discussion as to how poetry translates through voice, text and materially through the work produced.

Tue 6 Oct, 6.30 - 8pm
Fritha Jenkins - Is that frozen bath water that you're ice-breaking?

In this workshop artist Fritha Jenkins will experiment with a neurodivergent approach to creating and workshopping in the digital realm through omething of a journey; with apples, dancing, rock stilettos, glitter stones, and bath ice en-route.

Tue 13 Oct, 6.30 - 8pm
Raju Rage - Like Weeds Growing Through Cracks

In this workshop, artist, editor and curator Raju Rage will lead discussions around nature, land, migration and cultural heritage via foraging for food and the potentials for reclaiming and queering these relationships through cooking and eating.

Tue 20 Oct, 6.30 - 8pm
Davinia-Ann Robinson - Gathering

Though visiting specific sights of personal importance, gathering earth and exploring Feminist Science Fiction and Black Feminist texts, artist Davinia-Ann Robinson invites people of colour to explore their relationships to their body, connections to environments they inhabit and ways to repair from colonial structural violence.


 

Limited spaces, book now!

 

Early career POC artists are invited to apply to join a 2 hour session in a small closed group led by an artist or art professional who will share advice and experience on establishing a career as a POC artist in the UK.

These are the final workshops we are running this year. Book now to avoid disappointment.

Wed 23 Sep, 2 - 4pm
Ifeanyi Awachie - Building your own creative platform and business

Drawing on her experience developing AFRICA SALON UK, a global contemporary African arts festival, and other platforms, writer and curator Ifeanyi Awachie will lead a discussion on creative entrepreneurship as a practice, working outside of institutions as one solution to the problem of institutional anti-Blackness and methods of curating that subvert the white gaze.

Wed 30 Sep, 4 - 6pm
Larry Achiampong - Let my ears be of service

In this session, artist and educator Larry Achiampong places himself as the artist in a position to listen to the experiences and worries of the prospective mentees/artists that he will work with for the session.
 
Wed 7 Oct, 4 - 6pm
Tamar Clarke-Brown - Writing about contemporary art

In this session writer & curator Tamar Clarke-Brown shares her experience and advice on writing about contemporary art for a range of platforms (digital / print), independent publications and exhibitions.

 

Opportunity for 15 - 19 year olds

What next?

Free opportunity for 15-19 year olds to work with South London based artist and poet, Tyreis Holder. Together you will explore your hopes and concerns for the future and create a collaborative public artwork in Deptford.

For more information or to take part, email admin@deptfordx.org

 

We have a studio available as of 1st November 2020 in our studios on Brookmill Road. The size is 260.5 sq ft and the full monthly rent is £302. Thanks to funding from the Mayor's Fund and Creative Land Trust, we are offering a 50% rent reduction for November and a 25% rent reduction for December.

Email admin@deptfordx.org to register your interest or complete the form on our website for a call back. 
 

September residency artist Kayodeine is working on a sound project for his Deptford X residency, 'Free the Mandem',  exploring masculinity and what it means to be a man and would like to hear your thoughts.

Call out for New Moor (No more) by residency artist Jaron Hill

September resident artist, Jaron Hill, is looking to speak to people with whom the notion of ‘retuning home’ has significant meaning. Working alongside fellow artist, Kerrie Addy, he invites anyone with any broad interest or personal connection to this theme to contact him in the hopes of finding fresh voices and creating new and exciting material for issue 2 of the duos Leeds based publication, HERM.

"For issue one, we worked with West Yorkshire Queer Stories and Yorkshire MESMAC to capture the voices, stories and talents of West Yorkshires LGBTQ+ community. For the return of the publication, we are exploring what it means to return home, in the broadest sense possible, whether it be culturally, physically or metaphysically. Home can exist in or outside ones body, comfort zone, culture or location. In considering what it means to return home, we welcome anecdotes, artworks, proposals or even conversations with relevance to or interest in the subject."

If this feels pertinent to you, contact hermherm.art@gmail.com or Jaron (@jarhil) on instagram 


📸: Courtesy of the artist, Herm-Jaron Hill and Kerrie Addy-2019

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