Check out Centrala's online activities for November.
Gallery & Cafe Opening times:
Due to the announcement of a second lockdown Centrala is temporarily closed.
Dear friends of Centrala,
Don’t let lockdown get you down, we’re going to continue to work for the arts and to promote Central & Eastern European culture and heritage throughout this difficult period.
We’ve finished installing an exhibition of the Finnish art collective Valmed Ry. Whilst you can’t actually come and visit our space at the moment, it will be available to view online very soon. You can also watch Malgorzata Dawidek's 'Notations' exhibition on our youtube now. An alternative to Saturday's evening with Netflix?
We’re hosting a series of public health awareness information sessions in different Central & Eastern European (CEE) languages. This includes ‘Life under Covid’, ‘Food and wellbeing’ and a Modern Day Slavery awareness session. Click here for a full list of these and please share it with your friends, neighbours, groups you are in contact with - it’s important that we spread the word.
Have you tried our CEE recipes, such as the tasty Bulgarian soup or our Polish potato pancakes? We invite you to try out all the recipes we prepared over the previous lockdown and tag our page Polish Expats Association with a hashtag #CEEfood and a photo of your sumptuous finished product.
See below for our full schedule this month. Keep safe, keep well!
Centrala presents 'Allterations' - an exhibition by new-media art collective Valmed ry based in Finland. The show is going to be presented via our online channels soon.
A cultural celebration of Andrzejki - St Andrew’s Day! Make this Saturday a day for a lockdown party! Join us for a fun LIVE DJ set and prepare to have our witch tell your wax dripping fortunes!
Looking for more ONLINE activities with Centrala Connecting Communities?
Everything about settled status in Romanian - 16th November, 7PM. The livestream will help the Romaniam community find answers to most common questions and doubts.
Food and nutrition - facts and myths, 23th November, 6PM. Do diets actually work? Is it even possibile to boost your immune system? Is gluten as harmful as they say? We are taking on the most common misconceptions about food, dieting and nutrition with NHS dietitian Magdalena Kot.
Mental health and wellbeing, 26th November, 6PM. Where to look for help when life becomes too much? How to talk about it with family and friends? Join our live session with MIND charity.
Evening of creativity - 20th November, 6 PM. We’re featuring as part of the Erdington Arts Forum in their regular 3rd Friday event. We’ll be offering some “myth busting” about CEE culture, as well as a special video celebrating our gallery space at Centrala.
Centrala is a unique, multi-functional space incorporating a gallery, event space, café and meeting rooms. We are a space for people to come together, be creative and engage with the arts, culture, history and social politics of Central and Eastern Europe.
We are the only publicly funded gallery for Central and Eastern European art in the UK, and the only such space outside London with a national and international reach. We are the only organisation of our kind in Arts Council England’s National Portfolio and the only gallery to focus on socially-engaged art and artists from Central and Eastern Europe.
Unit 4 Minerva Works 158 Fazeley Street Birmingham B5 5RT te. 0121 439 3050
