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New World OrderSummer Programme 2025

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Alaa Abu AsadWild Plants of Palestine

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Jumana MannaForagers

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Mykola RidnyiMazepa's Ride

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Morgan QuaintanceAvailable Light

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Kin Structures present... rooting

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Breakout YouthUncharted Territory

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HIV/AIDS Awareness Open Call WinnerEmily Foster

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In Conversation: Alaa Abu Asad and Jumana Manna

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Can we finally look at the Japanese knotweed as a green future companion?with Alaa Abu Asad

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Inclusive Practices Project 📣 John Hansard Gallery frequently foregrounds issues of belonging, migration, homelands, colonialism, identity, and representation across our programme. Equality, diversity and inclusion is embedded in all our work, and now with support from @freelandsfoundation, we have embarked on an ambitious two-year project championing diversity and inclusion within the art and design curriculum. Working alongside University of Southampton PGCE Art and Design students, artists, and Helena Boyce (Youbuntu CIC), pupils in eight local secondary schools took part in creative sessions addressing themes of race, identity, and cultural representation. We began in late 2024 by contacting school partners to introduce the project, before holding meetings with PGCE programme leads, PGCE teachers, and school staff to build shared understanding. Following this, PGCE teachers met with our team, followed by a racial literacy and anti-racism CPD session led by Jayanti Shah, co-founder of Black History Month South. This encouraged reflection on educational journeys and the role of art educators as change-makers. Artists were then recruited through an Open Call process. These include Susmita Bhattacharya, Edgar Lushaju, Greg Bunbury, Abeer Kayani, and Mataio Austin Dean. Look out for further updates as the project continues! Inclusive Practices Project is led by John Hansard Gallery, @uni_southampton, with support from Freelands Foundation. Read more about the project on link in bio 🔗 #InclusivePracticesProject #InclusivePractive #ArtsEducation #RacialLiteracy #Race #Identity #CulturalRepresentation #PGCE @susmita_b_writer @drawhapa @gregbunbury @designedbyabeeer @descend_from_yr_barren_throne 📷: @nosamalcolm
EVENT ALERT! 🚨⁠ ⁠ In Conversation with Mykola Ridnyi⁠ Wednesday 30 July, 6–7pm⁠ FREE, online⁠ ⁠ Join artist Mykola Ridnyi in conversation with filmmaker Emanuel Almborg alongside Ridnyi’s current solo exhibition, Mazepa’s Ride.⁠ ⁠ Mazepa’s Ride unveils two new artworks that extend Ridnyi’s exploration of Ivan Mazepa’s contested legacy – a political and military leader of the Zaporozhian Sich and Left-bank Ukraine in the late-17th and early-18th century, whose story has been mythologised throughout European art and literature.⁠ ⁠ Together, Ridnyi and Almborg will explore complex social and political questions and form relationships between historical and contemporary events.⁠ ⁠ Emanuel Almborg is an artist based in Stockholm and London. His practice is primarily moving image-based and engages with pedagogy, psychology and theatre.⁠ ⁠ This is an online event, a Zoom link will provided upon registration.⁠ ⁠ Link in bio to book 🔗⁠ ⁠ #JHGRidnyi #JHGNWO #Exhibition #MykolaRidnyi #MazepasRide #Film #ArtistTalk #InConversation #EmanuelAlmborg #TheFoundationFoundation #KyivBiennial #TheRibbonFoundation #Southampton #SotonArts #SouthamptonEvents #NowShowing @uni_southampton @uni_southampton_wsa @uos_engagement @aceagrams
@tapestry_festival is this weekend!⁠ ⁠ 📅 Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 July | 🕑 2–8pm daily⁠ 📍 @Westquay Esplanade, Southampton⁠ 🎟️ FREE, no tickets required Come along for a weekend of bold, beautiful live music hosted by BBC Radio 3’s Lopa Kothari – all part of the city’s Jane Austen 250 celebrations. Here's the line-up 👇⁠ ⁠ 🎤 SATURDAY 19 JULY:⁠ 2.00pm: Alice Zawadzki⁠ 2.50pm: Drumming workshop with African Activities⁠ 3.15pm: Preview: The Last Rose of Summer (Musical by Mayflower Studios)⁠ 3.35pm: Soumik Datta⁠ 4.35pm: Ceilidh Dancing workshop with FolkActive⁠ 5.20pm: Sam Lee⁠ 6.55pm: Penguin Cafe⁠ ⁠ 🎤 SUNDAY 20 JULY:⁠ 2.00pm: Southampton Salty Sea Dogs⁠ 2.40pm: The Goblin Band⁠ 3.45pm: Pooja Angra⁠ 4.25pm: Muireann Bradley⁠ 5.15pm: Percussion workshop with YES! Creative Beats⁠ 5.40pm: Seckou Keita⁠ 7.00pm: Kathryn Tickell⁠ ⁠ Don't forget:⁠ 🍴 You can find great food & drink along Westquay’s terraces⁠ 🎧 Select sets recorded for BBC Radio 3’s Music Planet are coming in August⁠