Join Jade and Roo’s Slow Reading Group where we read together, out loud and slowly, and discuss topics such as care, reciprocity, complaint, community, and culture. Our reading material will be taken from texts and books that inspired the making of Roo’s exhibition, Courses for Dis-Course(s), currently showing at Primary and previously presented at GLOAM.

As part of Primary’s Social Practice Social group, join artist Jagdish Patel for a walkthrough and conversation based on his current exhibition '“Reclamation: Socially Engaged Art and Anti-Racism in the Midlands” at Surface Gallery.

Join us for a live conversation delving into the relationship between conservation and land rights, highlighting different modes of relating to land and the urgency of centring reparative approaches.  

This event is a part of Primary’s Nourishment Programme which is based around the topics of food justice, nourishment, growing and sustainable food systems - with a focus on local food justice and growing networks in NG7. This evening will be a place to reflect, digest and plan together creating space for imagining and implementing. Catered by and hosted at Crocus café. Previous contributors and new are welcome to join in.

Join us in the simple routine act of sharing stories while sharing a meal, as artist Janhavi Sharma discusses how the archival material of food inspires her work.

Artist and writer Harun Morrison will share his current practice, including work on a variety of community gardens in Sheffield, Liverpool and London. He will discuss this in relation to permaculture and ecology.

Bo Olawoye will discuss her current work as Diverse Artist Network Co-ordinator for Beam a cultural development organisation that brings together artists and communities to create and shape inspiring public spaces in the North of England.

Join artists, designers, play workers and community workers for conversation about the role of play in public space. This event offers an opportunity for peer-to-peer conversation, sharing experiences from Nottingham and beyond.

Join us for an online meet up in June. This month we’ll be sharing plans and ideas for the ‘Social Art Summit’ taking place in Glasgow in November 2022. The Social Art Summit is a biannual gathering for artists from around the country to come together to share practice, showcase work and explore what it means to be making art through social engagement in this moment.

Are you passionate about food justice, concerned about nourishing yourself and your community in challenging times, or do you have ideas about fairer food systems? Join us for a meal and conversation to share ideas and connect with others. During this informal event, we’ll share food prepared by local cooks and discuss some of the key themes from the Nourishment programme

Join artist Ruth Levene and baker Kimberley Bell to hear about their work with biodiverse grain, and re-imagining food systems. The talk will be accompanied by fresh bread and followed by a group conversation.

Join us online for Social Practice Surgery - a series of continually developing, live(ly) conversations and resources facilitated by artists Dan Russell and Lady Kitt. The project sets out to support people who are experiencing challenging / complex circumstances, resulting from working in socially engaged ways.

Join us for the first Social Practice Social of 2022, to share projects you’re currently working on and discuss plans for the year ahead.

Following on from the first season of ‘Nourishment: A cyclical programme’, join us for an online discussion to reflect, digest and plan together.

Join Bo Olawoye to hear about a project with Broxtowe Women’s Project and Heya Nottingham to co-produce a visually stunning zine.

Join us for a meal and conversation to share ideas for the Nourishment programme.

Social Practice Social is a monthly peer support group for artists, programmers, community organisers, activists, and others working with participation, collaboration, public space, or social change. For June’s session, art educator Jane Trowell shares some of her image-based research processes into Whiteness and coloniality in this field.

Social Practice Social is a monthly peer support group for artists, programmers, community organisers and activists. This month, join regular SPS member Charlotte Tupper for a practical art-making experiment! Explore and discuss the role of the artist in participatory group sessions, through a series of practical activities.

The Lentonness public artwork was recently relocated, this time outside the Crocus Café in Lenton. Join us for a conversation with Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad and Lenton residents to find out more about the origins and motivations behind the project and its unexpected developments.

In the first episode of the Re-Framing Dance 5-part podcast series Nora-Swantje Almes speaks about inherent contradictions and the potential of transformation with London-based artist and choreographer Jamila Johnson-Small and New York City-based choreographer Gillian Walsh.

Social Practice Social is a monthly peer support group for artists, programmers, community organisers, and activists. In April's session we'll be joined by Rosa ter Kuile from Rising Arts Agency, a youth-led organisation based in Bristol who advocate for sector and cultural change.

Social Practice Social is a monthly peer support group for artists, programmers, community organisers, and activists. In our session this month, we'll be joined by the vacuum cleaner (James Leadbitter), Dr Cecilia Wee, and Becky Sumerling. We’ll reflect on the past year, talk about collective grief, and ask what role art and artists could have in healing - and how we can ‘do the work'.

During the pandemic, artists and organisations have been developing physical activity packs and remote resources for groups they can no longer work with face to face. Join us to share examples of these projects and discuss some of the challenges and joys of trying to work socially, from a distance.

This month we are joined by Kate Houlton, Children & Young People's Producer at Heart of Glass in St Helens, and artist Andy Field – who has been working with them to develop ‘The School for Invisible Urbanists’.

This month, Cristina Morales (Counterspace) facilitates the Decolonial Lab - a non-hierarchical grassroots forum rooted in critical pedagogy, holding space for an in-depth introduction to decolonial theory and practice, with a focus on social practice and cultural activism.

Our monthly discussion forum for artists, programmers, community organisers, activists, and others working with participation, collaboration, public space, or social change. In October's meet up we'll be reflecting on the ways that time plays out in socially engaged projects.

Mikaela Assolent joins us this month to present 'Queer Distraction: Pedagogies for a distracted reception of art'. Being able to focus is often valued as a sign of self-discipline, but how can we open-up to more inclusive modes of attention?

The Social Practice Social group are meeting online during the lockdown. Join us this month for an informal catch up, to talk about social solidarity at a time of physical distancing and share ideas for a collective library.

This month we'll be joined by Trish Evans and Nick Humphreys from INSTAR, who'll be sharing some recent socially engaged projects inspired by the Peak District and Nottingham.

This month, the Social Practice Social group are heading to The Square Meal, a community meal which takes place every Tuesday at Thomas Helwys Baptist Church. Join us as we share a meal together and learn more about this new social eating project.