Free weekly drop-in play sessions running on Wednesdays after school until 11 December. Join play workers for adventurous outdoor play, art, crafts , games and forest school activities. These sessions are part of the Community Takeover programme at Primary.
Uncanny Christmas, Primary’s artist-run weird winter party is back for another year! Our annual fundraiser planned and hosted by our resident community is now live. Join us on Saturday 7 December to celebrate seasonal strangeness at our indoor festival with all-new Uncanny Karaoke, festive food offers, themed bars, live art games, tarot readings, the Photo-booth, the NG7+1 raffle, and dancing into the night.
Kolam is an exhibition, an action, a space, an exploration. Mimicking its namesake, it acts as an invitation to Tamil women, Dalit and other marginalised communities to hold space and have voice within contemporary cultural production.
Cross the threshold, Cross that line, defy the mythological man. Erase the kolam.
Join us for a work-in-progress screening of Oneiric Kitchen at Broadway, Nottingham. Oneiric Kitchen is a collaborative project by Japanese artist-filmmaker Chiemi Shimada and London-based wellbeing practitioner Susie Cunningham. The work explores our relationship with sleep and addresses issues surrounding it and was developed through therapeutic cooking workshops in the UK and Japan
Join Stephanie Pettitt from Equation Accounting for an exclusive webinar designed for freelancers and creatives looking to take control of their finances. This session will help you navigate the financial side of your creative business with greater knowledge, understanding and motivation.
Join Jake, Elin & Will FROMTHEGROUNDUP for making and mending sessions with some debate and discussion around materials, culture and beyond!
Preview: 8 November, 6-9pm | Join us for free chai and samosa!
Kolam is an exhibition, an action, a space, an exploration. Mimicking its namesake, it acts as an invitation to Tamil women, Dalit and other marginalised communities to hold space and have voice within contemporary cultural production.
Cross the threshold, Cross that line, defy the mythological man. Erase the kolam.
Join Jake & Will FROMTHEGROUNDUP for making and mending sessions with some debate and discussion around materials, culture and beyond!
Join The NewBridge Project for this special ‘DIY Digital’ x Kaleidoscope Network workshop with Shelly Knotts. Get to grips with the practice of live coding – a way of performing which involves writing code on stage to make live music and video!
Bloc Projects hosts GLOAM to invite Kaleidoscope Network Members to join them as they share how they put a project together
Supported by indy. powered by the Auction Collective, we will celebrate the end of summer and ten years of Primary’s public programme as we host our first online art auction featuring artworks by artists Hurvin Anderson, Betsy Bradley, Simona Brinkmann, Seán Cummins, Pete Ellis, Jade de Montserrat, Line Nilsen and Yelena Popova.
Join us to hear music, soundscapes, sonic artworks, work-in-progress, site recordings, readings, performances, and curiosities played back-to-back through an experimental sonic sculpture throughout the day in Primary’s Gallery 1. Activities, including open-air live music and sound performances, will also energise another sonic sculpture built in our playground.
Enjoy a delicious home-cooked meal and meet other people interested in food justice, growing and sustainable food. We'll discuss how the food we eat supports our health and how local communities can get better access to healthy ingredients.
Join us for drop-in gardening activities in the Primary garden - with an opportunity to learn more about growing vegetables, fruit, flowers and dye plants, and gardening in small urban spaces.
Join us for an afternoon of art, games, gardening and food and explore Primary’s outdoor spaces as we celebrate re-opening the building. Try out creative activities with artists Ismail Khokon and Raisa McClarey Francis, play games with The Toy Library and enjoy a BBQ from Open Arms Organisation.
Join Jake & Will FROMTHEGROUNDUP for making and mending sessions with some debate and discussion around materials, culture and beyond!
Join Work in Common artist is residence Madi Acharya-Baskerville for a free drop-in workshop. Creating mixed media sculptures inspired by nature is a mixed media workshop exploring how everyday packaging can be repurposed to create floral and leaf like mixed media forms.
This sound installation by Jala Wahid takes place in Gallery 2, alongside the Imagining Otherwise exhibition. Initially shared as part of a listening event, this powerful audio piece remains in place for the remainder of the exhibition and transports listeners across time through the medium of Kurdish maqams.
Imagining Otherwise Live is a series of events crafted by the artists, Ashley Holmes, Jala Wahid and Jasleen Kaur, who contributed to the Imagining Otherwise exhibition. This listening session with Ashley Holmes provides space to collectively listen to and hold discussions around relationships to music, sound, memory and oral histories.
Imagining Otherwise Live is a series of events crafted by the artists, Ashley Holmes, Jala Wahid and Jasleen Kaur, who contributed to the Imagining Otherwise exhibition. In the workshop, attendees will group read the text Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros through a series of improvised vocal experiments to explore collective voice.
This installation by Jala Wahid takes place in Gallery 2 but will transport listeners across time through the medium of Kurdish maqams and found ephemera.
Join Jake & Will FROMTHEGROUNDUP for making and mending sessions with some debate and discussion around materials, culture and beyond!
Join us for Primary’s most ambitious fundraising event to date – a ‘Garden Party’ in our newly refurbished and lush outdoor space. During the event we’ll be receiving pledges of support, helping fund different areas of activity across Primary’s programme, building and outdoor spaces.
Join us for drop-in gardening activities in the Primary garden - with an opportunity to learn more about growing vegetables, fruit, flowers and dye plants, and gardening in small urban spaces.
Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Project—an initiative centred on caring for and preserving seeds as keepers of ancestral connection and models of subversive advocacy - joins us to share her work and the context of land justice in Palestine.
Join us for a community screening of ‘Foragers’ by Jumana Manna, as part of ‘Nourishment: a Cyclical Programme’ at Primary. This event is a collaboration between Primary & Nottingham Contemporary.
Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace.
Oneiric Kitchen is a collaborative project by artist-filmmaker Chiemi Shimada and wellbeing practitioner Susie Cunningham. This workshop is for participants interested in exploring their sleep experiences. We are keen to connect with participants who have experience of sleep conditions.
Join us at Windmill Community Gardens for a plant and seed swap. Bring along spare seeds and plants you’d like to swap. If you don’t have any, you are welcome to take plants home and give a donation if you are able.
Join researcher and graphic designer Saria Digregorio for Hacking Labels, a practical workshop to explore fictional visions for community-led food systems and prototype interactive food labels to shape and share recipes for food systems transformation.
How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest guard become Monsanto’s worst nightmare? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, how she stood up to the corporate Goliaths of industrial agriculture, rose to prominence in the food justice movement, and inspired an international crusade for change.
Meet with the Future Machine and celebrate the blossoming cherry trees for the sixth year. For 2024 we are going to attempt to rewild Christ Church Gardens by asking you to bring along your own puppet creatures and cardboard plants made from recycled waste.
A hands-on workshop getting to know the common Birch tree – exploring culinary, medicinal, and crafts uses. The session will start with a sharing of stories, information and folklore about birch, with tea to taste. In the second half, we will make a birch leaf product for you to take home.
Join us for drop-in gardening activities in the Primary garden - with an opportunity to learn more about growing vegetables, fruit, flowers and dye plants, and gardening in small urban spaces.
