Strong Bonds for a Fragile Planet will bring together artists and curious people through walks, talks, dinners and workshops to consider what we need at a time when the world feels fragile in many ways.
Inspired by ideas from the book ‘Radical Intimacy’ by Sophie K Rosa, Strong Bonds for a Fragile Planet will explore the themes of home and refuge, the idea of rest and solidarity, community and connection through a varied series of events.
Strong Bonds for a Fragile Planet will take place as a selection of WALKS, TALKS, DINNERS and WORKSHOPS with plenty of ways to get involved.
Join us on a series of WALKS while we muse on what ‘home’ means to us, reflecting on our relationships to the landscape we are walking through, and to the humans and non-humans we are sharing space with.
We will be hosting TALKS as part of our Metal New Artist Network focussing on topics in the book ‘Radical Intimacy’, exploring how to navigate and care for yourself when making autobiographical work.
A course of DINNERS will be hosted by artist Kate Genever, who is in residence as part of the programme, exploring what rest looks like for artists and curators.
A series of WORKSHOPS through our Future Network, led by invited artists will be themed around rest, alternative ways of being, connection and care.
In partnership with Pluto Press and the Reading Room, Strong Bonds for a Fragile Planet will re-imagine connection, care, and community for the different world that we live in today.
Events Programme
‘Home is now – we are home’: Interactive walk with Hayley Harrison #1
Saturday 24 February, 5pm – 7pm, FREE
Join artist Hayley Harrison for an interactive walk at dusk, using text-based projections to start a discussion about how we might define ‘home’. .
Radical Imagination: Design Inspired by Collective Creativity with Ramona Zadissa
Sunday 25 February, 10:30am – 2:30pm, FREE
In this hands-on workshop, as part of Future Network, join Ramona Zadissa (they/them) where you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with other participants to construct designs based on Islamic geometry to embrace a new form of intimacy through collaborative creativity and collective learning. .
“We have found in the ashes what we lost in the fire” Pop Up Exhibition
Tuesday 27 February – Saturday 2 March, 11am – 4pm, FREE
Throughout February, artist Kate Genever will be carrying out her residency “We have found in the ashes what we lost in the fire” as part of our Strong Bonds for a Fragile Planet programme. The residency is a response to the overarching themes of the ‘Strong Bonds for a Fragile Planet‘ programme and informed by recent conversations Kate has had with visual artists and curators about how they make to recover, rejuvenate, refresh and rest. Come and see the work created by Kate and others in response to this via a pop-up exhibition.
Thursday 29 February, 7pm-8:30pm
Join author of ‘Radical intimacy’ Sophie K. Rosa and a guest Artist for an in-conversation about how to take care when making autobiographical work as part of our Metal New Artist Network
Friday 1 March, 5pm – 7pm, FREE
Members of Babeworld will be hosting a workshop exploring fan-fiction as an empowering tool for transformation and re-imagining futures.
Saturday 2 March, 3pm-4pm, FREE
Come found out what findings artist Kate Genever has found from her residency. The residency is a response to the overarching themes of the Strong Bonds for a Fragile Planet programme and informed by recent conversations Kate has had with visual artists and curators about how they make to recover, rejuvenate, refresh and rest
Saturday 2 March, 5pm – 7pm, FREE
Join artist Hayley Harrison for an interactive walk at dusk, using text-based projections to start a discussion about how we might define ‘home’.
You can book onto all the different events .
Check out more information about Pluto Press and the Reading Room Project .
