Social Practice Social is a regular discussion forum for artists, programmers, community organisers, activists, and others working with participation, collaboration, public space, or social change.
The group is open, free to attend, and anyone is welcome to join us.
Please see event details for dates and locations.
Social Practice Social is back! Join us online for the first meet up on the year. This session will be a chance to catch up, and share current and upcoming projects.
Social Practice Social is a regular discussion forum for artists, programmers, community organisers, activists, and others working with participation, collaboration, public space, or social change.
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.
This two hour online workshop with Liz Postlethwaite aims to support artists and creatives to explore what notions of “regeneration” and “regenerative” may mean within their own practice, with particular focus upon community engagement, and with the wider climate and ecological crisis.
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 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.
This hands-on workshop with artist Ben Moore provides a toolkit to use collage practice in an educational setting. The workshop and toolkit will focus on how we can unpack perceptions around art-making by making decisions around design, materials, and risk as accessible and comfortable as possible.
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.
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 collective cooking session, trying out recipes and activities from the ‘Kitchen Cultures’ book.
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 July’s get together, we’ll be meeting in person for the first time in over a year. Meet at Primary for a gentle walk around the neighbourhood, talking as we go.
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.
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.
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.
Join us for the first Social Practice Social of 2020, and help plan sessions for the year. Bring along ideas for projects, questions and themes you’d like to explore.
