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.
Free weekly drop-in play sessions running on Wednesdays after school. 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.
Small Mercies is the first solo show in England by Glasgow-based artist Matthew Arthur Williams. Spanning both galleries at Primary, the exhibition combines new printed media, sound and moving image.
Join artist Priya Mistry (whatsthebigmistry) and guests for an afternoon of food, music and celebration - to mark the end of Mother Tongue: The Kitchen Residency, a collaboration between whatsthebigmistry, Primary and members of our community. This gathering will create space to share knowledge and culture through food, language, music and hands-on activities.
Permeating within Gallery 2 during the exhibition Small Mercies is an evolving and ‘trickling’ installation of moving image from Matthew Arthur Williams and others. Between 3 - 5 and 17 - 19 July, you can see Rhea Storr’s new film, Subjects of State, Labours of Love (2025).
A day to celebrate nature in the city and take part in a community Bioblitz – to discover and record the plants, fungi, insects and animals on Primary’s site. Throughout the day we’ll be joined by nature enthusiasts and experts to explore what’s living on our doorstep. From 2-4pm there will be creative family activities - celebrating wildlife in urban spaces.
Permeating within Gallery 2 during the exhibition Small Mercies is an evolving and ‘trickling’ installation of moving image from Matthew Arthur Williams and others. Between 3 - 5 and 17 - 19 July, you can see Rhea Storr’s new film, Subjects of State, Labours of Love (2025).
Welcome to Primary’s latest event, a live listening session featuring the talented Stockholm-based artist Santiago Mostyn!
Join Open Arms Organisation for the next session of the Cycle Cycle programme. These free sessions promote healthy living and offers a supportive and accessible space to increase cycling confidence and join community bike rides. There will also be free health screenings on offer.
Permeating within Gallery 2 during the exhibition Small Mercies is an evolving and ‘trickling’ installation of moving image from Matthew Arthur Williams and others. Between 19 - 21 June, you can see Caribbean Voices (2011), a film produced by Monienne Stone and Ray Johnson, founder of Staffordshire Film Archive.
Join us for En Masse, an eccentric blowout—a mix between the legacies of the Carnivalesque and Mas Bands. 45 masquerades parade; DJs and open-air live music and poetry will play all night against the backdrop of an expansive garden.
Come to our playground.
Join Open Arms Organisation for the next session of the Cycle Cycle programme. These free sessions promote healthy living and offers a supportive and accessible space to increase cycling confidence and join community bike rides. There will also be free health screenings on offer.
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.
Free weekly drop-in play sessions running on Wednesdays after school. 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.
Join Jake, Elin & Will FROMTHEGROUNDUP for making and mending sessions with some debate and discussion around materials, culture and beyond!
When the cherry blossoms in Christ Church Gardens, we will meet under the trees. Future Machine will appear and something will happen.
Join Open Arms Organisation for the first session of the Cycle Cycle programme. These free sessions promote healthy living and offers a supportive and accessible space to increase cycling confidence and join community bike rides. There will also be free health screenings on offer.
Join us for a conversation in Primary’s Studio A4 between exhibiting artist Maia Ruth Lee and curator Jade Foster on the opening weekend of the exhibition Human Life in Motion.
Artists Mentoring Curators is a series of conversations and is part of our Artist Development Programme.
For Colorado-based artist Maia Ruth Lee’s first UK solo exhibition beginning on the Spring Equinox, we imagine the gallery as a worldly and spiritual centre. Installations of sculpture, painting, and luggage across our galleries will explore human life in motion.
Curious about freelancing? Join The NewBridge Project for the third of their UpSkill sessions when they will be joined by Leila d’Aronville, founder of North East Cultural Freelancers and a guiding light in the precarious world of the freelancing. This event is also open and free to members of the Kaleidoscope Network.
Join Jake, Elin & Will FROMTHEGROUNDUP for making and mending sessions with some debate and discussion around materials, culture and beyond!
Free weekly drop-in play sessions running on Wednesdays after school. 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.
Join Jake, Elin & Will FROMTHEGROUNDUP for making and mending sessions with some debate and discussion around materials, culture and beyond!
Organised by Eastside Projects, facilitated by Artist and Educator Exodus Crooks this online workshop will invite participants to explore their senses in a time where we are encouraged to be disconnected from them.
Beam, in collaboration with Proyectos Ultravioleta, is pleased to present The Spirit of Science Fiction, the first solo show by Felipe Mujica (Santiago, Chile, 1974) in the UK, which borrows its title from the novel by Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) written around 1984 and published posthumously. The exhibition includes woven textiles, prints, artist’s books, and a new body of works on paper titled Te regalaré un abismo (I will give you an abyss) – a title taken from a poem by Bolaño, one of the most significant Latin American literary voices of his generation.
Join us at Primary, Nottingham, for an in-conversation with artists Palani Kumar , Hairunisha Kasim Moulana, and Nicole Thiara, Raghavi Chinnadurai. This event is a part of Primary’s Kolam exhibition and organised in collaboration with CADALFEST, and has been supported and produced by Joshua Lockwood-Moran.
Join Jake, Elin & Will FROMTHEGROUNDUP for making and mending sessions with some debate and discussion around materials, culture and beyond!
Led by artist and arts worker, Daniel Sean Kelly, this workshop session will focus on grant applications for visual art projects, and consider how we can use storytelling strategies to improve our chances of success.
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.
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.
An online screening of Oneiric Kitchen (work-in-progress) is available to view for one week. 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 artist Rocky Mol Selvaraj for a free creative workshop, Reimagining Apples, as part of the Kolam exhibition. Apples have been a recurring motif in Rocky’s practice, inspired by the skin-like texture of an aged apple. The Forbidden Fruit acts as a metaphor for her Dalit identity and the social exclusion she has experienced. At the same time, apples also excite her, symbolizing love, and humanity—potent forces for breaking discriminatory practices.
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!
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.
20 resident artists, designers and makers at Primary open their studios for one day only.
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.
