Ten Primary residents and members open their studios to the public, offering a behind the scenes look at their creative practices and transforming Primary Open into a vibrant, community led exchange of ideas. The event celebrates the diverse range of artistic approaches within the Primary community.

Join us for the opening of Santiago Mostyn’s exhibition, Natural History.

Natural History is the culmination of an extended period of visual and auditory research by Stockholm-based artist Santiago Mostyn into the Grenada Revolution (1979-1983). Photographic archives, personal correspondence, audio recordings, textiles and 16mm film are presented and remixed in the galleries to create an open-ended retelling of one of the most consequential yet overlooked episodes of the Black Power era in the Caribbean.

Where: Online via zoom

Booking: Free to Kaleidoscope members. Book via link here

Join Amy Milner and Tzipporah Johnston from Neuk Collective for a practical, supportive workshop on understanding your access needs and beginning to write an Access Rider.

‘PRIMARY FLEA’, is a fundraising flea market and car-boot sale taking place in the playground at PRIMARY. Expect a varied selection of stalls, from high-end craft and handmade goods to bric-a-brac, antiques, vintage clothes, plants and everything in between.

Join us for an afternoon of art, games, music and food whilst exploring Primary’s outdoor spaces. We’re excited to collaborate with The Toy Library, Open Arms Arms Organisation, Heya and Refugee Roots to bring you this fun community day.

Join Assunta and Lou, an artist mother and daughter duo, together with sculptor Ellie Barrett and her daughter Nora, for a hands-on family workshop sharing what they made and discovered during a week-long residency together at Primary.

Go Midlands! is a great opportunity to find out more about the art scenes in each city from the people who live there, compare the different contexts and make new connections with artists, organisers and curators based across the region.

Where: Online via Zoom
Booking: Free to Kaleidoscope Network members

Whether it be creating clear and convincing proposals or well thought-through and engaging applications, working out how to write about your work and ideas when applying for funding or opportunities is essential.

Join us for the preview of Queer Texture, a new exhibition unfolding weaving as a queer, relational, and multisensory practice. Experience newly commissioned works by Raisa Kabir, Amina Seid Tahir, and Adam Seid Tahir, shown alongside tapestries by Qualeasha Wood.

Every year when the cherry trees blossom in Christ Church Gardens we meet under the trees and Future Machine appears. This year join us for blossoms, predictions from the Future Machine, tea, coffee and cake!

Join gardener Kathryn Cooper to learn more about winter gardening jobs including leaf mulch, composting, healthy soils and pruning.

Join Heya for a Community Iftar. During Ramadan, the Iftar is an evening meal to break the daily fast. For this event, community members of all faiths or none are welcomed to join Heya, to share food and celebrate together.

Join gardener Kathryn Cooper to learn more about winter gardening jobs including leaf mulch, composting, healthy soils and pruning.

Join Kimberly Bell from Small Food Bakery and Rosy Benson from Field Bakery for a gathering for anyone who identifies as a woman working with grain.

Join gardener Kathryn Cooper to learn more about winter gardening jobs including leaf mulch, composting, healthy soils and pruning.

Come and enjoy a homemade meal made by Open Arms Organisation. During this informal event you’ll be invited to join the table with old and new friends, learn about the foundations of food, what’s sustainable, and where our food comes from.

This session supports artists to clarify the motivations, ideas, and frameworks that sit beneath their practice and to understand how these are shaped, filtered, and distilled into the practices and methodologies they share with others.

Join us on a walk through Hyson Green and Radford to explore local food gardens with Nottz Garden Project. We’ll discuss what local residents would like to grow and the projects origins at Himmah food bank. The walk will end at Primary for refreshments and a look round the current exhibition.

Join us for the launch of  We Feed The UK – an exhibition showcasing The Gaia Foundation's award-winning storytelling campaign that pairs photographers and poets with some of the UK’s most inspiring regenerative food producers. This afternoon event includes an opportunity to meet some of the photographers, poets and growers involved, view the exhibition and take part in hands-on activities.

Join gardener Kathryn Cooper to learn more about winter gardening jobs including leaf mulch, composting, healthy soils and pruning.

Help shape Primary’s next chapter! We’re hosting a one-hour stakeholder session on Thursday 18 December, 5:30–6:30pm to gather responses from our audiences. Primary has recently updated our organisational Vision, Mission and Values and we need your feedback!

The first iteration of the Diasporas Now Tour will take place at Primary on 12 December at 6.30pm. Our first line-up includes Mahsa Salali and Tif Wellington, followed by a DJ set by Princess Trium.

Artist and founder of The Other MA (TOMA) Emma Edmondson hosts an online workshop-cum-conversation inviting you to imagine your own art school and explore the art school as an artwork through the power and politics of alternative art education.