Free weekly gardening sessions are back every Friday! Join us for gardening activities and relax in a friendly, informal social space. Learn more about growing vegetables, fruit, flowers and dye plants and gardening in urban areas.
The exhibition Queer Texture unfolds 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.
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.
Free weekly drop-in play sessions running on Wednesdays after school in term time. Join play workers for adventurous outdoor play, art, crafts, games and forest school activities.
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.
Alongside the We Feed The UK exhibition, we are hosting Notts Seed Network’s Seed Library in the Reading Room. This seed library is part of a community project and a shared resource.
Alongside the We Feed The UK exhibition, we are hosting a selection of books from Nottingham Nourishment Network’s Ital Iwe Mobile Library, available to browse in the Reading Room.
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.
Grown by The Gaia Foundation, We Feed The UK is a national storytelling campaign pairing award-winning photographers and poets with some of the UK’s most inspiring regenerative food producers. These radical collaborations are raising awareness of the food system’s potential to positively address climate change, the biodiversity crisis and social injustice.
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.
Uncanny Christmas, Primary’s artist-run weird winter party is back for another year! Our annual fundraiser planned and executed by our resident community is now live. This year’s theme is ALWAYS UNCANNY.
Join us Saturday 6th December, 7PM – 1AM, to celebrate seasonal strangeness at our indoor festival with special guest DJs, themed bars in our artists' studios, live art games, tarot readings, a far-out photo-booth, our amazing raffle, and dancing into the night.
Join gardener Kathryn Cooper to learn more about winter gardening jobs including leaf mulch, composting, healthy soils and pruning.
An afternoon of exchange and collective action — bringing together organisations committed to social justice in the arts. Together we’ll share practices that have sparked real change, learn from one another’s journeys, and imagine what a radically different future for the sector could look like.
Primary’s 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.
When is red red, and when is red… purple or orange or pink or peach or brick or maroon or blush or plum? Join us in this colour- obsessed workshop to explore the mysteries of the historic British dye plant ‘madder’ and some of its relatives…
Join Open Arms Organisation for the Cycle Cycle programme. For this event, Bikes Love You will guide a community bike ride will take us on a quiet route from Primary to Wollaton Park, where we’ll take a look at some of the magical trees and share autumnal stories.
Join Newcastle writer and poet - Tahmina Ali - to learn how to add flair, style and a bit of you into your writing.
Through material play and creative research, the show will feature work by Primary resident and member artists—Louisa Chambers, Craig Fisher, Lynn Fulton and Sam Metz—across Gallery 1 and 2, exploring the word ‘flat’ in two distinct contexts.
We’re excited to announce that Primary Lates is back! We’re opening up exhibitions across Primary, Beam and TG for a late-night event, with music and drinks.
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 Plant Dye Studio for a deep dive into the rich mysteries of blue-bearing dye plants, including British woad and Japanese indigo.
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