Artist, activist and researcher Luiza Prado De O. Martins will join Engagement Curator Rebecca Beinart in conversation around the work they are developing as part of Primary’s spring Nourishment season. Luiza Prado’s The Kitchen Network delves into the politics of food as entertainment, exploring how it's become detached from the realities of its production and its role in climate collapse.

This is a workshop about confidence.

You might have writer’s block, you might have an upcoming public speaking engagement, you might be feeling low about your creative ideas in general or you might be scared of talking on the phone. Either way, this workshop is for you!

Bewildered by budgets? Freaked out by numbers? Triggered by maths? Don’t worry, we’ve got you! A good budget is the foundation of a good project. Build your confidence in this hands on workshop focussed on budgets and how to make tools like Excel or Google Sheets work for you!

From audio description to closed captions, alt-text and remote viewing, artist and writer Jamila Prowse will provide examples from her own practice as well as artists who inspire her, to consider how access adjustments can be an integral art form as opposed to an add on or afterthought.

During the Covid-19 pandemic and spanning various lockdowns Primary and Bethlem Gallery collaborated on a remote artist-to-artist support programme. Participating artists will share creative outcomes alongside discussing their experiences of connecting and developing new work together.

Bookkeeper Neisa Reid joins us to deliver an artist development focused session on financial recording, tax, and self-assessment. This is an excellent opportunity for artists, makers, and creatives to learn or be refreshed on the necessary skills to manage being self-employed.

Join artist Abbas Zahedi and co-founder of Square Root Soda, Ed Taylor, for a session focused around citrus. The workshop will take the form of a sharing circle, where participants are encouraged to think and write creatively together. You are invited to bring and share your own reflections and texts on citrus.

Join us for a screening of Antemasque, a new performance film and sound work made in collaboration by artists Melanie Wheeler and Mihai Bircu. The work retells the ancient myth of Medusa, the story of a serpent haired Gorgon with an 'evil' lithifying gaze who is eventually sacrificed and weaponised.

This practical and dynamic workshop will explore what it means to work creatively from archives (and the gaps within), inspired by a recent community theatre project in Bristol and the publication of Haunting Ashton Court: A Creative Handbook for Collective History-Making.

To care can feel good; it can also feel awful. It can do good; it can oppress. Its essential character to humans and countless living beings makes it all the most susceptible to convey control. But what is care?

This surgery is a chance to meet other practitioners and discuss and your creative conundrums. It is for people with any creative practice.

Take part in a talk and discussion with Finnish curator and writer Taru Elfving, exploring curatorial collective CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago, and their art-science collaborations on the shifting shorelines of the Baltic Sea.

Whilst what you know and who you know remain essential for making it as an artist, being known beyond those you already know can be a door opener for more opportunities.

An event for sharing coping mechanisms, top tips, offers, hacks, tricks and check-lists to help you get to know your brain and get done the things you want to get done on a fulfilling level.

Join Eastside Projects’ bookkeeper/accountant Neisa Reid for an online toolkit session on being self-employed, keeping financial records and completing you tax return.

How can we diversify creative practices in response to current ecological and social challenges? Artist, urban farmer and creative director Michael Smythe will explore strategies for individuals and communities to reshape their urban environment to prioritise environmental and social justice.

In this session Angela YT Chan will support us to develop a resource kit or ‘Climate Justice Rider’ for freelance artists and arts workers to extend to employers and institutions that they work with.

This workshop will provide a flexible introduction to working with objects, materials, animations in Blender, and will be helpful for absolute beginners and those who've used it a few times but got frustrated by the interface.

Hear from an untrained art writer about their approach and the multiple things writing critically about art can lead to (e.g., better communicating your practice, visiting interesting people and places, writing for publication).

This summit concludes The Exchange 2 with a sharing of activities, outcomes, processes and experiences from artists who have taken part which aims to reflect the breadth of practices and approaches.

With artist Melanie Wheeler we will work through the entire process of cyanotype printing, exploring the different stages of development and test the technique using a variety of materials, surfaces and objects.

Artists Sahjan Kooner and Roo Dhissou discuss family, the village, longing, black holes, collectives, futures, labour, tools, transformation and hope. Join them in-person or online to explore a new vocabulary for collaboration.

Here John Eng Kiet Bloomfield, Senior Programme Curator at Wysing Arts Centre talk about residencies, how Wysing approach them, and why they are so important for artists’ development.

In this Marketing Strategy workshop we will explore the most strategic and effective ways to promote your work across different platforms and audiences.