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.

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.

Join Studio A4 residents Amina Seid Tahir & Adam Seid Tahir for tea and small bites as they share their work from their residency at Primary. It’ll consist of early drafts, a soundscape and a small installation of soil and light.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 The NewBridge Project for this special ‘DIY Digital’ x Kaleidoscope Network workshop with Shelly Knotts. Get to grips with the practice of live coding – a way of performing which involves writing code on stage to make live music and video!

Bloc Projects hosts GLOAM to invite Kaleidoscope Network Members to join them as they share how they put a project together

Led by Artist and Writer Ania Bas, this interactive workshop will lead you through a simple process which helps you take stock to understand where you are at, figure out what you want to do next, and identify realistic steps you can take to get there.

Through art practice, how can we foster different cultural practices, political imaginations, networks of mutuality and relations, and even modes of world (un)making? In this talk, artist duo FRAUD will present their ongoing project EURO–VISION, a research-led inquiry that explores the concept of ‘extraction’ through the lens of artistic practice.

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.