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.
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 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 3 - 5 and 17 - 19 July, you can see Rhea Storr’s new film, Subjects of State, Labours of Love (2025).
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).
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Join Jake & Will FROMTHEGROUNDUP for making and mending sessions with some debate and discussion around materials, culture and beyond!
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
Supported by indy. powered by the Auction Collective, we will celebrate the end of summer and ten years of Primary’s public programme as we host our first online art auction featuring artworks by artists Hurvin Anderson, Betsy Bradley, Simona Brinkmann, Seán Cummins, Pete Ellis, Jade de Montserrat, Line Nilsen and Yelena Popova.
Join us to hear music, soundscapes, sonic artworks, work-in-progress, site recordings, readings, performances, and curiosities played back-to-back through an experimental sonic sculpture throughout the day in Primary’s Gallery 1. Activities, including open-air live music and sound performances, will also energise another sonic sculpture built in our playground.
Enjoy a delicious home-cooked meal and meet other people interested in food justice, growing and sustainable food. We'll discuss how the food we eat supports our health and how local communities can get better access to healthy ingredients.
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.
Join us for an afternoon of art, games, gardening and food and explore Primary’s outdoor spaces as we celebrate re-opening the building. Try out creative activities with artists Ismail Khokon and Raisa McClarey Francis, play games with The Toy Library and enjoy a BBQ from Open Arms Organisation.
