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 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.
Oneiric Kitchen is a collaborative project by artist-filmmaker Chiemi Shimada and wellbeing practitioner Susie Cunningham. This workshop is for participants interested in exploring their sleep experiences. We are keen to connect with participants who have experience of sleep conditions.
Join us for a community screening of ‘Foragers’ by Jumana Manna, as part of ‘Nourishment: a Cyclical Programme’ at Primary.
Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. The screening will be followed by a response and Q&A with artist, educator and architect Dima Srouji.
This event is a collaboration between Primary and Nottingham Contemporary.
Join Micha from The Witches Kitchen for a communal meal, using ingredients that have traditional healing properties. Food will be sourced locally and during the meal, Micha will share the stories behind the recipes. We'll discuss how the food we eat support our health and how local communities can get better access to healthy ingredients.
Join researcher and graphic designer Saria Digregorio for Hacking Labels, a practical workshop to explore fictional visions for community-led food systems and prototype interactive food labels to shape and share recipes for food systems transformation.
How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest guard become Monsanto’s worst nightmare? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, how she stood up to the corporate Goliaths of industrial agriculture, rose to prominence in the food justice movement, and inspired an international crusade for change.
Meet with the Future Machine and celebrate the blossoming cherry trees for the sixth year. For 2024 we are going to attempt to rewild Christ Church Gardens by asking you to bring along your own puppet creatures and cardboard plants made from recycled waste.
A hands-on workshop getting to know the common Birch tree – exploring culinary, medicinal, and crafts uses. The session will start with a sharing of stories, information and folklore about birch, with tea to taste. In the second half, we will make a birch leaf product for you to take home.
Unlock the secrets to a thriving creative career. Join arts insider Ceri Hand must-attend in-person session at Primary where she'll share her wisdom and experience. With practical tips and advice, you'll learn how to best work, articulate it effectively, build champions and earn money doing what you love.
Social Practice Social is back! Join us online for the first meet up on the year. This session will be a chance to catch up, and share current and upcoming projects.
Social Practice Social is a regular discussion forum for artists, programmers, community organisers, activists, and others working with participation, collaboration, public space, or social change.
After a three-year break join us for the return of the hugely popular Uncanny Christmas, our annual fundraiser planned and executed by our resident community. For one night only experience Found Utopia, Primary’s antidote to the traditional Christmas party.
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.
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 artist Saintly Amok to grind and cook with grains harvested from Primary's garden this autumn. The heritage grains of wheat, barley, oats and rye were sown in spring during the 'Seed Sankalpa' event in the spring.
Join Jade and Roo’s Slow Reading Group where we read together, out loud and slowly, and discuss topics such as care, reciprocity, complaint, community, and culture. Our reading material will be taken from texts and books that inspired the making of Roo’s exhibition, Courses for Dis-Course(s), currently showing at Primary and previously presented at GLOAM.
A playful, hands-on workshop with Georgina Barney from Plant Dye Studio to explore some of the remarkable uses of the Sumac tree.
Primary Lates are back! Join us on Friday 27 October and enjoy exhibitions across Primary and independent galleries TG, Forth and Beam, all located in our building.
Join Primary, Himmah and Nottz Garden Project for a shared meal using veg grown on plots in Radford. During this informal event, we’ll share food prepared by local cooks and discuss some of the key themes from the Nourishment programme. Enjoy a delicious home-cooked meal and meet other people interested in food justice, growing and sustainable food.
Are you curious about fungi and keen to learn more about how to cultivate them? Would you like to be able to grow your own mushrooms at home? The ‘Dirty Cultures’ workshop will be led by artist Matt Gale who will introduce you to all of the stages of fungi cultivation.
In Courses for Dis-Course(s), artist Roo Dhissou conjures up a space, for dining, eating, cooking and gathering that manifest in a sort of kitchen, dining room, café, restaurant, chill space. The project includes a series of exhibitions and dining events for British South Asian artists.
Join us through the summer to for 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. You can also drop in for a coffee and a chat to enjoy our outdoor space.
Come along to a screening of short films by artist Matthew Arthur Williams, followed by a Q&A chaired by Primary curator Jade Foster. During September, Matthew is in residence at Primary as part of our Work in Common series.
Oneiric Kitchen is a new collaborative project by adolescent counsellor and wellbeing practitioner Susie Cunningham and artist-filmmaker Chiemi Shimada. Susie and Chiemi provide therapeutic cooking workshops for people with sleep disorders. Susie is a patient with an incurable sleep disorder.
Join us for the official launch of Ronald Street Playground, that has been redeveloped by Nottingham City Council. We will also be unveiling the Build Create Play public artwork, which has been designed and produced by artist Ismail Khokon, with Charlotte Tupper, The Toy Library and young people from Radford.
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.
Join us through the summer to for 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. You can also drop in for a coffee and a chat to enjoy our outdoor space.
Primary is excited to announce that on Friday 7 July it will re-open to the public following important changes made to its recently acquired building focusing on visitor welcome, accessibility and sustainability.
This two hour online workshop with Liz Postlethwaite aims to support artists and creatives to explore what notions of “regeneration” and “regenerative” may mean within their own practice, with particular focus upon community engagement, and with the wider climate and ecological crisis.
Join Bethan McIlroy at Windmill Community Gardens for a plant and seed swap and compost skillshare.
Join artist Saintly Amok for a seed planting workshop in the Primary garden, to sow heritage grains of wheat, barley, and oats. Taking inspiration from ceremonies carried out by rural farming communities to honour the land and bless seeds and tools for the coming season of cultivation.
Free drop-in event following the annual blossoming of the cherry trees on Christ Church Gardens (Ilkeston Road), as part of ‘When the Future Comes’: creating rituals for the future.
Free weekly drop-in creative arts and play sessions running every Wednesday after school during term time. These sessions will take place at All Souls Community Centre. Join play workers and artists for adventurous indoor play, art, crafts and games and work with artist Ismail Khokon to develop an exciting new public artwork for Ronald Street Playground!
Join us for a live conversation delving into the relationship between conservation and land rights, highlighting different modes of relating to land and the urgency of centring reparative approaches.
