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 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.

Join us as the studio audience for a live performance of the last reality TV food show on the planet! 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. Unfolding as the final reality TV food competition on Earth, this performance piece uses humour to examine the divide between online food cultures and their disconnection to wider issues of class, gender, and geography.

Join us for the final of Sam Keogh’s performances as part of The Unicorn is Killed and Brought to the Castle Cartoon, an installation of large-scale figurative collage presented at Primary. These live interventions will see Keogh interact with the collaged elements of the work.

Join us for the first of Sam Keogh’s performances as part of The Unicorn is Killed and Brought to the Castle Cartoon, an installation of large-scale figurative collage presented at Primary. These live interventions will see Keogh interact with the collaged elements of the work.

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.

NMG R&D Bursary recipients Seema Mattu,Tom Harris and Sean Roy Parker will meet in person for the first time for an improvised audio-visual performance, collating elements of their independent work made over the winter.

Supported by New Midland Group, Primary resident and experimental sound artist Tom Harris presents Listening Space - Deep Listening Room & Live Performance. The event encourages Deep Listening Practices, purveyed by Musician and Scholar Pauline Oliveros.

Primary residents will be joined by guest performers for an evening of livestreamed free entertainment, in support of the ‘Build A Better Primary’ fundraiser campaign. With your support we're going to make Primary a long-term home for art and creativity in Nottingham!

In the first episode of the Re-Framing Dance 5-part podcast series Nora-Swantje Almes speaks about inherent contradictions and the potential of transformation with London-based artist and choreographer Jamila Johnson-Small and New York City-based choreographer Gillian Walsh.

An evening of screenings, readings, and performances framed by modes of improvisation, lying, and theatre.

A performance drawing on the folk tradition of East-Lancashire clogging to explore the impact of technology on the body, working through and against systems of constraint and control.

An evening of readings, performance and discussion with Voices That Shake! as part of their Work in Common residency. 

A visual and sonic lecture-performance on the practice of speaking with ghosts, bringing to light stories of women entangled in colonial and post-colonial experiences through the narrative of science-fiction writing and film.