Arts Catalyst, Sheffield (2026)

17/12/2025

👯‍♀️ Sisterhood Sessions with Meera Shakti Osborne ()

Throughout November and December 2025 artist Meera Shakti Osborne met with Reach Up Youth’s () Sisterhood group at the Verdon Recreation Centre in Burngreave.

Meera designed a series of workshops that explored love, sisterhood, home, and connection through different types of art making. The workshops were a space for the young women to be with one another and to creatively connect with themselves in a caring and supportive environment.

The activities were about listening to and connecting with our inner voices, finding new ways to be playful and expressing familiar feelings through art. We created zines about our names and our areas, checked in on our internal weather, drew our voices and ourselves, tried somatic breathing exercises, hummed, balanced bamboo canes on our fingertips, played games, and gave sound to words, memories, and colours through exercises inspired by Pauline Oliveros.

Here’s one for you to try: Old Sound, New Sound, Borrowed Sound Blue (Pauline Oliveros 1994)

OLD SOUND - A sound that you remember from a long time ago
NEW SOUND - A sound you never made before
BORROWED SOUND - a sound that you borrow from someone else
BLUE SOUND - a sound that is blue for you

Big thanks to the young women who took part in the project, the young leaders for organising the sessions with us and to Reach Up Youth!

Image credit: Arts Catalyst and Lucy Marriott ()

11/12/2025

🌌 Winter reading: Sahra Hersi and Sofia Niazi reflect on Home Making

As the year draws to a close and the nights stretch out we wanted to share essays from Sofia Niazi and Sahra Hersi. These essays evolved through working and reflecting on their project and exhibition Home Making, a collaboration with the Andalus Community Centre, commissioned by Arts Catalyst in 2025. The texts are available to download along with original illustrations on our website. Link in bio.

“A home is not ownership. A home is not just decoration. It is care, shared again and again. A home is a mosaic, made from many hands and many stories.” - Sahra Hersi, There Is Room For You Here

“When we are told that time is money and we see machines churning out objects, it makes the endeavour of learning and practicing traditional crafts seem outdated. But time is an invitation to be alive.” - Sofia Niazi, Carrying a Thread

25/11/2025

🏠 Thank you to everyone who came to White Teeth 98’s (.teeth.98) screening event, Weaving Kin and celebrated the final day of our Home Making exhibition with us.

Ella Barrett () and Jashan Walton () of collective White Teeth 98 curated a selection of films, including their short film Home (2024), which touched on different notions of home reflected through moving image and soundscapes.

Thanks to Suzy Mason (), Bediah (), Dr Nathaniel Télémaque (), Rhea Storr (), Villon Films (), Ellie Wen () and Photoworks () for allowing us to screen their films at this event.

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Image credit: Ella Barrett and Arts Catalyst

14/11/2025

We’re still ruminating on the incredible performances by Bint Mbareh and Rashad Becker at this year’s No Bounds Festival 2025. Each artist captivated us with beautifully intimate performances that touched on connection and language.

Bint Mbareh () invited the audience to become part of her choir - teasing out words, sung and spoken, whispered and shouted, to form a living, breathing collective soundscape.

Rashad Becker () drew us deep into his immersive, psychedelic 360° sound field - an intricate tapestry of rhythm, tone, and suggestion.
Huge thanks to for facilitating this special collaboration, and to iklectik for hosting these performances on their 12:4 system, which elevated the experience even further.

And heartfelt gratitude to the amazing team at G-Mill for providing the space and support for this event.

Image credits: James Ward (), Charlotte Dawson (), and Arts Catalyst ()

29/10/2025

🏠 Last chance to visit Home Making!

Our exhibition Home Making by Sofia Niazi (), Sahra Hersi (), and Rajo (a group of women connected to the Andalus Community Centre) closes on 1 November.

The works in the exhibition emerged from the special connection that the artists formed with Rajo during a series of workshops where they experimented with rug tufting, ceramic painting, and printing. The workshops created a unique space of warmth, friendship, and creativity where the process of gathering to make together became a form of collective home making.

Make sure you catch Home Making before it closes! Come and spend time with the artworks, read the books, collect a poster or do some drawing and embroidery while sipping freshly brewed herbal teas. Open this week: Thursday - Saturday, 12-5pm.

We are grateful to the artists, Rajo, Andalus Community Centre, and fabricators for making the gallery at Exchange Place feel so special. We will really miss this warm and inviting exhibition.

Partners and fabricators:

Image credits: Jashan Walton () and Ella Barrett ().

20/10/2025

☕️ Home Making | Exhibition

Come and visit our current exhibition Home Making, which explores how making, play, learning and cooperation can forge a sense of purpose, belonging, and respite in times of change and uncertainty.

The works displayed in the exhibition feature a set of handmade doormats produced by Rajo, a group of women associated with Andalus Community Centre (), throughout a series of workshops designed by artists Sahra Hersi () and Sofia Niazi ().

Rajo’s artworks are presented alongside new commissions by the artists. They include a large-scale textile piece by Sofia Niazi inspired by her mother’s garden, and a ceramic tile artwork by Sahra Hersi that depicts motifs of openness, collaboration, and solidarity explored by Rajo. It is surrounded by plates and prints that include scenes, memories, and motifs that hold particular value for the group, and that speak to lived and imagined places and landscapes they shared in the process of getting to know each other.

The gallery at Exchange Place will be open Thursday-Saturday, 12-5pm until 1 November.

Image credit: Ai Narapol ()

14/10/2025

🏠📽️ Weaving Kin Screening Event with White Teeth 98
1 November | 4-7pm | Exchange Place | Free, booking required

On November 1 we will be hosting Weaving Kin, a screening event with White Teeth 98 (.teeth.98).

Join us for an evening of moving images and soundscapes from White Teeth 98’s archive that draw on the ideas explored in their short film Home. This event marks the end of our exhibition Home Making and will reflect on different notions of ‘home’, concluding with an intimate conversation about place and the complex and varied experiences and feelings that accompany it.

🎟️ This event is free to attend - booking is essential as we have limited space. Secure your place via the link in our bio.

Home Making is open until 1 November at Exchange Place, S2 5TR, Thursday-Saturday, 12-5pm.

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Image description: A woman and a man, both with dark curly hair, relaxing in the sun on a rooftop. They are smiling at the camera and are surrounded by grey panelled and brick buildings with lots of windows underneath the blue sky.

09/10/2025

✨ Artist Spotlight: Rashad Becker ()

We’re transplanting Rashad Becker from Berlin to No Bounds Festival () to present an immersive journey into the deep architecture of sound. His live set will take place at GMill (SADACCA) on Saturday 11 October.

Rashad released his latest album, the incident, in April this year. Taking a radically different approach - juxtaposing dense and delicate, whimsical and ornate, charged and delirious - the album is a meditation on the relationship between language and place.

Artist bio:
rashad becker
composer and musician, berlin
started not not being in 1970
started losing trust in 1983
started losing hope in 1989
started losing discipline in 1993
started losing hair in 2005
started losing perspective in 2020
some items still available

🎟️ Individual tickets for this event are available via Resident Advisor through the link in our bio. A small number of tickets will be available to purchase on the door.

Or if you have a No bounds Weekend Pass / Saturday Day to Night / Saturday Day to Night + After Party ticket this event is free to attend - but spaces are limited so please get down early.

Rashad will also be doing a workshop with Electronic Music Club as part of No Bounds at 4.30-5.30pm on Sunday 12 October at the Hope Centre, Rotherham.

Image credit: Camille Blake ()
Video credit: Sonic Protest via Youtube

Image and video descriptions: 1. A black and white image of a man wearing a cap standing behind a white fluffy dog that he is holding on a lead. The street he is standing on is cobbled, with litter, cars, and a graffiti’d building behind him. 2. A video of a man standing at DJ decks turning nobs and playing a synthesiser.

06/10/2025

SOUNDS FROM THE GROUND: BINT MBAREH / RASHAD BECKER
Arts Catalyst x No Bounds | 11th October | 5.30pm - 8pm | SADACCA G-MILL, Sheffield

Arts Catalyst are excited to be partnering with No Bounds Festival () for the second time, to present live performances by Rashad Becker () and Bint Mbareh ().

Bint Mbareh is bringing her experimental live performance to Sheffield for the first time, welcoming the audience into a choir of whoever is present where they can actively and intimately connect through non-musical, embodied ways of sounding, including moaning, grunting, clapping, and whispering.

📌 Bint Mbareh’s set is a closed door performance so please arrive 5 minutes early as we will try to minimise people coming and going.

Rashad Becker returns to No Bounds, with a live set of synthesized landscapes, composed from unique expressions of language and noise. His performance invites the audience to be enveloped and disoriented by ritualistic repetitions, industrial textures and electro-acoustic abstraction.

Sound by IKLECTIK ()

🎟️ Individual tickets for this event are available via Resident Advisor through the link in our bio. A small number of tickets will be available to purchase on the door.

Alternatively if you have a No bounds Weekend Pass / Saturday Day to Night / Saturday Day to Night + After Party ticket this event is free to attend - spaces are limited though so please get down early.

5.30pm Doors
6pm Bint Mbareh
7pm Rashad Becker
8pm Close

For information on venue access please visit the Resident Advisor link in our bio.

Image credit: James Clarkson (), poster by Arts Catalyst.

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06/10/2025

SOUNDS FROM THE GROUND: BINT MBAREH / RASHAD BECKER
Arts Catalyst x No Bounds | 11th October | 5.30pm - 8pm | SADACCA G-MILL, Sheffield

Arts Catalyst are excited to be partnering with No Bounds Festival () for the second time, to present live performances by Rashad Becker () and Bint Mbareh ().

Bint Mbareh is bringing her experimental live performance to Sheffield for the first time, welcoming the audience into a choir of whoever is present where they can actively and intimately connect through non-musical, embodied ways of sounding, including moaning, grunting, clapping, and whispering.

📌 Bint Mbareh’s set is a closed door performance so please arrive 5 minutes early as we will try to minimise people coming and going.

Rashad Becker returns to No Bounds, with a live set of synthesized landscapes, composed from unique expressions of language and noise. His performance invites the audience to be enveloped and disoriented by ritualistic repetitions, industrial textures and electro-acoustic abstraction.

Sound by IKLECTIK ()

🎟️ Individual tickets for this event are available via Resident Advisor through the link in our bio. A small number of tickets will be available to purchase on the door.

Alternatively if you have a No bounds Weekend Pass / Saturday Day to Night / Saturday Day to Night + After Party ticket this event is free to attend - spaces are limited though so please get down early.

5.30pm Doors
6pm Bint Mbareh
7pm Rashad Becker
8pm Close

For information on venue access please visit the Resident Advisor link in our bio.

Image credit: James Clarkson () poster by Arts Catalyst.

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02/10/2025

🪡 In September we held Stitch and Spill, a workshop with Aya Haidar ().

The workshop was inspired by our current exhibition Home Making. Guests were invited to talk about home with Aya and each other. We spent a very rainy Sunday discussing if home is a place, a person, or a feeling of longing, safety, or uncertainty, and then we translated those thoughts onto teatowels, a domestic item used for both physical and metaphorical spills.

People chose to embroider words, flowers, fruits, arrows, and outlines of countries. Some participants chose to share a teatowel and stitch together, embroidering a corner each, others worked in their own time to carve out space for reflection and focus.

Home Making is open at Exchange Place until 1 November 2025, Thursday-Saturday 12-5pm.

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