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⚓ Are you ready to step into our new (temporary) visual arts space? We're super excited to introduce you to Sting by Zes...
29/05/2026

⚓ Are you ready to step into our new (temporary) visual arts space?

We're super excited to introduce you to Sting by Zest Collective at the Old Sail Loft at Shamrock Quay!

This group show brings together 18 artists in an exploration of resilience and creative survival.

💥 Opening Launch: Friday 12th June, 6pm - 10pm
Expect live music from local collective Address, a bar, food trucks, and artist talks throughout the evening! 🎶

Exhibition Dates:
💥 Saturday 13th June | 11am–5pm
💥Sunday 14th June | 11am–5pm
💥Saturday 20th June | 11am–5pm
💥Sunday 21st June | 11am–5pm

📍Location: The Old Sail Loft, Building 3, Shamrock Quay, Lower William Street, Southampton, SO14 5QL

FREE tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-event-sting-by-zest-collective-at-the-old-sail-loft-tickets-1989237725586?aff=oddtdtcreator

🚨 EVENT ALERT: FLARB (Free Lazy Arty Radical Book Club) Join us for FLARB with ZEST co-director Ellen Gillett as she fac...
29/05/2026

🚨 EVENT ALERT: FLARB (Free Lazy Arty Radical Book Club)

Join us for FLARB with ZEST co-director Ellen Gillett as she facilitates a fun, informal conversation around our new contemporary art commission by Uma Breakdown.

🗓 Sunday 7th June, 11:30am - 1pm
📍 God’s House Tower
🎟️ Free Entry (tickets available)

FLARB is a book club without the stress of a conventional book club. It reclaims the word ‘lazy’ as a radical approach to inclusion and self-compassion.

The session removes traditional access barriers to reading around arts and social justice topics in order to create a sociable, inclusive space to have a read, have a chat and learn something together.

📸 Photos by Holli Kalina Photography

FREE tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flarb-free-lazy-arty-radical-bookclub-with-zest-tickets-1986891123837?aff=oddtdtcreator

👀 Got plans next Friday night? Join us for the launch of House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown at God’s H...
28/05/2026

👀 Got plans next Friday night?

Join us for the launch of House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown at God’s House Tower.

🗓 Friday 5th June, 6pm
🎟️ Free Entry

Commissioned by ‘a space’ arts, Uma's work is about love, restraint, liberty, pain, growth and collapse. The exhibition explores alternative routes through time, drawing on fact and fiction to reimagine the past and speculate about the future.

Working across drawing, fiction, animation, code and sculpture, the artist revisits the building’s past as a Bridewell, an institution established in the 18th Century to house ‘idlers, vagrants and prostitutes’. The project asks what a place of spiritual and physical repair for people seen as ‘other’ might be, if freed from the authority of state and church that underpinned these ‘Houses of Correction’ and the subsequent systems they have evolved into since?

Using the unique history and architecture of God’s House Tower, as well as the artist’s home of the North East, House of Revision / House of Repair imagines a sacred grove for fringe cultures and unconventional communities with alternative belief systems, such as ancient outlawed religions and pre-modern travelling performance groups, centering communal care at the edges of legality.

FREE tickets for the launch are now available:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-event-house-of-revision-house-of-repair-by-uma-breakdown-tickets-1984616992850?aff=oddtdtcreator

🚨 Critical Writing CommissionQuite Mundane but also Disastrous by Phin Jennings is a dialogue with Alistair Debling, com...
23/05/2026

🚨 Critical Writing Commission

Quite Mundane but also Disastrous by Phin Jennings is a dialogue with Alistair Debling, commissioned by ‘a space’ arts as part of our Critical Writing programme, in response to the ideas and themes in this exhibition.

Now available to read: https://godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/rafts-by-alistair-debling/edate/2026-03-20/

📍 RAFTS closes Monday 25 May, so come along to GHT and explore the exhibition before it ends.

GHT Opening Hours:
› Saturday: 10:00–17:00
› Sunday: 10:00–16:00
› Monday: 09:00–16:00

Photos: By Luke Shears

EVENT ALERT 🚨A new film from the National Emergency Briefing - a public information initiative to ensure the UK is fully...
21/05/2026

EVENT ALERT 🚨

A new film from the National Emergency Briefing - a public information initiative to ensure the UK is fully briefed on the climate and nature crisis is being screened at God's House Tower.

📆 Saturday 23 May, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
📌 Free and open to everyone

The film presents the national implications of climate and nature breakdown - along with credible, positive responses - in a single, accessible account designed for screening in communities across the UK.

Accessibility in the Crawford Room at GHT:
The Crawford Room does not have step-free access. If you have concerns about your visit, please email [email protected]

As the Crawford Room isn’t fully accessible, we can recommend attending a screening at the University of Southampton Highfield Campus, which is located on the ground floor, fully accessible, including disabled access, with an induction loop for hearing-aid users.

📌 Free tickets: godshousetower.org.uk

We're so excited to introduce you to our new (temporary) space, The Old Sail Loft at Shamrock Quay! Launching Sting by...
17/05/2026

We're so excited to introduce you to our new (temporary) space, The Old Sail Loft at Shamrock Quay!

Launching Sting by Zest Collective, their ninth exhibition and second instalment. This group show brings together 18 artists in an exploration of resilience and creative survival.

💥 Opening Launch: Friday 12th June, 6pm - 10pm
🎶 Expect live music from Address, a bar, food trucks, and artist talks throughout the evening!

Exhibition Dates:
💥 Saturday 13th June | 11am–5pm
💥Sunday 14th June | 11am–5pm
💥Saturday 20th June | 11am–5pm
💥Sunday 21st June | 11am–5pm

📍Location: The Old Sail Loft, Building 3, Shamrock Quay, Lower William Street, Southampton, SO14 5QL

Free tickets: aspacearts.org.uk

For information about Access, please visit our website: aspacearts.org.uk

💥 SAVE THE DATES 💥 presents Sting, taking place at The Old Sail Loft in Shamrock Quay. This group exhibition brings toge...
16/05/2026

💥 SAVE THE DATES 💥

presents Sting, taking place at The Old Sail Loft in Shamrock Quay. This group exhibition brings together 18 artists in an exploration of resilience and creative survival.

The exhibition title, ‘Sting’ emerges from the emotional impact of rejection, a shared experience which many artists navigate when sustaining a creative practice, whilst also drawing parallel with the literal definition of the venomous sting of the Auger sea snail.

Highlighting the intersection between professional adversity and biological defence the show asks the question: what happens after the sting? Do we retreat, or do we respond?

If the sting is inevitable, ‘Sting’ asks what it means to answer back. From systemic barriers of rejection from unanswered applications, loss of funding and the erosion of accessible creative spaces, to the physicality of being stung, this exhibition offers a collective response.

👀 For more details please visit: www.aspacearts.org.uk

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The purple print was designed by Zest Artist, James Hewins, featuring an image of a European hornet captured on an electron microscope from a collaboration with the

15/05/2026

‘a space’ arts Curator & Programme Manager, Mia Delve, alongside previous Lucky Dip recipient Tracey Dovey, announce the winners of the Lucky Dip Bursary 2026/2027! ✨

The Lucky Dip Bursary Scheme offers eight artists living in the SO postcode area £500 to support the creation of a new artwork or activity, with bursaries awarded through a lottery selection process.

As part of its commitment to becoming an anti-racist organisation, ‘a space’ arts has reserved four of the Lucky Dip bursaries for global majority artists.

The selected artists will also have the opportunity to exhibit their work at God’s House Tower, Southampton, in 2027.

⚡ Join our Artist Newsflash Instagram channel to stay up to date on upcoming opportunities! ⚡

🚨 LESS THAN A WEEK TO APPLY‘a space’ arts is excited to announce a new Summer Art Fair at GHT in Summer 2026, and we’re ...
13/05/2026

🚨 LESS THAN A WEEK TO APPLY

‘a space’ arts is excited to announce a new Summer Art Fair at GHT in Summer 2026, and we’re looking for artists to sell their work at our first original art market.

In order to be considered for the market you will need to have original artwork available for sale like paintings, drawings and prints.

As this is our first market of this kind there is no stipulation on selling price, and we really welcome artists at all stages of their career to apply.

GHT Summer Art Market Dates:
☀ Saturday 1st August
☀ Sunday 2nd August

⏰ Deadline for the application is Monday 18th May at 9am

Questions? You can contact Hannah via [email protected]

Apply here: https://godshousetower.org.uk/opportunities/

Would you like advice on managing rising energy costs and heating your home more efficiently?Southampton Healthy Home wi...
11/05/2026

Would you like advice on managing rising energy costs and heating your home more efficiently?

Southampton Healthy Home will be hosting a FREE drop-in session at GHT next Friday. The session is part of our current exhibition, RAFTS, which explores climate change through the lens of access and care.

Drop in for advice on:
› Accessing funding
› Managing energy bills and supplier issues
› Advice, guidance and signposting

📌 Open to everyone
📆 Friday 15th May, 2:30pm - 4pm

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drop-in-information-session-southampton-healthy-homes-tickets-1983079519225?aff=oddtdtcreator

🚨 SAVE THE DATES 🚨ZEST Collective presents Sting, taking place at The Old Sail Loft, Shamrock Quay, Southampton.This gro...
10/05/2026

🚨 SAVE THE DATES 🚨

ZEST Collective presents Sting, taking place at The Old Sail Loft, Shamrock Quay, Southampton.

This group exhibition brings together 18 artists in an exploration of resilience and creative survival.

More details coming soon.

👀 Keep an eye on aspacearts.org.uk

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