Open School East Public Programme
We've partnered with Open School East to host their 2025 public programme, Home Is Where The Garden Is. Through participatory workshops, artist talks, and listening sessions, the programme will explore the networks, systems and communities that form civic space; an entwined mesh of shared social and political space shaped by material and social interventions and interrelations. The programme draws from local and national histories, speculative experimentation, and the social-ecological systems that shape our lived environments.
Upcoming events
Fieldworks: Artist talk with Flora Parrott & Sara Trillo
Join artists Flora Parrott and Sara Trillo for an evening of artist talks, where each artist will share recent projects and ongoing research. Following the talks, Flora and Sara will hold a conversation about their individual approaches to ‘fieldwork’, an active process of artistic research that places the artist in, and amongst, a shifting and interrelated landscape.
Wed 30 April 2025
5.45-7.30pm
Free entry
Being Horizontal / Between Here and There: Artist talk with Harold Offeh
Meet artist Harold Offeh for a talk where he'll share several ongoing projects and explore his approach as an artist working across performance, learning, and social arts practices.
Wed 28 May 2025
5.45-7.30pm
Free entry
Walking the Deer Line: Artist walk with Sara Trillo
Artist Sara Trillo invites you to join her for an artist walk, following her in the continuation of her Walking the Deer Line project. Seeking out the remains of the Cursus Cerve, an ancient boundary line across Thanet, said in legend to have been created by a saint’s pet deer.
Sat 29 Jun 2025
12-3pm
Free entry
Flowing Streams: Artist talk and game-making workshop with Harun Morrison
Take part in an environmentally focused workshop that explores the cultural, industrial, religious and meteorological significance of water with artist Harun Morrison. The workshop is centered around Flowing Streams, the prototype of a water-themed board game that invites participants to explore future shapes the game might take.
Wed 23 Jul 2025
5.45-8pm
Free entry
Porous histories, fluid pictures with Samara Scott
Spend an afternoon making in Turner’s Clore Learning Studio with artist Samara Scott. In the session, Samara will introduce her artistic practice and collaborative textile projects, including ongoing material experimentation with Open School East’s ‘Despacito Art School’ Programme.
Sat 23 Aug 2025
1.45-4pm
Free entry
About Open School East
Open School East is a free, independent art school in Margate that focuses on collective learning through the arts for adults, young people and children. Each year the current cohort of Associate Artists develop and deliver a public programme of events. Their public events, activities and short courses invite interactions between the artistic community, the local neighbourhood and the broader public. They include skills-based workshops, talks, seminars, reading groups, walks, performances, concerts, screenings and social gatherings. They are organised by, and in dialogue with OSE alumni and staff, guest practitioners, and local and regional partner organisations.
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