Art for Social and System Change!

This June we bring you a wonderful selection of events, stories, and ideas for alternative futures along the theme of Art for Social and System Change. If you have watched Simon Sharma’s History of Now, you will have an idea of how art is a force for change, and this is what we want to celebrate and showcase this month.

We are so lucky to have Katherine Anteney’s ‘WE CARRY A NEW WORLD IN OUR HEARTS’ exhibition in our gallery space. Previously on display at The Arc in Winchester, this exhibition features a set of prints made with lino, woodcut, and letterpress, which explore the words and actions of people who have been viewed as rebellious by nature. These powerful messages point to historical moments and seek to inspire a different and more optimistic tomorrow.  

On another art theme we are also promoting the competition which is the precursor to next month’s exhibition, Lost In Transit: Finding Gendered Journeys through Art and Technology. If you have art you’d like to contribute, call into the shop and grab a leaflet! 

We also are celebrating People’s Pride Fringe Festival when Jess will get creative with a window display and there’s independent bookshop week when we will celebrate the contribution our curated selection of books have to social and system change, with a 10% off sale. 

So come and join us for a joyful celebration of how art and creativity contributes to an alternative future…. One we all carry in our hearts.

For more of Katherine’s work see her website here https://katherineanteney.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/KatherineAnteneyPrintmakerBookbinder/ 

For more information on the Close the Data gap team and their groundbreaking work see here https://closethedatagap.soton.ac.uk/