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Book your tickets here. Mark your calendar with our 8pm Saturdays ‘the party is over’ programmation for mediated and IRL performances, film sharing and conversation, and on site artist conversation - there will be plenty, plenty, plenty of food for thoughts catering for different dietary requirements. This  Saturday we welcome with both hands performances from Jade Blackstock, İzdihar Afyouni, and Sebastian H-W among other artists  Jade (B. 1993, Birmingham) is a UK-based, British Jamaican performance artist. Her work explores questions…

Come to Arcadia Gallery for a drop-in workshop with artists Yas Lime and Sebastian H-W to create your own seed bomb sculptures! This workshop is for little ones and grown ups. Yas Lime is an early career artist-curator. They have begun to carve out a space in the DIY art scenes of Brighton and Birmingham and are currently working as an artist-curator at Eastside Projects, Birmingham. In the work made In response to the Covid 19 pandemic and lockdown they…

Zoom (closed captioned) with Rupi Dhillon, Ryan Christopher, Sebastian H-W, and melissandre varin followed by a performance by Indira Lakshm.   8-9 conversation on ZOOM + real life 9- 9.30 performance by Indira ZOOM + IRL at Arcadia   Indira Lakshmi Is A Multi-disciplinary Artist Working Across The Mediums Of Sound, Performance Art, Sculpture, Zine Making And Illustration And Is Formally Trained As A Sculptor. Her Work Is Primarily Concerned With The Human Condition – Both The Body And Human…

Loraine Maiya Mponela, Ryan Christopher, Yas Lime, Sebastian Hau-Walker, and melissandre varin in conversation. beings passing by are welcome to join in, and the raw audio recording of the conversation will be shared publicly the following week. Loraine Maiya Mponela, a Black, mother, poet, sanctuary seeker (activist), current chairperson of Coventry Asylum and Refugee Action Group (CARAG) Yas Lime is an early career artist-curator. They have begun to carve out a space in the DIY art scenes of Brighton and…

NOTICE: Arcadia will be open for the Holding Time exhibition from 11am to 2pm on Saturday 26th June and closed on Sunday 27th June. Visual artist Lisa Creagh is pleased to present Holding Time; a collection of animated photographic portraits, accompanied by music composed by Helen Anahita Wilson. The collection will be exhibited at Artspace Arcadia Gallery, during Coventry City of Culture 2021.  Holding Time is a socially engaged feminist art piece attempting to represent breastfeeding from a mother’s perspective.…

In his initial exhibition, Coventry based contemporary artist and photographer William Hughes exhibits Lay Me To Rest, a somewhat collaborative exhibition, exploring memory, sudden grief and the acceptance of death. Heavily inspired by his family and the Robert Morris quote: “Memory is a delay. Memory is a fragment. Memory is of the body that passed. Memory is the trace of a wave goodbye made with a slightly clenched fist”, William’s multi - media approach to working invites the audience to…

7:30 - 8:00pm Saturday 7th August Arcadia Gallery   ‘up all night, reading poetry’ is a collection of music videos/poetry films based on Samiir’s EP of the same name. The films, and the EP, present themselves as “spooky lofi hip-hop meets sleep-deprivation-induced spoken word ramblings”. Having consumed too much caffeine before bed, Samiir, our narrator and protagonist, navigates feelings of isolation, nostalgia, and dissociation, as he desperately tries to consolidate a sense of self, in order to finally get a…