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Southwark Park Galleries at Family Arts Conference 2024

The UK’s largest family arts and culture conference returns on Thursday 29 February 2024 at Leeds Playhouse. More families are in need than ever before. It’s essential that the cultural sector can reframe, rethink and recharge to ensure families do not miss

Artist Flags // She is still alive!

Preview:  Sunday 23 October 2022 at 3pm

Artist Rosa-Johan Uddoh was co-commissioned by Southwark Park Galleries and The Bower to create two new artworks for our public flagpoles in Southwark and Brunswick Park. Launched during Black History Month 2022, the work celebrates the life and work of Southwark resident

GREEN SHOOTS! FREE CREATIVE SUMMER FAMILY WORKSHOPS

Enjoy a series of free art workshops at Dilston Gallery during the summer holidays, with different activities each week and tailored to specific age groups. Discover our local flora and fauna, make eco-friendly artworks and become ecology buffs! Workshops are held at

FAMILY ALLOTMENT CLUB

Get your hands in the soil on Friday mornings! June – October 2024 Join us on Fridays in our beautiful garden. You can expect to grow and harvest food, do some planting, take care of seedlings that you can also grow at home,

Close-up of hands using a handheld gouger to cut a design into linoleum for a linocut print.

Seniors Art School presents… Lino Printing with Artist Associate Alexa Lowe

Thursday 22 & Friday 23 August 2024, 11am-3pm each day // Alexa Lowe

Join an exciting 2-days Lino Printing workshop: Exploring Portraits and Patterns Through the Eyes of Artist Joy Labinjo, led by Artist Associate Alexa Lowe. Come experiment with the Lino printing method to create a portrait inspired by the work of Joy Labinjo,

Seniors Art School presents… Planning and Recording Radio Segments

Join an exciting 2-days of planning and recording radio segments with Artist Associate Holly Graham. During the workshop, participants will look at different options of radio plays, adverts, interview, and DJ shows, and work in pairs or small groups to realise these.

Seniors Art School presents… Digital Storytelling Club

Friday 1, 8, 15, 22 November 2024, 11am - 1pm // Kristina Pulejkova

Explore myths, legends, and folk tales through AI-generated scenes and text, and reimagine classic stories. Open to inquisitive minds over the age of 55 Friday 1, 8, 15, 22 November 2024, 11am – 1pm Digitally, on Zoom Free, booking required: email us

30 November–3 December 2023   //   Dilston Gallery

A Pluriversal Volume
LCC MA Sound Arts Postgraduate Show 2023

Preview:  30 November // 1–4pm Exhibition Open:  Thursday - Sunday // 11am–4pm

Rupert Austin | Ilya Gurin-Babayeu | Mingda Bi | Elliot Buchanan | Anqi Deng | Reid Dudley Peirson | Weiqi Feng | Aliya Goldstone | Ben Harrison | Maxine Hayes | Jeremy Kent | Kezheng Li | Peiyang Li | Alberto De

15 July-24 September 2023   //   Lake Gallery  //  Dilston Gallery

A NEW KIND OF ANIMAL
Tim Spooner

Preview:  14 July // 6-8pm Exhibition Open:  Lake Gallery: Wednesday - Sunday, 11am–5pm // Dilston Gallery: Saturday - Sunday, 11am–5pm

In summer, Southwark Park Galleries will present an extensive installation by multidisciplinary artist Tim Spooner for his largest UK solo exhibition in a visual arts organisation. Spooner has been creating immersive sculptural interventions and performances since 2010, which have been predominantly experienced

9–24 September 2023   //   Lake Gallery

Beyond These Walls There’s Courage
Tara White

Preview:  Friday 8 September // 5–7pm Exhibition Open:  Wednesday – Sunday // 11am–5pm

Beyond These Walls There’s Courage tenderly maps the entangled dynamics between grief, intergenerational relationships, gender and protest. Operating in the overlaps between these frames of experience, Tara White uses the Anjili Ironwood Tree and Saffron Crocuses as botanical motifs to anchor their

Green Shoots! Creative Autumn Family Workshops

Enjoy a series of free art workshops at Dilston Gallery during Autumn half-term. Discover our local flora and fauna, make eco-friendly artworks and become ecology buffs! Programme // Wednesday 30 October 2024 with Artist Associate Anne Ogazi Collage and Camouflage Make creative

Seniors Art School with Writer and Artist Kandace Siobhan Walker

Wednesday 8 & Thursday 9 May 2024, 11am-3pm each day // Kandace Siobhan Walker

Poems and Pages: Writing Centos* and Bookbinding Workshop with Writer and Artist Kandace Siobhan Walker Wednesday 8 & Thursday 9 May 2024 11am – 3pm each day Southwark Park Galleries // Dilston Gallery Open to inquisitive minds over the age of 55

Seniors Art School presents… WE ARE 40! Sharing Memories with SET.radio

15 & 29 July 2024 // SET.radio

Seniors Art School’s participants will work with SET.radio to produce a podcast based on creative responses to individual and collective memories. Established in 1984, Southwark Park Galleries celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year; having proudly served the Bermondsey & Rotherhithe community for

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