All levels welcome. Come along for a chat and a sketch.
This is a free event. For more information: @visual_artist_collective
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
To attend please register here.
Join Void’s researcher in residence, Pamela Whitaker, for the final event as part of her residency with us! Garden Like an Artist is a call to cultivate nature like an artist both at home and within your locality. The presentation will feature artists who garden with living art materials. It will explore topics such as the de-colonisation of gardening, gardening out loud, climate change gardening and gardening without a rule book.
The presentation will be followed by a visit to a streetscape garden created by Pamela along the Quays and there will be an opportunity to receive some seeds for autumn planting. Everyone is welcome to share their stories of gardening as creatives making nature happen.
This is a free event and open to all. To attend please register here.
For more information please contact: hello@derryvoid.com
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Pamela Whitaker
Pamela is an art therapy lecturer at the Belfast School of Art. She is also an artist researcher with the Creative Ireland Urban Food Sanctuary project in County Louth. She supports people to garden as artists making nature at home and in their localities.
Pamela’s Void residency proposal encourages the cultivation of home gardens, gardening in neighbourhoods and public homeplaces (such as parks) as artistic endeavours. She is keen to work with local people on these topics and also explore climate change gardening, companion gardening, and the art of home gardening. Pamela invites members of the public to contact her to discuss the project further at p.whitaker@ulster.ac.uk.
Her research residency aligns with Void’s civic engagement ambitions as well as Ulster University’s People, Place and Partnership strategy to promote the co-production of knowledge and projects to enhance civic life. The art of gardening encourages positive mental health and can be a vital act of making that creates both nature and pride of place. Pamela plans to link the research residency to learning and teaching at Belfast School of Art and to co-design opportunities for public engagement at Void Art Centre and within local neighbourhoods. The overall goal of the residency is supporting people to enhance their surroundings with the art of gardening that provides a resource for environmental activism and artistry.
Hosted by Frank Rafferty, Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event, where performers, writers, poets and musicians are invited to come along and perform.
You are welcome to perform old work, test something new, or try out something experimental. You are also very welcome to attend if you would rather just watch and enjoy.
This is a free event and there is no need to book in advance, just turn up on the night
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
Hosted by Visual Artist Collective in collaboration with Foyle Pride, this sketchbook meet-up is a relaxed break from the Pride festivities where you can create in a low-pressure environment. We invite all LGBTQIA+ artists to come along to Void Art Centre with their sketchbooks for a cup of tea, a few hours of sketching and a chat with fellow queer creatives in a safe, welcoming space, before the week culminates in the annual parade.
This is a free event. For more information: @visual_artist_collective
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
Hosted by Frank Rafferty, Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event, where performers, writers, poets and musicians are invited to come along and perform.
You are welcome to perform old work, test something new, or try out something experimental.You are also very welcome to attend if you would rather just watch and enjoy.
Free to attend.
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
All levels welcome. Come along for a chat and a sketch.
This is a free event. For more information: @visual_artist_collective
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
All levels welcome. Come along for a chat and a sketch.
This is a free event. For more information: @visual_artist_collective
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
Hosted by Frank Rafferty, Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event, where performers, writers, poets and musicians are invited to come along and perform.
You are welcome to perform old work, test something new, or try out something experimental.You are also very welcome to attend if you would rather just watch and enjoy.
Free to attend.
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
Hosted by Frank Rafferty, Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event, where performers, writers, poets and musicians are invited to come along and perform.
You are welcome to perform old work, test something new, or try out something experimental.You are also very welcome to attend if you would rather just watch and enjoy.
Free to attend.
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
Hosted by Frank Rafferty, Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic latform event, where performers, writers, poets and musicians are invited to come along and perform.
You are welcome to perform old work, test something new, or try out something experimental.You are also very welcome to attend if you would rather just watch and enjoy.
Free to attend.
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
Spooky Halloween willow lantern making workshops!
Part of Derry Halloween festival 2023
Saturday 28th October
Bookable slots 10-11am, 11:30-12:30am, 2-3pm and 3:30-4:30pm
Awaken the Walled City and make your own spooky Halloween Willow Lantern to take with you to the Halloween parade and/or decorate your home with, on Saturday 28th October at Void Art Centre with Sinead Crumlish!
Throughout the day there will be four bookable workshops at Void Art Centre which are suitable for anyone aged 8+. Children aged 8-14 must be accompanied by and have the support of their parent/guardian during these workshops (one ticket is enough for a parent and child – tickets are sold per participant). Young people between the ages of 14 and 16, can attend this workshop alone but a permission form must be filled out by a parent/guardian upon arrival/ahead of the workshop and emergency contact details should be left at the front desk. This workshop is also suitable for individual adults.
Bookable slots include: 10-11am, 11:30-12:30am, 2-3pm and 3:30-4:30pm. Each workshop will have limited spaces.
Tickets cost £3 per participant.
Please note, you are only required to book 1 ticket per participant. If you are supporting your child, you do not need to book a ticket for yourself. You only need to book an additional ticket if you plan to engage in the workshop on a personal level aswell.
Image credits: Canva
Print + Protein
Thursday 19 October, 6-8pm
Print + Protein is a peer-led philosophy reading group at Void Art Centre organised by Aphra Hill which relates to the themes addressed in Void’s current exhibitionary project, using diverse theory to expand alternative understandings of contemporary art. It takes its name from the essay Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers by Katherine Hayles which explores immaterial media and the affinity between books and bodies.
The next session will take place on Thursday 19th October from 6-8pm. During this session, the group will discuss selected excerpts from The Orpheus Double Bind: What Can Writing Save? by Turkish writer and cultural critic Nurdan Gürbilek. The Orpheus Double Bind is the English translation of “Orpheus Çıkmazı,” – a chapter in the book Sessizin Payı (The Share of the Silent, Metis Yayınları, 2015) by the literary critic Nurdan Gürbilek. This book was published as part of bewitched, bewildered, bothered, Banu Cennetoğlu’s artistic intervention for Asia Art Archive’s exhibition Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys, curated by Michelle Wong and on view at Tai Kwun Contemporary from 23 April to 1 August 2021. Framed as a question, the text uses the myth of Orpheus along with other instances from literature to interrogate what is at stake in employing artistic practice as testimonial. This chapter explores the insufficiency of language in times of crisis, echoed by Cennetoğlu’s installation at Void, right?, as the bouquets of gold letter balloons slowly deflate.
Print + Protein is free to attend and open to the public but booking via Eventbrite is required. A copy of the text will be provided to attendees in advance of the event. Participants are not required to have their thoughts pre-prepared but it is encouraged to read the text or the selected excerpts before the session if possible. Participants of any background or level of experience are welcome to join. Refreshments are provided.
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Aphra Hill is a writer, researcher and recent graduate of Visual Culture at NCAD.