What’s on at RuptureXIBIT?

The Other Art Room with Artist in Residence Sally Minns
Jun
7
to 31 Aug

The Other Art Room with Artist in Residence Sally Minns

The Other Art Room run by our own Resident Artist Sally, qualified teacher and practicing artist, will be in residence in the front gallery for the summer. Offering drawing and painting workshops for teens and adults from Thursday to Sunday, every week, beginning on 11th June.

Develop your Sketchbook Practice
Thursdays 9.30am - 12pm
Suitable for Adults and Teens 11+ 

Build a passion for Painting and Drawing - Teens
Fridays 9.30am - 12pm
Suitable for Teens 11+ 
All abilities welcome

Expand your Painting and Drawing
Saturdays 9.30am - 12pm
Suitable for Adults- All abilities welcome

Wild Drawing in Bushy Park
Sundays 10am - 12.30pm
Suitable for Adults and Teens 11+ (accompanied)
All abilities welcome

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RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson
Jun
20

RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson

June: Writing with the trees

In this workshop, we’ll explore our connection to nature through writing that touches on the trees and forests that support us. Together, we’ll look at texts that feature trees and our relationships to them, including poetry by Mary Oliver and Cayte Bosler, and we’ll experiment ourselves through short, generative writing exercises.

The workshop will offer a nurturing, non-judgemental space in which to take chances and find ways to inspire and enliven your writing practice.

Suitable for all levels from beginners to experienced writers.

All levels welcome.
2 -4pm
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RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson
Jul
11

RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson

July: Writing with voices

In this workshop, we’ll explore the role of narrators and other voices in prose and poetry. As writers, we may choose to write in our own voice, or we may explore writing in someone else’s – a character’s, a narrator’s, a creature’s! Together, we’ll look at texts that play with voice and narration, such as Tania Hershman’s Go On, and we’ll play with these ourselves through short, generative writing exercises.The workshop will offer a nurturing, non-judgemental space in which to take chances and find ways to inspire and enliven your writing practice. Suitable for all levels from beginners to experienced writers.

All levels welcome.
12 -2pm
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RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson
Aug
15

RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson

August: Writing with time

In this workshop, we’ll explore how we write about the complexities of time, our pasts, presents and futures. We’ll draw on Karen Davies’ essay on ‘The feminist contribution to an understanding of time’ and creative works that experiment with ideas of time. Through short, generative writing exercises we’ll play with time in our own writing.The workshop will offer a nurturing, non-judgemental space in which to take chances and find ways to inspire and enliven your writing practice.Suitable for all levels from beginners to experienced writers.

All levels welcome.
2 -4pm
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Taking Up Creative Space Open Studio Weekend
May
16
to 17 May

Taking Up Creative Space Open Studio Weekend

Taking Up Creative Space Open Studio Weekend

12-2pm Saturday 16th May
Writing Workshop with Dr Anna Johnson - Shakespeare’s sister: creating space to write with Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own All levels welcome

3-6pm
"How To Enter The Art World.. After.. a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence, leaving it in disgust..... by Hettie Judah. Book Launch with Hettie Judah, featuring artist introductions from Kate Howe, Sally Minns, Anna Johnson, Sharyn Wortman and Abigail Norris.

5-6pm Tea and book signing with Hettie Judah.

6pm Artist Talk - Claire Barber, Invitational Artist in Residence

6-9pm Jazz Salon and drinks in the garden

Sunday 17th May 12-6pm
Taking Up Creative Space Open Studio Featuring Exhibiting Artists, Kate Howe, Sally Minns and Claire Barber.

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Invitational Artist Residency with Claire Barber
May
5
to 1 Jun

Invitational Artist Residency with Claire Barber

Claire Barber is a textile-based artist whose practice is shaped by site-responsive and materially driven enquiry informed by industrial histories, material culture, and embodied making. During her residency Claire will be exploring the material and spatial relationship between textiles and sound.

Saturday 30th May & Sunday 31st May - Claire’s Open Studio
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RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson (April)
Apr
25

RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson (April)

Writing against the blank page: rediscovering language

In this workshop we’ll be purposefully approaching language from new and unusual angles to push our creative practice in unexplored directions and discover new connections. Through readings and short writing exercises, we’ll be thinking about the space of the page and the ways that meaning can be shaped and reshaped.

Suitable for all levels.

2pm-4pm
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RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson (March)
Mar
21

RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson (March)

Working with memory: writing creatively through experience

In this workshop we’ll explore how we can draw on experience and memory to write not just memoir, but creative fiction and poetry too. We’ll look at writers such as Szilvia Molnar and Seán Hewitt, who build on memory to create compelling poetry and prose. Through short, generative exercises we’ll put these ideas into practice.

Suitable for writers of all levels, from beginners to experienced.

2pm-4pm
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Mentoring Residency with Artist Roz Fletcher
Mar
3
to 29 Mar

Mentoring Residency with Artist Roz Fletcher

Roz Fletcher is an interdisciplinary sculptor whose affinity-based practice investigates clay as a haptic, psychological, and relational material. Working across sculpture, installation, and participatory formats, her work is rooted in embodied experience and informed by trauma-aware and somatic frameworks. During the residency at RuptureXibit new work will evolve through performative processes using raw clay.

Saturday 28th March
Open Studio 11am-6pm.
Artist Talk 6-7pm
Drinks 7-8pm 
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Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson
Feb
27
Creative writing

Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson

Writing our journeys and transformations.
In this generative, explorative, creative writing workshop, we will play with ways of reimagining some of the tropes of myth, in particular magical transformations and the hero’s journey. We will use these ideas to explore ways of expressing our more ‘everyday’ transformations, and the journeys, physical and psychological, that we make.

We will look at contemporary and historical texts that draw on mythologies, including Fiona Benson’s poetry in Vertigo and Ghost and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Through a range of readings and short writing exercises, we will explore the ways in which we might turn to the non-human (animals, ghosts, gods…) to express our own very human experiences.

Suitable for all levels, no creative writing experience necessary

4pm-6pm!

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RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson (February)
Feb
14

RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson (February)

"Writing with touch: crafting texture and substance

In this creative writing workshop we’ll explore ways to capture the textures of the world around us. Through generative, explorative exercises and inspiring readings we’ll use this intense noticing to bring our writing to life.
Suitable for all levels, whether you’re a poet, a novelist or brand new to writing."

2pm-4pm
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RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson (January)
Jan
17

RuptureXIBT Writing Workshop with Anna Johnson (January)

Writing with Sound workshop with Anna Johnson.
Engaging the senses is often key to drawing the reader into our writing, but sound is sometimes overlooked. This month’s writing workshop will explore how writing with and about sound - from the wind in the trees to the music that moves us - can engage the reader and enrich our writing practice.

Through readings and short writing exercises we will explore how we might bring sound into our work. We will look at a variety of texts, including poems by d/Deaf, British Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus.

Suitable for all writing levels, from absolute beginner to experienced. 2pm-4pm
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The Opening Chapter: A Workshop For Writers with Dr James Miller
Nov
29
Creative writing

The Opening Chapter: A Workshop For Writers with Dr James Miller

What makes an opening chapter work? How do you grab and hold a reader’s attention? What is the balance between show and tell, between action and reflection, exposition and omission? Should a novel start ‘at the beginning’ or in the ‘middle’ or even at ‘the end’? What are the pros and cons of different points of view and different tenses?

This is a workshop for aspiring and more established writers who are struggling to start their novel. 3-5pm £10

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