WE ARE BACK IN-PERSON TOGETHER AT OCTOBER GALLERY!

We are so excited to be back in real-life with Dani the Storyteller and Octoby (the gallery octopus). We will explore the OG Education exhibition together, then go on a multi-sensory story, then make some art and have a picnic.

This session is suitable for Under 5s but also older siblings often love them too and they are more than welcome. The session is free but we do have capacity for only 18 children so we would ask if you can book your space and then let us know if you cannot make it after all.

We are running free art making drop-in activities for older children and adults on Friday 30th July 12.30-4pm and Saturday 31st July 12.30-4pm, so just come along whenever you like for these events.

More information about the exhibition is below:

Apart Together, October Gallery Education's exhibition is a celebration of artworks created over the last two years by our OG Youth Collective, our Beacon School partners and the wider education community.

This exhibition features our major lockdown art project 10x10, a huge hanging sculpture, which was made by many hands over the past year and is inspired by the work of El Anatsui. Each square has been created by artists of all ages. On the reverse messages of hope and gratitude written during lockdown can be seen.

OG Youth Collective have also created and curated their own pieces responding to themes of identity, colonialism, repatriation, and the recent events causing the toppling of monuments in the UK and wider world.

Alongside these is a series of works made by local schools and our Beacon Schools who we have worked with online and on site. These are inspired by October Gallery artists and the students' own experiences of lockdown life.