The Space,7pm, free.
Weber helped form Freie Klasse – or free class – while he was at art school. Disillusioned with the way that they were being taught the...
The Space, 7pm, free
To complement the inclusion of Kenneth Anger’s Eaux D’Artifice in our exhibition Already there!, Prof. Gregory Woods, of Gay and Lesbian...
The Space, 6pm – 9pm, free
Two influential films by the director and anthropologist Jean Rouch, Petit à Petit (1971) and Les Maîtres Fous (1955), touch on ideas in...
The Space, 1pm - 4pm, free, drop in
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The Space, 7pm - 9pm. Free.
Join us for the launch event of the new Nottingham Amnesty International Group and hear why human rights really matter from writer and...
The Space, 7pm, free
This film reminded Klaus Weber of curating Already there! Wandering through archives “it felt like moving ghost-like through the architecture of...
Every Wednesday at 1pm. No need to book, just drop in.
Our walk throughs are a chance to hear some fascinating stories about our exhibitions, told from different...
5pm – 6.30pm, free
An opportunity to hear Klaus Weber in conversation about his exhibition, his art practice and his interests in general with Ian White, artist and...
Klaus Weber’s art works create ruptures with what we would call reality. In so doing they call our deepest belief systems into question. They provide an ironic...
200 objects spanning 1,000,000 years, including art works by Enrico Baj, Louise Bourgeois, André Breton, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, William Hogarth, Eduardo...
7pm
The Space
Free
Dr. Celeste-Marie Bernier will discuss the paintings, prints, photographs and drawings produced by Black U.S. artists who served as combat...
7pm, Free.
A platform for Nottingham and Midlands based artists. Jeffery Baker and Katy Woods will both screen new work that is in development. Artist and co-founder...
Free
The Space
6pm
One of three Panther related films Godard co-authored in his Maoist period. Pennebaker (who made Don’t Look Back, Monterey Pop, Ziggy Stardust...
Free
The Space
6pm
An experimental and soulful “docu-fiction” set in Los Angeles telling a young man’s story – from experiencing everyday racism to joining...
Free
6pm
The Space
A vivid document of the Panthers and the Young Patriots (a white working class movement inspired by the Panthers) at the 1968 uprising outside the...
6 - 8pm
Broadway
Free
27 mins
Kodwo Eshun introduces the film season with a lecture on the Panthers and Cinema. Eshun, of The Otolith Group, is lecturer in Visual...
11am - 4pm
The Space
Free
In 1970 Genet entered the US illegally to campaign alongside the Black Panthers for the release of their chairman Bobby Seale – he would...
Unfortunately due to the current political situation with Palestine and the UN and the forthcoming visit of President Abbas of Palestine to the European Parliament Leila...
6pm
The Space
Free
During the last eighteen years of his life (1968-1986) Genet was preoccupied with the struggles of the disenfranchised and displaced, among them,...
Wednesdays 3 August, 31 August and 28 September
5.30pm – 7.30pm
Writing as Curating is a series of creative writing workshops, introduced through Genet’s texts,...
7.00 - 8.30pm
The Space
Free
In this extraordinary animated film an Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct...
Wednesdays 27 July, 17 August and 21 September
5.30pm – 7.30pm
Free
The Study
Led by writer Wayne Burrows, Reading Genet will provide an opportunity for in-depth...
A lunch time tour of the exhibitions with our curators and other guest experts.
The Galleries, Free – No need to book, just drop in
20 July – Alex Farquharson,...
2 - 6pm
The Space
Free
Major French thinkers of the 1960s - like Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous and Félix Guattari – reclaimed Genet from the stranglehold of...
8pm
The Space
Free
A new performance and reading, developed by Lili Reynaud - Dewar, featuring poet-performer and fellow Genet admirer Pierre Giquel and singer...
7pm
The Space
Introduced by Mathilde Von Bulow, from the School of History, The University of Nottingham.
One of the great works of political cinema, The Battle of...
Marc Camille Chaimowicz was in conversation about his work and Jean Genet, with novelist and cultural historian Michael Bracewell. Bracewell’s most recent book is...