Formation: Land
Reactor: Here, the Gold Ones meet Oct - Dec 2020
Sophie Cundale: The Near Room Feb - Mar 2020
Matt Woodham: Sensing Systems (streaming online) Jan - Jan 2020
Nick Chaffe: Motif Residency exhibition Nov - Feb 2020
Motif Sep - Nov 2019
Waking the witch: Old ways, new rites Apr - May 2019
The Big Head Man Sep - Nov 2019
Bonington Vitrines #13: Wayne Burrows – Works from the Hallucinated Archive Apr - May 2020
Bonington Vitrines #16: The Captive Conscious (POSTPONED) Feb - Mar 2020
Bonington Vitrines #15: Nomadic Vitrine with Mick Peter (CLOSED) Nov - Feb 2020
Bonington Vitrines #14: Journeys to Nottingham from the Windrush Generation Apr - May 2019
Bonington Vitrines #12: Complaint Jan - Feb 2019
Bonington Vitrines #10: Jewell Feb - Feb 2019
UKYA City Takeover Apr - May 2019
C/J
Chloé Maratta and Joanne Robertson Mar - Mar 2019
The Community Live in Nottingham Nov - Dec 2018
THE SERVING LIBRARY V DAVID OSBALDESTON Nov - Dec 2018
Bonington Vitrines #9: Towards The Serving Library Annual Nov - Dec 2018
Emily Andersen Portraits: Black & White Book launch and exhibition Sep - Oct 2018
BONINGTON VITRINES #8: HOUSE OF WISDOM Jan - Feb 2019
DICK JEWELL: NOW & THEN Sep - Oct 2018
THE ACCUMULATION OF THINGS Apr - Apr 2018
Video Days Preview Apr - May 2018
Video Days Apr - Apr 2018
Video Days: Week One Screenings Apr - Apr 2018
Video Days: Week Two Screenings Apr - May 2018
Video Days: Week Three Screenings May - May 2018
Video Days: Week Four Screenings May - May 2018
Video Days: Week Five Screenings Apr - May 2018
Bonington Vitrines #7: The Bonington building, est. 1969 Feb - Mar 2018
Bonington Vitrines #6: One Eye on the Road – festival and traveller culture since the 1980s Feb - Mar 2018
LACE UNARCHIVED Jan - Feb 2018
Bonington Vitrines #5: Communicating the Contemporary – The ICA Bulletin 1950s to 1990s Nov - Dec 2017
Bonington Vitrines #4: Sara MacKillop publications, 2008–2017 Sep - Oct 2017
Bonington Vitrines #3: London’s Calling Jan - Feb 2018
Ruth Angel Edwards: Wheel of the Year
! EFFLUENT PROFUNDAL ZONE ! Nov - Dec 2017
Sara MacKillop: One Room Living Sep - Oct 2017
It’s Our Playground: Artificial Sensibility Apr - May 2017
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT Sep - Oct 2016
MOULD MAP 6 — TERRAFORMERS Oct - Dec 2016
KRÍSIS Jan - Feb 2017
ALL MEN BY NATURE DESIRE TO KNOW Jan - Feb 2017
Bonington Vitrines #2: Marbled Reams Oct - Dec 2016
Bonington Vitrines #1: Selections from the Raw Print Archive Feb - Mar 2017
SHAPELESS IMPACT NOT TIME SLOW IS (FLITS BY) Feb - Mar 2016
Imprints of Culture: Block Printed Textiles of India Apr - May 2016
PUBLISHING ROOMS Nov - Dec 2015
In Place of Architecture Jan - Feb 2016
Performing Drawology Nov - Dec 2015
Photography Dialogues
1 Nov - 31 Dec 2020
Formation: Land
Land, dispossession, agriculture, place.
In the second instalment of our year-long Formations programme, delivered in partnership with Nottingham Trent University’s Postcolonial Studies Centre, we are pleased to announce our November and December events, under the thematic banner – Formation: Land, focusing on land, agriculture, landscape, and place. We will consider dispossession, migration, and ways the human and land interact, and we invite you to think about recent innovative writing about how humans are connected with the living environment and our heritage.
Talk
Wednesday 18 November 2020, 7 pm – 8.30 pm
Valentina De Riso, ‘Indigenous-settler Relations in Canada and Land-Based Reconciliation in Lee Maracle’s Celia’s Song’
Focusing on the context of Indigenous-settler relations in Canada, this talk considers the ways in which settler-colonialism damages the land and peoples’ relationships to it through exploitation and policies of assimilation, dispossession, and forced relocation aimed at erasing Indigenous identity. Drawing from Lee Maracle’s novel, Celia’s Song, and from Indigenous philosophies of relationality that posit a complex system of relations between peoples and more-than-human beings (animal, plants, ecosystems), Valentina explores how restoring sustainable relationships to the Earth is crucial for establishing and maintaining peaceful relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers in Canada.
Creative Writing Workshop
Wednesday 25 November 2020, 6.30 pm – 8pm
Landscape Writing: Creative Writing Workshop with NTU’s Postcolonial Studies Centre writer-in-residence Eve Makis
Join a session with Eve Makis exploring urban and rural landscape writing. Learn how to evoke a landscape using your senses, taking inspiration from the works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elif Shafak. All levels welcome.
Eve Makis is the author of four novels, a life-writing guide, and an award-winning screenplay. She teaches fiction on the MA Creative Writing course at Nottingham Trent University, where she is writer in residence for the Postcolonial Studies Centre.
All participants will get the chance to have their work edited and included in a planned NTU anthology.
Book launch
Tuesday 8 December 2020, 6.30 pm – 8 pm
Book launch: Jenni Ramone, Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace: Located Reading
Interviewed by Bethan Evans, AHRC Midlands 4 Cities funded doctoral candidate at NTU.
In this event, Jenni discusses the significance of reading for understanding place (Cuba, Nigeria, the UK, and India), and some of the fascinating publishing and reading locations explored in the book. You can purchase a copy of the book here.
More information and book your place here.
Conference
Wednesday 9 December, 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Longing to Belong: student-led conference on ‘Belonging’
Join us for a conference curated by a collective of second year NTU English students, centred around Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s The Grassling.
The title of the conference, ‘Longing to Belong’, raises questions surrounding our relationship with the term ‘belonging’. It focuses on writers from the diaspora, as we believe that their relationship with belonging is a unique and under-represented experience. Featuring three guest speakers; Eve Makis, Panya Banjoko and Helen Cousins.
Find out more and book your place here.
Interview
Thursday 10 December 2020, 6.30 pm – 7.30 pm
From Brixton to Jamaica with the acclaimed novelist Alex Wheatle – in conversation with Eve Makis
Eve Makis will be interviewing Alex Wheatle about his recently published YA fiction book, The Cane Warriors.
A prolific writer, Alex has had success in many forms including lyrics, poetry, short stories, plays and novel writing for adults and children. His work has been influenced by Brixton, where he grew up, his Jamaican heritage, and his experiences of living in the Shirley Oaks Children’s Home. He developed a hearty reading habit during his time in prison after the Brixton riots and has never looked back. Alex’s latest Young Adult novel, The Cane Warriors, published to critical acclaim in October, is based on the true story of a slave uprising on a sugar cane plantation in Jamaica in the 1700s. In 2008, Alex was awarded an MBE for services to literature and later won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for his book, Crongton Knights.
Alex’s life story was filmed as part of the mini-series, Small Axe, created and directed by Steve McQueen (director of Twelve Years a Slave) and shown on BBC One last Sunday.
Please forward any questions for the author to Eve Makis on eve.makis@ntu.ac.uk.
Find out more and book your place here.