Events & Short Courses

Our public events, activities and short courses invite interactions between the artistic community, the local neighbourhood and the broader public. They include skills-based workshops, talks, seminars, reading groups, walks, performances, concerts, screenings and social gatherings. They are organised by, and in dialogue with, OSE Associates, alumni and staff, guest practitioners, and local and regional partner organisations.

Our public events and short courses are open to all, free of charge and do not require booking unless otherwise stated. Internal sessions are programmed by our Associates and are learning opportunities for collaboration between our Associates and Young Associates.


Current and upcoming

Read more: Venice Fellowship Presentations: James Jordan Johnson

Venice Fellowship Presentations: James Jordan Johnson

Join OSE alumnus and artist James Jordan Johnson for an artist talk in which he will discuss his performance practice, cartography & object coding

  • Artist Talk
  • Screenings
Read more: How Do Ideas Grow: Listening session and artist talk with People Like Us

How Do Ideas Grow: Listening session and artist talk with People Like Us

Join OSE Associate Leon Clowes and internationally renowned audio-visual collage artist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) for a listening session of ‘No One Is An Island’.

  • Artist Talk
  • Listening group
Read more: A Forest of Things: Arduino, electronics & coding course with Matt Mapleston

A Forest of Things: Arduino, electronics & coding course with Matt Mapleston

Join OSE Associates Jamie Lee and Emily Stapleton-Jefferis for a three part Arduino & coding course with Matt Mapleston (The Geekery).

  • Short Course
Read more: Topiary Social Club: Artist talk & workshop with Paulina Martinez

Topiary Social Club: Artist talk & workshop with Paulina Martinez

Join OSE Associate Josefina Mellado and Chilean artist Paulina Martinez for an artist talk in which Paulina will share their work with communities in Chile

  • Artist Talk
  • Workshops
Read more: Environmental Justice Questions: Workshop with Harun Morrison

Environmental Justice Questions: Workshop with Harun Morrison

Join OSE Associate Simina Neagu and artist and writer Harun Morrison for an artist talk & workshop.

  • Artist Talk
  • Workshops
Read more: In My Voice, In My Body

In My Voice, In My Body

A closed workshop that will use the tools of artists and creative practitioners to unlock possibilities for expansion, care and ease.

  • Workshops
Read more: It’s A Myth: World building workshop with Abigail Hampsey

It’s A Myth: World building workshop with Abigail Hampsey

Join OSE Associate Samuel Vilanova and artist Abigail Hampsey for a participatory workshop that explores contemporary myth-making and world building.

  • Workshops
Read more: Art in Times of Crisis: Online artists talk with emerging Ukrainian artists

Art in Times of Crisis: Online artists talk with emerging Ukrainian artists

Join OSE Associate Lise Smirnova for an online artist talk & discussion with 4 emerging Ukrainian artist.

  • Artist Talk
  • Discussion
Read more: Blossoming Bodies (II): 3-part radio show by OSE Associate Aliaskar Abarkas

Blossoming Bodies (II): 3-part radio show by OSE Associate Aliaskar Abarkas

three-part radio show created by OSE Associate Aliaskar Abarkas that invites a series of guest speakers to explore different fictional and factual instances of metamorphosis.

  • Radio
Read more: TLC: Short film screening & live performances

TLC: Short film screening & live performances

Join OSE Associate Sarah Khan for a short film screening & series of performances at Margate Art Club.

  • Performance
  • Screenings
Read more: Vulvas that Bite and Other Creatures: Artist talk & workshop with Flora Bradwell

Vulvas that Bite and Other Creatures: Artist talk & workshop with Flora Bradwell

Join OSE Associate Milou Stella and artist and curator Flora Bradwell for an artist talk & craft workshop that explores and questions the history and image of the toothed vagina.

  • Artist Talk
  • Workshops
Read more: ACME x OSE Fellowship

ACME x OSE Fellowship

We are delighted to be partnering with ACME to launch the ACME x OSE Fellowship

  • Fellowship
  • Residencies
Read more: OSE PUBLIC PROGRAMME 22-23

OSE PUBLIC PROGRAMME 22-23

  • Short Course
  • Talks
  • Workshops
Read more: Lacuna – A Learning Network for Educators, Practitioners, Artists and Teachers

October 2022 – September 2023

Lacuna – A Learning Network for Educators, Practitioners, Artists and Teachers

Lacuna – A Learning Network for Educators, Practitioners, Artists and Teachers

  • Talks
  • Workshops
Read more: Mosaic Rooms x OSE: In Response

Mosaic Rooms x OSE: In Response

We’re excited to announce our new partnership, running throughout 2023, with Mosaic Rooms.

  • Partnership workshops
  • Performance

About the 2022-23 Public Programme

This year’s Associate-led Public Programme is responding to themes around Extended Ethics, Memory, Sustainability and Hybrids , as set out in the Associate’s first term curriculum led by the artist Saelia Aparicio titled: ‘When The World Looks Back At You: about storytelling, ecology and the weird’.