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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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’.