Open School East is excited to announce a new series of public events as part of its ongoing programming cycle, Home Is Where The Garden Is. Through participatory workshops, artist talks, and listening sessions, the programme will explore the networks, systems and communities that form civic space; an entwined mesh of shared social and political space shaped by material and social interventions and interrelations. The programme draws from local and national histories, speculative experimentation, and the social-ecological systems that shape our lived environments.

We’re excited to announce our continued partnership with Turner Contemporary, who are generously hosting part of the programme.

Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading art galleries, located in Margate, Kent. The gallery presents an ambitious programme of exhibitions, events, and learning opportunities, inspired by JMW Turner’s legacy and his connection to Margate.  

You can find the schedule for this years programme below ~ all events held as part of the programme are FREE and booking is required – ticket links for events are typically released 1 month prior to start dates.

For enquiries regarding the programme, please contact: george@openschooleast.org

Programme Events:

#1: Fieldworks: Artist talk with Flora Parrott & Sara Trillo

Join artists Flora Parrott and Sara Trillo for an evening of artist talks, where each artist will share recent projects and ongoing research. Following the talks, Flora and Sara will hold a conversation about their individual approaches to ‘fieldwork’, an active process of artistic research that places the artist in, and amongst, a shifting and interrelated landscape.

🗓️ Wednesday 30 April 2025, 5:45pm – 7:30pm (GMT)

📍 Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate CT9 1HG

#2: Being Horizontal / Between Here and There: Artist talk with Harold Offeh

Join artist Harold Offeh for an artist talk, where Harold will share several ongoing projects and explore his approach as an artist working across performance, learning and social arts practices.

🗓️ Wednesday 28 May 2025, 5:45pm – 7:30pm (GMT)

📍 Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate CT9 1HG

#3: Walking the Deer Line: Artist walk with Sara Trillo

Join artist Sara Trillo for an artist walk, where we will follow her in the continuation of her Walking the Deer Line project and seek out the remains of the Cursus Cerve, an ancient boundary line across Thanet, said in legend to have been created by a saint’s pet deer.

🗓️ Saturday 28 June 2025, 12:00pm – 3:00pm (GMT)

📍 Gather at Open School East, 39 Hawley Square, CT9 1NY

#4: Flowing Streams: Artist talk and game-making workshop with Harun Morrison

Join artist Harun Morrison for an environmentally focused workshop that explores the cultural, industrial, religious and meteorological significance of water. The workshop is centered around Flowing Streams, the prototype of a water-themed board game that invites participants to explore future shapes the game might take.

🗓️ Wednesday 23 July 2025, 5:45pm – 8:00pm (GMT)

📍 Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate CT9 1HG

#5: Porous histories, fluid pictures with Samara Scott

Join artist Samara Scott for an afternoon of making in Turner Contemporary’s Clore Learning Studio. In the session, Samara will introduce her artistic practice and collaborative textile projects, including ongoing material experimentation with Open School East’s ‘Despacito Art School’ Programme.

🗓️ Saturday 23 August 2025, 1:45pm – 4:00pm (GMT)

📍 Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate CT9 1HG