Public Programme
Associates are required to develop and deliver a Public Programme of participatory events that runs alongside the curriculum, and touches on themes or ideas raised through the other stands of programme activity at Open School East. Public Programme events are organised by current Associates, Associate alumni, OSE staff, guest practitioners, occasionally in partnership with local and regional organisations.
OSE Associate Jas Dhillon at Turner Contemporary
The Public Programme invites interactions between the artistic community, the local neighbourhood and the wider public. In the past programme events have included skills-based workshops, artist talks, research seminars, reading groups, walks, performances, concerts, screenings and social gatherings.
Open School East is currently in partnership with Turner Contemporary, one of the UK’s leading art galleries, who generously host part of the Public Programme, and help to create a wide-reaching, international platform for both the Associates and invited guests to share their practice, research and events.
Past Public Programmes
Where Echo Lies
February – June 2024
Across 10 public events, Where Echo Lies takes us to the edges of our experience, where it is dark, and all is not necessarily clear. Plunging into new depths, the programme thinks through deep time and the unconscious mind. What forms of solace might be found in the night that cannot emerge in the light of day? What might we hear when surrounded by this darkness? Through myth making, spectatorship, performance, and painting, you are invited to look inward and ask how can our experience help us understand what lies beneath the knowable?
From The Garden Where We Feel Secure
February – June 2023
From The Garden Where We Feel Secure responds to themes of social & ecological hybridity, as set out in the Associate’s first term curriculum entitled When The World Looks Back At You: about storytelling, ecology and the weird led by artist Saelia Aparicio. Through explorations of the voice, the body and sensitive connections to the natural and man-made networks that unite the world around us, the Associate-led Public Programme explores creativity and collectivity in green spaces.