Event: FLARB - Free, Lazy, Arty, Radical, Bookclub!

Community, Free, In Person, Talks, Workshops

Saturday 14th September 2024 2:00pm - 4:00pm

God's House Tower, Town Quay Road, Southampton, SO14 2NY

Saturday 14th September, 2pm – 4pm

Join us for FLARB this September with ZEST co-director Ellen Gillett as she facilitates a fun, informal conversation around our new contemporary art commission Everyone Involved by Ian Giles. An extract from the accompanying critical writing commission, by author of Gay Bar (a New York Times Top Book of 2021) Jeremy Atherton Lin, will provide stimulus for discussion – served with a side of coffee and cake.

FLARB is the Free, Lazy, Arty, Radical Book Club, a book club without the stress of a conventional book club. It reclaims the word ‘lazy’ as a radical approach to inclusion and self-compassion.

FLARB removes traditional access barriers to reading around arts and social justice topics in order to create a sociable, inclusive space to have a read, have a chat and learn something together. It achieves this by having:

– No cost or fees (the texts are freely available online or provided ahead of the session, no joining/participation fee)

– No pressure to contribute or commit (it is ok to turn up just to listen or to turn up only when you feel like it)

– Very short texts (either written, video, or images) that can be digested in 10 minutes ahead of the session, or if you are feeling ‘lazy’, not at all!

– No required knowledge or expertise to join, just curiosity and respect for others.

 

Sign up for FLARB HERE.