FLARB - Free, Lazy, Arty, Radical, Bookclub.

Saturday 13th July 2024 2:00pm - 4:00pm

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

Join us for July’s FLARB with ZEST co-director Ellen Gillett as she facilitates a conversation around our new commission ‘Holding Space’ by Anna Bunting-Branch and the accompanying critical writing commission by author of The Ahuman Manifesto, Patricia McCormack.

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.

FLARB is is a ZEST Arts Collective initiative run by ZEST co-director and artist Ellen Gillett. For this special series of FLARB events at GHT, Ellen will facilitate a fun, informal conversation in response to the current art commission in the space and the accompanying critical writing commission, along with some coffee and cake.

Sign up for FLARB here.