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.