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With the certainty of tides, still I rise

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Family Fun Day!

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Aaron Williamson: In Conversation and Live Performance

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Southampton Film Week LaunchExpanding Cinema: Double-Screen Energy

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Poetry@JHGCall out for poems

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COLOURISM 2025 🚀 Launching today, Colourism is an exhibition by Black History Month South on show during Black History Month this October. In 2024, the exhibition explored the nuanced ways in which colourism manifests in Black, White, and Mixed-Race communities. Beyond the superficial stereotypes, the exhibition revealed the deep-rooted cultural, social, and economic disparities that arise from this prejudice. Now in 2025, the presentation focuses on the impact colourism has on younger people. With images by the internationally published, Southampton-based live music and documentary photographer @nosamalcolm, Colourism aims to challenge perceptions and spark conversations about the profound impact of colourism on communities across the globe. The exhibition will be on show at multiple venues across the city, including Southampton Central Library, Shirley Library, Woolston Library, @mayflower.studios, @solentuniversity, @october.books, @bartonpeveril, and @ght_soton in November. Join us as we embark on a visual journey that sheds light on a critical issue and inspires us to work towards a more equitable and inclusive society. Colourism is a Black History Month South exhibition, in partnership with Arts Council England. Link in bio for more 🔗 #Colourism #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM25 #BlackHistoryMonthSouth #BLM #BlackStories #UKHistory #Exhibition #Southampton #Art #Photography #NowShowing #Southampton #SouthamptonEvents @blackarchivessouth @aceagrams @pantheranubis @anthony_smith_illustration
'Tis the season to get curious 🎨⁠ ⁠ It's officially Autumn, and at John Hansard Gallery, that can only mean one thing: NEW SHOWS!⁠ ⁠ The change of season is a perfect time to take stock and even shift perspective. Our teams have worked incredibly hard to install new exhibitions and organise exciting events - we can't wait to welcome you 💛⁠ ⁠ Eventbrite in our bio...
PREVIEW ALERT 📅⁠ ⁠ Our newest shows are on the way, and everyone is working incredibly hard behind closed doors!⁠ ⁠ Fancy being among the first to see new exhibitions Outlandish and With the certainty of tides, still I rise? DM us by October 1 to RSVP for October 3. ⁠ P.S. There may or may not be a piece of furniture hung from the ceiling and levitating over water...just saying 👀⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ---⁠ Images:⁠ The Outlandish Collective, Pow Masks (after Roy Lichtenstein). Courtesy Aaron Williamson/Ocean Farini.⁠ ⁠ Shiraz Bayjoo, Lamer Vide (Coastal Fade) (detail), 2021. Courtesy the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary.⁠