Banners By The Folk
Saturday 8 February 2025, 11 AM - 3PM
Lighthouse Project Space, Unit D North Level 1, New England House, Brighton, BN1 4GH
Date: Saturday 8 February 2025
Time: 11 AM - 3 PM
Location: Lighthouse Project Space, Elder Place, York Hill Corner, BN1 4GH
Tickets: Free, Booking Required
Main photo credit: Harry Meadley
Join artist and storyteller Sally Barton for an interactive workshop exploring and reimagining identity, heritage, and folklore.
This hands-on session invites participants aged 16-24 to delve into their own identities, beliefs, and memories through a creative process. Guided by Sally, participants will start with collage and drawing exercises to generate imagery. These designs will be transformed into bold banners, which they will take into the streets of Brighton to photograph in the wild, giving life to their creations in public spaces.
Throughout the workshop, Sally will draw from her own body of work, offering insights into her artistic approach and the themes that inform her practice.
This event is perfect for young creatives looking to explore self-expression and connect with their heritage and personal narratives in new ways.
Materials Provided: All art supplies and banner-making materials will be available.
Lunch/snacks will be provided. Please let us know your dietary requirements when booking.
Spaces are limited, so secure your place early to be part of this creative experience!
Programmed by the brilliant minds of Lighthouse's Future Creative Leaders (FCL).
About Sally Barton
Sally Barton is a socially engaged artist. Originally from Sheffield, she is now based in East London and works out of OOF Gallery studios.
Her practice explores social, industrial and folk history, using both public and personal archives to explore the relationship between land, labour and gender. She grew up with trade unionist grandparents and learnt about the strike through bedtime stories. She reimagines these industrial histories as fairy tales, making miners into fairies. She works in photography, textiles, collage and sculpture.
Sally has recently completed a photography commission with English Heritage and Photoworks, exploring and capturing the Nine Ladies Stone Circle in Derbyshire. The commission will be exhibited with English Heritage from February 2025.
ACCESSIBILITY
This event will be held on the ground floor, level access, of Lighthouse Project Space, New England House, Elder Place, York Hill Corner, BN1 4GH. ( map )
We have step-free access just to the left of our space. The step-free ramp is 1 metre wide, after the ramp you reach a blue door please use the 'Lighthouse' doorbell, one of the team will come to let you in and you will then go through a door that is 34 in / 86.5cm wide and after that another door in to the space that is 33.5 in / 85cm wide. There is an accessible toilet in the space on the same floor. We have one accessible parking space that must be booked in advance. For further information email info@lighthouse.org.uk or call 01273 647197.
Watch our video on the step-free access at Lighthouse Project Space. We are fundraising to adapt our entrance, so that everyone enters our space through the same door.
PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO DURING EVENT
Please note, that this event will be photographed/filmed. If you prefer not to be photographed please speak to a member of the Lighthouse team. The photographs and film we capture at our events are used for marketing and promotional purposes for our programme only and are stored securely.
Future Creative Leaders (FCL) is a 12-month paid programme offering young creatives from underrepresented backgrounds the opportunity to work closely with Lighthouse's leadership team to explore various aspects of creative leadership. Funded and supported by Art Fund’s ‘Reimagine Grants’ and Chalk Cliff Trust, over the year, participants will co-curate programmes, select participants for mini-residencies, and recruit their successors, all while exploring alternative governance structures, accountability, and power-sharing.
