What’s on this week (26th January – 1st February)
Quick look at what’s on this week!
Visit our ‘There’s No Place like Home’ exhibition and catch up on the Private View
Check out our new exhibition opportunity ‘Flee’, open for all the community
Create in our free House building workshop, tea and chatter while creating cardboard houses
Attend our first Performance Night, see poetry, film and musical performances for free
Update on Poetry club
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Opening exhibition @ Artlandish, Hereford:
‘There’s no place like home‘ – part of the Here Without Home Project
There’s No Place Like Home is the first exhibition in Artlandish’s three-month community arts project Here Without Home, exploring what it means to live without the safety, comfort, or the certainty of a place to call home.
This opening exhibition reflects on sanctuary, belonging, and identity — asking what ‘home’ is, and how important it is.
Through artwork created with and alongside the community, the exhibition sets the emotional and artistic foundation for the wider project.
Here Without Home will go on to explore homelessness in all its forms, including the often-unseen experiences of:
• Sofa surfing and hidden homelessness
• Temporary or unsafe accommodation
• Street homelessness
• People displaced by war and persecution
• Families and individuals escaping domestic abuse
• Anyone living in limbo, between places, or without stable shelter
There’s No Place Like Home invites visitors to begin this journey with us – to look closely, to listen deeply, and to imagine a community where everyone can belong.
We were all set up and just waiting for people to arrive. Always a scary moment.
Number 7 was full of folks looking at the works and enjoying chatting to each other, we had over 65 people during the course of the evening, and we were very pleased with the reception.
New Exhibition Opportunity
Artlandish Presents a Community Art Exhibition
FLEE: The Suitcase Project
What would you take with you if you had to leave everything behind?
Not just the objects you own, but the memories, the hopes, the small comforts that make life bearable.
Artlandish invites artists and non-artists alike to explore this question through art, music, film and poetry.
These suitcases carry stories in form. Some hold words, some hold music or poetry some hold shapes, some hold the weight of quiet courage. Some are light, some are impossibly heavy.
Each suitcase becomes part of a larger installation: a fragile, temporary neighbourhood of journeys, a map of resilience, of departure, and of hope.
Suitcases can be symbolic vessels that carry what cannot be left behind, or what is needed to survive. The project is about movement, choice, and the intimate reality of leaving.
It honours and includes those who have fled war, abuse, or unsafe homes — and it asks all of us to imagine what it might mean to step into uncertainty, carrying only what matters most.
This is a space to think, to imagine, to feel and share — to consider what we carry with us, and what it means to move forward when home is no longer safe.
How to get involved:
Art
Make a suitcase or use a small suitcase to fill with evocative objects. Hand made, or not, these objects convey a message or perhaps tell a story or express emotion. We can help you do this if you’ve not been in an exhibition before. We invite folks who feel called to this project but haven’t done anything like this before to come to our free sessions at our project space where we can help you to identify and express what you are feeling to achieve your goals in a low pressure environment, in our Project Space on the 27th of January, 3rd of February & the 10th of February at 4, Gomond Street, Hereford.
Message info@artlandish.com.uk for more information.
Poetry
Create poetry or submit works that echo the theme. We can help you to do this. Come to our free poetry nights on the 4th of February and the 18th of February where we will be looking at these themes in a low pressure environment, in our Project Space at 4, Gomond Street, Hereford.
Message info@artlandish.co.uk for more information
Music
Create music with this theme in mind. We have performance events that will allow you to share your music live, or we can use your digital creations in our gallery and to put with short films that folks are creating.
Message info@artlandish.co.uk for more information.
Film
Make short films, with us or on your own. Tell a story or express emotions connected to this theme. Come to our free film club nights where you can learn to use cameras and how to edit from our team in a low pressure environment, in our project space at 4, Gomond Street, Hereford.
Message info@artlandish.co.uk for more information.
The only limit is your imagination.
Submissions close on the 14th of February
The exhibition opens with a Private View on Friday 20th February at 7pm and closes on Sunday 8th March at 5pm
How to Submit your work –
Email info@artlandish.co.uk and share ideas, drawings, photos of what you are planning, we are excited to see what you can come up with, this is an inclusive exhibition for artists and non-artists alike so do not feel intimated, all welcome.
House Building Workshop
Join us for a fun housing building workshop, expect tea and chatter and a fun time just making simple crafts. ALL WELCOME.
Our First Performance Evening
Artlandish are pleased to announce our first multi disciplinary performance night, it’s the first of many to come and we would love you to be there. We will be having two live acts and showing some of the poetry films to kick things off, expect the unexpected and prepare to be entertained.
Child Owlet will be playing some evocative dark folk, and Bertram the Geeza Bird will be rapping their poetry, which will be bringing the context of the project into focus. As always it’s a free gig so you’d be mad to miss it. Doors at 7pm – be there or be square
Poetry Club Update
Week One; There was a tiny group of five at the first session. We called it ‘the acorn’, in hopes that more folks might come and help us grow into a mighty oak poem machine.
We looked at the form of a modern sonnet, focussing on the subject of ‘doors’, which reflected the lack of privacy that homeless people encounter. We played around with structure and context, then composed and recomposed our poems. Lots of fun, learning and playful experimentation with words was had by all.
By the end of the evening everyone had created something that was special to us.
We’d love for you to join us at the next session on Wednesday 4th February at 7pm, in number 4 Gomond street Hereford.
That’s all for now, keep your eye on the website for more updates, and please do get in touch if you would like to contribute or help out in any way, have any feedback, or would just like to chat about what we’re doing 🙂