Exploding Appendix

📚What we got up to last Tuesday at our manifesto workshop. We looked into the structure and guide questions we could answer in a manifesto, examples throughout history, different formats, and then we made our own.
✂️We also played with different creative ways to create a collaborative manifesto
#art

Manifesto workshop with Bradley Tuck In this session we will draw upon the history of manifestoes in order to help you create your own manifesto with various art techniques

Free book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manifesto-...
#Manifestoes #Workshop #Free

🤗We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow for our first session of 2026

✒️Bradley tells you more about what we’ll be doing at the manifesto workshop tomorrow.

If you were to write a manifesto what will it be about? 🤩

📅 Tue, 3 Feb 2026, 7 pm
🌍 The Southern Belle, Hove & Online.
🎟 Free
#Art

YouTube video by Exploding Appendix Daniel & Clara in Conversation

Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YwL...

SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/729H8XRSqkWq...

#Podcast #VisualArts #MovingImage #Artists #BritishCountryside

🎙️In 2018, a 12-part interview series with @danielandclara.bsky.social was left unfinished.

This podcast becomes the long-awaited final chapter, reflecting on their work, tracing their return to the UK and a growing focus on the British countryside across their projects.

Listen now on YT and SC

What would your manifesto say?

Come explore the history of manifestos and make your own using the creative technique of your choice

🎨 Materials provided

📅 Tuesday, 3 February, 7pm
🌍 The Southern Belle & Online.
🎟 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/manifesto-...

#manifesto #creativeworkshop #free

🌆 Deadline extended - Manifestoes for the City

We’re creating an anthology of new manifestoes for Brighton and inviting artists, writers, thinkers & troublemakers to respond. Poems, images, sound, collage, all welcome.

🌀 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026, 11:59pm GMT

forms.gle/RdJzXbcc3z6y...

#Brighton

Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton and Hove 5 Whitehawk, Sound Art and the Class Divide with Simon James In May 2024, as part of the Brighton Festival, sound artist Simon James collaborated with young artists in Whitehawk to produce an installation in the Lighthouse’s project space. The exhibition was en

Listen on Soundcloud on.soundcloud.com/D2M50nO9h4S0...

Or on YouTube: youtu.be/qQhPi8CLxBc?...

#Podcast #Art #Culture #Workingclass

🎙️New podcast is out! It’s been almost a year since we talked w Simon James @simonsound.bsky.social about his career as a working-class artist, the Neolithic Cannibals project with young artists in Whitehawk, and the importance of the Class Divide, co-founded by his brother Curtis James.
#soundart

We believe in gatherings, half-formed ideas, bodies in rooms and voices online.
In thinking together & undoing it.
In free, accessible education for all.

💥 Thank you for being part of the experiment this year. Here’s to more mess, imagination & creative sabotage in 2026.

Happy holidays from us!

Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton & Hove #4: Creativity on London Road In this session, we will be joined by Lucy Jefferies (Quiet Down there), Susie Deadman (Sew Fabulous), Jenny Staff (artist at the Phoenix), Kasia Zermon (The Rose Hill) to have an informal discussion

🎙️New podcast episode is out! Last year we were joined by Lucy Jefferies, Susie Deadman, Jenny Staff and Kasia for an informal conversation about arts and culture on London Road: what’s happening, what’s at risk, and how we strengthen it together.

🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/explodingapp...

This was us last week 🤪 We are still processing what happened at the Dada Cabaret. Every year, it gets better & better, weirder & weirder.

🦑chaotic life drawing, impromptu performances, films, poetry, fish performances and some history.

Thank you to everyone who came & our amazing performers!

Dada Cabaret and Christmas Party In time-honoured tradition, Exploding Appendix invites you to their seventh night of art, anti-art, participatory creativity, and revelry!

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😍We are looking forward to showing you the melodrama-inspired film we made last week at tomorrow’s Dada Cabaret! Here is some #BTS.

🤪Come along for an evening of randomness, laughs, art & weird #performances

🎟️Free entry,booking required.
⏰Tue 2nd Dec- 7pm
👽In person at The Southern Belle.

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Dada Cabaret and Christmas Party In time-honoured tradition, Exploding Appendix invites you to their seventh night of art, anti-art, participatory creativity, and revelry!

www.eventbrite.com/e/1657198056...

#Brighton #Dada #Opencall #Performance #Party

We need your unacceptable art + half-baked ideas! 🤪
Our annual Dada Cabaret is back: a weird, fun, chaotic and participatory event where you take the lead.

🥸Perform something or just come for the joyful nonsense and the lovely people.

🎟 Free, booking required.
📅 Tue 2 Dec, 7pm
📍The Southern Belle

New podcast episode 🎧

A conversation with Victoria Margree on the radical feminism of Shulamith Firestone her arguments on reproduction, technology, and liberation, and why "The Dialectic of Sex" still resonates today.

Listen now 📚✨ www.explodingappendix.com/2025/11/19/p...

#Podcast #Feminism

All That Imitation Allows: A Melodrama-Inspired Filmmaking Session Come film with us in front of behind the camera. The finished melodrama will premiere the following week at the Dada Cabaret.

We’re turning our salon into a melodrama film set.

✨Imagine big emotions, bold styling, dramatic angles.

💋Join the cast or the crew

🎞️ Our finished melodrama will show at the Dada Cabaret week after.

📅 Tue, 25 Nov 2025
🌍 The Southern Belle, Hove
🎟 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/all-that-i...

📢 Open Call: Exploding Appendix Dossier 2.0 Manifestoes for the City. An anthology of manifestoes exploring Brighton and the avant-garde.

🖼️ Up to 20 images | ✍️ Poetry 1000 - Writing 2000 words
Deadline: 30 Jan 2026

More info and to submit: forms.gle/VRmvgfL9zvPj...

#Brighton #Opencall #Manifesto

Our latest podcast from our session “Scholars in Gaza Under Siege" with Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina & students from RECONNECT is out!

Tune in for a conversation on solidarity, resistance, & the struggle to defend education under siege.

🎧 www.explodingappendix.com/2025/11/05/e...
#Gaza #Palestine #talk

What if the avant-garde wasn’t a European invention, but a global conversation?
We’ll explore 12 artworks from every continent to reimagine modernism as a network of exchange, resistance & reinvention.
🗓 Tuesday, 11 November📍The Southern Belle & online | Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-th...
#Talk

What does it mean to think through touch? 💭

Join us to explore the surreal world of Jan & Eva Švankmajer, where spoons, teapots & clay become portals to imagination and resistance.

🗓Tuesday 21 October, 7pm | 📍The Southern Belle & online | Free

www.eventbrite.com/e/tactilism-...

#Surrealism

George and Millie tell you more about what we will be discussing in this week's online session, “Scholars in Gaza Under Siege: Defending Education, Resisting Erasure” on Saturday, 11 October 2025 at 10 am BST.

This event will be only online via Zoom
FREE entry
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Scholars in Gaza Under Siege: Defending Education, Resisting Erasure Join Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina and his students to explore education, art, and solidarity in Gaza amidst ongoing siege and erasure.

Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/scholars-i...

For our next session, we’ll be joined by Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina (Al-Aqsa University, Gaza) & RECONNECT students to discuss solidarity under siege. We’ll learn about scholarship and art from Gaza, and reflect on defending Palestinian culture & education.
📅 Sat 11 Oct, 10-11:30am | Online only | Free

🌅Here are some snippets of what we got up to in our last session, “What is Utopia”, and some books we drew upon for the session.

#Books #Utopia #Studies

✨Tomorrow we kick off our autumn season with What’s Utopia? ✨

Join us online or in person to explore the history of utopian thought & creatively map visions of a better world.

📅Tuesday, 9 September, 7pm
📍The Southern Belle & online
🌍 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/1652928416...

#Utopia #Brighton

🍂 New season, new leaflet! We’re back with Exploding Appendix events exploring utopias, cinema, philosophy & playful workshops to spark ideas & imagine together.

Big thanks to @soofiya.bsky.social for our fresh new look

👀 Talks free in person & online:
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What is Utopia? In this talk led by Bradley Tuck we ask: What is utopia for us today? How can utopian thought help us imagine—and enact—better futures?

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