Art
Support Artist Job Opportunity
Friction Arts are on a quest to find the right Support Artist to work with an inspiring group of young people with different needs and abilities. Our Art Club is a free, weekly term-time Club, which supports young people aged 8-18 yrs old to explore their culture, work and spend time with their alternative peer […]
Kenya Journal #5
Days 7-9 In some ways these days have run into each other. We’ve mostly been mapping, working on archival stuff and planning the rest of the residency, including working out how we can most effectively and usefully share our practice with Kenyan artists. Syowia shared a map of the Nairobi art scene with us, and […]
Kenya Journal #4
Day 6 The early part of the day was spent preparing for the afternoon’s barbecue, with everyone making themselves busy moving tables and chairs around, and chopping and slicing fruit and vegetables. Quite a feast was created, with Kibe manning the piece de resistance that was the barbecue, big enough to hold the whole goat […]
Kenya Journal #3
Day 4 The early part of the day was full of breakfast, (coffee), then being now rested and at home, inevitably having to catch up with some admin. This happily included reviewing photos from our ‘Talking Drum Fest’, which happened immediately before we travelled here. We’re looking forward to the edit Sohelia, our Iranian filmmaker […]
Kenya Journal #2
Day 3 Rising reasonably early, we gathered in the kitchen for coffee before embarking on our first foray into Nairobi and the arts ‘scene’. We were to visit Peter’s pottery, where Syowia and Kibe were helping him to host a pot-making workshop, organised by them and the gallery where Syowia’s current exhibition is living. We […]
Kenya Journal #1
Day 1 Long journey to get here. When we landed, we discovered Sandra’s bag had made its own way somewhere, on an adventure of its own. I really appreciated the sense, once we got on the Kenyan Airlines plane in Amsterdam, that we were moving into a space of Blackness, where we had become the […]
Talking Drum Fest
Talking Drum Fest Playing the Edge in more ways than one We’ve teamed up with intrepid musician Xhosa Cole for a weekend of music, performance, dance, spoken word, talks and all kinds of related shenanigans on 21st/22nd May. Focusing on the Black and African diasporic experience, Talking Drum will feature some of the best artists […]
Event News
A Conversation About Building and Sustaining Art Spaces An opportunity to find out about the work of Untethered Magic in Nairobi, Kenya and a discussion about autonomy and self sustainability When and where Date and time Sat, 12 November 2022, 18:00 – 21:00 GMT Location The Edge 79-81 Cheapside Birmingham B12 0QH About this event An extra […]
Job opportunity – Art Club Lead Artist
Art Club Exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Art Club Lead Artist/ Tutor Friction Arts are on a quest to find the right Lead Artist/ Tutor to work with an inspiring group of young people with different needs, abilities and SEN. Our Art Club is a free, weekly term-time Club, which supports young people […]
