Upcoming events
Event | Creative Network: Art and Activism with Lydia Needle, Art Eco-activist
Free
The Creative Network is a free event for artists to network and share ideas. This month’s topic is art and activism, our guest speaker is Lydia Needle, an art eco-activist.
If you can’t make in-person you can join online via our YouTube live.
Creative Network: Lily Sawtell
FREE*
Join us for a Q&A with Lily, a sculpture and mixed media artist. Her work ranges from sculpture, to drawing, design and photography. For the last 2 years she has using an iPad for life drawings and illustrations. After the discussion there will be an activity using Adobe Fresco.
Creative Network: Juliet Duckworth & Alyson Minkley
FREE*
Join for our first Creative Network of 2023. There will be a Q&A with Juliet and Alyson to find out more about their art practice and projects.
You can get involved with a virtual reality activity, which is to document how people react to VR. The interactive session is to support the beginnings of a new VR research project.
Event | Creative Network with Barnaby Dixon
FREE
Join us on Facebook Live, on the Ignite Somerset Facebook page from 5pm at our Creative Network with Barnaby Dixon, a British puppeteer and animator.
He is best known for his puppet performances, most notably an ongoing comedy/vlog series featuring his bird puppet Dabchick. On top of now doing live performances, Dixon continues to upload puppet demonstrations and performances, as well as episodes of Dabchick's series. In 2019, Dixon worked on the television series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as a puppeteer for the puppet show sequence performed by characters SkekGra and UrGoh.