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21 March 2024

Home. Ukrainian Photography, UK Words: Tour

4 March - 28 February 2025

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Home: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words @ New Adelphi

4 March - 8 March 2024

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CREATIVE SOCIAL: IN THE ABSENCE OF FORMAL GROUND

2 March 2024

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We Feed The UK @ Exterior Walls

8 February - 31 March 2024

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Contrail Cirrus: the impact of aviation on climate change

7 March 2024

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Tree Story @ Liverpool ONE

16 February 2024

Open Source #27: Saffron Lily – In The Absence of Formal Ground @ Digital Window Gallery

6 February - 31 March 2024

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Contemporary Photography from Ukraine: Symposium @University of Salford

4 March - 5 March 2024

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Is Anybody Listening? Symposium: Commissioning and Collecting Socially Engaged Photography

29 February 2024

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Different approaches: Artists working with scientists

15 February 2024

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LOOK Climate Lab 2024: All Events

18 January 2024

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Diesel & Dust @ Digital Window Gallery

18 January - 31 March 2024

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Tree Walks Of Sefton Park with Andrea Ku

21 January 2024

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Artists Remake the World by Vid Simoniti: Book Launch

31 January 2024

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Shift Liverpool Open Meeting

6 February 2024

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We Feed The UK Launch and LOOK Climate Lab 2024 Celebration

8 February 2024

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Cyanotype workshop with Melanie King

17 February 2024

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End of Empire: artist talk and discussion

22 February 2024

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Book Launch: What The Mine Gives, The Mine Takes

24 February 2024

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Local ecology in the post-industrial era: open discussion

14 March 2024

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Plant a seed. Seed sow and in conversation with Plot2Plate

16 March 2024

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Waterlands: creative writing workshop

23 March 2024

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Erosion: panel discussion

9 March 2024

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Waterlands: an evening of poetry and photographs

23 March 2024

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Force For Nature Exhibition

27 March - 28 March 2024

Voices of Nature: Interactive Performances

28 March 2024

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Sum of All Parts: Symposium

27 February 2024

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LOOK Climate Lab 2024

18 January - 31 March 2024

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MA Socially engaged photography Open Day event

1 February 2023

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Tish: Special screening and Q&A

13 December 2023

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Book Launch: A Look At A New Perspective

23 November 2023

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Community workshops @ Ellesmere Port Library

6 November - 5 February 2024

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Book Launch: ‘544m’ By Kevin Crooks

30 November 2023

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Bernice Mulenga @ Open Eye Gallery Atrium Space

17 November - 17 December 2023

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Bernice Mulenga: Artist Talk

18 November 2023

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Local Roots @ The Atkinson

14 October 2023

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Community @ Ellesmere Port Library

26 October - 11 April 2024

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Critique Surgery for Socially Engaged Photographers

6 November 2023

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Deeds Not Words: panel discussion

12 October 2023

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Deeds Not Words @ Atrium Space

3 October - 22 October 2023

Ode To Our Space @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

A Look At A New Perspective @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

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Book Launch: Crow Dark Dawn

19 October 2023

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Exhibition Launch: A Place of Our Own

28 September 2023

Reflections

12 September - 22 December 2023

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Sandra Suubi ‘Samba Gown’ Procession

9 September 2023

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29 September - 22 December 2023

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POETRY BOOK LAUNCH: JACK BENNETT – LUNETTE

7 September 2023

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A Portrait of the High Street @ Prescot

31 August 2023

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ROOTING FOR THE FUTURE: Growing Culture, Community and Creativity

SUNDAY 4 SEPTEMBER / 3–4.30PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY

FREE, BOOK HERE


Join us at Open Eye Gallery for tea & coffee, a sweet thing and conversation!

Andrea Ku, Gwen Riley Jones and Hellen Songa will be joined by Open Eye Gallery curator Mariama Attah

Our three chosen artists all have a wealth of individual experience in either growing culture, working with a community, or creativity via nature. We invite you to explore with us how their practices overlap and what we can learn from working collectively towards climate solutions via image making, understanding biodiversity and building relationships with each other. 

SPEAKERS

Hellen Songa is a Zambian-Rwandan photographic journalist and documentarian with a focus on environmentalism, community-organising, food growing, and people power. 

MWALULA, Hellen’s most recent project, is presented in Gallery 3 as a part of LOOK Biennial and will form a focal point during Rooting for the Future. Hellen set out on a recent trip to their father’s, Chileshe, home country of Zambia after 23 years of separation. Mwalula Green-Life Farm is a plant-based, organic farm bought and run by Chileshe. Despite the differences in location and culture, they reconnected through their similar interests in farming. This photography project is a continuation of Volunteer Voices: Liverpool Food Growers Network, a recent exhibition at Open Eye Gallery during the LOOK Climate Lab 2022, January – March 2022. Portraits of Liverpool Community Food Growers Network members were displayed with short texts explaining their involvement and interest in growing food and sharing insights, showing  this as an achievable route into gardening, growing and volunteering.

Gwen Riley Jones is a photographer and socially engaged practitioner based in Greater Manchester. Gwen is currently Socially Engaged Photographer-in-Residence at Salford Art Collection in partnership with Open Eye Gallery. They have been working with groups of young people across Salford to explore how collections can be used and understood to help us tell stories. 

Gwen recently worked with youth environment charity Action for Conservation and a group of talented young people to create artworks displayed in The Planting for the Planet exhibition at RHS Garden Bridgewater. The exhibition  runs from 28 May – 16 November and celebrates our communities contributions to tackling climate action by greening Greater Manchester.The project also demonstrates the importance of plants and nature in creating resilient, healthy and beautiful spaces for people and the planet to coexist. 

Andrea Ku is the founder of B4Biodiversity, a group of people who aim to raise the awareness of urban biodiversity through educational, practical and creative projects, eg. landscape design & building, beekeeping training, horticulture & gardening, arts projects and more. She is also an artist in her own right, taking on a facilitator’s role in her approach to making work. Andrea will be facilitating both a Bee Walks and a Bat Walk for the public as part of the LOOK Biennial!

These speakers will be chaired by Open Eye Gallery curator, Mariama Attah.

Mariama is a photography curator and editor with a particular interest in overlooked visual histories, using photography and visual culture to amplify under and misrepresented voices. Mariama was previously assistant editor of Foam Magazine and prior to this, she was curator of Photoworks, where was responsible for developing and curating progammes and events, including Brighton Photo Biennial. She was also commissioning and managing editor of the yearly magazine Photoworks Annual. Speaking about the LOOK Photo Biennial 2022: Climate, Mariama says:

We hope the Biennial prompts questions and reflections and encourages visitors to make links between the everyday and the overview, to understand the ways they may personally be affected but most importantly to consider ways in which we can positively engage and advocate for change.

SUNDAY 4 SEPTEMBER / 3–4.30PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY

FREE, BOOK HERE


Join us at Open Eye Gallery for tea & coffee, a sweet thing and conversation!

Andrea Ku, Gwen Riley Jones and Hellen Songa will be joined by Open Eye Gallery curator Mariama Attah

Our three chosen artists all have a wealth of individual experience in either growing culture, working with a community, or creativity via nature. We invite you to explore with us how their practices overlap and what we can learn from working collectively towards climate solutions via image making, understanding biodiversity and building relationships with each other. 

SPEAKERS

Hellen Songa is a Zambian-Rwandan photographic journalist and documentarian with a focus on environmentalism, community-organising, food growing, and people power. 

MWALULA, Hellen’s most recent project, is presented in Gallery 3 as a part of LOOK Biennial and will form a focal point during Rooting for the Future. Hellen set out on a recent trip to their father’s, Chileshe, home country of Zambia after 23 years of separation. Mwalula Green-Life Farm is a plant-based, organic farm bought and run by Chileshe. Despite the differences in location and culture, they reconnected through their similar interests in farming. This photography project is a continuation of Volunteer Voices: Liverpool Food Growers Network, a recent exhibition at Open Eye Gallery during the LOOK Climate Lab 2022, January – March 2022. Portraits of Liverpool Community Food Growers Network members were displayed with short texts explaining their involvement and interest in growing food and sharing insights, showing  this as an achievable route into gardening, growing and volunteering.

Gwen Riley Jones is a photographer and socially engaged practitioner based in Greater Manchester. Gwen is currently Socially Engaged Photographer-in-Residence at Salford Art Collection in partnership with Open Eye Gallery. They have been working with groups of young people across Salford to explore how collections can be used and understood to help us tell stories. 

Gwen recently worked with youth environment charity Action for Conservation and a group of talented young people to create artworks displayed in The Planting for the Planet exhibition at RHS Garden Bridgewater. The exhibition  runs from 28 May – 16 November and celebrates our communities contributions to tackling climate action by greening Greater Manchester.The project also demonstrates the importance of plants and nature in creating resilient, healthy and beautiful spaces for people and the planet to coexist. 

Andrea Ku is the founder of B4Biodiversity, a group of people who aim to raise the awareness of urban biodiversity through educational, practical and creative projects, eg. landscape design & building, beekeeping training, horticulture & gardening, arts projects and more. She is also an artist in her own right, taking on a facilitator’s role in her approach to making work. Andrea will be facilitating both a Bee Walks and a Bat Walk for the public as part of the LOOK Biennial!

These speakers will be chaired by Open Eye Gallery curator, Mariama Attah.

Mariama is a photography curator and editor with a particular interest in overlooked visual histories, using photography and visual culture to amplify under and misrepresented voices. Mariama was previously assistant editor of Foam Magazine and prior to this, she was curator of Photoworks, where was responsible for developing and curating progammes and events, including Brighton Photo Biennial. She was also commissioning and managing editor of the yearly magazine Photoworks Annual. Speaking about the LOOK Photo Biennial 2022: Climate, Mariama says:

We hope the Biennial prompts questions and reflections and encourages visitors to make links between the everyday and the overview, to understand the ways they may personally be affected but most importantly to consider ways in which we can positively engage and advocate for change.

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