Applications are now open for place-based campaigns to be part of our Rehearsal Spaces Fellowship.
If you, or someone you know, are part of a place-based campaign working towards spatial justice in London and would benefit from a funded artist collaboration, we’d love to hear from you.
Full information and application form via our website, linked in bio.
Please share and tag those in your network who might be interested in applying! 🌱
#opencall #fellowship #spatialjustice
Rehearsal Spaces Fellowship will provide infrastructure for socially engaged artistic practices within the context of local campaigns across summer/autumn 2026.
We are currently seeking to partner with place-based campaigns, in London, working towards spatial justice.
Visit kinstructures.com to read more and apply before the 26th April.
Our Newsletter unpacks some of the work around the Rehearsal Spaces Fellowship and will be the place where we share exclusive insights.
You can sign up at any time for £1 a month, link in bio.
Our December newsletter will be out next Friday 12th December with a special gift for our subscribers, current ones and those of you looking to join new!
This publication will share what happened during our Summer Rehearsal Space programme and feature updates from @savesoanes campaign, on our work at @johnhansardgallery , @wild_clay_epping & @themosaicrooms and @solficentre
Our newsletter is just £1 a month as we find ways to generate funds for community-led art, learning and play. Sign up now and will send you a gift, limited edition, riso printed postcard prints (of the collage artwork used in this reel), designed by our dear friend Tallawah @wovenradical , who also participated in Rehearsal Space.
This offering is exclusively for our subscribers, as a way to say thank you for being here, and for staying here with us. We will be sending these in early January 2026 and will email our subscribers with more details in the coming weeks
As of the 29th of August 2025 the project we called “Rehearsal Space” came to a close. Across the summer months, we saw 9 individuals/groups use the Training Room at Soanes for their artistic and learning practices; space to experiment, create, and make sense of the world around us.
We closed the programme with a creative feedback workshop mapping reflections and storytelling via mini zines. Swipe to see some of the outputs of this feedback and some pics from across the three months.
Thanks to everyone who participated🌞
How do public art galleries make decisions? What are the multi-various policies, personalities and imaginaries that constitute a particular action? What do these reveal about the time-spaces of institutional power? How could decisions be made otherwise?
This year, we’ve been rooting at John Hansard Gallery. It took a while to break ground, but then the incident happened. Things started to shake. The polished floors cracked, dark voids appeared, and faint echoes summoned us in, inviting us down to depths unknown.
We journeyed through, recently arriving at some sort of ending. Surrounding us are crumbled bits of paper, dried out marker pens and rusting scissors. There are tortured etchings in the soil, faint premonitions of what lies beyond. We couldn’t see a way forward, so we asked for some help. Last week, Mandy, Loulwah and Sofia made the journey down too. They’re with us now, scheming, planning on the means to move past this point.
We have sound and radio equipment with us. Current thinking is to establish sound relations with those faint echoes. They invited us here, perhaps they know how we can get out. We’ll make some noise, perform some incantations, and wait to see if they respond.
On a haggard piece of paper someone had scribbled ‘the more that listen, the more power…’. The rest had been cut off. We interpret it as a sign that others should tune in to these soundings.
Go to twitch.tv/kinstructures on Wednesday 4 September at 4pm.
The signal is weak down here, our connection might not work, but hopefully it will last long enough to elicit some guidance on how to move beyond this place we are in now.
Join us and listen (help).
a couple weeks ago we welcomed @wovenradical into Rehearsal Space for a working exhibition and open studio across three days.
Tallawah’s artwork “Kalunga” explores the ocean as a liberatory space and the mythologies that surround it.
Their practice is grounded in a history of rebellion, specifically the memory of the 1.8 million enslaved Africans who drowned in the middle passage during the transatlantic slave trade are held in this this space with the intention to remind that their livelihoods are heavily interwined with the present, the systems that allowed for this enslavement are still in place.
on the final day, @blackradicalartscommunity held a healing circle in the presence of the loom and the communal weaving, guided by readings of
“Undrowned” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
Wondering what’s been going on in the Rehearsal Space this summer at @soanescentresle ?
We’ve had tap dancing solo rehearsals and a number of theatre groups visiting us like @firstsliceinitiative by @fruitcakelondon
Thanks for making use of our space 🫧
ENCOUNTERS our newest newsletter just went live. a reflective piece introducing myself to the kin structures community
I’m kezia 👋🏽 and if you want to get to know me and the work i’m doing with kin, you can sign up to the newsletter to read and stay connected. link is in bio
love and light x
photos by @igoristaan
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿
Until 6 September 2025
This summer, we present a compelling exploration of artistic responses to our rapidly evolving global landscape. New World Order brings together diverse voices from across the UK and around the world, fostering solidarity in increasingly divisive times through the unique perspectives of artists with varied lived experiences.
Ahead of their next week-long residency happening in the gallery from Monday, we highlight @kinstructures and their exciting summer project.
Artists Kin Structures (Kwame Lowe and Arman Nouri) present …rooting, a new initiative showcasing their ongoing work to create infrastructure for cultural and community expression. Kin Structures’ art/infrastructure practice reveals the conditions of contemporary urban governance and builds alternative infrastructures rooted in the lived experiences of marginalised communities.
Through a series of week-long residencies, Kin Structures will transform Gallery 1 into a space for community engagement and organisational reflection. …rooting explores intentional presence, witnessing and learning through collaborative activities with Southampton-based artists, educators, and community groups. During Kin Structures’ absence, the space will function as an installation displaying traces of their process.
Kin Structures will be in residency during the following weeks:
1–4 July
5–8 August
26–29 August
Drop-in and be a part of ...rooting.
Link in bio for more 🔗
#JHGStructures #JHGNWO #Exhibition #KinStructures #Rooting #InstallationArt #Community #Southampton #SotonArts #SouthamptonEvents #ComingSoon @uni_southampton@uni_southampton_wsa@uos_engagement@aceagrams@savesoanes@jackkytan
Introducing...Rehearsal Space @ Soanes Centre.
Rehearsal Space is infrastructure for artistic and learning development. It gives space to the production of work that uses creative and sensory practices to make sense of social, political and ecological conditions. In particular, Rehearsal Space nurtures art and learning that circulates and expands diasporic and non-western ways of knowing.
A three month rehearsal of this infrastructure is now underway at the Soanes Centre, where we will be opening up the Training Room for public use, and collectivising the improvised maintenance of an at-risk space.
In alignment with the ethos of Soanes Centre, and to support Setpoint London East’s ongoing work to develop a community-led vision for the centre, we will prioritise bookings from:-
- Tower Hamlets residents, community groups and organisations
- Individuals and groups with Global Majority backgrounds
- Individuals and groups with proven anti-oppression record
The space is free to use. Booking required by emailing [email protected] or visiting our website (link in bio)
May newsletter is out now and available to read via kin structures.ghost.io
Featuring @savesoanes deradicalising the city @lfafa@jackkytan@johnhansardgallery and kendrick.
Sign up to our newsletter for £1 a month as we find ways to generate funds for community-led art, learning and play at Soanes Centre.
kin structures presents...rooting
live from southampton's john hansard gallery, all summer long.
opening this friday! shout us if you want to join.
...rooting is part of @johnhansardgallery new world order programme, alongside jumana manna, alaa abu asad, morgan quaintance and mykola ridyni.
