Creative workshops in Scarborough
During November 2024, poet Charlotte Oliver will be hosting drop-in creative workshops at Scarborough Art Gallery, exploring people’s experiences of breast, chest and bottle-feeding in public. Participants will be encouraged to distil their thoughts and feelings about the subject down to a few words to write onto a breast badge, which they design and make themselves. The conversations will be used to create a soundscape, which will include poetry and accompany the Feeding Chair when it is hosted at Woodend Gallery in Spring 2025.
Feeding Futures of Leeds Manifesto
Wednesday 13th November 12 – 2pm
Leeds Art Gallery
Join us for the launch of the Feeding Futures of Leeds Manifesto.
The Manifesto calls for a more inclusive, healthy and caring Leeds City Centre, where parents can safely feed and look after their children. It was created through a series of creative workshops at Leeds Art Gallery, where members of Bosom Buddies breastfeeding peer support group and young women from the South Leeds-based Shine Project, alongside members of the public, shared their practical ideas for how the city centre could be made more welcoming for families.
Feeding Chair at Watershed, Bristol
During August 2024, the Feeding Chair will be hosted in Watershed’s café bar, as part of a tour of cultural venues across the UK, funded by Arts Council of England. The chair complements Watershed’s own commitments to access and inclusion, demonstrated through their provision of services and spaces that provide social infrastructure, such as their award-winning toilets, which are open for everyone to use, not just their customers.
Photo by Jon Aitken
Visible Bodies at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Between June and July 2024, Ikon Gallery in Birmingham will host the Feeding Chair, alongside a residency and series of free workshops by artist Sally Butcher, as part of our Arts Council funded touring programme, supported by Birmingham City Council Public Health and University of Central Lancashire.
During this time, Ikon's resource room will become a feeding and family space, which you are free to explore or relax in, with or without young children.
Working in the space, Sally will respond to Feed’s themes of public space and the reproductive body through the lens of her own art practice about experiences of infertility.
Feed at Birmingham Design Festival
We are delighted to announce that we will be talking about Feed as part of the fabulous Birmingham Design Festival (6th - 8th June). One of the aims of Feed is to take debates about infant feeding outside of limited discussions about parental responsibility or choice, and look at how, as a society, we can and should support the feeding of infants with human milk. So it's fantastic to be invited to talk about our work within the context of design.
Leeds Art Gallery workshops
To coincide with the inclusion of the Feeding Chair in the Found Cities, Lost Objects exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery, curated by Lubaina Himid CBE, we will be running a series of workshops to collectively create a floor flag manifesto for care and feeding, including breastfeeding, in Leeds City Centre. Drop into Leeds Art Gallery between 11am and 3pm on Wed 10th – Sat 13th April to take part.