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Tue 02 Sep 2025

Tuesday 2 September 2025, 6 to 7 pm at Nottingham Contemporary. Pantry is a new research publication from The Lilac House that grew out of the not-so-glamorous side of curating: structural inequality, precarity, institutional tokenism and the constant emotional labour of cultural work. It centres voices shaped by working-class backgrounds, minority ethnicities, migration, gender, queerness and disability, and asks what it means to keep doing curatorial work from the margins when the system keeps undervaluing or misusing you. Think less glossy gallery PR and more practical, emotionally honest reflections on how to stay and change things from within.

The launch includes a panel with the publication's cofounders Marta Marsicka and Jazz Swali, with responses from Ricardo Revern Blanco and Saziso Phiri who will bring their own lived experiences to the conversation. Curators, artists and cultural workers are invited to come along and talk about the emotional, political and structural realities of curatorial practice today. There will be 40 free physical copies available at the event and a digital copy will follow soon after. Free entry, booking advised. Supported by the British Art Network (Seminars 2024 Fund).

More information at www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/engine/referrer.asp?web=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nottinghamcontemporary.org%2Fwhats-on&src=516c5b2b27fe89c9453782a84a5cf4fe




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