OPENING IN ONE MONTH…. Hayward Gallery Touring’s After the End of History: Contemporary Working Class Photography 1989 - 2024 will launch 29 March 2024. Curated by Johnny Pitts (@johnypitts) exploring life through the lenses of working class practitioners southbankc.re/48FjGzK

Our maps have been featured by the Royal Geographical Society, highlighting inequalities in museum distribution – read more here: buff.ly/3Iz6dyw

We’re getting ready to share our research events for 2024-25. Sign up to our mailing list to find out what we’ve got coming up. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art ECR British Art Network @MuseumAsMuck #workingclassbritishart #workingclass

Tom Armstrong founder of Common People talking about class inequality in the creative industries morningfyi.substack.com/p/solving-the-…

So, I get paid by semester only, and the academic year is essentially over. I'm on the lookout for arts & culture writing/editorial work. Co-founder of The Double Negative, I was also a Content Editor at Tate. If you could use my skills and experience, get in touch ✍️

OUR NEWSLETTER IS OUT 🗣️Save the date Stretching the Canon: Working Class and Queer British Art Today 6 September Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 📕 Join our reading group 🎨 Artist of the Month: Conor Rogers 📸 Exhibition opening soon: Joanne Coates Baltic Opens 11 May

⚡ We are hiring ⚡ Whitworth Curatorial Fellowship Frieze x @deutschebank 🤩 We are looking for an emerging curator interested in visual arts, willing to learn and get involved, with a desire to develop a career as a curator 📅 Apply by 21 May 👉 ow.ly/JIJ850Rztzk

Covid, budget cuts, skills shortages... The UK’s cultural and creative sectors have face a range of challenges over the last few years. Dave O'Brien asks, could a cultural industrial strategy safeguard the UK’s creative industry? progressivebritain.org/why-we-need-an…

‘If we are serious about opening access and diversifying what culture could be, we need to support ways in which everybody can experience it with freedom and at their own pace.’ Will Jennings  theartnewspaper.com/2024/05/08/let…

We were on cloud nine when BAM UK & Ireland decided to sponsor Emotional Weather at #LumiereDurham! 🌤️ It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and we’re spending the week delving into the series by Aidan Moesby! Let us know if you saw this powerful work in Milburngate!

We have a few places left on our online reading group tomorrow starting at 5pm. First text is Ben Davis’ 9.5 Theses on Art and Class found here christiansarkar.com/9.5theses.pdf Sign up below eventbrite.co.uk/e/wcban-readin… #workingclass #workingclassart

🚨CfP🚨 We are teaming up with Working Class British Art Network for a conference called, Stretching the Canon: Working Class and Queer British Art Today. To be held the Whitworth on 6 Sept. Paid fee of £150 to deliver paper. Details below🔄 @RSMuseumStudies Poppy Bowers Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Ed Watts

📕 📕 We’ve got 7 spaces left for our next #readinggroup 📕 📕 We will be focusing on Prof. Maria Fusco’s Who does not envy with us is against us. Join us for a chat at 4pm on Thursday 27 June. 📕 📕 📕 #workingclassart #workingclass eventbrite.co.uk/e/920345587427…

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🎧 Friday listen 🎧 #UncommonSense podcast produced by @TheSocReview which breaks down complex ideas into simple terms and challenging commonly held thoughts. We’ve started with episodes with Jo Littler, Bev Skeggs and Irmak Karademir Hazir podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/unc…

Massive thank you to British Journal of Photography for the feature in the latest issue words by Pippa Kelly

"enabling brilliant working-class kids to succeed in drama, dance or journalism – their raw talent so obvious, but for too many of whom geography is destiny, we will be a government that walks alongside them" theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Good luck to the England team tonight 💪 ⚽️ ‘My game reflects my origins. It’s a working-class style, because my game is based on energy and hard work’ Jude Bellingham England #EnglandEuro2024 #EnglandNetherlands

“For too long, for too many people, the story we tell ourselves, about ourselves as a nation, has not reflected them, their communities or their lives,” Nandy told staff at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).