📚Thank you to everyone who has come today and specially to Charlotte Head for sharing her words and experience so honestly with us💕

✒️It's been such a powerful evening and we are so honoured to be able to hold spaces for these important conversations.

#poetry #booklaunch #reading

A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926) It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human carelessness, earthquakes and the grim efficiency of the United States Air Force. The first films of hug...

A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)

Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton & Hove #9 : Solidarity & the City We bring together organisers and cultural workers rooted in Brighton & Hove to explore how solidarity is built, sustained and challenged.

Book now: www.eventbrite.com/e/defending-...
#Event #Discussion #Solidarity

Part of our programme on defending arts and culture. The aim of this session is to bring people together to think collaboratively about how we can strengthen arts & culture in Brighton&Hove; integrating the arts, education, sport, social, & community organising into our vision for a thriving city.

🎨Join us for a conversation with Tash (Radical Brighton)
& Rifa Thorpe-Tracey, exploring how community, resistance and creative expression are being sustained in an increasingly challenging landscape.

📅 Tue, 7 April, 7-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle & Online
🎟 Free
#Brighton #Free #Culture #Arts

Book launch: A Voice Is A Delicate Thing by Charlotte Head Join us for in-person or online for an evening of readings by Charlotte Head from our latest poetry chapbook "A Voice Is A Delicate Thing"

www.eventbrite.com/e/1985400686...

Second book launch this month: A Voice Is A Delicate Thing” by Charlotte Head. 

Charlotte Head has written these poems in this book whilst in prison for trying to stop weapons from being made in the UK for Israel’s g€nocide in Gaza. 

📅 31 March, 6-7pm
 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online  
🎟 Free

Next Tuesday, we'll explore the suffrage era as a moment of artistic and political experimentation.

We’ll trace how struggles to extend the vote to women & the working classes intersected with modernist aesthetics, revolutionary politics & lived experience.

Free www.eventbrite.com/e/1981998677...

To get a copy of the book, email Chris at dobson@sent.com 
Physical copy: £8 + £3 UK postage and packaging 
Digital version: £5. 
50% of sales are going to the author.
#Poetry #chapbook #Gaza

Online launch: Daughter of Death by Roba Al-Sharif Join us online for an evening of readings from our latest publishing venture, Daughter of Death by Palestinian poet Roba Al-Sharif

Book launch
📅 Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 7pm
 🌍 Online only via Zoom 
 🎟 Free, all welcome!

www.eventbrite.com/e/1983356321...

#booklaunch #poetryreading #free #online

✒️Chris Dobson, our Publishing Director, shares his process about how published our first poetry chapbook by Palestinian poet Roba Al-Sharif.

📚Support to Chris & Roba by getting a copy of the book and coming to our launch this evening to hear directly from Roba herself! 

#Publishing #Poetrybook

Join us for this online launch with readings from Palestinian poet Roba Al-Sharif, joining us from Gaza.

Roba will be reading poems from “Daughter of Death”, which is our latest publishing venture led by Chris Dobson.

📅Tue, 10 Mar, 7pm
🌍Online
🎟Free www.eventbrite.com/e/online-lau...
#launch

🤩Our February-July programme is now live!

All events are:
📆On Tuesdays
🆓Free and open to all
⏰7pm
📖Both online & in-person at The Shouthern Belle, Hove(unless specified).
🔗Book your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/exploding-...

👀Let us know which sessions you are looking forward to attending
#Free

Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th Century with Esther Leslie and Sam Dolbear YouTube video by Exploding Appendix

Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yr4...
SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/rEcuFrdZLm3v...

#DissonantWaves #Interview #20thcentury

🎙️ Podcast 52: We speak with Esther Leslie & Sam Dolbear about their book “Dissonant Waves” on Ernst Schoen (radio producer, composer, and friend of Walter Benjamin), tracing exile, politics, and sound across the twentieth century.

🎧 Out now on YouTube + SoundCloud.

#Posdcast #Sound #ErnstSchoen

Printscreen of the video recording's cover page with the title of the presentation on a yellow background, alongside HM's logo

Our Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb!
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From our archives - Scott Ritchie: Holding mad kids in community: Resisting Capitalism’s Disabling Processes in a Primary Grades Classroom
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The Web Is Not Enough — Why These Left Media Workers Are Opening Physical Spaces Corporations control the internet, so grassroots media workers are creating in-person spaces to build collective power.

Corporations control the internet, so grassroots media workers are creating in-person spaces to build collective power.

🗣️Next week! We’ll review the year, share plans, introduce publishing updates, and invite proposals as we shape the future of EA together.

📅 Tuesday, 24 February 2026, 7 pm
🌍 The Southern Belle, Hove. Online only upon request.
🎟 Free, all welcome!
www.eventbrite.com/e/exploding-...
#Brighton

📚What we got up to last Tuesday at our manifesto workshop. We looked into the structure and guide questions we could answer in a manifesto, examples throughout history, different formats, and then we made our own.
✂️We also played with different creative ways to create a collaborative manifesto
#art

Manifesto workshop with Bradley Tuck In this session we will draw upon the history of manifestoes in order to help you create your own manifesto with various art techniques

Free book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manifesto-...
#Manifestoes #Workshop #Free

🤗We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow for our first session of 2026

✒️Bradley tells you more about what we’ll be doing at the manifesto workshop tomorrow.

If you were to write a manifesto what will it be about? 🤩

📅 Tue, 3 Feb 2026, 7 pm
🌍 The Southern Belle, Hove & Online.
🎟 Free
#Art

Daniel & Clara in Conversation YouTube video by Exploding Appendix

Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YwL...

SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/729H8XRSqkWq...

#Podcast #VisualArts #MovingImage #Artists #BritishCountryside

🎙️In 2018, a 12-part interview series with @danielandclara.bsky.social was left unfinished.

This podcast becomes the long-awaited final chapter, reflecting on their work, tracing their return to the UK and a growing focus on the British countryside across their projects.

Listen now on YT and SC

What would your manifesto say?

Come explore the history of manifestos and make your own using the creative technique of your choice

🎨 Materials provided

📅 Tuesday, 3 February, 7pm
🌍 The Southern Belle & Online.
🎟 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/manifesto-...

#manifesto #creativeworkshop #free

🌆 Deadline extended - Manifestoes for the City

We’re creating an anthology of new manifestoes for Brighton and inviting artists, writers, thinkers & troublemakers to respond. Poems, images, sound, collage, all welcome.

🌀 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026, 11:59pm GMT

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#Brighton

Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton and Hove 5 Whitehawk, Sound Art and the Class Divide with Simon James In May 2024, as part of the Brighton Festival, sound artist Simon James collaborated with young artists in Whitehawk to produce an installation in the Lighthouse’s project space. The exhibition was en

Listen on Soundcloud on.soundcloud.com/D2M50nO9h4S0...

Or on YouTube: youtu.be/qQhPi8CLxBc?...

#Podcast #Art #Culture #Workingclass

🎙️New podcast is out! It’s been almost a year since we talked w Simon James @simonsound.bsky.social about his career as a working-class artist, the Neolithic Cannibals project with young artists in Whitehawk, and the importance of the Class Divide, co-founded by his brother Curtis James.
#soundart

We believe in gatherings, half-formed ideas, bodies in rooms and voices online.
In thinking together & undoing it.
In free, accessible education for all.

💥 Thank you for being part of the experiment this year. Here’s to more mess, imagination & creative sabotage in 2026.

Happy holidays from us!

Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton & Hove #4: Creativity on London Road In this session, we will be joined by Lucy Jefferies (Quiet Down there), Susie Deadman (Sew Fabulous), Jenny Staff (artist at the Phoenix), Kasia Zermon (The Rose Hill) to have an informal discussion

🎙️New podcast episode is out! Last year we were joined by Lucy Jefferies, Susie Deadman, Jenny Staff and Kasia for an informal conversation about arts and culture on London Road: what’s happening, what’s at risk, and how we strengthen it together.

🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/explodingapp...

This was us last week 🤪 We are still processing what happened at the Dada Cabaret. Every year, it gets better & better, weirder & weirder.

🦑chaotic life drawing, impromptu performances, films, poetry, fish performances and some history.

Thank you to everyone who came & our amazing performers!