Doors open at 6.50 for a 7pm start.
We’re standing at the foothills of lurching, unintuitive, disinterested exponentials.
Stood at the bottom looking up. At every interval of drudging ascent a heady combination of vertigo and dread. And boredom.
Waiting that is not a prelude to something else, but is instead a permanent condition.
This performance is rooted in Samuel Beckett’s high modernist 1952 play ‘Waiting for Godot’, read now, as science fiction.
Beckett’s fantasy in the latter part of his career was of a play without characters, without actors or dialogue. In that vein, with a few decisive strokes we can draw out the shape of ‘Waiting for Godot’, “A country road, a tree, evening”, and together with a sense of anticipation, get to it, ‘the good stuff’.
And that’s how this production will elapse. An audience will be seated, lights will go down then up elsewhere, the play will start and ultimately finish and there will be no cast of characters but the audience itself.
Then together we will wait for something to happen.
Curated by Sol Miles
Free, entry, everyone is welcome – bring your friends and neighbours!
EOP Summer Camp 2026 is here!
Everyone is welcome to join us as we celebrate the launch of this year’s EOP Summer Camp Show.
Taking over the whole building, over 70 EOP members will share work made over the last year in a range of media. There really is something for everyone.
The bar will be open and the samosas will be warm so come on over, bring your friends and check it out.
This First Friday come and check out what the EOP Studio artists have been up to during the first part of their residency in our second gallery.
Simran Ahira, Mailies Fleming, Jo Hepburn and Alexander Stubbs will be sharing tests, experiments and in-progress paintings, drawings, sculptures, sound works, radio broadcasts, videos and more.
You’ll also be able to make your own LOCAL SUPERSTAR stickers across the evening. Come along, modify a sticker, take it home or stick it inside the bus.
There will be samosas and drinks on the bar. Everyone is welcome!
Come along to the first public performance by Saheli – the queer, women-led collective at the heart of Seema Mattu’s project LOCAL SUPERSTAR.
Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay, Mani JNX, Ushara Dilrukshan, Zahrah Hutton and Seema Mattu — five musicians from Birmingham and London – came together in early 2026 following an open call for musically-minded South Asian people interested in creating music that challenges misogyny, casteism, colourism, and queer erasure within South Asian musical expression.
Over the last five months the collective has been meeting regularly at Grosvenor Road Studios in Handsworth, developing a body of work rooted in a DIY, folk-punk ethos.
Everyone is welcome to join them for an evening of work in progress, sonic expression, and collective experimentation set within the exhibition space, c’mon in!
Everyone is invited to join us to celebrate the launch of our new exhibition ‘LOCAL SUPERSTAR’ by Seema Mattu.
‘LOCAL SUPERSTAR’ is a multi-stranded constellation of sculpture, live-action film, digital animation and congregative music. At the centre of gravity is a full size tour bus, a vehicular bridge between worlds which holds the formation of Saheli (ਸਹੇਲੀ) – a sonic collective of five South Asian, queer women whose focus on sonic joy, musicality and collectivity stems from artist Seema Mattu’s experience of musical congregation as seva (selfless service).
Tell your friends and neighbours! C’mon in and check it out. The bar will be open and the samosas will be warm!
Join us for a one off performance response to ‘Compensare: For the Swallows We Weigh’.
Body-in-Play is a practice-based performance that seeks to nurture the “self in context.” Informed by Taoist philosophy, through relational play and embodied response, movement artists Kim Bormann, Seraina Dejaco, Sarah Butler and Dawn Reeves, and artist Marley Starskey Butler will reflect, respond to, and remix the exhibition’s sonic and visual textures, interacting playfully through the conversational body. Conceived within 24 hours of its presentation, it will unfold as a shared moment in time. This event is a collaboration with Fabric.
Both exhibitions will also be open from 6–8pm.
Come along for a late night opening of both our current exhibitions – Compensare: For the Swallows We Weigh by Marley Starskey Butler and NAR MARRATU by Sarah Al-Sarraj. The bar will be open, and we’ll have samosas to snack on before you venture out to explore everything else that’s going on in Digbeth that evening.
Come along for a late night opening of both our current exhibitions – Compensare: For the Swallows We Weigh by Marley Starskey Butler and NAR MARRATU by Sarah Al-Sarraj.
The bar will be open, and we’ll have samosas to snack on before you venture out to explore everything else that’s going on in Digbeth that evening.
Get your Christmas shopping sorted! Pick up some great finds and surprise someone special with a gift they’ll actually remember. From art and handmade accessories to fun one-off pieces, our EOP stallholders have loads of unique goodies waiting for you.
Stallholders will include …
Jacob Carter, Rafal Zar, Roo Dhissou, Fred Hubble, Slump Studio, Sherrie Edgar, Yang Zhou, UUendy Lau, Maya Davies-Stokes, Ayesha Bibi, Tammy Woodrow, Seedlings of Kun, Dinosaur Kilby, f00l5p4nzi, Jennie Bates, Caitriona Dunnett, Carolyn Morton, Seema Mattu, Crow Dillon-Parkin, Santhanha Nguyen, Janet Tryner, and Katayoon Forouhesh.
Swing by, bring your friends, enjoy a warm samosa, and cross everyone off your Christmas list while you’re here!
Join us for a jam-packed evening!
We’ll be sharing ‘Companion Culture: Four Actions for Digbeth’ the new community led cultural plan for Digbeth … both our exhibitions, ‘The Hole in the Whole’ and ‘The Artist, The Community, The Council and The Philanthropist’, will be open until 8pm … and we’ll have readings by the Friends Institute Writing Group and a performance by Ashkan Sepahvand. Plus the bar will be open with soft, low alcohol and alcoholic drinks, plus samosas if you fancy a cheeky snack.
6:30pm – Friends Institute Poetry Group readings
7:15pm – diasporic gibberish, The Hole in the Whole: Performance by Ashkan Sepahvand