Pot Luck is a unique social club for creative people. Hosted at the Blast Theory studios in Portslade every two months and led by artist Ju Row Farr, Pot Luck events are a chance to try things out, meet new people, get inspired and find new ways to move forward.

Pot Luck is designed to build confidence, develop skills and facilitate connections. You might be looking for inspiration, changing direction, or you might be at the end of a course and thinking about what’s next. You might have a strong creative twinkle that needs attention; you might be working on a project and need something else.

All sorts of people come with all kinds of creative experiences. There are always new faces as well as regulars: we never know who will be in the room, and that’s part of what makes it exciting.

Save the dates – coming up at Pot Luck

🗓️ 6 pm – 8 pm, Wednesday 7 January 2026

Our next Pot Luck will be all about writing to our future selves. We will get specific. We will make something without a screen. It will be something to keep and open at a decided time, for a reason you choose.

Check out eighteenth-century cross-writing in advance, or photographer Sally Mann’s new book, Art Work, which includes a decades-long correspondence with another photographer.

Or ponder on the last letter you wrote and what your future self might like to receive…

🗓️ 6 pm – 8 pm, Wednesday 4 March 2026

At our March Pot Luck, we are going to learn a dance together. You don’t have to have a dancing bone in your body: only the desire to move, a shimmy, a strut or a sway. It’s all about you honouring yourself, however you show up.

Check out this short clip for inspiration.

RSVP to one or both upcoming events by emailing [email protected]

What happens at Pot Luck?

Pot Luck is based on the Potlatch, a North American Indigenous communal meal or gathering where everyone brings something they can contribute to the meal or to give away.

Eating together is a central part of the evening and we encourage everyone to bring something to share which is either vegetarian or vegan. Alongside a dish, we encourage you to bring a friend or someone curious too.

There is always something to take away, connected to the theme of the evening. Often, you might take away a new idea, an object, some new writing, or a potential collaborator or friend.

Hopefully, you will leave with a full belly and feel different to when you arrived.

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