Pot Luck is our 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, at the end of a course, 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.
Still curious? Here’s a BTS takeover from past Studio & Production Assistant, Macy Byfield.
Pot Luck really got me out of a rut, creatively. It’s introduced me to the Southwick/Portslade area and introduced me to other creative people.
Coming up at Pot Luck:
Resistance: Being An Artist In The World Today
🗓️ 6-8pm, Wednesday 18 March 2025
📍 Blast Theory Studio
🎫 Free entry
How do you live in the world right now as an artist? Do you respond, resist, or quietly absorb? This Pot Luck is about what it means to make work in the current moment, and where the ‘political’ sits in what you do.
We’ll explore different forms and starting points: what other artists are making directly in response to the times we’re in, where you find the political in your own practice, and how that might open up new ways of working.
RSVP to our March Pot Luck by emailing [email protected]
Dancing Together
🗓️ 6-8pm, Wednesday 6 May 2025
📍 Blast Theory Studio
🎫 Free entry
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At our May 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.
Shrine Making
🗓️ 6-8pm, Wednesday 3 June 2025
📍 Blast Theory Studio
🎫 Free entry
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A shrine is an act of attention – a way of saying this matters and giving it a place in the world. They can be private or public, permanent or temporary, solemn or strange or quietly joyful. They can be for a person, a memory, an obsession, a hope.
From a little library cupboard on a street corner to a mantelpiece dedicated to a person or a collection of objects – shrines take all kinds of forms and they’re everywhere once you start looking.
This Pot Luck is a making session. Bring something as a starting point – an object, a photo, a found thing – that you want to build around. We’ll make together and see what emerges when you give something the space and care it deserves.
Sharing Your Work: PechaKucha Style
🗓️ 6-8pm, Wednesday 9 September 2025
📍 Blast Theory Studio
🎫 Free entry
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The summer may be ending but we’re getting straight into it: an evening of sharing, with a twist.
We’ll be leaning into a Japanese presentation style known as PechaKucha (chit-chat in Japanese). A fast-paced, image-focused presentation on your practice.
Each person gets two minutes to present their work – what you’ve been making, exploring, or thinking about. The fast-paced, image-focused presentation is a format that forces you to keep things tight, focused and is a surprisingly helpful practice.
An evening in two halves with a break in the middle and eating, drinking and chatting around the edges. Come ready to share and ready to listen.
In a period of artistic development, Pot Luck has provided a safe and welcoming space to explore new ideas and to gain confidence.
Why is it called Pot Luck?
Pot Luck is based on the Potlatch, a North American Indigenous communal meal or gathering in which 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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