🎙️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!

🎙️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!

😍We are looking forward to showing you the melodrama-inspired film we made last week at tomorrow’s Dada Cabaret! Here is some #BTS. 🤪Come along for an evening of randomness, laughs, art & weird #performances 🎟️Free entry,booking required. ⏰Tue 2nd Dec- 7pm 👽In person at The Southern Belle.

Today is World AIDS Day, marked annually to unite people in the fight against HIV and AIDS. It was founded in 1988 and continues as a way to show strength and solidarity against HIV stigma and to remember lives lost. Find out more about resources and support: https://ow.ly/i6yC50XA2LY

We need your unacceptable art + half-baked ideas! 🤪 Our annual Dada Cabaret is back: a weird, fun, chaotic and participatory event where you take the lead. 🥸Perform something or just come for the joyful nonsense and the lovely people. 🎟 Free, booking required. 📅 Tue 2 Dec, 7pm 📍The Southern Belle

New podcast episode 🎧 A conversation with Victoria Margree on the radical feminism of Shulamith Firestone her arguments on reproduction, technology, and liberation, and why "The Dialectic of Sex" still resonates today. Listen now 📚✨ www.explodingappendix.com/2025/11/19/p... #Podcast #Feminism

We’re turning our salon into a melodrama film set. ✨Imagine big emotions, bold styling, dramatic angles. 💋Join the cast or the crew 🎞️ Our finished melodrama will show at the Dada Cabaret week after. 📅 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 🌍 The Southern Belle, Hove 🎟 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/all-that-i...

📢 Open Call: Exploding Appendix Dossier 2.0 Manifestoes for the City. An anthology of manifestoes exploring Brighton and the avant-garde. 🖼️ Up to 20 images | ✍️ Poetry 1000 - Writing 2000 words Deadline: 30 Jan 2026 More info and to submit: forms.gle/VRmvgfL9zvPj... #Brighton #Opencall #Manifesto

Our latest podcast from our session “Scholars in Gaza Under Siege" with Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina & students from RECONNECT is out! Tune in for a conversation on solidarity, resistance, & the struggle to defend education under siege. 🎧 www.explodingappendix.com/2025/11/05/e... #Gaza #Palestine #talk

What if the avant-garde wasn’t a European invention, but a global conversation? We’ll explore 12 artworks from every continent to reimagine modernism as a network of exchange, resistance & reinvention. 🗓 Tuesday, 11 November📍The Southern Belle & online | Free www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-th... #Talk

What does it mean to think through touch? 💭 Join us to explore the surreal world of Jan & Eva Švankmajer, where spoons, teapots & clay become portals to imagination and resistance. 🗓Tuesday 21 October, 7pm | 📍The Southern Belle & online | Free www.eventbrite.com/e/tactilism-... #Surrealism

George and Millie tell you more about what we will be discussing in this week's online session, “Scholars in Gaza Under Siege: Defending Education, Resisting Erasure” on Saturday, 11 October 2025 at 10 am BST. This event will be only online via Zoom FREE entry www.eventbrite.com/e/scholars-i...

For our next session, we’ll be joined by Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina (Al-Aqsa University, Gaza) & RECONNECT students to discuss solidarity under siege. We’ll learn about scholarship and art from Gaza, and reflect on defending Palestinian culture & education. 📅 Sat 11 Oct, 10-11:30am | Online only | Free

🌅Here are some snippets of what we got up to in our last session, “What is Utopia”, and some books we drew upon for the session. #Books #Utopia #Studies

✨Tomorrow we kick off our autumn season with What’s Utopia? ✨ Join us online or in person to explore the history of utopian thought & creatively map visions of a better world. 📅Tuesday, 9 September, 7pm 📍The Southern Belle & online 🌍 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/1652928416... #Utopia #Brighton

🍂 New season, new leaflet! We’re back with Exploding Appendix events exploring utopias, cinema, philosophy & playful workshops to spark ideas & imagine together. Big thanks to @soofiya.bsky.social for our fresh new look 👀 Talks free in person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/exploding-...

🤩Next Tue, 9 Sept, 7pm (online + at The Southern Belle, Hove) we launch the autumn Exploding Appendix season! 🌱 We’ll explore utopian thought & map visions of a better world. ✨Free & open, bring a friend! 🔗In comments #Freeevents #Brighton #Utopia #ArtSalon

👂The Exploding Appendix Dossier started in 2021, full of manifestos, music, poetry, film & more. 🎙️This episode brings together Robert Jones & contributors to revisit the first Dossier REVOLUTION ✶ ART ✶ MANIFESTO, and celebrate its radical spark. soundcloud.com/explodingapp... #Manifesto #Art

🎙️ New podcast episode 🎙️ From In the Mood for Love to Fallen Angels, Wong Kar Wai bends genre into something luminous and hypnotic. We talk with Anna Warren about time, memory and the “mysterization” of everyday life. 🎧 Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud linktr.ee/explodingapp... #WongKarWai

It’s expected to be a busy weekend in the city 🎉 Here's your guide for enjoying Pride safely and responsibly, including: 🙌 tips on how to plan ahead ❤️‍🩹 available first aid, medical help or support 🧑‍⚕️ harm reduction advice Find out more 👉 www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2025/st...

‼️ New podcast ‼️ C.L.R. James rejected bureaucracy and insisted that workers organise for themselves. With Facing Autonomy, we explore Italian Autonomist Marxism and the politics of self-organisation today. 🎧 Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud linktr.ee/explodingapp... #Marxism #Podcast

‼️ New podcast ‼️ On Aug 9 1969, utopia met the knife. Manson’s Family wasn’t an aberration, they were born of the counterculture. We speak to James Riley (The Bad Trip) on LSD, apocalypse + the dark mirror of the 60s. 🎧 Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud - linktr.ee/explodingapp... #Podcast #Manson

Our final session before autumn is next week! Come celebrate, reflect, and imagine what’s next for arts & culture in Brighton & Hove. 📅 Tuesday 24 June, 7–9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm) 📍 The Southern Belle, Hove & online 🌍 Free - www.eventbrite.com/e/defending-... #WhatsonBrighton #Arts&Culture

The Exploding Appendix Podcast relaunches today with Episode 40: “Marx and Poetics — A Live Conversation with Keston Sutherland,” with brand new music intro by Nick Hudson (the one in this reel). 🎙️ Episode out now and every other Wednesday on YouTube and Soundcloud: linktr.ee/explodingapp... #pod

What is a suit? Join us June 17 with Marren Hager for a night of conversation, craft + critique reimagining the suit through tailoring, sustainability + resistance. 📅 Tuesday 17 June, 7–9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm) 📍 The Southern Belle, Hove & online 🌍 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/subverting...

💛 We had such a wholesome session last Tuesday. We explored friendships, created an original friend map, reflected on questions such as how friendship tastes. Thank you for coming and to @soofiya.bsky.social for making us feel welcome and inspiring us to make new friends and become better ones!

Can we design friendship? Join designer & zine-maker Soofiya for an evening of drawing, mapping & rethinking how we connect beyond algorithms & apps. 📅 Tuesday 27 May, 7–9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm) 📍 The Southern Belle, Hove & online 🌍 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-mak... #Workshop #Creativity

🎭 At our Defending Arts and Culture next session, we focus on austerity, its effect on the culture of Brighton & Hove, and how we respond. 📅 Tue 13 May, 7–9:30pm 📍 The Southern Belle, Hove and online Free www.eventbrite.com/e/defending-... #Brighton #Arts #Culture

Thanks to all who joined us for last night’s talk on modernism, literature & psychoanalysis; and to Helen Tyson for leading a vital convo on writing, art & politics. Next week: Defending Arts & Culture in Brighton & Hove, with a panel of unions & arts orgs. www.eventbrite.com/e/1230059504...

What if reading itself were a radical act? 📚 From Woolf’s child readers to Freud’s psychoanalysis, Helen Tyson’s new book explores how modernist writers staged the act of reading — and why it mattered. Join us online and in person on 6 May at 7 pm. #VirginiaWoolf #Modernism #Psychoanalysis

A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator, Max Haiven, explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.

Next Tuesday, we explore Victorian movable picture books with Hannah Field. We will reflect on the book as a space of touch, play, and spectacle. Here are a few examples we’ll be unfolding together. Photos from “Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader” #Book

The book as an object, a toy, an artefact. Hannah Field’s work on Victorian movable books invites us to reconsider how children have historically played with reading: tearing pages, pulling tabs, and colouring inside (and outside) the lines. + #BookHistory #Books

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Brighton’s art scene is struggling: lost spaces, rising costs, a fractured community. How did we get here? Can artist-led projects rebuild connections where institutions have failed? Let’s explore these questions together next Tuesday! www.eventbrite.com/e/1230013456... #BrightonArt #FreeEvent

University of Brighton & @CottinghamTrust launch one of the UK’s first PhD scholarships focusing on trans & non-binary inclusion‍ ⚧ The landmark initiative provides an opportunity to advance research that drives equality & transforms lives. Find out more bit.ly/42gt3Gn

⏳🎶 Groove music moves us—but is it also shaping how we experience time under capitalism? From work schedules to dance floors, rhythm structures our lives in ways we don’t always notice. Let’s break it down ⬇️ #GrooveMusic #TimeAndCapitalism #ExplodingAppendix

🖼🏛 Enter our competition to win a free Barbican membership! Ends 3rd March

David Lynch’s world-building didn’t stop at film. His paintings, drawings, and photography expand his eerie, dreamlike storytelling beyond the screen.

 We will explore how his art blurs the boundaries between the familiar and the uncanny. 
🗓️ 4 Mar, 7 PM.📍Online & The Southern Belle, Hove 🔗 Free

Still processing all the topics we covered on our last session of “Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton and Hove” series with @simonsound.bsky.social. From the process behind Neolithic Cannibals, the importance of community projects, play and experimentation in arts, the lack of funding + more!

With our Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton & Hove series we bring people together to rethink the role of art, education, and community in shaping a fairer city. Next week we’ll chat with @simonsound.bsky.social about his work, how sound can uncover hidden histories and challenge inequality.

Our Community Champion Kate spoke with @divamag.bsky.social about Brighton's first lesbian club night: “I wanted something that was about music as much as it was about sex and sass... It was ours... We wanted to not be an afterthought.” diva-magazine.com/2025/02/13/s...

On Tuesday we dived deep into @danielandclara.bsky.social work where landscapes become living stories, bodies merge with environments, and creativity blurs boundaries between photography, film, and pure imagination. 🎨✨ Do check out their work - you are in for a treat! #Landscape #Artists #Rec

Who needs an #ArtBreak? Here are four pieces by Leonora Carrington, a surrealist born in England in 1917 & dying in Mexico in 2011. An ecofeminist dreaming deeply around the rights of women, nature/animality, and mental wellness, her paintings are alive with detail: precise, and also otherworldly.

We're giving a talk about our work in Brighton next week at @explodingappendix.bsky.social also streaming online Free, book here: tinyurl.com/b5ry3mt4

Hello! We are a research group dedicated to exploring the history and future of avant-garde art and radical counterculture. We believe that learning and creativity should be open to everyone and seek to make complex ideas accessible and fun through our hybrid events and projects. #Arts&Culture