It was such a pleasure to be invited to the #Royal #Pavilion Adelaide Salon #Art #Gala last weekend. We stepped into a world of contemporary and heritage art, curiosities, and spectacle. It felt truly magical, like travelling into an alternative world of oddities and prestige. #Brighton

@ferasalkabani.bsky.social join us to discuss his book. We'll talk about how cross-cultural encounters shaped understandings of #homosexuality from the 19th century to the aftermath of the Arab Spring. 📅 Tue, 9 June, 7pm 🌍The Southern Belle & Online 🎟 #Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-bu...

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire, is now available in paperback 🎊 Get your copy for only £23.19 📕📘 📚 (with this discount code: GLR BD8) directly from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/richard-b...

In 2023, we talked to Fidge Bibblyotek Never Work Zine, MNamug & Nuria Castro @aghhzine.bsky.social & @soofiya.bsky.social about the multifaceted nature of zines as cultural artefacts, and the creative, political, and social dimensions of zines as intimate, DIY, and community-driven publications.

📽️Here’s a snippet of the podcast where we talk with Sussex English faculty professor Helen Tyson about how early #20th-century writers imagined the act of reading itself, & how reading became a site of transformation, conflict, & meaning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvD2... #Modernism #Literature

In celebration of International Workers' Day, we've discounted everything on our website, including books on the histories of revolution and revolt that radically imagine what our futures can hold. Shop our Red May Sale, with up to 40% off all books!

Next session we turn to the lesser-known stage and film work of the #Bauhaus, exploring how movement, rhythm, and abstraction reshape the human figure. From "Triadic Ballet" to early abstract cinema. 📅 Tue 19 May, 7pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bauhaus-fi...

✒️Watch Charlotte Head read her poems from our latest poetry pamphlet, “A Voice Is A Delicate Thing”, and get to know more about the process behind her work and her experiences whilst being incarcerated. 🎧Watch the full podcast on YouTube: youtu.be/stGuIKjNuE4?... #Poetry #BookLaunch #Reading

🎬 What does it mean to grow up after Hiroshima? We explore the cinema of #Nobuhiko #Obayashi. Surreal, shifting, anti-war #films where youth becomes a way of thinking through history. 📅 Tue 28 April, 7-9:30pm 🌍The Southern Belle & Online 🎟 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coming... #Cinema #Event

📚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)

🎨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

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...

✒️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

🎙️ 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

Our Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb! marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/m... From our archives - Scott Ritchie: Holding mad kids in community: Resisting Capitalism’s Disabling Processes in a Primary Grades Classroom marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2023/09/16/s...

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

🤗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

🎙️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 forms.gle/RdJzXbcc3z6y... #Brighton

🎙️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