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And the winners are…This summer, we invited people around the world to share their with Ai Weiwei and CIRCA. The res...
09/09/2026

And the winners are…

This summer, we invited people around the world to share their with Ai Weiwei and CIRCA. The response was overwhelming. Stories arrived of trees that had witnessed childhoods, migrations, wars, grief, family histories, acts of resistance and generations of change. Some were still standing. Others had been cut down, lost or survived only through photographs, drawings and memory.

From this collection, nine submissions have been selected to receive a hand-signed edition of Ai Weiwei’s latest CIRCA print, only available until midnight tonight:

Bruno TANQUERELAlexis KaminskyPolak Disapora@cheleallen7Diana ScarboroughAnita Matusevics@mathildamarekmmonihillpaints

Thank you to everyone who shared a tree and the story it carries. Together, the submissions became a portrait of our relationship with the natural world, told one fu***ng tree at a time.

🌳 A Tree by Ai Weiwei, his first drawing in 50 years, is available as a hand-signed silkscreen edition for £450 until midnight tonight, 9 September.

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monihillpaints eir extraction. It hurts me to the core to hear a chainsaw grinding a tree. I want to live in a world that worships trees - each and every one of them! I dream of a world where there is a tree canopy over every neighborhood and parking lot!

After losing those favorites in Helene, I love this opportunity to ellect on who is my tavorite tree now. My Tree is a tall, strong, steadtast guardian ol the section of the Mountains to Sea Trail that I walk most days.

She’s a gorgeous and proud tulip poplar who withstands hurricanes, droughts, floods, and high winds. She quietly greets me and all the hikers on the trail and her presence offers reassurance. She’s a big part of my day and I shower her with attection and I’m happy to show her off in this post tor @ aiww and CIRCA.

Bruno TANQUEREL THE SILENT WITNESS// I planted this Japanese maple outside my studio in Paris in early 1989, shortly atter returning trom the United States. len years later, when I moved to Planche, in the Dordogne, I transplanted it beside my new studio. The maple later witnessed the ar

08/09/2026

32 HOURS LEFT 🌳

Ai Weiwei’s first drawing in 50 years, available for just a few more hours as a hand-signed silkscreen edition. £450 until midnight tomorrow, 9 September 2026.

📺 Just two more screenings of A Tree on London’s at 20:26 BST

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08/09/2026

48 HOURS LEFT 🌳

Ai Weiwei’s first drawing in 50 years, now released as a hand-signed silkscreen edition, available for £450 until 9 September 2026.

📺 On London’s every evening at 20:26 BST until 9 September 2026.

🏭 Proceeds support year-round programme of commissioning, producing and presenting ambitious new work by artists from around the world.

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30/08/2026

‘I don’t have a favourite tree.’ said while signing prints from his most recent CIRCA release.

To everyone who has shared their , thank you. We’ve been blown away by the response, with trees and the stories behind them arriving from around the world. There are still a few days left to share yours.

Post your favourite tree using for the chance to receive a hand-signed print by Ai Weiwei, worth £450.

A Tree is available exclusively through CIRCA until 9 September. Link in bio.

20/08/2026

“When I [] read that this 1,200-year-old tree had died, I suddenly felt compelled to go there and make a sketch.

I am 69 years old, almost 70, and both my surroundings and I have undergone significant changes.

I do not think there is any difference between the death of a tree and the death of any other living being. They all complete the same cycle of life.

An optimist always believes another spring will come. Yet for this tree, there will be no further spring. It is simply tired.”

🌳 That drawing became A Tree, a limited-edition silkscreen created with CIRCA. Each edition is hand-signed by the artist and only available for £450 until 9 September 2026.

📺 Witness A Tree every evening at 20:26 BST on London’s

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London’s hot 🔥 What started as a phone call became something much bigger. From 180 Studios to Piccadilly Lights , thousa...
11/08/2026

London’s hot 🔥

What started as a phone call became something much bigger. From 180 Studios to Piccadilly Lights , thousands of people came together last week as Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean reunited in the heart of London for DIASPORA CALLING!, alongside the premiere of a major new CIRCA commission by Lauren Halsey, curated by Ms. Hill.

Thank you to Ms. Hill for welcoming us into the world of DIASPORA CALLING! and trusting us to help bring it to London. To Wyclef Jean for turning Piccadilly Circus into a stage. And to Lauren Halsey for creating an extraordinary work of art and letting us share it with the city.

Lisa Anderson for bringing us into the journey, and Jermaine, Afrikaa, Jude, Poetik, Autumn, Yusuf and the wider MLH team for trusting us to run with it.

Mark, Adam, Ernest, Mona, Sully, Riccardo and everyone at 180 Studios. Sophie McElligott and Dazed. Ghost Labs. Leroy Boateng. Every photographer, filmmaker, sound engineer, security team, producer and partner who helped make it happen.

And to everyone who travelled to 180 Studios, waited patiently in the queue, filled the streets, sang, danced and gathered beneath the Piccadilly Lights. We haven’t forgotten those of you who RSVP’d but didn’t get your moment with Ms. Hill. We’re working on something special for you. More soon.

📸 Leroy

06/08/2026

Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Lauren Halsey shut down Piccadilly Circus.

The CIRCA premiere of a new commission by Lauren Halsey, curated by Ms. Lauryn Hill, marked the beginning of a landmark week leading up to at Milton Keynes National Bowl tomorrow today (7 August), bringing together , , , , , , , , , and many more for a celebration of music, art and the global African diaspora.

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05/08/2026

8PM TONIGHT, PICCADILLY CIRCUS

CIRCA PRESENTS LAUREN HALSEY CURATED BY MS. LAURYN HILL

05/08/2026

Today is the day.

Join us for Ms. Lauryn Hill’s Diaspora Calling! Merch Pop Up & Signing at 180 Studios, London from 4pm to 7pm.

Doors are open from 4pm until 6:30pm. Please arrive early as entry is subject to capacity.

To make sure as many people as possible have the opportunity to meet Ms. Lauryn Hill, one item may be signed per person. Groups to be photographed together.

This special event is the beginning of an extraordinary week leading to Diaspora Calling! at the Milton Keynes National Bowl on Friday 7 August, where Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Erykah Badu, Giggs, Fireboy DML, YG Marley, Zion Marley and many more will come together for a landmark celebration of music, art and the global African diaspora.

If you haven’t already, secure your tickets for Friday now. We can’t wait to see you.

02/08/2026

Watching Button Up! come together at , we kept returning to one idea. This is an exhibition about what survives.

Across more than four decades of practice, Ai Weiwei brings together architecture, sculpture, photography and installation to examine memory, power, migration, conflict and freedom of expression. Yet beneath this extraordinary range of forms is a quieter thread that connects them all. Again and again, we encounter objects that have outlived the worlds that produced them.

The 400-year-old Wang Family Ancestral Hall, painstakingly reconstructed after surviving the Cultural Revolution, stands alongside works made from Lego, refugee boats, porcelain, wood and stone. Each carries the marks of another time. Similar to The Major Oak, each becomes a witness to histories that cannot be erased.

As Weiwei walks through the gallery in Manchester, he pauses beneath one of the hall’s ancient beams to show us something almost invisible. Protected beneath a large piece of glass is a handwritten note from his son, Ai Lao, written when he was four years old. It reads simply, “If your heart is calm, everything will be fine.”

It is a small gesture within an immense exhibition, but perhaps it says everything. Across Button Up!, history is not presented as something distant or complete. It lives on through objects, places and people, carrying memories from one generation to the next.

🪡 Button Up! at Factory International, Manchester until 6 September. Curated by

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