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The launch of STING by Zest Collective at the Old Sail Loft was a fantastic opening night! Did you join us?The exhibitio...
17/06/2026

The launch of STING by Zest Collective at the Old Sail Loft was a fantastic opening night! Did you join us?

The exhibition is open again this weekend, with free entry for all.

📅 Opening Hours:
Saturday 20th June, 11am - 5pm
Sunday 21st June, 11am - 5pm

💥 Location: The Old Sail Loft, Building 3, Shamrock Quay, Lower William Street, Southampton, SO14 5QL

💥 Access:
The main exhibition space is accessed via two flights of stairs and does not have step-free access. Visit aspacearts.org.uk for further information. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected]

💥 FREE Events:
This weekend we also have TWO FREE events happening at the Sail Loft, including an Acoustic Open Mic and Poetry event on Saturday and an Artist-Led Tour on Sunday!

aspacearts.org.uk/events

Photography: Luke Shears

ARE YOU READY? opens STING at The Old Sail Loft this weekend! 🍋💥 Opening Launch: Friday 12th June | 6 - 10pm Live music...
11/06/2026

ARE YOU READY? opens STING at The Old Sail Loft this weekend! 🍋

💥 Opening Launch: Friday 12th June | 6 - 10pm
Live music from , a bar, and artist talks throughout the evening.

Exhibition Dates:
💥 Saturday 13th June, 11am-5pm
💥 Sunday 14th June, 11am-5pm
💥 Saturday 20th June, 11am-5pm
💥 Sunday 21st June, 11am-5pm

This group show brings together 18 artists in an exploration of resilience and creative survival.

📍Location: The Old Sail Loft, Building 3, Shamrock Quay, Lower William Street, Southampton, SO14 5QL
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Access
The ground-floor space is step-free and open during the launch event (6pm - 8pm). Here you'll find short films, artworks, artist speeches, access to the bar, and a small outdoor courtyard.

Toilets are located opposite and will remain accessible throughout the exhibition and launch event.

Upstairs space: The main exhibition space is accessed via two flights of stairs and does not have step-free access.

Visit aspacearts.org.uk for further information. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected]

https://aspacearts.org.uk/news/sting-at-the-old-sail-loft

THE SPACE IS ALMOST READY! 📣Our team and the crew have been working hard installing the STING exhibition, which launche...
10/06/2026

THE SPACE IS ALMOST READY! 📣

Our team and the crew have been working hard installing the STING exhibition, which launches this week at the Old Sail Loft in Shamrock Quay.

Access information for the launch event:

💥 Downstairs Space (6pm - 8pm)
The ground-floor space will be open from 6pm - 8pm. There will be a short film screening in this space - a documentation of the exhibition with insights from the exhibiting artists - alongside additional artworks and a bar selling cocktails, wine, beer, non-alcoholic beer and soft drinks. The downstairs space has step-free access.

💥 Outdoors (6pm - 10pm)
Drinks can be enjoyed outside and speeches will take place here at 7pm. Toilets are located opposite in two different outbuildings.

💥 Upstairs Space (6pm - 10pm)
The main exhibition space can only be accessed by two flights of stairs, approximately 40 in total. Live DJs will be on the decks upstairs and the bar will re-locate to the upstairs space from 8pm - 10pm. Unfortunately this space has no step-free access.

💥 Location
The entrance to the Old Sail Loft is located on the west side of the building located at what3words.com/cares.catch.diary

https://aspacearts.org.uk/news/sting-at-the-old-sail-loft

🎶 Opening Launch featuring live DJ sets from Address! Join us at the Old Sail Loft for the opening of Sting by Zest Coll...
10/06/2026

🎶 Opening Launch featuring live DJ sets from Address!

Join us at the Old Sail Loft for the opening of Sting by Zest Collective. An evening of live music, artist talks, and a bar as we celebrate the opening of the exhibition.

💥 Friday 12th June, 6pm-10pm

The Line-Up:
💥 JACKPUDDING (they/them) - 6pm–8pm
💥 Karob (he/him) - 8pm–9pm
💥 Jessieflo (she/her) - 9pm–10pm

The evening starts with JACKPUDDING with a soundtrack that mirrors the exhibition's thematic journey and sets the tone for the night. Karob will build on this with a selection of tracks inspired by the works on display, before Jessieflo closes the evening with an energetic set reflecting the exhibition's overarching themes!

📀 Music will take place upstairs at the Old Sail Loft. Accessibility note: This space is accessed via two flights of stairs and does not currently have step-free access.

Are you ready to explore the Old Sail Loft for Sting by this weekend? 💥 Opening Launch: Friday 12th June, 6pm - 10pm 🎶 ...
09/06/2026

Are you ready to explore the Old Sail Loft for Sting by this weekend?

💥 Opening Launch: Friday 12th June, 6pm - 10pm
🎶 Expect live music from , a bar, and artist talks throughout the evening!

Exhibition Dates:
💥 Saturday 13th June | 11am–5pm
💥Sunday 14th June | 11am–5pm
💥Saturday 20th June | 11am–5pm
💥Sunday 21st June | 11am–5pm

This group show brings together 18 artists in an exploration of resilience and creative survival.

📍Location: The Old Sail Loft, Building 3, Shamrock Quay, Lower William Street, Southampton, SO14 5QL

Access
The ground-floor space is step-free and open during the launch event (6–8pm). Here you'll find short films, artworks, artist speeches, access to the bar, and a small outdoor courtyard. Toilets are located just opposite this space and remain accessible throughout the exhibition and launch event.

Upstairs Exhibition: The main exhibition space is accessed via two flights of stairs and does not have step-free access. This large space features vaulted ceilings and wooden parquet floors, with live DJs playing throughout the Launch Event.

https://aspacearts.org.uk/news/sting-at-the-old-sail-loft

👀 OPENING WEEKEND: House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown! Friday's Launch Event: 6pm - 9pmSaturday: 10am ...
05/06/2026

👀 OPENING WEEKEND: House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown!

Friday's Launch Event: 6pm - 9pm
Saturday: 10am - 5pm
Sunday: 10am - 4pm
Monday: 9am - 4pm

🎟️ FREE entry!

This project by Uma Breakdown is about love, restraint, liberty, pain, growth and collapse. Commissioned by ‘a space’ arts for God’s House Tower, the exhibition explores alternative routes through time, drawing on fact and fiction to reimagine the past and speculate about the future.

👀 This Friday, we’re opening the doors to House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown at GHT, and we’d love you...
04/06/2026

👀 This Friday, we’re opening the doors to House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown at GHT, and we’d love you to join us!

🗓 Friday 5th June, 6pm - 9pm
📍 God’s House Tower
🎟️ Free Entry

House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown is a project about love, restraint, liberty, pain, growth and collapse. Commissioned by ‘a space’ arts for God’s House Tower, the exhibition explores alternative routes through time, drawing on fact and fiction to reimagine the past and speculate about the future.

Working across drawing, fiction, animation, code and sculpture, the artist revisits the building’s past as a Bridewell, an institution established in the 18th Century to house ‘idlers, vagrants and prostitutes’. The project asks what a place of spiritual and physical repair for people seen as ‘other’ might be, if freed from the authority of state and church that underpinned these ‘Houses of Correction’ and the subsequent systems they have evolved into since?

Using the unique history and architecture of God’s House Tower, as well as the artist’s home of the North East, House of Revision / House of Repair imagines a sacred grove for fringe cultures and unconventional communities with alternative belief systems, such as ancient outlawed religions and pre-modern travelling performance groups, centering communal care at the edges of legality.

Free tickets: https://godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/launch-event-house-of-revision-house-of-repair-by-uma-breakdown/edate/2026-06-05/

⚓ Are you ready to step into our new (temporary) visual arts space? We're super excited to introduce you to Sting by Zes...
29/05/2026

⚓ Are you ready to step into our new (temporary) visual arts space?

We're super excited to introduce you to Sting by Zest Collective at the Old Sail Loft at Shamrock Quay!

This group show brings together 18 artists in an exploration of resilience and creative survival.

💥 Opening Launch: Friday 12th June, 6pm - 10pm
Expect live music from local collective Address, a bar, food trucks, and artist talks throughout the evening! 🎶

Exhibition Dates:
💥 Saturday 13th June | 11am–5pm
💥Sunday 14th June | 11am–5pm
💥Saturday 20th June | 11am–5pm
💥Sunday 21st June | 11am–5pm

📍Location: The Old Sail Loft, Building 3, Shamrock Quay, Lower William Street, Southampton, SO14 5QL

FREE tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-event-sting-by-zest-collective-at-the-old-sail-loft-tickets-1989237725586?aff=oddtdtcreator

🚨 EVENT ALERT: FLARB (Free Lazy Arty Radical Book Club) Join us for FLARB with ZEST co-director Ellen Gillett as she fac...
29/05/2026

🚨 EVENT ALERT: FLARB (Free Lazy Arty Radical Book Club)

Join us for FLARB with ZEST co-director Ellen Gillett as she facilitates a fun, informal conversation around our new contemporary art commission by Uma Breakdown.

🗓 Sunday 7th June, 11:30am - 1pm
📍 God’s House Tower
🎟️ Free Entry (tickets available)

FLARB is a book club without the stress of a conventional book club. It reclaims the word ‘lazy’ as a radical approach to inclusion and self-compassion.

The session removes traditional access barriers to reading around arts and social justice topics in order to create a sociable, inclusive space to have a read, have a chat and learn something together.

📸 Photos by Holli Kalina Photography

FREE tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flarb-free-lazy-arty-radical-bookclub-with-zest-tickets-1986891123837?aff=oddtdtcreator

👀 Got plans next Friday night? Join us for the launch of House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown at God’s H...
28/05/2026

👀 Got plans next Friday night?

Join us for the launch of House of Revision / House of Repair by Uma Breakdown at God’s House Tower.

🗓 Friday 5th June, 6pm
🎟️ Free Entry

Commissioned by ‘a space’ arts, Uma's work is about love, restraint, liberty, pain, growth and collapse. The exhibition explores alternative routes through time, drawing on fact and fiction to reimagine the past and speculate about the future.

Working across drawing, fiction, animation, code and sculpture, the artist revisits the building’s past as a Bridewell, an institution established in the 18th Century to house ‘idlers, vagrants and prostitutes’. The project asks what a place of spiritual and physical repair for people seen as ‘other’ might be, if freed from the authority of state and church that underpinned these ‘Houses of Correction’ and the subsequent systems they have evolved into since?

Using the unique history and architecture of God’s House Tower, as well as the artist’s home of the North East, House of Revision / House of Repair imagines a sacred grove for fringe cultures and unconventional communities with alternative belief systems, such as ancient outlawed religions and pre-modern travelling performance groups, centering communal care at the edges of legality.

FREE tickets for the launch are now available:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-event-house-of-revision-house-of-repair-by-uma-breakdown-tickets-1984616992850?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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