Short essays, dispatches, interviews and news from the artists, teachers and neighbours of Summertown Arts. New pieces every couple of weeks.

On stripping back a hundred years of paint in the former church, and the small mercies you find behind plaster - a pencilled name, a bracket left for a lamp that's no longer there.

A run-through of the autumn dance programme - who's performing, who's teaching, and the new piece we've commissioned.

Cathy on what she's learned from drawing the same room from the same angle for a quarter of a century.

Thanks to 312 of you we've passed £40,000. A short note on what happens next and who's been keeping us going.

A meditation on the smallest room in the building, and the kinds of work that only seem to happen there.

Live music, improvising dancers, and twenty visual artists with charcoal. Dates, prices and how to sign up.

A potter, a poet and a documentary photographer have just moved in. A short hello.
A short, occasional note about upcoming events, open calls and ways to get involved. We never share your details.