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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 3d

🧡 KEEPING CAMPSFIELD CLOSED 🧡

Sat 18th Oct, 11 am – 3 pm
📍 Fusion Arts, 15 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HH

Learn about the urgent campaign against the reopening of a detention centre just outside Oxford — and how you can get involved!

FREE book here: events.humanitix.com/keep-campsfi...

Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 6d

🌿✊ Community Banner & Placard Making ✊🌿

🗓 Sun 5 Oct, 12–3pm
📍 Fusion Arts, 15 Park End Street

Bring your friends, get creative, and add your voice to the movement.
✍️ Families welcome — under 16s must be with a parent or carer.
🪧Materials provided
♿️Wheelchair accessible, nearby accessible toilet.

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 10d

✍️Women of Colour Creative Writing Sessions

Next session: Fri 3rd Oct, 5:30–7pm at Fusion Arts, 15 Park End St, OX1 1HH

This workshop offers a safe, supportive space to share your work, exchange ideas, and pick up tips for developing as a writer.

Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-of-c...

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 16d

Last night’s Poetry in the Library event yielded lovely Q & A. Every q. was thoughtful, thk you all!

The fab Phương Anh from Tilted Axis was there to support ANNAH—
pls attend their hybrid fundraiser for Palestine SUN, also a book launch & trilingual reading: www.outsavvy.com/event/30035/...

Yellow and blue text over purple background says ‘Dear Diaspora: book launch, trilingual reading & fundraiser for Palestine | September 28th | 7-9PM (UK) Online & The Common Press London’, with logos below for the 87 Press, Poetry Translation Centre, and Common Press.

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 15d

Wishing you have an incredible launch event this evening! We will be there in spirit 🥰

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 15d

Xeno-space is a live, active exhibition.

Exhibiting Artists:
Marcel Top
Robert Shuttleworth
Ismael Rodriguez
Contributing Artists:
Julia Utreras

DEPOT
26 Sept, 11am – 9 pm
27 Sept, 11am – 8 pm
28 Sept, 12pm - 4 pm
Fusion Arts, 15 Park End St, Oxford OX11HH
depot.artsvp.com/71f388?link=...

Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 15d

✨ Focus 2025: Xeno-space Events @ DEPOT ✨
We invite you into a weekend of workshops, performances, and conversations that activate Xeno-space

🔗 fusionarts.artsvp.com/a7798d

Together, we’ll create collective works that become part of the space itself.

Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 19d

DEPOT
Fri 26 Sept, 11am – 9 pm
Sat 27 Sept, 11am – 8 pm
Sun 28 Sept, 12pm - 4 pm
Fusion Arts, 15 Park End Street, Oxford OX11HH
Book your free tickets depot.artsvp.com/71f388?link=...

Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 19d

DEPOT
Fri 26 Sept, 11am – 9 pm
Sat 27 Sept, 11am – 8 pm
Sun 28 Sept, 12pm - 4 pm
Fusion Arts, 15 Park End Street, Oxford OX11HH
Book your free tickets depot.artsvp.com/71f388?link=...

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 19d

New for 2025, Depot 25 introduces a shop dedicated to small publishers and artists’ books. With a focus on independence & experimentation, the shop will feature selected publications from:
Fieldnotes
Prototype
TACO
If A Leaf Falls
Montez Pres
IZZA Books
Tenement Press
Bricks from the Kiln

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 21d

Fusion Arts Presents…
FOCUS 2025: Xeno-space at DEPOT 25

Xeno-Space is a ‘live’ exhibition concept that extends the notion of what a gallery space is and what it is capable of doing.

Curated by Sunil Shah

Swipe through to learn more!

Free, Book here depot.artsvp.com/71f388?link=...

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 24d

✨ Women of Colour Creative Writing Sessions ✨
Organised by Cowley Climate Collective & hosted at Fusion Arts.
We’re excited to announce the next creative writing session for women of colour! 💫

🗓 Fri 19 Sept
⏰ 5:30–7pm
📍 Fusion Arts, 15 Park End St, Oxford, OX1 1HH
👉https://shorturl.at/gH7kp

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 27d

📌 To book and find out more about the space, please complete the form. Confirmation will be sent by email.

♿ Accessibility: Studios are upstairs and only accessible via stairs.

📩 More info: [email protected]
Booking link forms.gle/w7pAz1ixNwk9...

Studio Tour Booking Form

14a Park End Street Studios is Fusion Arts new creative hub in central Oxford, offering affordable studios, co-working desks and social spaces for artists, makers and cultural organisations. We’re run...

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 27d

✨ 14a Park End Street Studios ✨
Fusion Arts’ new creative hub in the heart of Oxford! 🎨 Affordable studios, co-working desks & social spaces for artists, makers + cultural organisations.

➡️ Afternoon slots now available, with more coming next month.

Book here - forms.gle/w7pAz1ixNwk9...

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · 29d

🎉We’re thrilled to announce DEPOT will return in 2025!!

Tickets are now live depot.artsvp.com/71f388?link=...

🗓️Friday 26th - Sunday 28th September, 2025
📍15 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HH
ℹ️ depotoxford.com

🔜 Stay tuned for dates and programme updates.

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Asylum Welcome @asylumwelcome.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today, Nigel Farage used Oxfordshire to launch plans for “mass deportations” of people seeking asylum if he becomes Prime Minister.

We believe in a different vision: one rooted in dignity, safety, and welcome. Please add your name to our open letter: tinyurl.com/aw-letter

A call for Unity and Compassion in Oxfordshire (and beyond)

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Asylum Welcome @asylumwelcome.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you #ThisisOxfordshire for highlighting our open letter calling for Compassion and Unity in Oxford - www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2542642...

More than 2,000 sign open letter for 'compassion' after Nigel Farage visit

More than 2,000 people signed a letter calling for 'unity and compassion' in Oxfordshire after an increase of hostility towards migrants and asylum…

www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · Sep 5

Desk space available at Resonate Studio, Oxford. Email Adam for details!

Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · Aug 20

Calligraphy isn’t just art — it’s culture, history, protest, and power on the page. Thank you to everyone who came and made it such a beautiful, reflective space. 🌿✨

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · Aug 20

Reclaim the Script ✍️📜

What an amazing workshop on Sunday! 💫 Huge thanks to Aisha for guiding us through calligraphy in English, Arabic & Urdu — with brush pens, watercolours, and conversations about identity, memory & resistance.

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · Aug 15

✍🏾 Women of Colour Creative Writing Sessions
Organised by Cowley Climate Collective

Every fortnight on Fridays, 4–5:30pm, starting 22 Aug, Fusion Arts, 15 Park End St Oxford

🎟 Book your place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-c...

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · Aug 14

Reminder about my very first ANNAH, INFINITE event, pls do sign up and let’s try to take down whatever colonial structures of disbelief we can.

No disability justice without a free Palestine. And do support the wonderful work of @workshops4gaza.bsky.social, translator-run. Lead yr own wshop!

Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · Jul 10

All proceeds from ANNAH, INFINITE: BURNING COLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES OF DISBELIEF @workshops4gaza.bsky.social will go twrds Crips for eSIMS for Gaza, disabled-run ❤️‍🔥

Wed Sept 3
Pls sign up at workshops4gaza.com/workshops

@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social

Against a white background with red border, an illustration of two grey cupped hands holding a red flame. Image text says: WORKSHOPS FOR GAZA | KHAIRANI BAROKKA | ANNAH, INFINITE: BURNING COLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES OF DISBELIEF | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 6-7.30pm EST.

Pink book cover saying ‘Annah, Infinite’ and text saying ‘This workshop will be a guided discussion about this speculative nonfiction book’s ideas, disability justice, and the ways each reader can take these concepts and apply them to everyday resistance.

Graphic of the two cupped hands repeats, with text saying ‘All donations from this workshop will go to Crips for eSIMS for Gaza, a collective of disabled people around the world who are raising funds to get as many eSims as we can into Gaza.

Register at www.workshops4gaza.com/workshops | Link in bio!

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Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · Aug 6

📍On view until the end of September at the Window Galleries, Friar’s Entry, Oxford.

Note: Due to ongoing building work, half of the windows are currently obstructed — apologies! It should be cleared by the end of August.

Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · Aug 6

⬇️ Mary Sheehan

Fusion Arts Oxford @fusionartsox.bsky.social · Aug 6

⬇️ Natalie Gray

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