Tend To It Closing Event with Performance & Drop-In Workshops

The Other MA (TOMA) is a 21st century art education programme shaped by its participants and designed to fit the everyday lives of contemporary artists. TOMA is currently the only postgraduate level art programme in Essex after all other were stopped by their host Universities. It was set up to offer responsive, affordable, accessible unaccredited art education to artists.Founded in 2016 by Emma Edmondson TOMA was set up in partnership with Metal in Southend, working with them for an incubation period before becoming an independent not for profit. TOMA believes in life-long learning and aim to make the possibility of postgraduate style art education accessible to all. TOMA is artist-run and based in Southend-on-Sea.* Website:www.toma-art.com* Instagram:@theotherma* Email:emma@toma-art.com

The Other MA

Join us in celebrating the longest running TOMA class so far!

TOMA Project Space

Join us and the Tend To It artists in celebrating the end of the longest running TOMA cohort so far. We will have drop-in BINGO BIRO with Paige Ockendon, a debut performance by Maria Bird, and Milky Genes will be showing a new improvisational performance. Come along, soak up the atmosphere, and help us close this fantastic show in style. Paige Ockendon's BIRO BINGO 4:30-5:00pmFamily friendly rounds of Biro Bingo. All welcome!Find new combinations of art materials and things you might like to draw.Take 3 x spins on the bingo machine to receive loose instructions on drawing tools, surfaces and subjects, to help you create something different each time.Have as many free spins as you like and take your artworks home or add them to our Bingo Gallery Wall.Paige likes to celebrate shared experiences within her work, both as an artist and as a producer based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Her own playful practice merges administration, internet humour and all things naff with video, performance and installation. Her work aims to connect people, be it through laughter, common ground, collective cringing or a shared surprise.Maria Bird Performance5-5:30pmMaria is an executive assistant at a fortune 500 firm based in London. As an anti-capitalist feminist anarcho queer Maria’s artwork explores identity crises, compromise, irony, transformation, acts of petty resistance and the grotesque. Milky Genes Performance 5:30-6pmMilky Genes is the alter ego of artist and musician Michael Paul Graham a Southend based artist who uses sound as an expressive tool to convey thought (though recently this work has become more digital and video based) well known for doing one off performances and bespoke DJ sets for receptive.Tickets to this workshop are free, however if you would like to make a donation to help support TOMA's education and exhibition programme, please do so by also selecting the 'Donate to TOMA' ticket in addition to a 'General Admission' ticket. In the event that places on the workshop sell out, please email elliotgibbonsapple@gmail.com to be added to a waitlist.This workshop is part of Tend To It's associated programme brought to you by the 2019-21 cohort of the TOMA (The Other MA) course. The Tend To It exhibition runs until the 15 January 2021 at TOMA Project Space, more information can be found here. With thanks to our funders and supporters Arts Council England and Metal. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

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