Sputnik Saturday: TAKING RISKS

A day for Christian creatives to meet together, eat food, share work, have meaningful chat and more.

Sputnik Saturdays are a day for Christian creatives to meet together, eat food, share work, have meaningful chat and more. They take place right here in the centre of the Midlands: our beloved Birmingham!

Join us for the first Sputnik Saturday of 2026, where our topic is Taking Risks...

Audacious ideas. Provocative performance. A practice built on play and experimentation.

The creative process involves all kinds of risks, beginning to end. What if it goes nowhere? What if it falls flat? Great artists often walk at the outer limit of their knowledge and ability, not knowing what lies beyond it.

How do we keep up a risk-taking practice alongside everything else in our lives? And what risks do you feel called to take?

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Lunch is provided — please notify us of any dietary requirements via email to office@sputnikfaith.art

Our 'after-party' runs from 5-7pm, where you can bring your own food/drink, or buy from the many takeaway options in Harborne.

Guest Speakers

Sarah White

Sarah White is a London based interdisciplinary artist working across somatic movement practices, performance, writing and installation. Her research thinks with, beside and between movement research and faith practices, exploring the feedback loops and accumulative dialogues between them.

 Her semi-improvised performances explore imitation, change, dialogue and entangled empathy. She collects ancient stories and builds new mythologies: hovering in the gap between reality and fiction, belief and disbelief. 

​Recent public performances have been programmed by Future Ritual, Nomas* Projects for Art Night Dundee, Religion and Art Live, the Goethe Institut, Royal College of Art, Society for the Study of Theology, Koppel Project and The Swiss Church.

https://www.sarahwhite.org.uk/

Jem Bunce

"The rugged Cornish landscape; the edge between land and sea; the mining history around where we live all inspire me. Living as I do in Cornwall, in the remote, far south west of England, I have a strong sense of place. Yet I do not see myself as a landscape artist – more a history painter. I tend to start with drawings of what is around me. I am interested in what is there, but also what was there, and what will be there; and the gaps in between. Sometimes I go back in time, but often I go back AND forward at the same time in the same piece. Which of course involves my imagination, and necessitates playfulness being an important part of the creative process."

https://jeremybunce.co.uk/