FLARB (Free, Lazy, Arty, Radical Bookclub)

Join us for FLARB this August with ZEST co-director Ellen Gillett as she facilitates a fun, informal conversation around our new contemporary art commission While We Slumber by Kitt – using a newly commissioned text by Daniel Fountain as stimulus for conversation.

FLARB is the Free, Lazy, Arty, Radical Book Club, 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.

FLARB 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. It achieves this by having:

– No cost or fees (the texts are freely available online or provided ahead of the session, no joining/participation fee)

– No pressure to contribute or commit (it is ok to turn up just to listen or to turn up only when you feel like it)

– Very short texts (either written, video, or images) that can be digested in 10 minutes ahead of the session, or if you are feeling ‘lazy’, not at all!

– No required knowledge or expertise to join, just curiosity and respect for others.