Red Clay Reading Group
A free, online, intersectional reading group facilitated by Red Clay artists and guests.
A warm, supportive weekly discussion group exploring texts and poems of themes specific to Red Clay. Each session will offer a summary of the readings and conversation around the selected texts. Themes include: intersectional, embodied experiences of sickness, disability, menopause and queer resistance.
Laura Jagger & Hayley Drolet: ‘Sick Woman Theory’
7pm- 8.30pm, Weds 12 March 2025
Yasmeen Thantrey: ‘Endometriosis and Psycho-Social Wellbeing’
7pm-8.30pm, Weds 19 March 2025
Emma Thomas: ‘The Pause’
7pm-8.30pm, Weds 26 March 2025
Haley Drolet: ‘Queer Creativity as Resistance’
7pm-8.30pm, Weds 2 April 2025
Who
All welcome
Age 16+
How
Register online via eventbrite
Pay what you can
Materials
Optional PDF Readings will be supplied. These will be available online ahead of each workshop.
A free, online, intersectional reading group facilitated by Red Clay artists and guests.
A warm, supportive weekly discussion group exploring texts and poems of themes specific to Red Clay. Each session will offer a summary of the readings and conversation around the selected texts. Themes include: intersectional, embodied experiences of sickness, disability, menopause and queer resistance.
Laura Jagger & Hayley Drolet: ‘Sick Woman Theory’
7pm- 8.30pm, Weds 12 March 2025
Yasmeen Thantrey: ‘Endometriosis and Psycho-Social Wellbeing’
7pm-8.30pm, Weds 19 March 2025
Emma Thomas: ‘The Pause’
7pm-8.30pm, Weds 26 March 2025
Haley Drolet: ‘Queer Creativity as Resistance’
7pm-8.30pm, Weds 2 April 2025
Who
All welcome
Age 16+
How
Register online via eventbrite
Pay what you can
Materials
Optional PDF Readings will be supplied. These will be available online ahead of each workshop.
A free, online, intersectional reading group facilitated by Red Clay artists and guests.
A warm, supportive weekly discussion group exploring texts and poems of themes specific to Red Clay. Each session will offer a summary of the readings and conversation around the selected texts. Themes include: intersectional, embodied experiences of sickness, disability, menopause and queer resistance.
Laura Jagger & Hayley Drolet: ‘Sick Woman Theory’
7pm- 8.30pm, Weds 12 March 2025
Yasmeen Thantrey: ‘Endometriosis and Psycho-Social Wellbeing’
7pm-8.30pm, Weds 19 March 2025
Emma Thomas: ‘The Pause’
7pm-8.30pm, Weds 26 March 2025
Haley Drolet: ‘Queer Creativity as Resistance’
7pm-8.30pm, Weds 2 April 2025
Who
All welcome
Age 16+
How
Register online via eventbrite
Pay what you can
Materials
Optional PDF Readings will be supplied. These will be available online ahead of each workshop.
OVADA is a non-profit company. Alongside our standard pricing, we aim to offer a number of Pay Less spaces for anyone experiencing financial barriers to attending. Please feel welcome to make use of this option if it enables you to attend, or select the Pay More option if you can, to enable us to offer these reduced cost spaces. Use the drop down menu to select your ticket type. If your preferred ticket type is fully booked, please contact engagement@ovada.org.uk for help.
You can also help us offer fully subsidised spaces to individuals facing significant financial difficulties, by purchasing one of our Archie Education Fund sketchbooks. Thank you for your support.
Meet the Facilitator:
“Abstract art, like music, goes to the soul, to the subconscious – art takes us on a journey within. Abstract art triggers memories and dreams as we create our reality with our imagination.
For me paintings are like prayers that I make to heal myself and the world.”
Marcia Scott is a London based painter who takes inspiration from geometry, flow, the colour field work of Mark Rothko as well as work by her stepfather, Frank Bowling.
Honours Graduate of St Martins College of Art and Design.
Assisted Sir Frank Bowling 2010-2017.
Lectured and exhibited at Hampstead School of Art.
Asked by Ralph Lauren to show paintings at his flagship store in Soho NYC.
Work between London and New York.
Shown in Berlin, London, Louisiana, Madrid and New York.
