Terry Hudson Saturday 6th December 2025 - Saturday 31st January 2026 Opening Times: 11am-4pm daily (closed every Sunday & Monday) Workshop Dates: 13th December 2025, 10th January 2026, 17th January 2026 (more info below) The Little Anarchist Bookshop is a summer festival feature brought to Doncaster… in the winter! Step off the street and into the woods this winter. This December and January, artist, poet and horticulturist Terry Hudson , brings the magic of a woodland to Doncaster city-centre through an immersive installation. Evergreen branches growing from the walls, leaf litter, moss and twigs crunching underfoot - take a breath of heavily oxygenated pine fresh air and listen to the sounds of birdsong overhead. Something of a breath of fresh air himself, Terry is a champion of the ethical British summer festival, educating communities about woodland preservation through fire circles, wood craft workshops, and in turn, preserving our sanity. Coffee pot on the boil, Terry will be sharing his personal library of books classics, philosophy and anarchist literature. Come and learn more about the collection, hear more from Terry about his ethical hacktivism, his involvement with Doncaster’s DIY festival scene, and a colourful lifetime lived by the Reuse, Reduce, Recycle mantra. There are many contradictions about our modern world, and we all want to do our bit, as Terry puts it: We’ll be reading, chatting, figuring things out, there will be workshops, discussion, readings, poetry and art. Workshops are just that, I am seeking answers, come along and help me out. A salute to the revolutionary speakeasies, coffee shops and tea rooms, and a time when land ownership, direct relationships to nurturing and creating seemed simple, Anarchist Bookshop will be an evolving site for conversation, learning and itself an evolving art installation. Over seven cold weeks, Terry will be delivering a range of activities. Expect: Terry’s personal library of classics, philosophy & anarchist lit Conversations, workshops, readings & poetry Ethical festival culture, DIY craft, off-grid know-how Zine-making, self-publishing, Raspberry Pi basics & more From 11am-4pm,  Terry will be hosting free, drop-in workshops on the following dates:- Saturday 13th December  Saturday 10th January  Saturday 17th January Come along and take part in a workshop, or bring your own craft project to enjoy a hot drink in a cosy, creative space. Workshop Timetable (same timetable for all 3 Saturday workshop sessions):- 12:00 | Zines 101  Create your own zine and learn about the origins of zine (short for "maga-zine") culture, a DIY approach to publication with its roots in dissident and marginalized communities.  14:00 | From Art of Nowhere  Terry invites you to create your own Blackberry Beastie, a nymph-like tree spirit who guides wandering souls, brought to life in this craft workshop using dead blackberry roots salvaged from Doncaster's woodland. All paints and conjuring spells will be provided.  15:00 | Twelve Hundred Watt Weekender Challenge Terry has made it his mission to host a 4 day off-grid festival using just 300 Watts per day. Come and learn how to save money and energy by powering your own life using just one Lead Acid Leisure battery. Join the challenge! Preferably let us know if you are coming, on which day and your interests, by emailing admin@artbombuk.com The little Anarchist bookshop is a feature of a festival In English Summer woodland Where the ethos isn’t capital Writing silly rhymes That are always counter cultural Expounding for a society That is fair, honest, and Mutual A tiny little bookcase made from rubbish on the grounds Reading, Raps, Music, Chats or just to hang around A place where revolution isn’t what we wish A place where revolution already exists

Naveen Rabelli Naveen and his electric solar tuk-tuk! Stuck in traffic on the way to a kite festival, he had a sudden brainwave—why not build a solar powered tuk-tuk, and drive it across Asia to London? In the event the rickshaw had to charge overnight in some places, but this only increased the social dimension of the project as in each place he had to ask villagers for electricity to charge up. In exchange for his fantastical story he not only got power and a place to sleep in this vehicle, creating a chain of supporters all the way through Iran, Turkey and Europe. In his own words: “They are all over India—they are loud and smoky and somehow have some Indianness in them. Everyone has been brought up in one” He started the process of converting one for his journey and in the two-year process so shared his dream in schools around India.  He recalls one father saying his son had dreamed of owning a Lamborghini – now he just wants a solar tuk-tuk. The basic Piaggo Ape model auto-rickshaw was converted into a solar-powered zero-emission vehicle, with the same specifications as a petrol-driven one, in which Rabelli slept on his 10,000km journey to London. The Tejas Project (meaning Radiance in Sanskrit) is an example of a single inventor’s crazy persistence, thinking like an artist to subvert our expectations about impossible transport infrastructures and link together ordinary people with a viral thought-process that may, somehow lead to a step-change in thinking about sustainability.

Applications are now open for proposals from artists for two upcoming commissions at ArtBomb. Deadline: 5pm Sunday 4 January 2026 [ EXTENDED DEADLINE* ] * Please note that each document states that the deadline for applications is Sunday 14th December 2025. This has now been extended by 3 weeks to Sunday 4 January 2026. ArtBomb is accepting applications for two new commissions as part of the 2026 ArtBomb Residency programme: Rethinking Migration  (Commission 1) and Arts & Homelessness (Commission 2). Each commission will take the form of a residency, consisting of an extended research period beginning in February and working towards a final public sharing of work in June-July 2026. ArtBomb Festival 2025 (Image Credit: Matt Hass) About ArtBomb's Commissioning       ArtBomb is an evolving creative platform for high quality, experimental and socially engaged works with a political edge, by artists at different stages in their career.  Part civic experiment, part artistic  intervention, we use our creative lab to subvert public expectations of the high street, showcasing cutting edge art which lands in the public consciousness with maximum impact.   ArtBomb is also the driving force behind ArtBomb Festival , an event which animates the city with powerful installations, performances and provocations. Our year-round residency programme invites artists to inhabit the ArtBomb shop over several weeks.  Floor-to-ceiling windows offer nowhere to hide, inviting passers-by to witness artists working in progress. Our transparent and participatory approach to creative practice aims to promote meaningful, honest debate between strangers, and encourages audiences to be part of a creative movement for positive change.     Our 2026 commissioning emerges out of the urgent global themes explored at ArtBomb Festival 2025 (15-17 August) and is grounded in the socio-political context of Doncaster, a city home to repeat rough sleepers,  asylum seekers and economic migrants seeking to integrate into daily life. Commission 1) Rethinking Migration Rethinking Migration, our first commission, is delivered in partnership with Don Catchment Rivers Trust , CAST , and Changing Lives . We are seeking an artist or artist collective based in the South Yorkshire region to work collaboratively with our partner organisations and with members of the public — particularly those in transit, migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Doncaster. We actively encourage applications from artists who identify as migrant or asylum seeker themselves, who feel their voices are currently under-represented in the arts, or who may have experience of collaborating with people who have lived experience of migration, marginalisation and displacement.                                           Themes might be inspired by ideas of home, animal life, diaspora, food, plants (indigenous and introduced), nomadism, and human purpose, through creative exploration of place, refuge, humans in motion and paths of migration. We expect there to be a public artwork or artistic outcome (in any form or medium) by the end of the process. For more information on what we're looking for and how to apply, please visit Apply for Rethinking Migration . This will take you to downloadable PDF, which includes extended detail about the commission background, research opportunities, the support we can offer, eligibility and key deadlines. Commission 2) Arts & Homelessness Arts & Homelessness, our second commission, is developed   in partnership with Trussell Trust , Changing Lives , Project 6 , CAST and Doncaster City Councils Rough Sleeper Team. This commission aims to engage people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, exploring themes of security, precarity, self-worth and belonging through creativity. Artists are encouraged to create work collaboratively with communities in multimedia forms, such as (but not exclusive to) painting, street art, performance, video, or spoken word. We see homelessness as a social condition affecting everyone, revealing the fragile boundaries between security and precarity.  There are many definitions of “homelessness”: from rough sleeping on the street or in emergency accommodation, to what one participant dubbed “posh homelessness”- sofa surfing or car camping. We invite artists to reflect on how we reconcile such complex issues as homelessness with a society distracted by hyper-productivity, individualism and aspiration. Please note that for this commission, we are looking for an artist(s) living and/or working in Doncaster. For more information on what we're looking for and how to apply, please visit Apply for Arts & Homelessness . How to Apply Each of the links Apply for Arts & Homelessness and Apply for Rethinking Migration will take you to downloadable PDF, which includes extended detail about the commission background, research opportunities, the support we can offer, eligibility and key deadlines. Please read this document carefully and submit your proposal to admin@artbombuk.com by 5pm on Sunday 4th January 2026. If your particular circumstances or access needs mean that the application process is inaccessible to you, please let us know via email and we will do our best to facilitate your proposal in another format. If you wish to apply for both commissions, please make two separate proposals. Please note that we cannot award both commissions to any one applicant. All proposals will be treated equally and no favour will be given to production quality or how you apply . We are currently a small, part time team. If you have questions about making a proposal, please contact admin@artbombuk.com and we will try to respond to you within 3 days.

Ric Woolrich Exhibiting at ArtBomb 15-30 November 2025 Under the dim glow of pub lights, a ritual plays out: familiar, messy, and deeply human. Just Another Saturday Night is a black-and-white photographic series documenting nightlife in a single pub in Doncaster, England, The Queens Craft House , but it could be any pub in any town. These spaces become both refuge and stage, where people gather week after week to reconnect, perform, escape, and endure. Shot using flash and a wide-angle lens, the images exaggerate facial expressions and body language, amplifying the tension between outer energy and inner emotion. On the surface there is laughter, dancing, and intimacy. But look closer and subtler narratives appear: repetition, emotional fatigue, and isolation within the crowd. The series celebrates grassroots venues as vital cultural lifelines. These spaces are more than backdrops; they are where friendships are made, identities performed, and a sense of community quietly sustained. In a time when such venues face increasing economic pressure, the work pays tribute to their resilience and necessity. Influenced by British social documentary traditions, including the work of Chris Coekin and Chris Killip , and the raw intimacy of Nan Goldin , the series explores themes of social survival, post-pandemic recovery, and the complexity of being together. It reflects on how joy and loneliness coexist, how sociability is sometimes worn like armour, and how we use routine to navigate uncertainty. Just Another Saturday Night invites viewers to recognise these scenes from their own lives. It is not just a record of a night out, but a reflection on how we gather, cope, and search for belonging again and again, in places that ask nothing of us but to show up. instagram | facebook

Isa Suarez Isa Suarez by Paskal Clerc A Living Songbook of Doncaster A solo live-set combining song, rap and performance art — Time Well Sung  is an exploration of freedom, nature, and the elusive fabric of time that holds them both. Through voice, percussion, and electronics, Suarez will perform up-beat songs and intricate soundscapes where time isn’t linear — it stretches and curves, like rivers in wild terrain. Part provocation and part performance, Time Well Sung  invites us to consider freedom not just as escape, but as presence: a way of being connected to the world. Nature becomes both metaphor and medium for this kind of deliverance. What if the most meaningful use of time isn't to fill it — but to feel it? To let it open us to a deeper connection with the land, with each other and with our inner wildness?

Fatima Alaiwat 7–18 October 2025: Artbomb, Doncaster Artist Fatima Alaiwat will undertake a research residency in Doncaster, exploring how we might deepen our ways of listening to rivers, to landscapes, and to the more-than-human worlds that shape and sustain us. Working closely with the River Don, and supported by Don Catchment Rivers Trust (DCRT) and Artbomb, this process-based exploration asks: how might we learn, relearn and unlearn to truly listen to a river? What practices might help us attune to environmental multitudes, kinships, ancient histories and possible futures? The residency will unfold through sensory and relational approaches, foregrounding listening as a practice of attention, care and reciprocity. The work invites us to step away from the noise and disconnection of dominant ways of living, and towards ways of being that are cyclical, poetic and responsive. The title, Pin Back Tha Lug ' Oles , a colloquial northern phrase meaning “listen up”, speaks to this call. As Simon Topham notes: “It carries a note of urgency and a distinctly northern sense of place. It implies someone is about to tell a significant story- one that everyone, from communities to policymakers, needs to hear.” Rooted in feminine modalities and attuned to cycles over time, Fatima Alaiwat’s practice engages sensory entry points such as composting, foraging, walking and cooking to activate relational processes with the more-than-human world. Outcomes have included writing, installations, food events and workshops, all emerging from an embodied practice of listening. The residency will culminate in a public opening at Artbomb in the final days.

Ray Lee Experience the installation 10am-4pm from 15th August—25th August @ Unitarian Church, 60a Hall Gate, Doncaster DN1 3PB A sound installation by British composer and artist Ray Lee, is a whirling, spinning spectacle of sight and sound. You will wander transfixed among a field of tall metal tripods rigged with rotating arms, each equipped with a pair of tone generators and two LED lights. These individually tuned sirens emit pulsing drones while the illuminated tips trace fiery patterns in rapidly circling trajectories. Siren  produces alarming sounds for alarming times: hypnotically intense but also strangely soothing, like a celestial choir of harmonic overtones. Immersed in this electrifying environment, you will surrender to the alluring spell of a unique sonic and visual delight. I've loved showing Siren as part of ArtBomb. Siren is an artwork that is very important to me, I've taken it to some amazing places all over the world and it's been seen and experienced by thousands of people. The amazing Unitarian Church space in Doncaster is now one of my favourite spaces to have presented the work. Photography: Guido Mencari @ London Spill Festival

Beats & Pieces Tickets Beats & Pieces is proud to present EMOM @ ArtBomb , a special night of alternative & left-field live electronic music as part of Doncaster's annual ArtBomb Festival. Join us for a specially curated selection of artists, playing 30 minute sets in the regular style of the electronic music open mic scene, that is rapidly spreading across the country, and now internationally too! Performing at the Unitarians Church behind the ArtBomb Hub at 60 Hall Gate and entry is FREE — as is everything during the festival. This event is BYO. Acts confirmed: Valentich, Pulselovers, Really Hot Fork, Jackhno, PuffinPulse, DeerFace, Gloop and Yorkshire Modular Society. Plus special guest and compere Martin Christie (also performing as A23a). PulseLovers Instagram: @pulselovers PulseLovers has been an active project since 2015. Influences come from 70s / 80s German and UK electronic, post punk and experimental music, childhood filtered memories and a sense of place. Albums are produced using analogue synthesisers, percussion, field recordings and tape loops. Collaborative contributions come from friends and allies utilising more organic instrumentation (strings, skins and wind). DeerFace Instagram: @_deerface DeerFace is the musical project of Sophie James , an Australian-born, UK-based multimedia artist. Now based in Sheffield, she draws on the wild biodiversity of New South Wales, the rugged landscape of the Peak District, and the stark beauty of dystopian sci-fi and brutalist architecture. Her sound merges electronic and organic textures into brooding, immersive sonic landscapes where nature, industry and the metaphysical collide. Valentich Instagram: @valentich_official Valentich combines a mix of post-rock soundscapes, melodic techno and instrumental darkwave, producing rich, multi-layered music, referencing the likes of Tycho, Jon Hopkins, 65dos and Boards of Canada amongst other influences. Valentich has gigged regularly over the past 8 years, with highlights including Worcester Music Festival, Sparkle and Cable Festival alongside supporting John Mouse, Attrition and Beastial Mouths. Valentich's extensive back catalogue can be found on Bandcamp. A23a: Broken. Spoken. Words. And Sound. Instagram: @martchristie A23a is a new collaborative project by Claire Robertson and Martin Christie. The aim of the project is to carve up and alter spoken word through technologies that were originally intended for creating music. The meaning of the words and phrases become part of a fragmented drifting soundscape involving the human voice and textural melody. Claire’s background in performance art makes this more than a listening experience and provides a powerful interpretation for the emerging meanings. Martin’s role to create and carve up the sounds is informed by his background in improvisation. PuffinPulse Instagram: @bionisamp PuffinPulse by A.H Smith from Castleford, now living in Bridlington, is a creative performance featuring; Portable modular synthesisers, EMF noise, DIY electronics, Field recording, cassette / tape recording. Inspired by ambient electronic outdoor meditations, nature, birdwatching and recording, tides, coast, wind and weather. Recording along the sand dunes... Sounds and video, field recordings and synth textures. Explore PuffinPulse titles, like Tankerspill , Dirty Wave , No Fish to Fry , Bottom Trawler and Sandeels , which are often described as the cornerstone of the east coast marine ecosystem. Really Hot Fork Really Hot Fork is a casual EMOM artist from Wakefield who plays a blend of acid, breaks and whatever happens to come out of his suitcase full of knobs and sliders. First on the EMOM scene in 2024 he found his tribe meeting other local synth nerds in a board game cafe playing animal noises to each other. Jackhno Instagram: @jackhno_dancepunk Jackhno is the stage name of Jennifer Rozenfelds , who is a gender-fluid, non-binary electronic musician and sonic artist. She concentrates on playing live but has recently also been developing her production skills as part of an effort to record and release her electronica, acid house, alternative dance & electropunk in response to fans' demand. Yorkshire Modular Society Instagram: @yorkshiremodularsociety Yorkshire Modular Society is an ethos of creation by way of listening. It is truly formless, without beginning or end, like a great ashen tree beneath the Earth's crust, whose roots penetrate the skies. The artist's trajectory — from classical pianist, to indie band synthesist, electronic artist, and sonic explorer — speaks to the richness of his musical journey, marked by constant exploration and a passion for pushing sonic boundaries. Gloop Instagram: @mindgloop Gloop started out playing in Leeds' dingy breakcore basement scene in the late 2000s under the pseudonym Fandabi Dozy . Laptop sets with cracked copies of everything, lots of crashing and untimely tech failures. When the drugs wore off, they formed the grunge punk band Slowcoaches, looking for other sonic adventures. After 7 years of touring and playing gigs all over the UK and Europe, it was time to get back to writing electronic music.  After a few years harvesting synths, drum machines and samplers, it was a long-time dream fulfilled to be making analogue squelchy acid. Now with several releases under their belt on the label Beat Concern ‘Realistic Dayze’, ‘Acid Concern’, and the latest release ‘Tapeworm’ on VUR, the Gloop sound has evolved into a blend of braindancy groaty classics to full-on squelchy acid techno bangers. Expect a flawless live set to headbang to and feel the acid melt your insides into gloop. DJ Seijn Instagram: @seijn_ Seijn is a producer and DJ crafting liquid drum & bass and techno infused with futuristic soundscapes. Inspired by Detroit techno, funk, soul, and sci-fi, his music blends deep rhythm with cinematic atmosphere. Known for his innovative sound selection and immersive DJ sets, Seijn takes listeners on a journey—pushing genre boundaries while staying rooted in groove and emotion.

Rebecca Smith If the Peatlands could talk, what would they say? The Humberhead Peatlands are one of the rarest and most threatened habitats in the UK. They are amongst the most carbon-rich ecosystems on earth, yet years of land exploitation through the extraction of peat has led to vast quantities of CO2 leaking into the atmosphere. This local landscape embodies the complexity of our interconnectedness and relationship with the natural world, and how we as humans, ultimately affect it. It is up to us to rewrite our relationship to the Peatlands. Through bio recordings from the peat-forming plants on Hadfield Moor, this work playfully gives voice to the living conversations between flora, and converts it into dancing sound and light. Urban Projections  is the work and collaborations of artist, Rebecca Smith. Fusing hand-crafted art-forms with with digital technologies, her work seeks to surprise and engage audiences with it's playful tone and interactivity. Constantly striving and seeking ways to push the boundaries of her discipline, Rebecca creates unique digital experiences.

Chris Dobrowolski “ An image of me in a jam jar trying to make myself look as pretentious as possible. No film here as the results were far too self revealing" I made a few collectible artworks for sale after my show Toy Stories .   They were relatively successful so I was trying to come up with something new. The concept was an AI art consultant that people could buy and hang on their wall. They would be amused by the irony of the art subject dictating good taste to the buyer. I thought everyone would want an artwork that said nasty condescending remarks about the quality of art in their home. Apparently they don't — there was very little interest. The artwork also took too long to make so the price was going to be prohibitively expensive when trying to sell it out of an old suitcase after a show. The idea was consequently shelved. Until now... Built entirely in my garden shed using a TV in a wheelbarrow, toys, a car battery and a cheap Donald Trump AI app. I have created an opportunity to have an audience with the president of the United States of America.  Trump philosophies on art and the mercurial nature of truth.