Artist-led Crit Night hosted by Imogen Charleston

Imogen Charleston is hosting an artist-led crit night at The Old School House in Boscombe on Wednesday 18 November. It's an informal evening for sharing artwork and getting feedback, and Charleston is the one running the show.

If you're not familiar with her work, Charleston is a ceramic artist. She works with wheelthrown, woodfired ceramics, and there's a local thread running through it: she makes them using wild-foraged and reclaimed waste materials gathered from the Jurassic Coast. Beyond the studio, she also does live pottery demonstrations.

The night itself is a critique session, so the idea is to bring in work you're currently working on and get some eyes on it. It's an informal setup, and since it's artist-led, it's more about a conversation between makers than a formal review. If you've been keeping something in the studio because you're not sure where to take it next, this is the kind of night to bring it along.

The Old School House (TOSH) is a non-profit heritage building in Boscombe, run as an inclusive, accessible space for workshops, performances and community gatherings. It's got step-free access, onsite parking and kitchen facilities, and it programmes a wide range of artist-led community activities. Among them is the free monthly in-person art group 'Make Art: Bournemouth', the 'Meet & Make' craft night for women in their 20s and 30s, and the 'Second Chances' women's art workshops run by artist Samantha March for women affected by the criminal justice system. There's also the 'Increase the Peace' programme of workshops with local groups like The Outsiders Project and The Story Works, alongside the 'Be Poetry' get-together by Garbled Thoughts. The crit night sits right in the middle of that mix.