Feed

Feed is a drop-in celebration of motherhood and infant feeding taking place at The Harris on Sunday 22 November, from 11am to 3.30pm. It's part of a wider project that's been running across the museum since September, so if you've seen the installation on the first floor balcony, this is the day it opens up into a social event. It's an informal afternoon with creative activities, artworks and performances, and because it's a drop-in, you can come and go as you please rather than committing to a fixed start and end time.

The whole thing sits inside Feed, a national public art project by In Certain Places at the University of Central Lancashire, which looks at the experience of feeding and caring for babies outside the home. At its centre is the Feeding Chair, a collaborative piece by Jerwood Drawing Prize winner Jade de Montserrat that invites people to feed their babies and young children in museums and other public places. The chair itself stays on the first floor balcony of The Harris, built with an integrated tablet and speakers that play audio works by artists including Preston-based Krissi Musiol, Nicola Singh, Magda Stawarska and Charlotte Oliver, alongside videos about infant feeding.

It was developed with artists, researchers, parents and communities, and it speaks to the stigma many mothers still face when breastfeeding in public, asking how art and creativity can make public spaces more inclusive. The Feeding Chair is the anchor, and it's accompanied by a free programme of workshops and events that run alongside it. The drop-in on 22 November is one of those, and it's free to attend.

If you're around on that Sunday, you can pop into The Studio between 11am and 3.30pm. It's free, and since it's a drop-in, you can just drift in for a bit and head off when you're done.