Opportunities

Join us at workshops and reading groups

STREAMS – Series IX – starts in January 2024

Tuesdays – 16 January, 6 February, 27 February

See our Workshops page for information and previous series.

CRAG – Climate Art Reading Group

Let us know if you have an idea for a text, artwork, podcast, film, or something else that we can discuss in our next reading group meeting.

An Evening With The Critical Fish at Humber Street Gallery – 07.03.2024 – 6:30 to 8:30pm

Booking available here.

Above, Below, At the Edge of the Water

Floating, submerged, dipping your toes in.

Hull has been characterised as being ‘at the end of the line’ and many artists and writers explore experience and circumstances ‘on the edge’ where water meets land, coastlines erode, and borders shift in a constant reminder of the changing nature of place.

We would like to invite writing and art work responding to this theme Above, Below, At the Edge of the Water: floating, submerged, dipping your toes in. We are interested in creative, critical and experimental writing; art work can be in any medium and will be considered for our on line gallery.

We  hope to feature a range of perspectives, for example, aesthetic, environmental, geological, social and political viewpoints. Seen collectively these will focus attention, inform and challenge the way we see and experience places and communities ‘on the edge’. Artists/writers can respond to their immediate environment as well as exploring links with people and places elsewhere,

If you are interested in contributing to this theme please contact us with a short informal proposal on hello@thecriticalfish.co.uk.

We will publish a selection of the work on the website and some will be considered for publication in the next print issue. Unfortunately we are unable to pay fees to artists and writers for this work at this current time when it has been difficult to secure funding, sponsorship or advertising.

Some of our Previous Opportunities