Your one and only creatively-inspired, community-run, organic, love-filled, not-for-profit, quirky, slightly wonky, home grown, 100% original, local cafe / gallery / venue / home-from-home in Southampton.
Bringing inspiration, art, ethical food and creative joy to our city since 2008.
Banish the Burglars – Save The Art House …. our current fundraiser
* Award winning, licenced organic cafe, open daytimes and evenings for food and drink (click here for our opening times and menu)
* Events calendar of world class music, performance poetry, fringe theatre and more
* Clubs and groups to join where you can share interests with like-minded folk
* Crafts, Zines, prints, books and original art by local artists for sale
* A preloved clothes Boutique
If you are looking for a place that’s different from anywhere you’ve ever been, a place that welcomes the unexpected and unusual, you will feel very at home here.
We are staffed mostly by volunteers so you can get involved in that way, too!
Here are some event highlights coming soon..
(There is also a full calendar of events here)
Three Monkeys is a monthly event where Steve Lowis and The Art House introduce three more of the best acoustic musical talent around. The format is ‘in the round’ with all three performers on stage together, taking it in turns, one song at a time. This month’s Monkeys are: Damien O’Vitch, Justin Capps, Alistair Goodwin. DISCOVER MORE and BOOK
In a one-off event, The Art House in Southampton has invited Lexi Wolfe (The Witch In The Woods / Mrs Oscar Wilde) to perform her debut of a project of passion – The Storyteller. Fascinated with campfire and bardic stories, especially those with a Pagan twist, she has created a relaxed show wherein she can share traditional stories as well as her own. Please do join her for a very bardic affair! DISCOVER MORE and BOOK
Three Monkeys is a monthly event where Steve Lowis and The Art House introduce three more of the best acoustic musical talent around. The format is ‘in the round’ with all three performers on stage together, taking it in turns, one song at a time. This month’s Monkeys are: Real Raj, Jack Dale, Davey Jones | This month’s show is part of SO:To Speak Festival of Words 2017. DISCOVER MORE and BOOK
1636. Lancaster Castle – The Witches’ Tower. You are imprisoned, awaiting trial, crammed into a cell with a solitary woman who has been here for years. She tells you the story that lead to her being imprisoned, beginning at a Witchcraft Trial, twenty-four years previously. DISCOVER MORE and BOOK
‘Forget Me Not’ is a whodunit set on an Alzheimer’s ward. During his nurse training, Rob Gee spent three months on a Challenging Behaviour ward for people with late stage dementia. Coincidentally, this show is set on a dodgy elderly ward in the mid-nineties. Not all wards are like this! But this place was. Much has improved since then, but there’s a long way to go, and it’s still the people with the worst memories who tend to be the most forgotten about. DISCOVER MORE and BOOK
Great songs to dance to, infectious rhythms, flying harmonica! Rory McLEOD’s eccentric melodies are infused with influences from Flamenco to Country blues, through to Celtic, East European and Calypso rhythms creating a style of music and songwriting that has been described as “Intimate, revealing, political and powerful”. He has performed with ANI DI FRANCO, MICHELLE SHOCKED, MICHAEL FRANTI, TOWNES VAN ZANDT, BUTCH HANCOCK, with the West-African guitarist ALI FARKE-TOURE and TAJ MAHAL. DISCOVER MORE and BOOK
These are just some of the things going on at The Art House – we also have a busy programme of regular events, groups, workshops and live music. (and here’s what you missed!)
What people who come to our events say…. (click to play silent slideshow)
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