Welcome to The Art House in Southampton

The Art House is a performance venue and social centre in the heart of Southampton, offering live music, performance poetry, storytelling and comedy as well as workshops and classes, drop-in community cafe events, a regular community pantry and a meeting space for groups.

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We are currently asking our community to help us reach our target on Patreon to make our community pantry sustainable into 2023. Click here to find out more.

Visit community pantry to collect pay-as-you-feel groceries, chilled meals, warm clothes and toiletries all by donation, to help folks during pandemic times. We are also open for takeaway hot drinks and vegan cakes during these times and run regular community cafe events where you can enjoy tasty vegan food on a pay-as-you-feel basis.

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Baking trials and other behind the scenes things - check out our latest blog post for what happened today whilst we were closed (link in bio) Test baking today for #valentines #vegan #cupcake #vegancake #veganrecipes Test bake for #valentines week - #vegan red velvet cupcakes with light & dark icing and handmade choc hearts - come and try these this week! #HeartsAndShadows #veganbaking #vegansouthampton #veganfood #veganhampshire #plantbased Haribo onstage for #MovingVoices @rich_lansley onstage poeting for #MovingVoices as our special guest This week in the pantry we have cauliflowers, carrots, super swedes (as big as your head), lemons, tinned veggies, pasta, biscuits, sprouts, bread, potatoes, onion rings, rebel kitchen milk. Volunteers in today sorting out the indoor planter in our new makermeety space, formerly known as The Grove. Because every good meeting & making room needs many flowers (and swans) On the chocolate table we have: It's SO hard to see the things you want on social media at the moment, it's very clouded by paid adverts. We know that only around a quarter of our followers see most of our posts - especially posts about upcoming events - and we don’t want to spend money that could be funding our pantry on paid ads unless we have to! We want to explore other ways of connecting with our community away from platforms that change the rules all the time!
Our Community Pantry and Cafe is supported by the National Lottery Community Fund

Logo and background design credit – RKP EJ Media and JEZ creative nonbinary collaborators of joy

Covid safety info – how we keep our performances and events safe for you