The Art House is continuing to offer online events, including live music streamed from our House to yours in August, food deliveries and kerbside collections and a community pantry with pay-as-you-feel groceries and chilled meals.
We will be pausing food deliveries and collections and our pantry for the first week of August to allow us to rearrange the downstairs space into a multi-purpose, accessible, socially distanced, well ventilated venue area for small performances, workshops and community café events.
Our first live streamed gig from the venue itself will happen on 8 August (without an in-person audience, of course) – see links below for details.
Our first live streamed gig from the venue itself will happen on 8 August (without an in-person audience, of course) – see links below for details.
The plan is to run community cafés on Saturdays with bookable indoor and outdoor seating with maximum social distancing and staggered arrival times to minimise risk. We will update on this next week!
We will continue to operate strict 2m social distancing and no contact kerbside deliveries and collections, too.
The Art House is a mask-positive space and we invite our community to state their boundaries, concerns and requirements clearly so that we can all keep safe and learn how to navigate this pandemic together.
As always, we acknowledge and respect the diversity of our community and how this impacts on differing needs and levels of lockdown for each of us. Our aim is to support people to stay at home as much as possible, but gradually, as far as it is safe, to provide somewhere trusted and well managed to spend time with each other.
You can support The Art House during this phase of our story by……
Ordering Art House To Go or paying forward some food for other people:
https://www.thearthousesouthampton.uk/
Coming to an online gig:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-art-house-southampton-gallery-cafe-and-venue-324975012
Joining our Patreon Community:
https://www.patreon.com/thearthouse
Or simply make a one-off donation of any amount, even the cost of a coffee!
Update on our first kerbside collection today – it was steady and chilled, we sold out of the food we’d made and had a lovely time, it was so good to see some of our regulars after a 4 month closure! We will be back next week, food for sale out the front again. If infection rates locally continue to be low, we will trial bookable outdoor tables the week after. Slowly and carefully we go.
Covid-19 and reopening update
#Covid update:
The Art House is mainly a performance and arts venue and we are awaiting restrictions being lifted on indoor performance events and remaining closed. We are risk assessing and speaking to our community groups about when and how we restart these.
Consulting with our regulars, volunteers and groups, feedback is that folks do not feel safe coming out to public indoor spaces yet, and we agree that it is too soon to know how reopening nationally will impact the spread of Covid-19. For us, the safety, wellbeing and lives of our people are the most important consideration, tough as it is to be closed to the public.
In the meantime, we continue to support people to #stayhome as much as possible with our food to go deliveries, paid-forward meals for folks on low income and by-donation online events to keep people entertained and connected.
From 18 July you will be able to do curbside collection of our delicious meals to go, starting with a Saturday service and expanding as demand and safety allows.
Summer is traditionally a quieter time for us, so we want to take the next period of time to repurpose and remodel The Art House whilst the building is closed to the public.
We’ve been cleaning, clearing and rearranging and have plans to set up live music streams from our space as soon as this is safe to do.
Our community is going to need our space in the months and years ahead, especially given the ongoing pandemic and the economic and social impact it is having on everyone.
You can support The Art House during this phase of our story by……
Ordering Art House To Go or paying forward some food for other people:
https://www.thearthousesouthampton.uk/
Coming to an online gig:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-art-house-southampton-gallery-cafe-and-venue-324975012
Joining our Patreon Community:
https://www.patreon.com/thearthouse
Or simply make a one-off donation of any amount, even the cost of a coffee!
https://thearthousesouthampton.org/donate/