The Art House Gallery Café & Venue
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Weds 12 - 10pm*
Thurs 12 - 10pm*
Fri 12 - 10pm
Sat 12 - 10pm
Sun 12 - 4pm
We will be open at other times when events are running. If no evening events on Weds/Thurs we may close early, please check our calendar.Be a part of our story
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Category Archives: Our philosophy
A short film about our #notthelastfundraiser
Nat of Do Right Digital Ltd was in last week interviewing some of us about the fundraiser and filming in the space – here’s a short film telling you more about the past and future of The Art House: http://www.youtube.com/watch … Continue reading
Posted in Fundraising, Future plans, Getting involved, Our philosophy, Uncategorized
What makes us different
Things The Art House does differently as a nonprofit arts space as opposed to a commercial café – aka why we need donations on top of our café revenue to fund our space: * We provide space to groups to use on … Continue reading
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle but most of all: RESIST.
Jani here! I want to address the notion that we can stop climate change with small, consumer-based collective action. Now – I do take individual actions and always have, mainly because I’m white, able-bodied, in good health and middle class … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the scenes, Community news & views, Our philosophy
More than socially responsible – socially purposeful!
Since we started back in 2008, and even before that when Bik, Ziggy and I ran not-for-profit events elsewhere, we’ve seen some big changes in how businesses are run. When we started, we were (I’m pretty sure) the only place … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the scenes, Our philosophy
Taking risks on unknown artists (or Burritos = Art)
Something that we are very fortunate to be able to do, as a not-for-profit venue, is take a chance on new or unusual artists. Whether it’s hosting somebody’s very first exhibition to showcasing a scratch performance destined for the Edinburgh … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the scenes, Events, Local music, Our philosophy
Sorry, we won’t serve you……
English law on alcohol sales is very clear – licensed premises are not allowed to serve somebody who is already intoxicated. However, a study showed that in 84% cases of attempts by actors pretending to be drunk, they were served in … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the scenes, Our crew, Our philosophy, Tips for event organisers
Rant alert – why is culture and heritage expected to be free?
Why are culture and heritage, in particular, expected to be free? A rant, by Jani. We love culture and heritage, we do. Often, we post about the things going on in Southampton, particularly in the Cultural Quarter, which is our … Continue reading
Politically gentle – but not politically naive
In a survey we are doing at the moment, in the comments section, one of the people responding said that they felt The Art House was ‘politically naive’ in the face of the big global changes we are going through … Continue reading
Posted in Our philosophy
It’s not customer service: you are SEEN
Most companies run customer service training, and so do we. There’s a difference between what we do and what most places do, though. We train our crew to see people. Yes, that sounds obvious doesn’t it? The plague of our … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the scenes, Getting involved, Our crew, Our philosophy
2018 at The Art House
I put together a little slideshow of photos from this last year – whew! We’ve had so many performances, workshops, meet-ups, celebrations, cakes, gorgeous new dishes, staff and volunteers… it has been quite an 11th year! One of the … Continue reading →