The Crit Group are meeting on Tuesday 21 May at 7pm at NN. Run by artists and open to artists at all stages of their career, the Crit Group is an informal session for artists to come together for peer critique.

Today at 2pm come on down to NN to hear Art Laboratory talking about their practice as artists and activists in contemporary Armenia. Just what is it that has lead to the different generations of artists to come together to work as a group? What has prompted them to work in the streets? What are the consequences of their work and why do they choose art as their medium for protest?

Join us with a glass of something to welcome Political Toasts, a new exhibition at NN. Art Laboratory from Yerevan have been resident in the gallery creating new site specific work for Northampton with graffiti and murder maps. Flávia Müller Medeiros has reworked her book Irka Irka for the show designed by åbäke and published by Dent-De-Leone. We will be screening Kristina Norman’s After War throughout the exhibition but will be hosting a special screening of 0.8 metres during the closing weekend. Hope to see you at 6pm!

Join us on 16 May from 6pm for the opening of Political Toasts, our new exhibition in the ground floor gallery. Art Laboratory from Yerevan will be giving a talk about their practice on Saturday 18 May from 2pm in the gallery. See you there!

9 May is Dave Day and we are showing Our Hobby is Depeche Mode (also known as The Posters Came from the Walls) by Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams at 8pm at NN.

Watch the trailer here:

For the last of the current Articulation series, artist and poet Alec Finlay reflects on how the poetic memory and cultural viewing of the field trip can release public sculpture from its weighty burden, and how ecological considerations can re-address the way artists approach our public landscape.

The talk is free to University of Northampton students and staff, and £4/£2.50 to others and starts at 6:30pm at the University’s Avenue Campus main hall. To book a place please contact gallery@northampton.ac.uk.

Yelena Popova’s show ends on Sunday. Drop in to NN before it closes; we are open 11am–6pm Weds–Sat and 2–5pm on Sundays. We are taking an extended break between shows to work on the building renovations but a date for your diaries is 9 May when we will be screening Our Hobby is Depeche Mode by Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams. More info over here.

The Youth Arts Collective have produced their first zine! The Drawingboard is available from NN, Most Marvellous and Made in Northamptonshire and will soon be found at Wysing Arts Centre and MK Gallery to boot. Contributors include Ikran Abdille, Ben Edge, Paige Keeling and Samuel Munyeza.

You can read a blog by zine mentor Jessica Harby, one half of Tappa Tappa Tappa, over on The Bells & Whistles website about her experiences working with the YAC.

Are you aged 16–24 and want to get involved? Email Tamsyn at everyone@seenn.org.

We are open on Good Friday and (good) Saturday from 11am-6pm but we will be closed for Easter Sunday. We resume service as normal from Wednesday 3 April and on Thursday 4 April we have our Pecha Kucha Night at MK Gallery followed by a Creative Family Workshop at the end of the Easter Holidays on 5 April from 2pm. Get making in the space with Kezia Merrick!

More info on all of our events over here.

Selected by Yelena Popova, NN is screening The Invisible Man in our gallery of disappearing portraits.  Join us from 7pm on 21 March for the 1933 classic film.

This is a free event.