Tilted Women Festival: Workshop in Public Space with Poppy Jackson
Being Woman: Workshop in Public Space with Poppy Jackson
3pm-3.15pm Introduction with Poppy in NAC Bar
3.15pm-4pm – Walk to St Mandell’s Gallery on Elm Hill
4pm-5pm Exclusive access to Mandell’s Gallery exhibition Being Woman
Please let us know in advance if you have any access needs. The journey to Mandell’s Gallery will be step free. Please travel as lightly as you can to gain the best experience of the workshop.
Bridging the bold spirit of the Tilted Women Festival at Norwich Arts Centre and the intimate provocations of Being Woman exhibition at Mandell’s Gallery, this performance art workshop with Poppy Jackson unfolds as a collective act of matriarchal space-making. Beginning at NAC and moving together through the city to Mandell’s on Elm Hill, participants will explore journeying as performance: a shared, embodied gesture that claims creative openness and solidarity in public space. The outdoor workshop collective will become our own receptive ‘autonomous zone’ in the city.
The workshop centres a sensory, embodied experience that women are rarely able to access in its full potential in urban settings, due to the constant risks attached to female presence in public space.
Through gentle prompts and collective attention, the group will experiment with how matriarchal values – such as community, visibility, creative power and presence – can be enacted through movement. The journey becomes an urban ritual, linking festival and exhibition while temporarily reshaping the city through a feminist, collective body. No prior performance experience required, open to all curious about performance as a feminist, political, and deeply personal practice.
Being Woman Exhibition: Mandell’s Gallery
4-5pm. Exclusive, free, access to this wonderful exhibition which runs from 8 March 2026 – 18 April 2026.
This exhibition unites intergenerational female artists from across Norfolk and Suffolk, exploring female archetypes and the human condition. Spanning printmaking, collage, sculpture, and textiles, the works capture evolving perspectives of women at different stages of life and practice.
Exhibiting artists
Chisara Agor | Gillian Allard | Alison Bournes | Suzanne Breeze | Julie Carpenter | Lara Cobden | Rachel Collier-Wilson | Clare Gaylard | Andrea Hannon | Bridget Heriz | Elaine Humpleby | Maz Jackson | Poppy Jackson | Alice Kidd | Juliet Lockhart | Rachael Long | Marie Mallen | Frances Martin | Ania Moszczenska | Janine Oxley | Jane Rands | Paula Rego | Louise Richardson | Annette Rolston | Malca Schotten | Nicola Slattery | Georgina Warne
