Artist Residency/Events/Ikon Youth Programme 04.08.2026–13.08.2026
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Ceramics Studio: IYP x Modern Clay
Artist Residency
Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) take over the Break the Mould Ceramics Studio.
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EVENT 07.08.2026 / 6.00pm–8.00pm
OFF-SITE
FREE
IYP Archive Intervention
Join members of Ikon Youth Programme for Archive Intervention, a display curated by the current 2026 cohort at The Bothy at Minerva Apothecary Garden on the Grand Union canal side in Digbeth.
This intervention revisits The Cut (2018), a series of printed posters developed through collective making, discussion and experimentation by Ikon Youth Programme members in 2018. Selected from the Ikon Youth Programme archive, this presentation creates a dialogue between past and present cohorts.
Through revisiting and reinterpreting archival material, current members engage with the practices and shared histories that continue to inform the programme today.
About Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) & Slow Boat
Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) is a group of emerging artists, designers, writers, photographers and policy makers (16–21yrs).
With the support of Freelands Foundation, over six years (2021-27), Ikon Youth Programme (IYP) navigates the waterways on board by producing a programme of workshops, exhibitions and live events on Slow Boat, a heritage canal boat that tours the West Midlands. We collaborate with national and regional artists by sharing resources and regularly exchanging ideas and knowledge.
FREE
Event Date
Friday 7 August 2026
6.00pm–8.00pm
6.00pm–8.00pm
Event Details
Free, drop in
Please note this event takes place at The Bothy, Grand Union.
Full address is: Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley St, Birmingham B5 5RT
For additional access enquiries, please contact education@ikon-gallery.org
VENUE
Minerva Works
Warwick Bar, 158 Fazeley Street, Digbeth
Birmingham B5 5RS
Image Credits
1. Ikon Youth Programme Outside The Bothy Photo Will Kew. 2. The Cut by IYP 2018
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Live Ecological Radio
With Mort Drew and Ikon Youth Programme
Tune into Slow Boat for a live ecological radio broadcast from Ikon Youth Programme members, collaborating with artist Mort Drew.
Ikon Youth Programme 26.06.2026
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Slow Notes 02
IYP continued our Slow Boat journey in Tipton. Ikon Youth Programme and Rowley Regis Youth Club got together for a Slow Boat Social, where we got to know each other over snacks, covered the windows with our words and drawings, shared stories and music and made new connections!