EXHIBITION: The Shape of Acceptance

• Thursday 18 June - Thursday 30 July
• Hull Central Library
• All welcome
• No need to book - just turn up during library opening hours

The Shape of Acceptance is a youth-led immersive installation co-created by pupils from the Generation Hull Arts Council at Malet Lambert School in collaboration with artist Lauren Saunders.

At its centre is a shared act of hopeful imagination. Young people have built a parallel world where strange but compassionate Beings gather beneath a vast Heart Tree... a living presence connected through unseen roots to our own world.

When imbalance is felt across that connection, the Beings are drawn together. Their ritual is not spectacle, but compassionate response - a collective movement shaped by care, attention, and the possibility of change.

Through sculpture, storytelling and world-building, the group has created a mythology of their own making. It is shaped by their ideas and hopes around acceptance, identity and connection. Each Being holds traces of its maker - fragments of identity, emotion, resilience and hope - forming a shared narrative and mythology built entirely from their voices.

, inviting audiences to experience the work as it comes to life through gathering and shared encounter. Please book a ticket so we know how many people to cater for.

Many thanks to those supporting this project: Generation Hull, Lauren Saunders, Arts Council England, Hull Libraries, Hull City Council, G F Smith, Esteem, the Tree Stories Project, TimeBank, Malet Lambert staff, and others.

No need to book - just turn up!

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• Monday - 9.30am to 5pm
• Tuesday - 9.30am to 5pm
• Wednesday -1pm to 7.30pm
• Thursday - 9.30am to 7.30pm
• Friday - 9.30am to 1pm
• Saturday -10am to 4pm