There has always been a list. A guest list, a grant list, a shortlist - and the quiet, systemic machinery that decides who belongs on it and who does not. In an era of accelerating economic inequality, institutional gatekeeping, and a global cultural economy that concentrates opportunity and prosperity in fewer and fewer hands, the majority of the world's artists, makers, and creative thinkers have never been on that list. They have been uninvited - not through lack of talent or vision, but through political perspectives, geography, language, gender, class, and the under-valuing of their contributions to our communities. Micro Galleries' 2026-27 programme takes its name from this reality - and its energy from what happens next. Because the uninvited do not wait. They make anyway.

Uninvited: Made Anyway is a global programme rooted in the creative defiance of those who have built their own platforms and opportunities when none were provided. It centres the artists and communities working at the sharpest edges of our time - living inside the climate crisis rather than observing it from a distance, navigating economies that were never designed to include them, creating in languages and forms that mainstream institutions have not yet learned to read. It holds particular space for women, for under-resourced communities across the Global South, and for all those whose relationship to the natural world is not philosophical but existential. This is not a programme about victimhood or margin. It is a programme about the extraordinary, ungovernable creativity that flourishes precisely where the invitation never arrived. In defiance of the lack of invitation. We are here, making a difference, making a vision, anyway.

We are exploring and creating projects interconnected at the intersection of climate, under-served community, and women's creative power.

Full program released in tantalising drips, foolishly, from 1 April.

[As we live in a volatile and uncertain time, all programs listed are funding and resource-dependent. Historically we've all stretched ourselves to make things happen no matter what, at great personal and financial cost. We now give ourselves some grace. We are prepared but also aware that as U.S.A.I.D, U.S and Israel-initiated wars, and general global upheaval affects all funding around the world directly and indirectly, we need to flex and respond. Check back here for all program updates]