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#FAVOURITEFUCKINGTREE & the winners are…
This summer, we invited people around the world to share their #FavouriteFuckingTree with @aiww and CIRCA. The response was overwhelming. Stories arrived of trees that had witnessed childhoods, migrations, wars, grief, family histories, acts of resistance and generations of change. Some were still standing. Others had been cut down, lost or survived only through photographs, drawings and memory.
From this collection, nine submissions have been selected to receive a hand-signed edition of Ai Weiwei’s latest CIRCA print, only available until midnight tonight:
@artanquerel
@alexis.kaminsky
@polak_diaspora
@cheleallen7
@dianascarboroughartist
@anitamatusevics
@mathildamarekm
@monihillpaints
Thank you to everyone who shared a tree and the story it carries. Together, the submissions became a portrait of our relationship with the natural world, told one fucking tree at a time.
🌳 A Tree by Ai Weiwei, his first drawing in 50 years, is available as a hand-signed silkscreen edition for £450 until midnight tonight, 9 September.
Link in bio.
@monihillpaints eir extraction. It hurts me to the core to hear a chainsaw grinding a tree. I want to live in a world that worships trees - each and every one of them! I dream of a world where there is a tree canopy over every neighborhood and parking lot!
After losing those favorites in Helene, I love this opportunity to ellect on who is my tavorite tree now. My #FavouriteFucking Tree is a tall, strong, steadtast guardian ol the section of the Mountains to Sea Trail that I walk most days.
She’s a gorgeous and proud tulip poplar who withstands hurricanes, droughts, floods, and high winds. She quietly greets me and all the hikers on the trail and her presence offers reassurance. She’s a big part of my day and I shower her with attection and I’m happy to show her off in this post tor @ aiww and @circa.art.
@artanquerel THE SILENT WITNESS// I planted this Japanese maple outside my studio in Paris in early 1989, shortly atter returning trom the United States. len years later, when I moved to Planche, in the Dordogne, I transplanted it beside my new studio. The maple later witnessed the arri
09 Sep 2026
32 HOURS LEFT 🌳
Ai Weiwei’s first drawing in 50 years, available for just a few more hours as a hand-signed silkscreen edition. £450 until midnight tomorrow, 9 September 2026.
📺 Just two more screenings of A Tree on London’s @piccadillylights at 20:26 BST
Link in bio.
08 Sep 2026
‘I don’t have a favourite tree.’ @aiww said while signing prints from his most recent CIRCA release.
To everyone who has shared their #FavouriteFuckingTree, thank you. We’ve been blown away by the response, with trees and the stories behind them arriving from around the world. There are still a few days left to share yours.
Post your favourite tree using #FavouriteFuckingTree for the chance to receive a hand-signed print by Ai Weiwei, worth £450.
A Tree is available exclusively through CIRCA until 9 September. Link in bio.
30 Aug 2026
“When I [@aiww] read that this 1,200-year-old tree had died, I suddenly felt compelled to go there and make a sketch.
I am 69 years old, almost 70, and both my surroundings and I have undergone significant changes.
I do not think there is any difference between the death of a tree and the death of any other living being. They all complete the same cycle of life.
An optimist always believes another spring will come. Yet for this tree, there will be no further spring. It is simply tired.”
🌳 That drawing became A Tree, a limited-edition silkscreen created with CIRCA. Each edition is hand-signed by the artist and only available for £450 until 9 September 2026.
📺 Witness A Tree every evening at 20:26 BST on London’s @piccadillylights
Link in bio.
20 Aug 2026
London’s hot 🔥
What started as a phone call became something much bigger. From @180.studios to @piccadillylights , thousands of people came together last week as Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean reunited in the heart of London for DIASPORA CALLING!, alongside the premiere of a major new CIRCA commission by Lauren Halsey, curated by Ms. Hill.
Thank you to Ms. Hill for welcoming us into the world of DIASPORA CALLING! and trusting us to help bring it to London. To Wyclef Jean for turning Piccadilly Circus into a stage. And to @summaeverythang for creating an extraordinary work of art and letting us share it with the city.
Lisa Anderson for bringing us into the journey, and Jermaine, Afrikaa, Jude, Poetik, Autumn, Yusuf and the wider MLH team for trusting us to run with it.
Mark, Adam, Ernest, Mona, Sully, Riccardo and everyone at 180 Studios. Sophie McElligott and Dazed. Ghost Labs. Leroy Boateng. Sara Wilkinson. Every photographer, filmmaker, sound engineer, security team, producer and partner who helped make it happen.
And to everyone who travelled to 180 Studios, waited patiently in the queue, filled the streets, sang, danced and gathered beneath the Piccadilly Lights. We haven’t forgotten those of you who RSVP’d but didn’t get your moment with Ms. Hill. We’re working on something special for you. More soon.
📸 @_leroyboateng
🎥 @sara_wilko
11 Aug 2026
In the lead-up to Lauren Halsey’s presentation of DIASPORA CALLING! on Piccadilly Lights, a new CIRCA commission curated by Ms. Lauryn Hill, the LA-based artist got on the phone 📞 with Lisa Anderson, the London-based curator whose work across the festival’s visual arts programme helped shape the wider collaboration.
Their exchange traces Hill’s formative influence on Halsey and a creative connection reaching back to the original Diaspora Calling! at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre in 2016, before opening onto questions of maximalism, Black cultural memory, collective authorship and what becomes possible when artists, communities and cultural workers are brought together across disciplines.
For Halsey, DIASPORA CALLING! is “a maximalist call to action” and a means of activating an entire “cultural, social and poetic infrastructure”. In conversation with Anderson, she reflects on working from the inside out, on lifting everyday people to the scale of Piccadilly Lights, and on the possibility that new relationships, ideas and forms of cultural infrastructure can emerge simply through gathering in the same space.
Read the full conversation on CIRCA
08 Aug 2026
Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Lauren Halsey shut down Piccadilly Circus.
The CIRCA premiere of a new commission by Lauren Halsey, curated by Ms. Lauryn Hill in dialogue with @lisaandersonaa, marked the beginning of a landmark week leading up to @DiasporaCalling at Milton Keynes National Bowl today (7 August), bringing together @mslaurynhill, @wyclefjean, @erykahbadu, @officialgiggs, @fireboydml, @ygmarley, @zionmarleyofficial, @olaoluslawn, @alvarobarrington, @summaeverythang and many more for a celebration of music, art and the global African diaspora.
Link in bio.
🎥 @sara_wilko
06 Aug 2026
Before the surprise takeover at Piccadilly Circus, @MsLaurynHill and @WyclefJean stopped by @180.Studios for an exclusive Diaspora Calling! merch pop-up and signing.
Ahead of their rare London reunion marking 30 years of The Score, fans gathered at 180 before heading to @piccadillylights, where Lauren Halsey’s new animated commission, curated by Ms. Lauryn Hill and presented by @Circa.Art, lit up the screen for one night only.
The event marked the beginning of a landmark week leading up to @DiasporaCalling! at Milton Keynes National Bowl, bringing together Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Erykah Badu, Giggs, Fireboy DML, YG Marley, Zion Marley and many more for a celebration of music, art and the global African diaspora.
📸: @_leroyboateng
📹: @kreightvisions @fadwa.ammari
#180Studios #DiasporaCalling #MsLaurynHill #WyclefJean #CircaArt
06 Aug 2026
Today is the day.
Join us for Ms. Lauryn Hill’s Diaspora Calling! Merch Pop Up & Signing at 180 Studios, London from 4pm to 7pm.
Doors are open from 4pm until 6:30pm. Please arrive early as entry is subject to capacity.
To make sure as many people as possible have the opportunity to meet Ms. Lauryn Hill, one item may be signed per person. Groups to be photographed together.
This special event is the beginning of an extraordinary week leading to Diaspora Calling! at the Milton Keynes National Bowl on Friday 7 August, where Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Erykah Badu, Giggs, Fireboy DML, YG Marley, Zion Marley and many more will come together for a landmark celebration of music, art and the global African diaspora.
If you haven’t already, secure your tickets for Friday now. We can’t wait to see you.
05 Aug 2026
London.
See you Wednesday.
Fugees 30th Anniversary
Diaspora Calling Merch Pop-Up & Signing
4PM–7PM
180 Studios
04 Aug 2026
own a piece of art history. @circa.art‘s hand-signed, time-limited print of ‘a tree’ by @aiww is available to purchase exclusively on their platform until 9 september, 2026 – but we have partnered with them to offer one lucky @designboom follower a complimentary print.
marking the acclaimed chinese artist’s first drawing in more than 50 years, the original sketch was created beneath the 1,200-year-old major oak in sherwood forest on the summer solstice – just days after the ancient tree was declared dead. published by CIRCA to coincide with his ‘button up!’ exhibition at factory international in manchester, UK, this one-colour silkscreen preserves the intimacy of the original work, acting as a profound reflection on memory, survival, and what remains to be remembered.
here’s how to enter:
1. register as a user on designboom (hit the link in our bio!),
2. follow @designboom, @circa.art and @aiww,
3. like this post,
4. tag a friend in the comments below.
the giveaway closes on 31st august, 2026, with the one winner drawn randomly. the lucky follower will receive a direct message to collect the prize, with the print shipping in early october 2026 along with a numbered, stamped and dated certificate of authenticity. good luck!
this contest is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with instagram.
#designboom #aiweiwei #printgiveaway #giveaway
04 Aug 2026
Watching Button Up! come together at @factory_international, we kept returning to one idea. This is an exhibition about what survives.
Across more than four decades of practice, Ai Weiwei brings together architecture, sculpture, photography and installation to examine memory, power, migration, conflict and freedom of expression. Yet beneath this extraordinary range of forms is a quieter thread that connects them all. Again and again, we encounter objects that have outlived the worlds that produced them.
The 400-year-old Wang Family Ancestral Hall, painstakingly reconstructed after surviving the Cultural Revolution, stands alongside works made from Lego, refugee boats, porcelain, wood and stone. Each carries the marks of another time. Similar to The Major Oak, each becomes a witness to histories that cannot be erased.
As Weiwei walks through the gallery in Manchester, he pauses beneath one of the hall’s ancient beams to show us something almost invisible. Protected beneath a large piece of glass is a handwritten note from his son, Ai Lao, written when he was four years old. It reads simply, “If your heart is calm, everything will be fine.”
It is a small gesture within an immense exhibition, but perhaps it says everything. Across Button Up!, history is not presented as something distant or complete. It lives on through objects, places and people, carrying memories from one generation to the next.
🪡 Button Up! at Factory International, Manchester until 6 September. Curated by @keehongkestkowloon
Link in bio to buy tickets.
02 Aug 2026
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