Family Festival: the Art of Play

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Explore the art of play in our next family festival. Get creative, take part in workshops for families of different ages where you can explore the Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious exhibition through marbling, badgemaking, toy theatre and many more workshops. Kids go free!

Across the day, explore play and collaborate as a family, experimenting with art and experimental techniques to create your own unique art pieces to take home.   

The Museum of Memorable Trees 
Linbury Room

Be transported to a different time and place as you listen to tales of great trees that have woven themselves into people’s lives and memories.

Pollock’s Toy Theatre
Gallery 10

Pollock's Toy Museum live toy theatre performances (currently in Croydon), will perform Dick Whittington and Cinderella.

Under 5s Explore: Creative Tales 
Grounds & Gallery 11

Spark your child’s imagination through playful storytelling. Join Rosie Tells Tales for these playful interactive storytelling sessions for under 5s. Discover a world beyond a painting using songs, rhymes, Makaton signs, movement and making.

Earth Tenders  
Grounds (drop in)

Earth Tenders will be holding space for communal seed sowing and seed exchange workshops.

Workshop 1: Sow Spring - Craft your own seed packs filled with seeds that nourish our pollinator friends, with messages to welcome the emergence of spring.  

Workshop 2: Grow Your Own Microgreens - Join Earth Tenders to grow your own indoor, nutrient-dense microgreens and sprouts and learn the joys of this accessible cultivation practice.

Badge Making
Gallery 4 (drop in)

Design and create badges! There will be fabrics and materials to experiment with colours and shapes inspired by Tirzah Garwood’s love of the outdoors.

The Shape of Things
Gallery 2 (drop in)

In this workshop, children will learn how to create their own still life arrangements using simple shapes and layers, exploring the concepts of positive and negative space. It is a fantastic opportunity for young artists to get creative and learn about the art of still life in a hands-on way.

Paper Marbling
Art Studio

Delve deep into the magical work of Tirzah Garwood. You will play with shapes, texture, and mixed media to create your own unique prints inspired by the techniques and colours of Garwood's prints and paintings.

This workshop is first come first served with a room capacity of 25 participants. Please come early to avoid disappointment.

Beyond the Horizon (drop in)
Grounds

Join artist Alex Bowie to make a collaborative installation using tape and wool. Take inspiration from Tirzah's paintings to draw your own favourite animal onto acetate using chalk markers and add it to the installation. By the end of the Family Festival we will have created our very own colourful and unique installation displayed in the Gallery grounds.

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