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Summer Art Week is back!
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23 July 2024
Try a new art activity every day: 20 - 24 August.
11 - 17 year olds can try a new art activities over a week of the summer holidays. Choose from animation to printing, jewellery making to photography!
- Tues 20 Aug - Code Red Animation: 11 - 1 or 1.30 - 3.30. £5. Make an animated film using a monoprint technique, draw and print in your own images then film your frames.
- Wed 21 Aug - Printing on Textiles: 11 - 1 or 1.30 - 3.30. £5. Experiment with block printing, hand printing and screen printing. Bring a T-shirt, pillowcase, fabric to print on.
- Thurs 22 Aug - Jewellery Making: 11 - 1 or 2 - 4. £10. Make silver stacking rings, applying different textures, learning basic silversmithing techniques.
- Fri 23 Aug - Print bonanza: 11 - 3.30. £5. Fun, messy day of print. Experiment with using a flat bed press, type set, lino, collagraph, a giant wheel-chair press too.
- Sat 24 Aug - Camera Obscura in the Garden: 11 – 3. Free, donations welcome. Family drop-in workshop for all ages. Get inside a huge camera obscura to capture family portraits and make a nature photo to take home.