Half Term Activities

HALF TERM ACTIVITIES
28, 29 MAY

 

This May half term we are running a series of creative activities for adults, young people, families, and children aged 5+

YOUNG PEOPLE’S CREATE SESSIONS
TUESDAY 28 MAY, 10AM-12PM

 

Join us on Tuesday 28 May for ‘fishingboat-bobbing sea’ a free Create Session for young people aged 8-13 where we will be creating drawn and collaged seascapes based on the descriptive first lines of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood.

 

This session will take place between 10am-12pm

 

Please contact reception on 01633 483321 or email [email protected] to book your place.

 

Places are limited and pre-booking is essential.

 

The Learning Room is located on our first floor. Unfortunately, we do not have disabled access to this floor.

 

If you would like to make a donation to help us to continue to provide free arts activities, click here.

INTRODUCTION TO ILLUSTRATION
TUESDAY 28 MAY, 1-3PM

 

Join us on Tuesday 28 May 1-3pm for an Introduction to Illustration where we will be taking the opening paragraphs of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood as inspiration for watercolour and ink illustrations.

 

This activity is for young and old alike! Families, adults, and individuals welcome! Children need to be supervised at all times and aged 5+

 

Please contact reception on 01633 483321 or email [email protected] to book your place.

 

Places are limited and pre-booking is essential.

 

The Learning Room is located on our first floor. Unfortunately, we do not have disabled access to this floor.

 

If you would like to make a donation to help us to continue to provide free arts activities, click here.

DROP-IN BADGE MAKING
WEDNESDAY 29 MAY, 10AM-12PM and 1-3PM

 

Join us on Wednesday 29 May, 10am-12pm and 1–3pm for free drop-in badge making with artist Sadia Pineda Hameed in our downstairs galleries.

 

Inspired by badges from peace and labour movements in Wales and the world, Sadia invites you to create your own badge with symbols and messages of love and solidarity.

 

This activity are for young and old alike! Children need to be supervised at all times and aged 5 +

 

All materials will be provided.

 

Feel free to pop in for 10 minutes, or stay for a few hours.

 

This is part of Sadia’s ongoing work for Perspective(s) where she is researching moments of international solidarity to imagine present-day and future tokens of care, cooperation, and community with anticolonial land and labour struggles.

 

Perspective(s) is a collaboration between Arts Council Wales and National Museum Wales, Sadia is working with us and Big Pit National Coal Mining Museum to create new work and interventions.