Do you crave deeper, more meaningful conversation - beyond small-talk? Feel disconnected or detached? Is something missing or do you need more from your relationships?
This workshop explores everything they didn’t teach you at school about how to communicate, relate to yourself and others, express emotion, and build healthy relationships.
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Join us to make sock bunnies to celebrate Easter!
Our new friendly chat and craft sessions are a great opportunity to learn a new skill and chat to like-minded people in a relaxed environment.
In this workshop we will be making sock bunnies to celebrate Easter. Bring in your own socks or use our odd ones.
No sewing skills necessary, tea and biscuits provided.
Make a felt flower bouquet for Mothers' Day in this workshop.
Join this workshop and make an assortment of felt flowers to create your own beautiful floral bouquet. The bouquet makes a perfect Mothers' Day gift or use it to decorate your home all year round.
Join this workshop to make a beautiful felt flower wreath to celebrate the spring equinox.
Learn to make simple felt flowers in this workshops and craft them into a beautiful spring wreath to decorate your home.
No experience necessary, materials provided. Includes refreshments.
Join this workshop to make a beautiful foraged wreath to celebrate the spring equinox.
Make a spring wreath from willow and foraged foliage with our tutor in the beautiful Gate House space at Abbey House Museum.
All materials are provided and tuition included alongside refreshments.
Come along to learn more about the life of Leeds’ most famous suffragette, Leonora Cohen.
We will talk about her life before, during and after the fight for women’s suffrage, with a chance to look closely at some fascinating items from her archive.
Tea, coffee and cake provided.
Join artist and illustrator Helen Broadhead at this fun, creative session learning how to paint a donkey using watercolour paints.
During the session I will help and guide you from drawing your design to painting it in watercolour paints.
This will be a very fun workshop suitable for all. You will learn new techniques and learn to be expressive with paint whilst having fun and growing confidence.
Suitable for adults and children over 12 (children must be accompanied by an adult)
Have fun, enjoy art and create art to make you smile everyday.
Come and join us for a study afternoon using our museum collections to explore how the lives of women have changed over the last 200 years.
We’ll talk about changes in the home, education, and the workplace, with a chance to look up close at some of the objects that reflect how things have progressed.
Includes hot drink and selection of cake and fruit.