Join professional artist Lydia Rain and embark on a journey discovering the wonderful and delicate world of watercolours.
With Lydia's expertise on hand you will be guided through basic watercolour techniques including: colour mixing, washes, adding detail and textures.
All materials including paper, brushes and watercolours are provided.
This four-day playscheme is ALL about getting outside and we aim to be out in the fresh air for most of the day, every day!
Past events have included:
Shelter building, fire lighting, outdoor games, nature study, campfire cooking, field games, hammock making, wild food walks, woodwork crafts, string making, bows and arrows, stalking and tracking, pyro-carving, and charcoal making.
On Monday 5 May, we welcome Leeds Arts University Students to host two creative workshops, open to all!
Please see more information about the workshops below:
Comic Art Workshop 11pm - 12pm
This session will introduce the comic medium in a simple but engaging way. Participants will be guided through the process of creating their very own short comic; sketching fun stick figures, superheroes, and nonsensical speech bubbles, making the process lighthearted and accessible.
Fun With Origami 12.15pm - 2.15pm
Welcoming local mothers to explore mental health and self expression through exploring photography and zine/book making.
Environments are living compositions. What happens when we listen to and play with environments?
Price = Pay as you Feel or Can
Deep Listening is an interdisciplinary awareness and attention practice created by composer Pauline Oliveros, using as main resources listening and sounding scores or meditations, somatic exercises, and imaginal/dream play.
Join multi-million-copy selling, award-winning author Cressida Cowell to celebrate the launch of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON SCHOOL, her first (hilarious) novel in the Dragon world for 10 years. It’s an exciting year for Dragons, with a new live action film coming out in June: Cressida will talk about her inspiration and give writing and drawing tips; her events are energetic, inspiring and unmissable! Cressida will be signing books and copies of her books will be available to buy at the event.
Join us in our monthly life drawing class with Gallery favourite, experienced artist and tutor, Rob Oldfield.
This workshop is open to everyone, from newcomers who want to take up a hobby through to experienced artists looking to hone their sketching skills.
Materials including various papers, pencils, charcoal and drawing boards will be supplied, but please feel free to bring your own too.
Get ready to giggle, gasp and get silly! Anything Could Happen is coming to Wetherby!
Our show is a wild storytelling adventure where kids are the creators! We take your ideas - footballing dinosaurs, magical cupcakes, ninja broccoli - and turn them into side-splitting stories LIVE on stage. No script, just pure imagination and tons of laughs!
Perfect for ages 4 - 10. Bring your best ideas and your loudest laughs - because the story can’t start without YOU!!!
PRESHOW ACTIVITIES from 2pm!
Tickets are £8. Family tickets available!
We have no idea what stories we'll tell this month, although, to be fair, we never do!!!
So bring your lively minds and crazy creativity to join our ranks of star storytellers as we bring your make believe to life with hilarious results. What stories will you tell?
LET'S MAKE SOMETHING SPECIAL
“I literally had tears in my eyes from laughing so much! Your team are so talented and downright hilarious!”
"Love this idea! A fantastic way to capture imaginations and great entertainment" Scarlet (Mum)
Do you collect anything? Everyone collects something! Join award-winning author/illustrator Bethan Woollvin for an exciting workshop based on her brand-new picture book These Are My Rocks, which is all about the joy of collecting things.