Event Categories: Arts & Craft

Exploring Ancient Egypt- Disability Friendly Children’s Art Workshops

This is a disability and neurodiversity friendly children’s art workshop. The session runs over 2 hours, you can stay as long or as little as you want, and turn up at any time within this 2 hour window.

Tile making and sculpture was something the Ancient Egyptians were familiar with – and now is your chance to follow in their footsteps.

With the help of Lyn Grant from Fangfoss Pottery, children will have the chance to create their own ceramic tile based on the ancient Egypt exhibitions at the Ferens Art Gallery.

The tile will be fired and finished in the pottery and returned to the Ferens where it can be collected in about a month. We will let you know when your tile is available for collection.

Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Please only book a ticket for each child attending the session. Accompanying adults DO NOT need to book a ticket.

Free, booking required

Exploring Ancient Egypt- Children’s Art Workshops

Tile making and sculpture was something the Ancient Egyptians were familiar with – and now is your chance to follow in their footsteps.

With the help of Lyn Grant from Fangfoss Pottery, children will have the chance to create their own ceramic tile based on the ancient Egypt exhibitions at the Ferens Art Gallery.

The tile, measuring 13cm X13cm will be made in bas relief – embossed and applied detail will be added to the surface. This could feature one of their gods, pharaohs, hieroglyphs – anything that has inspired you.

The tile will be fired and finished in the pottery and returned to the Ferens where it can be collected in about a month. We will let you know when your tile is available for collection.

The activity is suitable for children aged 6 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Please only book a ticket for each child attending the session. Accompanying adults DO NOT need to book a ticket.

Free, booking required

The Awakening Fox Mask Workshop

Are you wearing your Fox Mask for the Awakening?

This year, the tradition continues of wearing the Freedom Fox papercraft mask specially designed by Wintercroft.

If you don’t have a mask, come along to the workshop.

All materials provided.

6pm until 10pm,  no booking required, just turn up (last entry 9pm)

The Awakening Fox Mask Workshop

Are you wearing your Fox Mask for the Awakening?

This year, the tradition continues of wearing the Freedom Fox papercraft mask specially designed by Wintercroft.

If you don’t have a mask, come along to the workshop.

All materials provided.

10am – 4pm, no booking required, just turn up.

Hull Brick Festival

A LEGO fan event dedicated to all things brick!

This will be a great day for families, collectors, adult builders and every other kind of LEGO fan. With lots to see and do including speed building competitions, large scale displays, activities, traders selling loose bricks, new LEGO sets, retired LEGO sets, minifigures & accessories plus a dedicated building area.

Established in 2018, this celebration of all things LEGO is open to fans of all ages. Booking tickets to secure your place is strongly advised as we regularly sell out. Early Bird tickets are also available giving you an hour of extra fun and a FREE LEGO gift on entry too!

L’Hiver 2023

L’Hiver 2023, the first exhibition of 2023 at Studio Eleven, bringing together environmental themes and narrative with paint, print, and ceramics.

The exhibition collectively investigates the artists’ response to the environment and the issues of climate change and brings together emerging and established artists, some of which have an international practice and have work in important collections worldwide.

 

 

 

Harry Potter Night

Young wizards, witches, muggles and students of Hogwarts – join us and some very special guests for an enchanting evening celebrating all things Harry Potter!

Step through the wall of Platform 9 3/4 and let the Sorting Hat choose your House – will you be Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin?

We’ll have a fabulous evening of storytelling, costumes, crafting, potion making and magical mayhem!

Suitable for children aged 4 – 15yrs

Tickets cost £3 per child / £5 per adult – pop into your library or book online.

Stained Glass Weekend Workshop

Create your own piece of stained glass!

Saturday 25th February & Sunday 26th February 2023

11am until 3pm on both days.

The workshop covers two days and is £180 per person total

The craft of stained glass and lead light window making using traditional techniques. Design a simple line drawing. From this, the glass pieces are cut and assembled on top of the drawing, bending and cutting the lead to fit around the glass. The joints of the lead sections are soldered to finish.

Louise Watson is an established architectural glass artist who has worked internationally. From bespoke interior pieces to public art larger installations, Louise specialises in delivering colour and light through the medium of glass. Currently working on restoring stained glass at the Manchester City Hall.

Make a Mini Clay Pot

Join us to make your own mini pot to take home, inspired by the pottery in the Hull and East Riding Museum.

Free, drop-in

it’s a joy to be here

Working Class Creatives Database presents it’s a joy to be here at 87 Gallery

It’s a joy to be here brings together six working-class artists from around the UK. Collectively, the artists draw on the history and traditional processes of craft whilst conceptually exploring the nuance of personal narrative. Many of the artists do this through the use of materials that are immediately available, reused or altered, together challenging stereotypes around gender, class and DIY approaches. By celebrating methods often associated with the working class, such as textiles and metalwork, the work provokes questions around the hierarchies within artistic practice.

When brought together these pieces open up a dialogue between artists from the North and the South of the UK and capture the power in the community, reinforcing the idea of there being strength in numbers. The exhibition considers how our experiences, working-class histories and identities can both set us apart and unite us. It also celebrates the collective joy of learning, loving, community and collaboration.

Exhibiting artists are Ben Brumpton (based in Manchester), Charlotte Cullen (based in Leeds), Daniel Fountain (based in Exeter), Grace Clifford (based in Sheffield) Sam Batley (based in Liverpool) and Stephanie Francis-Shanahan (based in London).

Hull Libraries – Christmas Capers for Kids

Join us at Hull Central Library for some FREE Christmas based activities for children aged 4 and over. Free festive sessions – all materials provided, please book a place –

Christmas Family Crafts – 20th December 2022, 10–11:30am
Christmas Lego Creations – 21st December 2022, 2–3pm
Christmas Make & Take Craft Club – 22nd December 2022, 2–3pm

For more information and to book please call Hull Central Library on 01482 210000.

All of the Hull Libraries have Christmas activity and puzzle sheets available, as well as games and jigsaws to play with – just ask the staff.

Elf Workshops – Prospect Centre

Come and enjoy the Elf Workshops this Christmas at the Patt Gallery, Prospect Centre, Hull

December 17th – 18th, December 21st – 24th Christmas mask making

£2 per child, family ticket £5. To book your message: 0754 1945 563.

Hull CVS 40th Anniversary Funday

Hull CVS are celebrating our 40th anniversary with a free family fun day on Monday 24th October 2022, between 12noon and 3 PM at Johnny Whiteley Park. This includes FREE face painting by Fantastic Faces and various games, activities and music from local communities and groups throughout Hull.

Since the start of our journey over 40 years ago, we have supported many voluntary sector organisations in Hull and seen them flourish. With well over 1,000 voluntary groups and organisations in Hull alone, our city is certainly a wonderful place to live, with incredible communities and inspirational people throughout.

In recognition of the phenomenal work our voluntary sector does, we felt it was only fitting to celebrate not only our anniversary, but to showcase the sector as a whole; which has worked tirelessly, day in and day out, over the last 40 years and more to make our little corner of the world just that little bit better.

With this in mind, as part of our celebration, we aimed even bigger and better than any anniversary previous and with help from West Hull ARLF
C and local voluntary groups and organisations, we will be achieving just that.

So, if you’re interested in a free family fun day, with face painting, child-friendly games, activities and music, a free hotdog and a chance to win a £50 gift card.

On the day, we will be joined by the following organisations and groups, who each brings their own unique flair to show just how incredible and diverse Hull really is:

Creative Briefs
RSPCA Hull and East Riding Branch
Hull Red
PATT Foundation and Green Task Force
BackCare Ukulele
Goodwin / Fareshare Hull and Humber
Guide Dogs for the Blind
Yorkshire MESMAC
Fitmums and Friends
Hon Lok Senior Association
Emmaus Hull and East Riding
St Stephens Neighbourhood Centre
Prince’s Trust

We look forward to seeing you there!

Punch Above Your Weight – Punch Needle Workshop

In this full day workshop, Divya will talk you through her work (that is exhibited in the New Contemporaries Show in the Ferens Gallery) and show you the basics of punch needling. As a theme, Divya will give tribute to Hull’s very own Suffragist Dr Mary Murdoch. With her life work and activism as inspiration.

Ahead of the workshop Divya would like you to choose a phrase or an image that you think is important in your life or has given you courage and encouragement that you could tuft on to the fabric (A4 sized). You could have three colours in your design. The Gallery will provide the kit with the needle, threader, and yarn for the session.

*Punch needling has a long history dating back hundreds, if not thousands of years. Fine punch needle embroidery was used to decorate medieval garments and religious panels. Later, the technique was used with thicker yarns to make rugs. There is a long association of embroidery and female domesticity and Rozsika Parker’s book The Subversive Stitch traces the separation of the craft of embroidery from the Fine Arts as a major force in the marginalisation of women’s work. With craft taking on a renewed importance within the art landscape, working with threads and textiles is a happy medium that sits between painting and sculpture and craft.

Closer to the day Divya will share a Spotify link to all the confirmed participants so that you could add your choice of music to the list that can be played during the workshop.

Cost £45 +£1.50 booking fee (Lunch at Venue Hull Cafe included in the price)