- 28 May -30 June 2025
- Art
- Young Essex
Sumi Ink Club: Peace Wall
Sumi Ink Club is non-hierarchical: all ages, all humans, and all styles. Everyone is invited to come along and create a community mural that will evolve and grow throughout the day on the theme of Peace, Place and Identity. Bring yourselves, bring your friends, bring your grandparents, come and draw with us. Read more
- Art
- Young Essex
Peace Bunting Print Workshop
Come along for a sun printing workshop on fabric, to make bunting with a message of peace using plant material, letters and acetates, with artist Angenita Hardy-Teekens. You’ll learn all about the cyanotype method, an early Victorian way of making shadows with objects using the suns UV light. Read more
- Art
- Storytelling
- Young Essex
Oh, The Places We’ll Go!
Come and explore the theme of journeys, adventures and places around the world and in our imaginations. Drop-in for our Pop Up Storytelling Armchair, hear traditional tales from Africa with Djembe drumming, try your hand at Chinese calligraphy, and wrap your tongue around different languages with bilingual storytelling. Suitable for ages 4+ Read more
- Art
- Workshop
- Young Essex
Weaving with Words
Join local writer and artist Wendy Constance for a fun family drop-in session where you choose words which best describe Paycocke’s House and Garden. Compose a list, a sentence or poem - then write it on fabric which we will all weave together to create a banner to celebrate this special place. Suitable for ages 4+ Read more
- Art
- Exhibition
SHE HEALS
Digital Artist and Composer Lily Hunter Green collaborates with Essex Steamettes, a group of young female coders (9-19 years), and computer scientist Karun Matharu, to create an exciting new work SHE HEALS. An immersive digital Sci-Art hive populated by LED drone bees, SHE HEALS tells the mesmerizing story of how female honeybees work as a collective to protect their community from viral attacks. SHE HEALS has evolved out of Lily Hunter Green’s previous work Silencing The Virus, a Chelmsford City… Read more
- Art
- Fiction
- SOLD OUT!
The Violet Hour – SOLD OUT
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear one of Britain’s most significant and controversial artists, Maggi Hambling, in conversation with art historian, James Cahill about his new book. A story of deception, power play and longing, The Violet Hour exposes the unsettling underbelly of the art world, asking: who is granted admission to a world that only seems to glitter and who is left outside, their faces pressed to the glass? Join us for what is sure to be an honest,… Read more