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This Cheltenham festival is brimming with culture and diversity, encouraging everyone in Gloucestershire to experience and enjoy an immersion in different cultures. Be part of the cultural conversation and enjoy a family day out!
15th June 2024, 12 noon -7.30pm - FREE
Pittville Park, Cheltenham
Pittville Park, Cheltenham
Led by the University’s School of Creative Arts, the event will enable visitors to attend talks delivered by experts, meet UK and international animators and illustrators – including University students and recent graduates – and find out more about the careers available within the industry.
Saturday 27 April 2024 (10am-6pm) - FREE
Gloucestershire University’s Park Campus
An art exhibition that jostles through jazz history, politics, culture, performance and musicianship. Nothing is scripted, nothing is out of bounds. We are a 9 Artists Collective selected to exhibit alongside this year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival, we very much hope you will pop in and see us. You might even catch us drawing jazz instruments - and you'll be welcome to join in!.
1st-6th May, opening daily from 10am-9pm
The Gardens Gallery, Montpellier
Through facilitated time in nature, participants are supported to explore their own personal self care for positive mental health and wellbeing, by accessing their immediate natural environment through nature based practices, while being held within a non threatening group.
5 week course 25th April - 23rd May 2024 1.30pm- 4pm
Hawkwood Painswick Old Rd, Stroud, GL6 7QW
New Brewery Arts are delighted to present this exciting new touring exhibition from the Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre, London, which presents a remarkable collection of work from the pioneering American artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
13TH APRIL - 15TH JUNE 2024
New Brewery Arts, Cirencester
A journey through creative expression, authentic dance, nature inspiration, and equine connections. This is an outdoor movement class in which we will learn about responding to nature, the horses, and ourselves, cultivating connection, balance, improvisation and flow.
Weekly from Thursday 18th April, 10:30-12 - Maximum of 6 participants
Equine Elements, Stroud
Spring into Adventure and explore our community in Matson and Robinswood through an Easter Trail and win goodies!
Thursday 28th March 2024
Participating venues/community centres in the post…
We invite you to be inspired by the earth beneath our feet on a creative weekend of meandering, lingering and connection. Over the course of two days we will be guided through a series of activities, discussions and walkshops that will support our exploration of the environment in creative ways.
Saturday 6th April (10am-8pm) & Sunday 7th April (10.30am-2.30pm)
Redbrook
As part of the Wilson Nights, ‘Radev’ is an exhibition of world-class painting that uses twentieth century art to tell the extraordinary stories of Mattei Radev’s life, his friendships and journey from Bulgaria to the UK, where he shared his love of food, cooking and friendship to build lifelong relationships. Interactive and inspirational.
3rd April 6-9 pm, FREE TO ALL
Wilson Art Gallery, Cheltenham
The project encompasses artist commissions, community engagement, events and an exhibition. It will showcase a selection of the canal folk art collection from the museum, alongside new interpretations created for the project. In total more than 50 people are contributing to the project, with the finished works including textiles, paintings, sculpture, digital art and photography.
The pieces will be on display from 23 March to 28 April 2024
National Waterways Museum Gloucester
Join us for this ten week programme on mobile filmmaking exclusively for 16-24 year olds and learn from leading experts who have worked with the likes of Amazon Prime, Sky, BBC and MGM.
16 April - 4 June - flexible pricing scheme to ensure these workshops are accessible for all.
Gloucester Guildhall
Share with us some unique places in Gloucestershire (past and present) recalled through the stories and memories of Cheltenham and Gloucester residents, captured in imagery and words.
Friday 22 March (preview) 16:00 - 17:00, advance booking required
Saturday 23 March (drop-in) 10:00 - 16:00
Shopping Centre Gloucester GL1 1QH
Through facilitated time in nature, participants are supported to explore their own personal self care for positive mental health and wellbeing, by accessing their immediate natural environment through nature based practices, while being held within a non threatening group.
The course will run for 6 weeks on Wednesday afternoons, 11am - 1.30pm, April 17th - May 22nd
Hawkwood ,Painswick Old Road, STROUD , GL67QU
We are looking for people aged between 16 – 30 years of age who have created a new product or started their own business. This Market aims to provide a platform for young people to work alongside our well-established Market traders, to test business ideas and sharpen sales and merchandising techniques.
Saturday June 15th 2024, 9am – 5pm - READ MORE for application process
Cirencester Market Place
An exhibition of photographs by graduating students on the Masters course in Photography at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham.
Friday 8th March - 2024 Sunday 24th March. 10am – 4pm daily FREE Admission
Private view: Thursday 7th March 2024, 6- 8pm FREE Admission
Hardwick Gallery, Hardwick campus, St Pauls Rd, Cheltenham GL50 4BS
Philip Douch chats for a bit. Then he reads you his stories. Mostly funny and sometimes gently moving, Philip's stories are warm and witty and just slightly off the wall.
5 April - Burdall's Yard, Bath/16 April - Alma Theatre - Bristol/27 April - Under The Edge Arts, Wotton-Under-Edge
You're invited to our Word Walk! Meet at the Podsmead Hub OR join us along the way…
Sat 2nd March, 10 am ONWARDS…
Mone Rekho is a relaxed-concert style performance led by Soumik Datta, who will share reflections on identity and memory to a soundtrack of incredible Sarod music. Come along to the Guildhall where with others, you’ll listen to music and stories all about the memories we treasure and what it feels like when we start to lose them.
Wednesday 28 February 2024. Doors: 7pm. Start: 7.30pm. Finish: 9pm
Gloucester Guildhall
PAY AS YOU CHOOSE
Gloucester Guildhall
An exhibition of paintings by Peter Stiles in the beautiful Ruskin Mill Gallery.
PV Sunday 3rd March 2-4 pm, ALL WELCOME
Exhibition runs 27th Feb until 18th March
Ruskin Mill Gallery, Nailsworth, GL6 0LA
This is a relaxed, friendly, supportive, experimental and fun experience where you will learn a new (or revive a previous) skills and take home something you feel proud enough to frame by creating your own, individual, silkscreen printed artwork!
1 day workshop 10am - 4pm on March 3rd, April 27th and June 5th 2024. Price £120
The studio is located at Manor farm in Winstone on the beautiful Miserden Estate, GL7 7JU
The Artspace ‘Saturday Series’ is a programme of weekend workshops for adults running at Artspace. Each workshop is designed to provide a bespoke, one-off arts experience that you can enjoy, at your leisure, on a weekend.
With International Women's Day as our focus, come and connect with like-minded women at all stages of their creative journeys with guest speaker, Kari Gerstheimer, CEO of Access Social Care, hosted by artist and educator Alice Sheppard Fidler.
March 11, 2024 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Limited Spots!
The Hide Artist Retreat, Pinfarthings, GL5 5JJ
Discover the fascinating world of comics with this fun introduction to visual storytelling. Develop your own characters, create imaginative worlds and express yourself through this exciting creative language.
Fridays, 10.30am to 11.30am from 15th March
This course is ONLINE and free for people who are 19+ and live in Gloucestershire, who meet at least one of the following criteria: Unemployed/low waged (below £20,319 per annum) or are seeking to enhance their skills for employment and future prospects
Make your own salmon decorated with words and images relating to rivers, using poems by local writers written on pebbles and rearranged by you into haiku or other short poems.
February 12th and 13th, 11am - 3.30
Dean Heritage Centre, Camp Mill, Soudley, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, GL14 2UB
Come and join this established inclusive Drama group on Tuesdays in Gloucester with NEW tutor, Keziah Benbow
Tuesdays 10.15am-12.30pm: January 16, 23, 30 February 6, 27, March 5, 12 and 19
Heritage Hub, Gloucester
Learn how to make a beautifully crafted carpenters' toolbox with simple joinery.
January 12, 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, 23, March 1
Art Shape Studio, Brockworth
Ready for some silly, funny, catchy, brilliantly bizarre, noisy animal chaos?!
Tuesday 20 February 2024 // 1.30pm // Guildhall GL1 1NS // Pay what you choose
Gloucester Guildhall
During this course you will look at Shibori, a Japanese manual resist dyeing technique which produces patterns on fabric.
Thursdays 10am-2pm from January 18th - February 8th
Art Shape Studio Brockworth