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We offer two monthly family art clubs, one for 6 – 11 year olds and their families and one for children aged 0 – 5 and their families.

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Family art club for children aged 6 – 11 and their families

First Saturday of each month, 1 – 3pm

Our free monthly art club is lets you to play, create and enjoy the gallery as a family.

Each art club session lasts two hours but you don't have to stay the whole time. There's no need to book, though places are limited, so it's best to arrive early to avoid disappointment.

For more details please contact Alex

Tel: 0161 235 8869.
Email: a.thorp@manchester.gov.uk

Look at what we produced in previous sessions on our flickr pages.

Next session: 

Saturday 7 April -  This month we'll be exploring the real and surreal world of photogrpaher Roger Ballen. Create your own life size photographic sets and take and wonderful family photos.

Future sessions for your diary:

• Saturday 5 May
• Saturday 1 June

As usual there will be lots of free fantastic art materials to use and our art club artists and volunteers will be on hand to help so you don't need any special skill or talent to make something brilliant.

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Mini art club for children aged 0 – 5 and their families

Second Friday of every month, 10.15 – 11.15am and 11.30 – 12.30pm

Make friends, make noise and make a mess at our mini art club for younger children and their gown ups. The sessions involve hands-on workshops especially for little ones, with lots to touch, play with and make. Sessions are ususually messy so wear old clothes if you can!

Booking

To avoid disappointment, you need to book ahead for our mini art club.

We start taking bookings one week before the event. For April the register will open on from 10am Thursday 5 April as we are closed on Good Friday 6 April.

Please call: 0161 235 8888

There will be two slots for you to choose from:

10.15 – 11.15am

11.30 – 12.30pm.

There's a maximum of 40 people per session.

For more information about sessions, please contact Alex:
Tel: 0161 235 8869
Email: a.thorp@manchester.gov.uk

Next Session:

Friday 13 April - Shadow lands. Play with shadows, charcoal, paints and sand to create black and white responses to the photographs in our Roger Ballen exhibition. Please note, it will get messy! 

Future sessions for your diary:

• Friday 13 April
• Friday 11 May
• Friday 8 June

What happens in the session?

We meet in the atrium to say hello and sign everybody in. Then we then head up to galleries to explore and look for things related to the topic of the session - this could be autumn leaves, contrasting colours or faces. It's then back down to studio to explore materials and get messy. There are lots of materials to choose from and we encourage everyone to use their imagination to create something special and unique to them.

We try to keep the group reasonably small so you get more space and have more opportunity to talk to our artists and each other. We hope that you have a fun and creative time and feel that you're able to help your little ones exercise those budding imaginations.

Watch what happened in our robot workshop

Photographs from the family art clubs

Please note you will need to have Flash 8 or above installed on your computer. You can download the latest Flash player here.