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We now offer two monthly family art clubs, one for 6-11 year olds and their families and one for fives and unders and their families.

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

First Saturday of each month, 1 - 3pm

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

Each art club session lasts two hours but you can stay as long as you like. There's no need to book, but 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 6 June

Future sessions for your diary:

Saturday 4 July

Saturday 1 August

As usual there will be lots of free fantastic art materials to use and our art club artists and volunteers will be on hand and full of ideas to help out so no previous experience is necessary!

Mini Family Art Club for children aged 5 and under 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 new mini art club for younger children and their gown ups. The sessions involve hands-on workshops especially for little ones, and lots to touch, play with and make.

Booking

From May you'll need to book ahead for our mini art club.

We will start taking bookings 1 week before the event. So for May this will mean bookings will be taken from Friday 1 May.

Please call 0161 235 8888 to book

There will be two slots for you to choose from:

There will be a maximum of 40 people per session.

Hopefully this will make mini art club a more pleasant experience for all of us!

If you'd like more information about sessions, please contact Alex.

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

Next Session: Friday 12 June

We'll be using paint in this session so wear old clothes if you can!

Future sessions for your diary:

Friday 10 July

Friday 14 August

What happens in the session?

At each session we usually meet in the education studios and have chance to say hello, catch up and talk about this weeks topic. We then head up to galleries to explore and look for things related to the topic of the session. We might sit in a circle and play a game or do a funny dance before heading back down to studio to create something. 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 support your little one's imaginations.

Previous sessions

In the Land of the Giants - making sculptures inspired by the Gwon Osang exhibition.

We're all going on a mini art club holiday - creating things for holiday - a memory box, magic key or wings to whisk you away.

Clay Play - exploring texture and shape to create weird and wonderful inventions.

Photographs from the May 2008 Art Club

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