CHRISTMAS PRINT WORKSHOP
Join Lucy Grant and the CAST learning team to print handmade cards, tags and wrapping paper in time for Christmas. Create your own designs or use simple shapes to build bold, Scandinavian folk-style patterns. This free drop-in workshop is open to all ages and perfect for families.
Creatures of the Kiln
Join Vicky Wiltshire from Clay Trap to make your own clay creature, talisman or charm. If you would like to keep your creation you will have the option to have it fired, at a cost of £5 per item. Participants of all ages are welcome.
Paper Lantern Making
Join Lucy Grant to find out about lantern traditions around the world, use wax and tissue paper to create translucent shapes and make your own special lantern. Participants of all ages are welcome.
MAKE A BOAT THAT FLOATS
Use driftwood, feathers, twigs and leaves to make a boat that floats at CAST, then make the short walk down to the Cober River with your friends and family to make it sail.
Easter Nests
Join Lucy Grant and the CAST learning team to make a safe nest for your Easter eggs from wild materials. This free drop-in workshop is suitable for families and open to anyone of any age who would like to join in.
Make a Spring Thing
Create a ‘Spring Thing’ of your choice from clay, with ceramicists Finn Leaman and Rosa-Lily James.
Shadow Play Workshop
Join Lucy Grant and the CAST learning team in our ground floor studio for a drop-in shadow play workshop.
Concertina Story Books
Join the CAST learning team to paint or draw a concertina story book.
Portrait Pots
Ceramicists Finn Cameron and Vicky Wiltshire will be on hand to help you fashion your own small object and animate it with facial expression.
Block Print
Use our block print stamps and the three primary colours (magenta, cyan and yellow) to create unique tessellating designs, building up the layers to create a myriad of colours.
Tiny Neolithic Vessels
Fashion and decorate your own tiny bowl or beaker with the types of simple tools used in the Neolithic period.
FOLD-OUT STORY BOOKS
Lucy Grant will lead a free workshop for families with children to make fold-out concertina books, draw picture journeys and map imaginary worlds.
BOTANICAL SPECIMENS
For this Easter holiday family workshop CAST’s black box will be transformed into a fun and informative immersive environment for exploration and play.
Creatures from the kiln
Join ceramicist Sarah Fassnidge from Clay Trap in CAST’s learning studio to make your own creature, talisman or charm.
Christmas Print Shop
Join us in our creative Christmas print shop to work simple forms into bold, bright Scandinavian folk-style patterns.
Lumos
As the Autumn nights draw in and darkness falls, shine a light with a paper lantern for your window.
Picture Stories
Lucy Grant will lead a free workshop for families with children to make fold-out concertina books
ENTER INTO THE DEEP DARK WOOD
Make a fairy tale diorama or a cabin in the woods at our ‘Think and Make’ sessions
Half-term THINK AND MAKE
Paint an object, character or scene, real or imagined, and tell a visual story in miniature.
EASTER NESTS
Be like a bird in spring, weave, wind and create a nest for your easter eggs.
Festival Angels, Elves and Santas
Learn how to make an angel who can flap her wings, an elf or a santa that jumps for joy.
MAKE A SPRING THING | THINK AND MAKE
CANCELLED – Artist Lucy Grant will lead this fun creative, drop-in family workshop, providing an abundance of colour and materials
PERSONALITY PORTRAITS | THINK AND MAKE
Artist Lucy Grant will lead this fun, drop-in family workshop, inviting you to look closely at friends and family
Fairies, Elves and Tompten | Think and Make
Make a festive forest fellow, frosty fairy or tiny Tompten at this Christmas ‘Think and Make’ workshop.