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Spring Sparks

Free arts activities for children and young people.
Sessions must be booked in advance as spaces are limited.

Creating and Inventing Joy Lab!
Free
A young person draws in a notebook with two coloured pens.

Children and Young People's Activities

Creating and Inventing Joy Lab!

Additional information

Register your interest for our workshops using the form linked below.

Completing this form does not guarantee a place. A member of the Culture Start team will contact you to let you know if we can offer a place at the selected workshop.

07 Apr 2026

7-12

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Amazing Spring Blossoms: Painting with Elizabeth Kane
Free

Children and Young People's Activities

Amazing Spring Blossoms: Painting with Elizabeth Kane

Additional information

Register your interest for our workshops using the form linked below.

Completing this form does not guarantee a place. A member of the Culture Start team will contact you to let you know if we can offer a place at the selected workshop.

10 Apr 2026

7-12

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City-wide

Puppet Making with Georgia Hill
Free
A puppet has been made from carboard, foam balls and tissue paper. It has a blue head, and a purplish beard. It stares vacantly offscreen, mouth agape. The vacant expression of the puppet is quite charming, but a little hypnotic.

Children and Young People's Activities

Puppet Making with Georgia Hill

Additional information

Register your interest for our workshops using the form linked below.

Completing this form does not guarantee a place. A member of the Culture Start team will contact you to let you know if we can offer a place at the selected workshop.

13 Apr 2026

7-12

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City-wide

Create your own Prints with Katie Watson
Free
An abstract print of leaves. Yellow leaves pop against a blue background, created with many droplets of paint flicked onto the canvas. The fuzzy edges of some of the leaves give the impression of a photograph with a very shallow depth of field.

Children and Young People's Activities

Create your own Prints with Katie Watson

Additional information

Register your interest for our workshops using the form linked below.

Completing this form does not guarantee a place. A member of the Culture Start team will contact you to let you know if we can offer a place at the selected workshop.

14 Apr 2026

7-12

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City-wide

Springtime Arts and Crafts
Free
A pair of gloved hands flicks ink and paint onto a piece of paper. Around the paper, leaves of various shapes are being used to cover the paper, leaving a silhouette on the paper where the ink hits the leaves.

Children and Young People's Activities

Springtime Arts and Crafts

Additional information

Register your interest for our workshops using the form linked below.

Completing this form does not guarantee a place. A member of the Culture Start team will contact you to let you know if we can offer a place at the selected workshop.

14 Apr 2026

7-12

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City-wide

Animation with Robin Webb
Free

Children and Young People's Activities

Animation with Robin Webb

Additional information

Register your interest for our workshops using the form linked below.

Completing this form does not guarantee a place. A member of the Culture Start team will contact you to let you know if we can offer a place at the selected workshop.

17 Apr 2026

7-12

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City-wide

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Esmee Fairbairn Foundation logo
Sir James Knott Trust logo
Gillian Dickinson Trust logo
Supported using public funding by Arts Council and Lottery logo