The Second Saturday of the Month
2pm – 4pm, The Old Print Works
Create an acrylic painting of a photo of your choice.
Why not paint a scenic landscape? Or a portrait of someone you love? Or paint a cartoon that you loved when you were younger?
This is a mindful art workshop, so all we ask is for you to bring positive vibes. For this workshop can you please print out your picture so it fills an A4 piece of paper and we’ll do the rest! If you don’t have access to a print, please email hello@nurtureandheal.co.uk
11am until 1pm, Drawing Room, Courtyard Entrance, The Old Print Works
Monthly family carving club, all ages welcome, learn how to use a sharp knife to make beautiful things from wood
Donation/ pay what you feel – drop in
11-1 The Old Print Works organised by 0121 Collective CIC
Please book via eventbrite link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-front-room-cyanotype-windrush-75-tapestry-workshop-tickets-607324192007?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb
This is an inter generational project that aims to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Windrush generation. To do this we are running free workshops where we will use cyanotypes photo process (blue prints) to share stories, learn and connect with each other. It’s free to join in.
Everyone is welcome and we especially would love to see people from the Windrush communities in Birmingham to come forward and share stories.
Workshop
We have three Saturday sessions coming up June to August which wil take place on Balsall Heath Second Saturday sessions where The Old Print Works and other places nearby hold a monthly creative open day.
The workshop will last two hours and theme of this session is The Front Room – which explores the African-Carribean front room and how migrant families set up home in Britain. We will mainly look at how lace and dollies were a big part of these spaces. We will use lace and dollies to make cyanotypes and share stories.
Tianna who is leading the project will tell you about her Nan’s front room who moved to Birmingham in the 1960s from Jamaica. Tracey who is the lead artist on the project will help people to make cyanotypes using lace and dollies on fabric and paper.
Cyanotype is a 19th Century photo process which uses the sun or a UV lamp to make amazing blue images.
We invite people to add work through a cyanotype image to the collaborative tapestry (fabric) that we are making for the project.
It’s free come and all materials provided.
The project is funded by National Lottery Community Fund
2pm, The Old Print Works.
Music wellbeing workshop for people of all ages
Everyone welcome – no musical experience required.
Come and paint together with Art Metallix, in the Upper Gallery at The Old Print Works
During Balsall Heath Second Saturday – afternoon and evening
Join us for a weekend of original theatre devised by third year Applied Theatre students from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Get your free tickets now online at:
www.insertfestivaleventbrite.com
Find out more at:
www.NextChapter.com
6Ft Rule
Mee.3Meet Greenie, JJ and Dottie. 3 best friends from different walks of life. They met at a freshers event during their first year of uni and have been inseparable ever since. They laugh together, live together and cry together. They’re trying to navigate their way through the crazy world of dating, it involves what feels like endless swiping left on tinder and too many one time dinner dates. But at least they have each other, for now.
Serpent’s Gaze
Hush Hush
A Serpent’s Gaze is an unconventional twist on the Greek mythological story of Medusa and her tale of misfortune. This piece uses comedic elements such as satire, breaking the fourth wall and melodrama to capture our audiences. We will also be creating original music and exploring themes of injustice and discrimination against women.
Both Sides Now
The Other Shoe
The Other Shoe theatre company welcomes you to Both Sides Now. A story following a young black career and her elderly patient and their turbulent journey of friendship which comes with trials and tribulations of finding common ground.
Escapism
Introspective Productions
Escapism immersively explores the effects on LSD on two impressionable first year students after coming out of lockdown. Through using personal lived experiences and stories, this piece aims to provide a real experience for its audience and to help break the stigmas around LSD and drug usage, whilst also allowing them to make more informed decisions in the future.
TW: Strobe Lighting, Loud Sounds, Drug Use
Through The Dark
Atlas Theatre
Through the dark is a twisted and sometimes familiar tale exploring what happens in the nighttime.
New Visions
Welcome to the community cafe, where the stories are even warmer than the coffee. In this small, immersive play, where, two women whose lives are changing quickly as the world changes around them, they’ll have to rely on their unbreakable bond to get through the challenges ahead. A moving, immersive play that explores the depths of friendship, growth, and the power of connection.
Club Clique
Clique Culture
Club Clique invites you to join us for this, our goodbye bash. To you, our misfits and queerdos alike, we bring you our biggest party to date with a chaotic cast of drag excellence to really let your authentic self-shine under the lights. Trust us, we’re going out with a bang!
1.30, The Old Print Works
Experience the magic of artistic expression and peaceful mindfulness with Nurture and Heal. Explore new ways to connect to yourself through art. No prior experience or materials necessary – just an open mind ready for a journey into creativity and self-care. The theme this month is spring.
2pm, Upper Gallery, The Old Print Works.
Music wellbeing workshop for people of all ages
Everyone welcome – no musical experience required.
Time: 11am-12.30 The Old Print Works
Please book a ticket via eventbrite below.
If you have an idea for a children’s story and are looking for some friendly support and practical encouragement, grab your pen & paper and join author Leila Rasheed and local publisher The Emma Press for a creative writing workshop exploring children’s literature. The workshop will last one hour, and we’ll be available to answer questions until 12.30.
Free, but please book a space via eventbrite : maximum 12 participants
Venue: Second Saturday
About Leila:
Leila Rasheed’s first novel for children, Chips, Beans and Limousines was published in 2008 and followed by two sequels which were widely translated. Since then, she has written a wide variety of children’s and YA literature, including the At Somerton trilogy for Disney Hyperion, and biographies of Kamala Harris and Katherine Johnson. Her most recent novel is Empire’s End: A Roman Story (Scholastic), which follows the adventures of a North African girl during the late Roman Empire. In 2015 she set up a pioneering scheme to mentor new children’s writers of colour, called Megaphone, now Megaphone Writers CIC.
About The Emma Press:
The Emma Press is an independent publisher based in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter specialising in poetry, short fiction and children’s books with a mission of making publishing and literature as welcoming and accessible as possible.
5.30pm onwards, Drawing room, The Old Print Works, Courtyard Entrance
A little bit of food, music and drink. Pay as you feel, chilled music, a delicious plant-based meal, good company and craft activities
Pay what you can/free
11am until 1pm, Drawing Room, Courtyard Entrance, The Old Print Works
Monthly family carving club, all ages welcome, learn how to use a sharp knife to make beautiful things from wood
Donation/ pay what you feel – drop in
10am – 4pm The Old Print Works, Lower Gallery
Art and crafts from the people at The Old Print Works community and beyond including pottery, art, jewellery, postcards, crafts, and lots lots more.
Come and make a colourful Spring Bunny picture. Turn it into an Easter card if you’d like or just have fun.
12.0 – 2.0 Balsall Heath Second Saturday 8th April
Experience the magic of Jazz at The Old Print Works in Birmingham. Dubbed “one of the coolest, smoothest Jazz acts in Britain,” The Jazz Apples are a Jazz, Swing and Bossa act known for their heart-melting harmonies, their ever-creative improvisations, and their playful re-interpretations of aural classics old and new! Expect anything from Ella Fitzgerald to the Isley Brothers.
With back up from the usual DJ, playing some jazzy tunes.
BYOB/ pay as you feel food and entry
From 7.30 onwards – The Drawing Room, The Old Print Works
Drumming with Extinction Rebellion – throughout the day. No experience necessary. The Old Print Works
5.30pm onwards, Drawing room, The Old Print Works, Courtyard Entrance
A little bit of food, music and drink. Pay as you feel, chilled music, a delicious plant-based meal, good company and craft activities
Pay what you can/free
2pm, Drawing Room, The Old Print Works.
Music wellbeing workshop for people of all ages
Everyone welcome – no musical experience required.
11am until 1pm, Drawing Room, Courtyard Entrance, The Old Print Works
Monthly family carving club, all ages welcome, learn how to use a sharp knife to make beautiful things from wood
Donation/ pay what you feel – drop in
2.30pm – 4.30pm The GAP
Make and design your own pot while having a chat about fear and how we overcome it.
Historically these posts were used to help people control their fear of witches….what collective fears do we have now, and why do we fear things?
Family friendly, free, drop in
11am – 1pm The GAP free entry
Truth of the Youth presents —-Spoken Word Workshop.
Build your confidence, learn some skills and have fun with spoken word., 11am onwards in The GAP.
2pm, Drawing Room, The Old Print Works.
Music wellbeing workshop for people of all ages
Everyone welcome – no musical experience required.
10am – 4pm The Old Print Works, Lower Gallery
Art and crafts from the people at The Old Print Works community and beyond including vintage clothes, pottery, art, jewellery, postcards, crafts, and lots lots more.
Join XR Birmingham all day in the Upper Gallery at The Old Print Works.
12 – 3, The Old Print Works
Fruit tree grafting workshops; Learn how to make, apple, pear and plum trees using traditional techniques.
Take home a tree for your garden or to share with the community
Rolling viewing – from 11am until 4pm, Directors Office tickets available here THE OIL MACHINE and Divest WMPF, Balsall Heath, Birmingham – The Oil Machine
5.30pm onwards, Drawing room, The Old Print Works, Courtyard Entrance
A little bit of food, music and drink. Pay as you feel, chilled music, a delicious plant-based meal, good company and craft activities
Pay what you can/free
11am until 1pm, Drawing Room, Courtyard Entrance, The Old Print Works
Monthly family carving club, all ages welcome, learn how to use a sharp knife to make beautiful things from wood
Donation/ pay what you feel – drop in
11am – Upper gallery, The Old Print Works
Nurture and Heal provides a space that offers all the tools needed to foster creativity, mindfulness practices, and therapeutic self-expression. No experience or materials required – just show up as yourself. Join Nurture and Heal on Saturday, March 11th for a workshop designed to reconnect with your inner artist while creating a calming environment of wellbeing.
Crochet your own Fancy Fingers
Fancy Fingers is a beginner workshop to get you started learning basic crochet skills. We crochet a Fancy Finger/Finger puppet which you can style up and sew eyes onto!
I’ll show you how to change colours and start making modular objects (Just making shapes really!).
The skills you’ll learn will help you if you want to make crocheted gloves or amigurumi-style toys in future!
Did you know crochet is French for hook? I will supply hooks + yarn for this workshop and a friendly face to help you on the way to crocheting lovely stuff.
with Alex Laight of @LaighNightKnits (follow me on Instagram and YouTube for crochet and knitting tutorials)
12-2 Daily Thread, The Old Print Works
