Events at The Higgins Bedford this January and February

Saturday Stress-Busting at The Higgins Bedford

26th January 2019, 23rd February 2019 and 23rd March 2019

1pm to 4pm

Free

Join us for a variety of sociable and relaxing activities to help improve your feelings of wellbeing.

1pm - 4pm: Creative art sessions
Paper crafting & mindful colouring. Or bring in your own work.
Traditional table-top games including chess, jigsaws, dominoes
& Scrabble. Lacemaking with Aragon Lacemakers.

2pm - 3pm: Mindful Yoga session
Stretch & relax with Alex. No experience needed.

2.30pm - 4pm: Tea Party Poetry
Join Satwinder and give a voice to your thoughts and emotions
through poetry writing. No experience needed.

Please check our website http://www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk/whats_on/whats_on/a_place_of_wellbeing.aspx and social media for further details nearer to the dates.

Portable Antiquities Scheme

30th January 2019 and 27th March 2019 from 1pm - 3pm

Have you ever found archaeological objects whilst digging in the garden, taking the dog for a walk or metal detecting? Would you like to find out more about them?

Help is on hand; bring them in to The Higgins Bedford to show and discuss them with Matt Fittock, our Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme. There is no need to book, just drop in.

The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a nationwide service run by the British Museum. To find out more about the service, please visit: www.finds.org.uk

Up for Discussion Event

10th February 2019 from 2:30pm to 4:30pm

Free entry

Voice your opinion about issues concerning the African and Caribbean Community. Topics will be shaped in partnership with Power in Discussion and Nubian Teachings.

Friends of The Higgins Bedford Lecture - Alan Waltham: The East London Group

12th February 2019 at 7:30pm

Cost: Friends £4 and Guests £9

In the 1920s, a group of working class men, including a haddock-smoker and a painter-decorator, began an art club at Bethnal Green Men's Institute in London's East End.

What became known as the East London Group expanded and produced luminous, sometimes haunting, realist paintings and attracted tutors including Walter Sickert.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk/join_in/friends.aspx