Half Term Family Activities

Tuesday 18th – Friday 21st February

11am, 12:30pm & 2pm

£3 & £5 - Booking Essential

Get creative this half term with local artists and Red Phoenix Storytelling and Productions, all inspired by the Dreams and Nightmares exhibition.

Enjoy arts and crafts workshops by making your very own dreamcatcher to take home and imaginative surrealist collages using cutting and sticking. Create and perform fantastical stories in entertaining workshops for new and young storytellers, helping to build communication skills, confidence and creative thinking. 

All workshops last for an hour and children must be accompanied by an adult - (free for adults and siblings under 4 years old).

*Please note that Dreamscapes with Little Science Labs on Friday 21st February is fully booked*

Find out more on The Higgins website. 

To book your place, please use our online booking system. Enter the promotional code HIGGINS22 to remove the booking fee. Alternatively, you can telephone 01234 718044 or visit Bedford Central Box Office at Harpur Suite, Harpur Square, Bedford, MK40 1LE to book tickets.

Saturday Wellbeing 

Saturday 22nd February, 1pm - 4pm

Free Entry - Drop In

Saturday Wellbeing is back with a variety of relaxing and sociable activities, FREE for everyone to enjoy.

Have a go at new family-friendly activity Brusho Painting, alongside exciting boardgames to play against family, friends and other gamers. There's also Tea Party Poetry sessions, drumming workshops and a sound bath meditation where you can unwind with the wonders of sounds and vibrations of individually played instruments. No need to book, just drop in.

Download the full programme here.

Dreams and Nightmares Gallery Tour

Wednesday 4th March, 12pm – 12:30pm

£3, £2.50 for concessions - Booking Essential

Take a lunchtime tour of Dreams and Nightmares before the exhibition closes on 22nd March. Don't miss this opportunity to gain more insight into the artworks on display from spiritual visions, spectral images, fairies, witches and romantic dreams. Highlights include works by William Blake, J.M.W Turner, Pablo Picasso and Edward Bawden. 

Image: William Blake (1757–1827) – The Good and Evil Angels Struggling for Possession of a Child c.1793 © Cecil Higgins Collection

Fine and Decorative Art Tour

Thursday 5th March, 11:30am – 12:30pm

£6.10, £4.90 for concessions - Booking Essential

Explore the internationally renowned Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Collection. Highlights include painted furniture by William Burges, linocuts by Edward Bawden and Victorian jewellery collected by Anne Hull Grundy.

Image: Léon-Victor Solon (1873-1957) Tile, designed for Minton, about 1901 © Cecil Higgins Collection

Science Lab!

Saturday 7th March, 10am - 5pm, Free Entry

To celebrate British Science Week, enjoy a host of amazing hands-on STEM activities, ready to inspire the scientists, engineers and inventors of the future!

Activities, workshops, and demonstrations taking place at Panacea Museum, John Bunyan Museum, Basement @ Bunyan and Bedford Central Library, as well as The Higgins Bedford.

Keep an eye on the Higgins website for more details coming soon.