 With February half-term just around the corner, it might be a good time to get some fun and creative activities planned in to keep the kids entertained. From all-day Culture Clubs to our brilliant Wizard School, you'll find something for everyone.
Monday 21 February - Kids Culture Club - Heroes and villains sculpture day | SeaCity Museum | 9am-5pm | £35 - Book here
Tuesday 22 February - Kids Culture Club - Messy History | SeaCity Museum | 9am-5pm | £35 - Book here
Tuesday 22 February - Pokemon Money Boxes | Southampton City Art Gallery | 10.15am, 11.45am or 1.30pm | £7 - Book here
Wednesday 23 February - Wizard School | Tudor House and Garden | 10.30am | £6 - Book here
Thursday 24 February - Bubble Blossom Painting (5yrs +) | Southampton City Art Gallery | 10am | £7 - Book here
Thursday 24 February - Southampton Through Time Show | Southampton City Art Gallery | 11am | Adult £6.00, Kids £4, Family £18 - Book here
Our brilliant monthly kids' clubs are also back in 2022, let your kids get creative and explore art in a new way.
The Young Ones Monthly Art Club - 7-13 year | Saturdays - 15 Jan, 12 Feb, 12 March, 9 April, 14 May | Southampton City Art Gallery | 11.30am | £12.00 - Book here
Mini Monets Monthly Art Club - 4 to 6 yrs | Saturdays - 19 Feb, 19 March, 23 April, 28 May, 25 June, 23 July | Southampton City Art Gallery | 11.30am | £7.50 - Book here
 Linocut course with Katherine Anteney - Black, white and beyond: 3 day workshop | 18-20 July | Southampton City Art Gallery | 10am
Join award-winning linocut artist Katherine Anteney on a three day course exploring this fabulous printing medium.
Starting with simple black and white linocuts to explore the mark making possibilities this technique offers, we will move onto colour reduction printing.
Ideal for beginners and improvers alike, this course will teach you all you need to know to produce successful linocut prints.
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 Watercolour for beginners: Six week course | Starting 2 March | Southampton City Art Gallery | 10am
In this six week course, you will learn how to paint beautiful paintings using watercolour. You will learn a range of techniques inc: colour mixing, composition, tonal values, colour theory/harmony, brush techniques, layering and blending paint.
Each session is 2.5 hours and taught by local artist and tutor Emma Morrissey, who will guide you through each step of the process in a fun and relaxed course where you will build your skills each week.
This enjoyable and accessible course is suitable for beginners, as well as those looking for a refresher or in person support and tuition. All materials are provided but please feel free to bring any equipment or materials you would like to learn how to get the most of as Emma will be happy to look at them with you.
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Guns and (Tudor) Roses | 15 Feb | Online Talk | 7pm | From £4.50
Online talk with historian Dr Cheryl Butler. Southampton had more guns than any other town in England! Every man between 16 and 60 had to regularly practise archery and attend musters. Ordinary people toiled away building the defensive walls, and when the French were at the gate, be prepared to defend the realm. This talk explores this incredible story.
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The Discovery of X-Rays and its Culture | 16 Feb | Online Talk | 7pm | From £4.50
The discovery of the ‘X-ray’ had profoundly significant effects upon modern culture; it pushed the boundaries of science and medicine, operated as spectacle for public entertainment, nourished beliefs in the paranormal and provided a subject through which printed media could raise emerging modern social and ethical issues. The fascination with X-rays has been described as a ‘mania [that] swept the West’. At least forty-nine books and 1,044 scientific essays on the subject appeared in the first year of its discovery. Whilst X-radiation generated incredible cultural and scientific fascination, it was also enveloped into other media, from writing and literature to film and painting. This talk will consider some examples of the cultural and artistic forms that this new discovery took and what they had to say about it.
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I can’t hear you over your trousers’ The History of Women Wearing Trousers | 8 Mar | Online Talk | 7pm | From £4.50
Did you know that women barristers were not allowed to wear trousers in court until 1995? Or it was only in 2020 that Japan Airlines allowed their women flight attendants to wear trousers? Join historian Becky Sharp on International Women's Day to discover the long history of women being told what to wear.
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300 years of Bevois Mount | 29 Mar | Online Talk | 7pm | From £4.50
Online history talk about Bevois Mount with Ally Hayes and Wendy Stokes. Ever since the Earl of Peterborough spotted the mount while bowling down the valley in his carriage and decided to make it the picturesque pinnacle of his country estate, the harp-shaped piece of land that is Bevois Mount, has remained intact. The actual mount is no more, exploited and sacrificed for its gravel to make the streets which overlay the gardens, orchards and fields of the old earl’s estate.
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 'a space’ arts are looking for volunteers to register their interest in our Hidden Histories Tour Guide Course, a training programme which will introduce participants to the diverse history of Southampton and will equip them with the tools and knowledge to deliver the Hidden Histories Tour and even become White Badge Accredited. Find out more here.
 The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Modern Slavery Partnership, in conjunction with Hampshire Cultural Trust, are proud to present the emotive and thought provoking exhibition ‘The real faces of Modern Slavery: unmasking the truth’.
Take a journey through the compelling stories of survivors identified and supported within our surrounding area, with visual and audio content depicting their experiences - past and present - and their future aspirations as they start to attempt to rebuild their lives. An educational experience with an insight into Modern Slavery with factual information, dispelling the common myths.
The people whose stories you will see and hear at this new exhibition are all Modern Slavery survivors who have been identified and supported within our surrounding area.
The exhibition will be touring Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, opening at Southampton Central Library, 12 April to 13 May 2022. Find out more
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