SUMMER HOLIDAYS Workshops 10.30-11.30am, *manSIon mayhem 1-2pm, 2.30-3.30pm christchurch mansion 1 MAY  31 AUGUST 2016 MUSEUM S *Saxon Summer £3 per person per session Booking required thursday 28 July age 7-11 mythical Beasts and magical Self-led actIvItIeS creatures: Create your own Enjoy Anglo-Saxon themed *art SkIllS masterpiece inspired by the activities from writing runes @ the art School fantastical creatures painted WHAT’S ON AT to learning how to braid Ipswich art School Gallery on Christchurch Mansion’s Saxon inspired friendship Hawstead Panels. bracelets to discovering some Wednesday 27 July Workshops 10.30-11.30am, IPSWICH MUSEUMS hidden objects. art Skill: drawing Do you 1-2pm, 2.30-3.30pm age 5-11 free know your 9H from your HB? Come and have a go at thursday 4 august WorkShopS different ways of drawing. Shadow puppets Workshop: tuesday 26 July Join artist Ky Rice to make Using our Anglo-Saxon Wednesday 3 august your own shadow puppets. treasures for inspiration, art Skill: printing Create your Workshops 10.30-11.30am, create your own medal or own print inspired by the 1-2pm, 2.30-3.30pm brooch - personalise your exhibition under the direction creation with beads, jewels of artist, Jen Hall. thursday 11 august and buttons. make your own mosaic: Wednesday 10 august Make your own mosaic at our tuesday 2 august art Skill: painting Slap on the drop-in workshop. No Anglo-Saxon warrior was paint and brush up your art Workshops: 10.30-11.30am, complete without their own skills in this workshop about 11.30am-12.30pm, armour. Join us to create your paint. Try different brushes, 1.30-2.30pm, 2.30-3.30pm own cardboard armour. paints and paper to make a tuesday 9 august memorable gift. thursday 18 august Short on pocket money? Join medieval archery training: us to design and make your 17 august Join us in to own money in this workshop art Skill: collage Mix up learn about medieval archery with the chance to handle pictures, patterns and and even have a go with a some real Anglo-Saxon coins. textures and bring them long bow. altogether in this collage Workshops at tuesday 16 august event led by artist, Jen Hall. 10.30-11.30am, 12-1pm, Discover traditional 2-3pm, 3.30-4.30pm Anglo-Saxon medicines in this Wednesday 24 august workshop and discover cures art Skill: Sculpture Your thursday 25 august to all manner of ailments. chance to mould your own 3D telling tales: Join Mike wire sculpture in response to Dodds, storyteller, and learn tuesday 23 august the art on show in the how to tell tales and spin Practice your warping and exhibition. stories. wefting as you weave your Workshops 10.30-11.30am, own miniature creation just Workshops 10.15-11.30am, 1-2pm, 2.30-3.30pm as the Anglo-Saxons did. 12-1.15pm, 2-3.15pm tuesday 30 august £3 per person per session £3 per person per session Be inspired by Anglo-Saxon Booking required Booking required. symbols and rituals in this age 7-11 age 7-11 willow weaving workshop. /IpswichGov This year, Ipswich Museums will be taking part in Summer in Suffolk Museums - Colchester +Ipswich for more information, check out www.suffolkmuseums.org Museums @IpswichGov www.ipswichgov.uk/museums Bookings: 01473 433100 or www.ipswichregent.co.uk mInI mammothS: the people’S GallerIeS mInI mammothS: mInI mammothS: *after dark In the anImal claSSIfIcatIon Ipswich museum friday 13 may SeaSIde anGlo-Saxon treaSureS muSeum: rendleSham Ipswich museum You are invited to join Giles Waterfield and Ben Gummer as they Ipswich museum Ipswich museum Ipswich museum tuesday 3 may discuss the rise of Museums and Art Galleries in Victorian Britain tuesday 7 June tuesday 5 July thursday 21 July Discover our collections in our own Victorian Natural History Gallery. A glass of wine is Discover our collections Discover our collections Join us for an artist-led through play, stories, and craft included in the price of this Friends of Ipswich Museums event. through play, stories, and craft through play, stories, and craft drawing tour of the museum activities designed to 6.30-9pm Booking required, www.foim.org.uk activities designed to activities designed to to celebrate our new display encourage development and £10 per person for FOIM members / £12 per person for non-members encourage development and encourage development and of materials from the curiosity about the world curiosity about the world curiosity about the world Anglo-Saxon palace at around us. HALF TERM *art StInkS around us. around us. Rendlesham - a Festival of Workshop 10.15-11.15am Workshop 10.15-11.15am Workshop 10.15-11.15am Archaeology event. Booking required Ipswich museum Booking required Booking required 7-9pm Booking required age 5 and under ravenouS romanS Wednesday 1 June age 5 and under age 5 and under age 16+ Art for your nose and not for £2 per child Ipswich museum £2 per child £2 per child £6 per person, cash bar available tuesday 31 may your eyes! Join us to create your own fragrant *tea talkS Ever wondered if you’ve got *open SeaSon: masterpieces, have a go at *open SeaSon: open choIce pacitti company think tank what it takes to be a Roman open campuS marbling paper and discover next to Ipswich museum soldier? Make and taste Ipswich art School Gallery Saturday 23 July - Sunday 28 august how our sense of smell Ipswich art School Gallery Wednesday 4, 11 and 18 may traditional Roman foods and The second phase of our Open Season combines artworks Saturday 18 June - What goes on behind the learn how crimes were affects how we navigate the selected by Ipswich Art Society from Ipswich Borough Council’s Sunday 17 July scenes at the Ipswich punished! Visit the physician, world around us. collection and displayed alongside their members work. Our open season kicks off Museum? Hear from people to be diagnosed for a range of Workshops 10.30-11.30am, The Ipswich Art Society is one of Suffolk's foremost exhibiting with a show focussing on the who work there, over tea and lurgis and receive a 11.30am-12.30pm, organisations for painters, sculptors and printmakers and one work of some of Suffolk’s best cake. prescription, many of which 1.30-2.30pm, 2.30-3.30pm which has played a distinguished role in the cultural life of developing artists. The 3-4.30pm were stinky and horrible! Booking required Suffolk's county town since 1874. exhibition highlights the Booking encouraged Workshops at 10.30-11.30am, age 7-11 tuesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm winners and runner’s up 01473 295900 1-2pm, 2.30-3.30pm Free £3 per person per session Ipswich Art Society’s 2015 age Booking required age 7-11 Anna Airy and Ipswich Art £5 per person, including sandwiches *IncredIBle edIBle Society awards, and also (v), tea and cake £3 per person per session christchurch mansion features work by second year thursday 2 June Fine Art degree students from muSeumS at nIGht: ShoW and tell Have you ever tried making University Campus Suffolk. the WIcker man Ipswich museum your own butter? We’ll be tuesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm Ipswich museum Wednesday 1 June butter making and looking at Free thursday 12 may Have you ever found how some foods require Enjoy watching Robin HardTy’s something interesting and delicate handling. muSeum myth BuSter: ShoW and tell leonard SquIrrell classic The Wicker Man in the Workshops 10.30-11.30am, U wondered what it might be? taxIdermy 1893-1979 part 2 surroundings of t hOe Victorian Whatever your treasures bring 1-2pm, 2.30-3.30pm Ipswich museum D Ipswich museum Natural HListory Gallery - please them along todiscover more! Booking required Wednesday 10 august christchurch mansion O thursday 23 June bring a cushion to sit on. drop in 10am-3pm age 7-11 Have you ever found tuesday 9 august S Join Molly Carter, Collections 7-9pm £3 per person per session something interesting and Our yearlong celebration of Free and Learning Curator, for an Booking required please call wondered what it might be? local artist Leonard Squirrell exclusive evening of close up 01473 295900 * A Happening Whatever your treasures bring continues in Christchurch encounters with the age 16+ on High Street them along to discover more! Mansion with a new selection taxidermy collections. project related drop in 10am-3pm of his work including two rare £6 per person, cash bar available 7-9pm Booking required activity funded Free works in oil. age 16+ www.ipswichgov.uk/museums by Arts Council tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm Bookings: 01473 433100 or Bookings: 01473 433100 or £6 per person, cash bar available www.ipswichregent.co.uk www.ipswichregent.co.uk Free