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Showing: Families

Garden Play

Every Sat and Sun during term time / Every day in the Wakefield school holidays, 11am - 4pm, FREE

Come and play in The Hepworth Wakefield Garden. Stack, build, experiment, draw and imagine with your family in the open air. No need to book, just turn up and play!

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Art Pod

Every Sat during term-term time / Every Mon, Fri and Sat during the Wakefield school holidays, drop-in 11am - 4pm (closed for lunch 1 - 1.30pm). FREE with an exhibition ticket

Visit the galleries with your family and join us at the Art Pod to make your own artwork inspired by what you see. Suitable for families with children aged 2 - 12 years old.

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Explore & draw stations

Tue - Sun, 10am - 5pm during term time / Mon - Sun, 10am - 5pm during the Wakefield summer holidays, FREE with an exhibition ticket

Borrow looking tools, handling objects and drawing materials to discover the exhibitions and create your own works of art. Suitable for all ages, including adults.

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Explore & Draw kits

Available Tue - Sun, 10am - 5pm. Free with an exhibition ticket

Discover artworks in the galleries and garden using our Explore and Draw kits. Suitable for families with children aged 2 - 12 years old.

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Summer Holidays

Sat 20 July - Sun 1 Sept, 10am - 5pm. FREE for Members, Wakefield District Residents & Under 18s

Explore, dream and play at The Hepworth Wakefield this summer. There’s something fun happening every day during the Wakefield school holidays!

FREE for Kids and Wakefield District residents.

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Family Workshop: Flowers and Feasts

Sun 28, Tue 30, Wed 31 July, Thur 1 Aug, drop-in 11am - 4pm (closed for lunch 1 - 1.30pm)

Join us for a drawing feast! Make your own still life artwork at the banquet table, add to the flower gallery or play in the sensory area.

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You Choose! Surrealist Landscapes Family Project

Fri 26 July, Fri 2, Fri 16, Fri 23, Fri 30 Aug, 1.30 – 3pm, FREE

Would your family like to choose artworks to go in our next exhibition? Join us on Friday afternoons in the summer holidays to explore artworks in Wakefield's art collection through playful looking, drawing, printing and painting activities.

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Family Workshop: Sculpture Portraits

Sun 4, Tue 6, Wed 7, Thur 8 Aug, drop-in 11am - 4pm (closed for lunch 1 - 1.30pm). FREE with an exhibition ticket

Transform yourself into a sculpture! Explore Moody's sculpture portraits before making a wearable sculpture and building a 3D portrait to take home. Suitable for families with children aged 2 - 12 years old.

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National Playday

Wed 7 Aug, drop-in 11am – 4pm, FREE with an exhibition ticket

Visit us for National Playday at The Hepworth Wakefield. Join in playful outdoors activities across the garden, creative workshops in our learning studios and explore and draw in the galleries. Suitable for all ages

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Family Workshop: Sculpt and Play

Sun 11, Tue 13, Wed 14, Thur 15, Sat 17 Aug, drop-in 11am-4pm (closed for lunch 1 - 1.30pm), FREE with an exhibition ticket

Play with materials to explore the hollows and holes of Barbara Hepworth's sculptures. Visit the galleries with your family to discover Hepworth’s sculptures then in the learning studios squish, twist, roll and carve colourful modelling materials to make your own mini sculpture.

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The Hepworth Wakefield
Gallery Walk, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 5AW
T: +44 (0)1924 247360
E: hello@hepworthwakefield.org

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