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Family Workshop: Festive Clay
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Christmas Holidays

Saturday 20 December - Sunday 4 January*

FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s

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Imagine and play with us every day during the Christmas holidays!*

With an array of activities including drop-in workshops, Art Pods and activity kits, it’s the perfect opportunity to get creative as a family.

Bring a picnic to enjoy in our indoor picnic area or visit our café to enjoy lunch.

The Hepworth Wakefield is accessible with baby changing facilities and a Changing Places  toilet as well as a space to leave buggies and pushchairs.

We can’t wait to welcome you to The Hepworth Wakefield.

*The Hepworth Wakefield is closed on Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 and Friday 26 December.

Ticket offer for families

Family activities are FREE with an exhibition ticket.

Exhibition tickets are FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s.

Non-Wakefield residents can get 50% off a standard adult ticket when visiting with a child during the Wakefield school holidays. Use discount code FAMILY50 when booking online or in person. One discounted adult ticket per child Saturday 20 December – Sunday 4 January (The Hepworth Wakefield is closed on Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 and Friday 26 December)

Full price entry to the exhibitions is £13 / £11.  

What's On

Family Workshop: Festive Clay
Sunday 21 & Tuesday 23 December
Drop-in 11am – 3.45pm
FREE with an exhibition ticket

Create your own clay art work inspired by the  Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto   exhibition.

In the galleries make drawings of your favourite Axel Salto drawing, prints and ceramics. Back in the Clore Learning Studios experiment with white air-drying clay to make a textured ceramic decoration to take home.

Find out more at hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/family-workshop-festive-clay/

Family Workshop: Hepworth Hats
Sunday 28, Tuesday 30, Wednesday 31 December, Thursday 1 & Sunday 4 January
Drop-in 11am – 3.45pm
FREE with an exhibition ticket

Transform yourself into a sculpture!

Make a wearable sculpture from colourful card and string. Bend and twist your shapes then thread with string to create 3D forms inspired by Hepworth’s sculptures in the galleries. .

Find out more at hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/hepworth-hats/

Art Pod
Saturday 20, Monday 22,  Saturday 27, Monday 29 December, Friday 2 & Saturday 3 January
Drop-in 11am – 3.45pm
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.

Find out more at hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/art-pods/

Explore & Draw Kits
Every day during the Wakefield school holidays
Available 10am – 4pm
FREE with an exhibition ticket

Have fun moving, imagining and creating drawings inspired by what you find in our galleries.

Find out more about Explore and Draw Kits at hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/explore-draw-kits

Explore & Draw Stations
Every day during the Wakefield school holidays
Drop-in 10am – 4pm
FREE with an exhibition ticket

Borrow looking tools, handling objects and drawing materials inspired by the artworks in the galleries.

Find out more about Explore and Draw stations at hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/explore-draw-stations/

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