Catalogue available Family Friendly & Fun! Touchstones Rochdale Opens 37000 visitors

Creative Tension: Family Friendly & Fun!

Touchstones Rochdale
On Saturday 15 October
Touchstones Rochdale links the exhibition with the Big Draw. Artist Alan Birch will lead a drop-in session for visitors of all ages to have a go at drawing in the galleries. Other family friendly workshops will be available as part of the new Touchstones Rochdale events programme.
Please contact 01706 864986 for further details.

Bolton Museum
Each week at Bolton Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium from 10.30am – 12.30pm & 1.30 – 3.30pm our summer activities will follow the themes from the summer exhibition, Creative Tension: British Art 1900 – 1950.

Turn of the Century
Sat 23, Tues 26 & Thurs 28 July
Look at the paintings and then create your very own picture that tells a story.

Impressionism
Sat 30 July, Tues 2 & Thurs 4 Aug
The light fantastic! Visit the exhibition and then paint and draw your own impressionist masterpiece.

Artists’ Colonies
Sat 6, Tues 9 & Thurs 11 Aug
Oh to be beside the seaside! Let the paintings inspire you to create pictures of your happy holiday memories.

Surrealism
Sat 13, Tues 16 & Thurs 18 Aug
Surrealist surprises! Use collage to create your very own crazy composition.

Modernists
Sat 20 Aug &, Tues 23 Aug
Marvellously modern! Let the colourful paintings inspire your creativity.

Figures & People
Sat 3 Sept
Look at L S Lowry’s paintings and populate your own pictures with lots of people!