Wysing Arts Centre
Fox Road, Bourn, Cambridge
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB23 2TX
England
Website
Telephone
01954 718 881
Wysing Arts Centre is a unique centre set on the eleven acre site of a former farm, eight miles south-west of Cambridge. It offers a year-round programme of exhibitions and installations as well as affordable studio space for emerging artists, and international artist residencies. It values innovation, experimentation and participation and aims to offer everyone opportunities to engage with and enjoy the best in contemporary visual art.
Venue Type:
Gallery, Garden, parklands or rural site, Artist studio or collective
Half Term Workshops: The Activate and Animate Series
During Wysing's Half Term Family Workshops you will get to see our new exhibition by Jonathan Baldock which includes large felt sculptures, ceramic objects, corn dolly masks and handmade wall prints. Wysing studio artist Caroline Wendling will help you to animate and activate your own responses and ideas to the exhibition by making your own art works. The workshops are suitable for children of all ages. Children under 8 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Tuesday 28 May, 10am – 12 noon
Text and Textiles In this workshop Caroline will help you make letter printing blocks and using experimental word work create a unique textile artwork.
Wednesday 29 May, 10am – 12 noon
In Cloaks and Characters, Caroline will help you create characters and transform clothes into costumes. Cut, stick and stitch to fabricate a new dressed-up world.
Thursday 30 May, 10am – 12 noon
Mask and Movement Caroline will work with you to make extraordinary masks and props for performance.
£6 per child per workshop payable in advance
£15 per child for all three workshops payable in advance
Suitable for
- Any age
When
10am-12pm
Admission
£6 per child per workshop payable in advance
£15 per child for all three workshops payable in advance
Website
Half Term Workshops: The Activate and Animate Series
During Wysing's Half Term Family Workshops you will get to see our new exhibition by Jonathan Baldock which includes large felt sculptures, ceramic objects, corn dolly masks and handmade wall prints. Wysing studio artist Caroline Wendling will help you to animate and activate your own responses and ideas to the exhibition by making your own art works. The workshops are suitable for children of all ages. Children under 8 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Tuesday 28 May, 10am – 12 noon
Text and Textiles In this workshop Caroline will help you make letter printing blocks and using experimental word work create a unique textile artwork.
Wednesday 29 May, 10am – 12 noon
In Cloaks and Characters, Caroline will help you create characters and transform clothes into costumes. Cut, stick and stitch to fabricate a new dressed-up world.
Thursday 30 May, 10am – 12 noon
Mask and Movement Caroline will work with you to make extraordinary masks and props for performance.
£6 per child per workshop payable in advance
£15 per child for all three workshops payable in advance
Suitable for
- Any age
When
10am-12pm
Admission
£6 per child per workshop payable in advance
£15 per child for all three workshops payable in advance
Website
Half Term Workshops: The Activate and Animate Series
During Wysing's Half Term Family Workshops you will get to see our new exhibition by Jonathan Baldock which includes large felt sculptures, ceramic objects, corn dolly masks and handmade wall prints. Wysing studio artist Caroline Wendling will help you to animate and activate your own responses and ideas to the exhibition by making your own art works. The workshops are suitable for children of all ages. Children under 8 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Tuesday 28 May, 10am – 12 noon
Text and Textiles In this workshop Caroline will help you make letter printing blocks and using experimental word work create a unique textile artwork.
Wednesday 29 May, 10am – 12 noon
In Cloaks and Characters, Caroline will help you create characters and transform clothes into costumes. Cut, stick and stitch to fabricate a new dressed-up world.
Thursday 30 May, 10am – 12 noon
Mask and Movement Caroline will work with you to make extraordinary masks and props for performance.
£6 per child per workshop payable in advance
£15 per child for all three workshops payable in advance
Suitable for
- Any age
When
10am-12pm
Admission
£6 per child per workshop payable in advance
£15 per child for all three workshops payable in advance
Website
Jonathan Baldock In Conversation
Jonathan Baldock will talk about his current exhibition at Wysing, A strange cross between a butchers shop and a nightclub, at a special in-conversation event on Saturday 29 June, 4-6pm.
The exhibition is open 26 May until 7 July, 12-5pm daily.
When
4-6pm
Admission
Free, no booking required
Website
Annual Open Weekend
Saturday & Sunday, 6 & 7 July, 12-6pm
Wysing’s Annual Open Weekend returns with open studios, a gallery exhibition and durational performance event, special guest speakers from our neighbouring villages and hands-on workshops for families. All free!
Annual Open Weekend
Activity over both days:
12-6pm Exhibition and performance event
Jonathan Baldock’s gallery exhibition will be activated for the duration of the Open Weekend by leading British choreographer Henrietta Hale and her collective of performance-makers, Dog Kennel Hill Project. Costumes as sculptures, masks and objects in the exhibition will be worn and used as tools for the performance.
12-6pm Open Studios
A once a year opportunity to see into the studios of Erica Böhr, Julie Brenot, Jackie Chettur, Elena Cologni, Lexa Drysdale. Lawrence Epps, Bettina Furnée, Josepa Gomis, Nora Maycock, Rob Smith, Helen Stratford, Ash Summers, Caroline Wendling, Lisa Wilkens, Caroline Wright.
2-4pm Creative Family Workshops: Stage, Prop, Perform
With a new take on Wysing’s family den making days, artists Rob Smith and Sophie Buxton lead workshops to build sets and stages, make backdrops and props, create cloaks and characters. Families are invited to animate and activate their own area of Wysing’s outdoor space with sculptural platforms, playful performance and storytelling. Suitable for all ages, children under eight must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Guest speakers on Saturday 6 July:
A day of local knowledge, uncovered
1pm Paul Beskeen from the Pumpkin Patch Observatory, Bourn and expert in astrophotography will give a presentation, Hidden in full view, revealing the invisible universe, emphasing hidden components and structures that our eyes can’t register, even when looking through a telescope.
3pm The Cambridge riverfront and the village of Madingley are the subjects of a presentation by freelance anthropologist Dr. Nicholas James about history hidden in Cambridge’s scenery. He will reveal stories concealed within the landscape.
5pm Author and musician Nigel Pennick will give the presentation Boundaries Visible and Invisible: Borderlines of the Physical, Legal, Cultural, Sacred, Magical and Eldritch. Followed by music with contributions from Jon Ward.
Guest speakers on Sunday 7 July:
An afternoon on the Bourn Cookery Book and local food
2-4pm Hear more about our plans to publish the third edition of the Bourn Cookery Book* and get to know about Cambridgeshire’s local produce. Contributors to the day are artist Giles Round, Jo & Mark Proud from Manor Farm, Bourn with special invited guests. *Published with the kind permission of Margaret Greenwood, editor of the first two books.
We will be collecting recipes for the cookery book over the weekend and at Bourn Church Fête, where we will have a stall on Saturday 6 July, from 2.30pm.
Suitable for
- Any age
When
12-6pm
Admission
Free
Website
http://www.wysingartscentre.org/whats_on/events/annual_open_weekend
Annual Open Weekend
Saturday & Sunday, 6 & 7 July, 12-6pm
Wysing’s Annual Open Weekend returns with open studios, a gallery exhibition and durational performance event, special guest speakers from our neighbouring villages and hands-on workshops for families. All free!
Annual Open Weekend
Activity over both days:
12-6pm Exhibition and performance event
Jonathan Baldock’s gallery exhibition will be activated for the duration of the Open Weekend by leading British choreographer Henrietta Hale and her collective of performance-makers, Dog Kennel Hill Project. Costumes as sculptures, masks and objects in the exhibition will be worn and used as tools for the performance.
12-6pm Open Studios
A once a year opportunity to see into the studios of Erica Böhr, Julie Brenot, Jackie Chettur, Elena Cologni, Lexa Drysdale. Lawrence Epps, Bettina Furnée, Josepa Gomis, Nora Maycock, Rob Smith, Helen Stratford, Ash Summers, Caroline Wendling, Lisa Wilkens, Caroline Wright.
2-4pm Creative Family Workshops: Stage, Prop, Perform
With a new take on Wysing’s family den making days, artists Rob Smith and Sophie Buxton lead workshops to build sets and stages, make backdrops and props, create cloaks and characters. Families are invited to animate and activate their own area of Wysing’s outdoor space with sculptural platforms, playful performance and storytelling. Suitable for all ages, children under eight must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Guest speakers on Saturday 6 July:
A day of local knowledge, uncovered
1pm Paul Beskeen from the Pumpkin Patch Observatory, Bourn and expert in astrophotography will give a presentation, Hidden in full view, revealing the invisible universe, emphasing hidden components and structures that our eyes can’t register, even when looking through a telescope.
3pm The Cambridge riverfront and the village of Madingley are the subjects of a presentation by freelance anthropologist Dr. Nicholas James about history hidden in Cambridge’s scenery. He will reveal stories concealed within the landscape.
5pm Author and musician Nigel Pennick will give the presentation Boundaries Visible and Invisible: Borderlines of the Physical, Legal, Cultural, Sacred, Magical and Eldritch. Followed by music with contributions from Jon Ward.
Guest speakers on Sunday 7 July:
An afternoon on the Bourn Cookery Book and local food
2-4pm Hear more about our plans to publish the third edition of the Bourn Cookery Book* and get to know about Cambridgeshire’s local produce. Contributors to the day are artist Giles Round, Jo & Mark Proud from Manor Farm, Bourn with special invited guests. *Published with the kind permission of Margaret Greenwood, editor of the first two books.
We will be collecting recipes for the cookery book over the weekend and at Bourn Church Fête, where we will have a stall on Saturday 6 July, from 2.30pm.
Suitable for
- Any age
When
12-6pm
Admission
Free
Website
http://www.wysingartscentre.org/whats_on/events/annual_open_weekend
Space-Time: Convention T
Space Time: Convention T is a mix of live music, sound, spoken word performances, film screenings, artists’ stalls and activities for families that explore how artists and musicians apply hidden systems and structures to their work. The day-long event, which takes place on three stages across Wysing’s rural site, including the unique and atmospheric Amphis Stage.
For up to the minute details about the program and artists performing, please visit our website.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Early Bird rates: £15 - Day Pass, £25 - Day Pass with Camping, £30 - Day Pass with return coach to London.
Standard rates: £20 - Day Pass, £30 - Day Pass with Camping, £35 - Day Pass with return coach to London.
Booking fee not included.
Please go to eventbrite.co.uk and search "Space-Time: Convention T"
Website
http://www.wysingartscentre.org/whats_on/annual_music_festival
