Alison Braithwaite
Children’s Cyanotype Printing Workshop
The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, BroadwayLearn how to create prints using the power of the sun! Objects are arranged onto paper that is sensitive to UV light. The arrangement is then exposed to the sun and washed in water to fix. Children will walk away with a handful of striking blue & white silhouette prints. There will be kits available [...]
Children’s Make your own Tie-Dye T-Shirt Workshop
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayJoin award-winning art facilitator and artist, Libby Esler, for a vibrant tie-dye session in the big marquee on the village green! Perfect for all skill levels, you’ll explore folding techniques, colour blending, and creative design to craft your unique tie-dye masterpiece. With years of teaching and exhibiting experience, Libby will guide you step-by-step to unleash [...]
Junior ‘Have-a-Go’ Pot Throw
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayGive your youngster the experience of using a potter’s wheel to throw a pot in this fun ‘Have-a-Go’ session. There will be a demonstration first on how to throw a pot on the wheel, before having a go themselves with lots of support and guidance throughout. Suitable for complete beginners and even the smallest of [...]
A Sterling Renaissance – British silver design from the 1950’s to date
Cidermill Theatre Cidermill Lane, Chipping Campden, GloucestershireAs part of our 'Silver Day' at the festival, join Silver Historian John Andrew for a fascinating talk on silver design. The story of the Renaissance is unbelievable - a grumpy king, the controller of London Transport, civil servants galore, the Royal Navy’s Camouflage Directorate, an unemployed old Etonian, an architect, a fine painter, an [...]
Children’s Make your own Tie-Dye T-Shirt Workshop
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayJoin award-winning art facilitator and artist, Libby Esler, for a vibrant tie-dye session in the big marquee on the village green! Perfect for all skill levels, you'll explore folding techniques, colour blending and creative design to craft your unique tie-dye masterpiece. With years of teaching and exhibiting experience, Libby will guide you step-by-step to unleash [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA spin art-producing bicycle – a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
Junior ‘Have-a-Go’ Pot Throw
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayGive your youngster the experience of using a potter’s wheel to throw a pot in this fun ‘Have-a-Go’ session. There will be a demonstration first on how to throw a pot on the wheel, before having a go themselves with lots of support and guidance throughout. Suitable for complete beginners and even the smallest of [...]
Children’s Make your own Tie-Dye T-Shirt Workshop
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayJoin award-winning art facilitator and artist, Libby Esler, for a vibrant tie-dye session in the big marquee on the village green! Perfect for all skill levels, you’ll explore folding techniques, colour blending, and creative design to craft your unique tie-dye masterpiece. With years of teaching and exhibiting experience, Libby will guide you step-by-step to unleash [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA spin art-producing bicycle – a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
Children’s Make your own Tie-Dye T-Shirt Workshop
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayJoin award-winning art facilitator and artist, Libby Esler, for a vibrant tie-dye session in the big marquee on the village green! Perfect for all skill levels, you'll explore folding techniques, colour blending and creative design to craft your unique tie-dye masterpiece. With years of teaching and exhibiting experience, Libby will guide you step-by-step to unleash [...]
Junior ‘Have-a-Go’ Pot Throw
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayGive your youngster the experience of using a potter’s wheel to throw a pot in this fun ‘Have-a-Go’ session. There will be a demonstration first on how to throw a pot on the wheel, before having a go themselves with lots of support and guidance throughout. Suitable for complete beginners and even the smallest of [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA spin art-producing bicycle – a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
Madresfield Court & Gardens Literary Tour
Madresfield Court Malvern, Worcestershire, United KingdomAn exclusive tour of Arts & Crafts masterpiece Madresfield Court & Gardens to discover how it became the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh & Brideshead Revisited. Madresfield Court near Malvern, is a moated stately house, and home to the Lygon family for almost 900 years. It played a significant part in the Arts & Crafts movement [...]
Junior ‘Have-a-Go’ Pot Throw
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayGive your youngster the experience of using a potter’s wheel to throw a pot in this fun ‘Have-a-Go’ session. There will be a demonstration first on how to throw a pot on the wheel, before having a go themselves with lots of support and guidance throughout. Suitable for complete beginners and even the smallest of [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA spin art-producing bicycle – a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
Introduction to Cyanotype with Emily Rose Parris
The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, BroadwayDuring this in depth 2 hour workshop you will explore cyanotype printing onto paper & fabric, using the power of the sun to create striking blue & white prints. Once you’ve got to grips with the process you will print onto tote bags or cards to take away with you. No previous experience is needed. [...]
Junior ‘Have-a-Go’ Pot Throw
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayGive your youngster the experience of using a potter’s wheel to throw a pot in this fun ‘Have-a-Go’ session. There will be a demonstration first on how to throw a pot on the wheel, before having a go themselves with lots of support and guidance throughout. Suitable for complete beginners and even the smallest of [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA spin art-producing bicycle – a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
How not to be a Starving Artist with Claire Henley
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomAn informal talk about surviving as a professional artist. Freelance for 36 years, Claire Henley has illustrated such diverse things as margarine tubs and children’s books before becoming a fine artist 15 years ago. Topics will include finding your tribe, being organised, showing and selling your work, galleries, social media, multiple income streams, licensing, talks [...]
The Frank & Ella Show with Lance Ellington & Alison Jiear
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayBack by popular demand after his appearance at the festival in 2023, Lance Ellington returns to present The Frank & Ella Show - a celebration of the most famous of all jazz artists, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. Direct from sell out shows at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, Strictly Come Dancing’s Lance Ellington [...]
Street Photography Workshop with Peter Martin
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomSpend the day with professional photographer, Peter Martin, capturing village life and The Great Broadway Paint-Off that will be taking place in the village that day. Everyone has a story to tell. Some do it with words, or music, or art, but this workshop is for someone who wants to tell a story with their [...]
The Great Broadway Paint-Off 2025
Broadway Village Green The Green, Broadway, Worcestershire, United KingdomYour chance to draw or paint our beautiful Cotswolds village for the day and be in with a chance of winning great prizes along with other artists from across the UK! This is a very popular event that attracts both professional and emerging artists. Judges in 2025 will be Festival Ambassador, Haidee-Jo Summers VPROI RSMA, [...]
Woodland Paper Collage Workshop with Susan Watt
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomSusan Watt is an artist who ‘paints with paper’, and was a finalist in our annual art competition in 2024. In this fun workshop you will be guided through the process of creating a unique woodland scene using only recycled magazines and PVA! You will learn about composition, colour and how to create depth and [...]
Jazz Supper Club with The Ben Holder Hot Club Quartet
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayJoin us on the last night of the festival for a Jazz supper club in the marquee on the village green! Expect stylish jazz, street food vendors, communal dining in the marquee, a dance floor, a double decker bus bar and an opportunity to kick back, socialise, and meet new people. This is a relaxed [...]
Make a Willow Garden Hare Sculpture with Rachel Harwood
Willersey Village Hall Main Street, WillerseySpend the day creating a fabulous 3ft willow hare sculpture for the garden to take home with you, with willow-weaver Rachel Harwood. Willow is a wonderful sustainable material great for making sculptures for the garden. You will be working with willow from Somerset. Rachel has been working with willow for 10 years and her background [...]
2025 Art Competition Exhibition of Finalists
Bretforton Theatrebarn Bretforton Grange, Bretforton, Worcestershire, United KingdomOur annual open art competition is open to any artist in any medium, professional & amateur. Artists’ work that is selected for the final judging stage forms an exclusive selling exhibition of 150 works at Theatrebarn in Bretforton (15 mins drive from Broadway) from Friday 26th September – Sunday 5th October 2024, open daily from [...]
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