Tŷ Pawb

Free Play Sessions!
2026-06-04 16:00 - 17:30, 2026-06-11 16:00 - 17:30, 2026-06-18 16:00 - 17:30, 2026-06-25 16:00 - 17:30, 2026-07-02 16:00 - 17:30, 2026-07-09 16:00 - 17:30, 2026-07-16 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/London) | Tŷ Pawb, Market Street, Wrexham, LL13 8BB
Free Play Sessions!Term Time Thursdays16:00 – 17:30Free!
No need to book, just drop-in.Children under 5 must be accompanied by an adult.Child-led, active, creative, fun!

Volunteer in Our Rooftop Garden
2026-06-05 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-12 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-19 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-26 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-03 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-10 11:00 - 13:00
Volunteer in Our Rooftop GardenFridays11:00 – 13:00&14:00 – 16:00
Suitable for adults aged 18+All levels of experience welcome.For more information contact us via teampawb@wrexham.gov.uk or 01978 292150

Home Ed Garden Club
2026-06-05 14:00 - 15:30
Home Ed Garden Club
Every other Friday, 14:00 – 15:30
Dates:

24 April
8 May
22 May
5 June
19 June
5 July
19 July
Break for summer holidays.

Key Info:

The rooftop garden can be accessed via the gate on level 2a of the carpark. Visit reception on the ground floor if not parking in our carpark, as you will need a member of staff to let you upstairs via the staff lift/stairs instead.
Please let us know if anyone in your group is a wheelchair user / has access challenges as there are multiple routes that may be suitable depending on needs.
Nature logbook to keep provided
Pay-what-you-can donations are welcome and can be paid on the day at reception
Parents must stay with their children for the duration of the session
Email teampawb@wrexham.gov.uk to book a place.

Tŷ Pawb Comedy Night
2026-06-05 19:00, 2026-07-03 19:00
Join us on for an evening of side-splitting stand-up comedy from some of the UK’s best touring comedians!
Tŷ Pawb Comedy Night |
Join us every first Friday of the month for an evening of side-splitting stand-up comedy from some of the UK’s best touring comedians! Hosted by Wrexham’s own Funny Bones Jones the night sees the best touring comedians take the stage at Tŷ Pawb.
Line-up to be announced
The food court will be open before the show and the bar will be open all night!
Tickets: £12
Doors: 7.30pm
First Act: 8.00pm
16+

Family Art Club!
2026-06-06 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-06-13 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-06-20 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-06-27 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-07-04 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-07-11 10:00 - 12:00
Family Art Club celebrates creativity and play through hands-on making, painting and drawing. Every week we’ll reveal a treasure trove of art materials, loose parts and recycling themed around our exhibitions to be transformed into whatever artworks, models and fashion accessories you can dream up!
Family Art Club is suitable for children of all ages and we encourage parents, grandparents and carers to get stuck in too – this isn’t children’s art club, its Family Art Club!
– Please wear clothes you won’t be upset about getting messy.
– All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Booking
Family Art Club is a drop-in session, but we do recommend booking to make sure that you have a place during busier times. Places at Family Art Club are offered on a ‘pay what you can’ donation basis, so that you can choose how much to pay according to what your family can afford. Your donations support us in delivering an accessible arts service for local families.
Family Art Club Membership
You can buy a Family Art Club membership pack from reception for £9.99. This pack includes arty goodies to use at home and supports us in continuing to offer a pay-what-you-can service for families.

Home Ed Art Club
2026-06-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-06-19 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-06-26 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-07-03 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-07-10 10:30 - 12:00
Home Ed Art Club with Artist Sophie Nina
Fridays
10.30 – 12.00
Free, donations welcome.

Weekly practical creative activities inspired by our exhibition programme for EHE families.
Children of all ages welcome. All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Dress for mess!
Optional participation in Arts Award Discover

Email teampawb@wrexham.gov.uk to book or for more information.

Music Club
2026-06-15 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-06-29 10:30 - 12:00
Music Club10:30 – 12:00
• Monday 20th April• Monday 18th May• Monday 1st June• Monday 15th June• Monday 29th June• Monday 13th July• Monday 27th July

Join musician Andy Hickie for an inclusive and joyful music making session.No prior musical experience needed, just the willingness to join in and give it a go!
No need to book, just drop in.All welcome. Participate in Welsh or English.

Exhibition: Anthony Shapland - murmur
2026-07-11 - 2026-10-31
A new solo show by Cardiff based artist and writer Anthony Shapland, guest-curated by Marie-Anne McQuay. The exhibition includes a new film and will be accompanied by an integrated reading space and events programme reflecting Shapland’s interest in the intersection between art and writing.
Tŷ Pawb is delighted to announce a large-scale solo exhibition by Cardiff based artist and writer Anthony Shapland, opening Summer 2026. Anthony Shapland is a Welsh artist, founder of artist-led space g39 and novelist. Within his writing and artistic practice, he blends documentary and fiction, drawing on his lived experience of rural queerness and growing up performing straight.
Exhibition runs: 11 July – 31 October 2026
Preview and Press View: 10 July 2026
Shapland was recently selected as one of The Observer’s 10 best new novelists 2025 and Waterstone’s Welsh book of the year for his debut novel A Room Above a Shop (Granta), which tells the story of hidden intimacy between two men living in a South Wales valley in the late 1980s, during the time of Section 28. Continuing to work between the gallery and the printed page, whether in image, text or film, Shapland constructs intimate portraits of lives lived at the edges of rural landscapes, often filmed on location around Bargoed, the town in the Rhymney Valley where he grew up. His ongoing fascination with illusion and mimicry, reflecting the ways in which his protagonists seek to blend in with their surroundings, manifests in his use of the hidden techniques of traditional filmmaking, including props, backdrops, filters, artificial light and Foley sound effects. These cinematic devices in turn set up and then unpack coded narratives. Speaking also to other concealed lives, the artist asks, “What happens when you stay?”
Shapland’s exhibition at Tŷ Pawb will include a new film and builds on recent moving image work, including Starling Seven (2025), in which a montage of starlings copy and repeat man-made noises, and Between the Dog and the Wolf (2019) which encapsulates the artist’s interest in the cinematic illusion of shooting day for night. The exhibition will be accompanied by an integrated reading space and a dynamic public programme.
Shapland’s solo show will be guest-curated by long time peer and associate Marie-Anne McQuay, previously curator of Liverpool Biennial 2025, with Tŷ Pawb Creative Director Jo Marsh.
Anthony Shapland said: “I’m excited to be working at Tŷ Pawb – exploring the space between exhibition and publication, image and word and referring to a life lived in two parts, performed – never what it seemed on the surface. Nothing is what it appears to be, and an early desire to not stand-out, even after coming-out, has had a lasting impact on all of my work – filled with references to stage and backstage, to a performance of life. At Tŷ Pawb I’m keen to blur the line between inside and outside the gallery. “
Creative Director Tŷ Pawb Jo Marsh said: “We are absolutely delighted to be presenting this exciting new body of work by Anthony Shapland here at Tŷ Pawb next year. Anthony is a truly cherished Welsh artist, at a significant moment in his career. This solo exhibition offers us a fantastic opportunity to engage with Anthony’s beautiful, poetic and unique vision and celebrate his significant contribution to contemporary art in Wales. We can’t wait to share it with our visitors. Building on our initial partnership as part of the Venice Biennale 2019, working with independent curator Marie-Anne McQuay on this project, fresh from her role as curator of Liverpool Biennial 2025, is a dream.”
Guest Curator, Marie-Anne McQuay said: “I’ve followed Anthony Shapland’s practice for nearly 20 years and am so delighted to finally work with him on a solo show for Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham. I’m looking forward to sharing his incredible sensibility for observation and detail, which manifests both in his filmmaking and writing, with audiences next year”
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