Tŷ Pawb

Seedlings
2026-07-30 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-07-23 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | Tŷ Pawb, Market Street, Wrexham, LL13 8BB
Seedlings
Weekly activities for children aged 4 to 14 in our rooftop garden over the summer holidays. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Offered on a pay what you can basis.
14:00 – 15:30
Thursday 23rd July – Grow Your Own Salad
Thursday 30th July – Make a Nature Log Book
Thursday 7th August – Recycled Wind Chimes
Thursday 14th August – Create Seed Paper
Thursday 21st August – Cyanotype Print Making
Thursday 28th August – Apple Bird Feeders
Eginblanhigion // Seedlings Tickets, Multiple dates | Eventbrite

Wildlife Realism Masterclass: The Exclusive Fox Series (Session 1) - Coloured Pencils
2026-07-29 09:30 - 12:30
Wildlife Realism Masterclass: The Exclusive Fox Series (Session 1)
Capture the details. Master the technique. Bring your art to life.
Join me for an exclusive opportunity to master fox fur realism in Session 1 of my new 5-part masterclass series.
Whether you are looking to refine your existing skills or are just starting your journey into wildlife art, this workshop is designed for you—no prior experience is necessary.
Through focused, step-by-step guidance, I will show you how to capture the intricate texture, direction, and flow of fox fur, helping you elevate your drawing technique and breathe true life into your wildlife portraits.
Note: To ensure a high-quality, viable workshop experience, a minimum number of attendees is required for this session to proceed. Should the event not reach this minimum, all registered participants will be notified at least 5 days in advance and issued a full, automatic refund.
Workshop Details:

Location: Ty Pawb, Wrexham. Market street, Wrexham LL13 8BB
Series Structure: This is the first of five exclusive masterclasses. We will begin with the foundations of fur realism, moving into further element studies and culminating in a final, full-day portrait masterpiece.
Enrollment: To ensure high-quality, personalised instruction for every student, spaces in this exclusive series are strictly limited.

About the Artist: Debra Longson is a professional fine art, textile and mixed-media artist behind Nourish and Bloom. With a background in education and a passion for wildlife illustration, I specialise in helping individuals refine their technique and find mindfulness through creativity.

School Holiday Play Sessions
2026-07-28 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-07-21 10:30 - 12:00
School Holiday Play Sessions
10:30am – 12:00pm

Free Drop-in.
Most suitable for children 5 to 15. Under 5s are welcome if accompanied by an adult.
Delivered by WCBC Youth & Play Team.

For more information about WCBC play schemes, visit their webpage.

Art Explorers (4+)
2026-07-27 11:00 - 12:00
27/07/2026 + 17/08/2026, 11:00 – 12:00
In this gallery-based workshop, we’ll be designing and making our own masks inspired by Anthony Shapland “Murmurs” exhibition. Will your mask be a mimicry, a camouflage or an alter-ego? We can’t wait to see what you make!
This session is most suitable for children aged 4 to 14. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Adults are encouraged to draw too!
This session is offered on a pay what you can basis. Any queries can be sent to teampawb@wrexham.gov.uk

Photo: Vanessa Loring

Repair Sessions l Lend & Mend
2026-07-25 11:00 - 14:30
Got something broken? Bring it over and team up with fellow fixers to give it new life. Whether it’s gadgets, clothes, or furniture, this is your chance to learn, share, and mend in a fun, friendly setting. No tech skills needed—just a can-do attitude! Come hang out, chat, and help make waste a thing of the past. See you there for some hands-on repair magic!
To book your item in, email us at info@lendandmend.org.uk, pop by ahead of the session during out opening hours, or fill in the first page of the form on Repair Cafe Wales’ website: https://repaircafewales.org/what-are-you-having-repaired-today/
Select the last location in the drop-down menu ‘Wrexham, Ty Pawb (Lend and Mend)’ and fill in as much information as your can about what’s wrong with your item. At the bottom of that first page select Save for Later and enter the email address info@lendandmend.org.uk to send what you’ve filled in so far to us! We’ll complete the rest of the form at the session.
If you have skills that you’re looking to share, get in touch about volunteering. We’d love anyone with skills in sewing, electronics, bicycles, woodwork, computers, jewellery repair…or pretty much anything else!
Please note: Repair sessions and kinds of repairs depend on the volunteer availability. Please get in touch with us ahead of the session to confirm we’ll have the skills available to help.

Family Creative Writing Workshop - Kick Off A Story
2026-07-24 13:00 - 15:00
1876 Year of Wonder – Creative Writing: Kick Off A Story
Travel back to 1876, when the Football Association of Wales was founded, and football was just beginning to capture the nation’s imagination. In this lively two-hour family creative writing workshop, we’ll create our own players to star in their own story, create our own commentary for our everyday lives or rewrite football chants and come up with a few of our own!
Inspired by the 1876 Year of Wonder and the establishment of the Football Association of Wales in Wrexham!
This session is open to all ages with no experience necessary, whether you want to write as a family or engage in storytelling. This session is flexible and contains family-friendly themes and tasks for all ages.
What to bring:
You can expect a guided creative writing session, with gentle prompts and inspiration. Please bring whatever you feel comfortable writing with (pen, notebook, phone, laptop etc.) and a drink. There will be a short comfort break in the middle and you are welcome to take a break anytime you need during the session.
Language:
The sessions will predominantly be held in English, using everyday Welsh but participants are welcome to write and take part in any language they are comfortable using.
Access:This workshop is located on the ground floor. There is a ‘Changing Places’ accessible toilet on site. Free parking for blue badge holders is available in our multistorey carpark. If you have any additional access needs, please email teampawb@wrexham.gov.uk ahead of the session.
About Natasha Borton:
Natasha Borton is an award-winning Wrexham-based writer, musician, and theatre-maker. She creates engaging, inclusive creative experiences that encourage people of all ages to explore storytelling, their own imaginations and the rhythm of our everyday lives.
For 2026, Natasha is the Writer-in-Residence for the River Dee with Literature Wales and WWFCymru, and the Artistic Director for Voicebox Wxm, North Wales’ longest-running spoken word platform.

Wildlife Collage Upcycle Workshop l Lend & Mend
2026-07-24 12:30 - 15:30
Use old magazines to create unique works of art

While old magazines may only seem fit for the recycling bin, they can be used to be creative.
Come along to our workshop to use old magazines to creative wildlife collages! All tools and materials are provided, though you’re welcome to bring along any old magazines you have to work with.

Volunteer in Our Rooftop Garden
2026-07-24 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-17 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-10 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-03 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-26 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

Multicultural Hub Wednesdays: Art with Ticky Lowe, Diddi Dance for Toddlers & Meet Magi Ann
2026-07-22 10:00 - 14:00
Wednesday 22nd July, 10:00 – 14:00
Multicultural Hub Wednesdays (All Ages)
Free drop-in, no need to book. Free refreshments provided. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Activities:

10:00 – 14:00 – Drop-in crafts with artist Ticky Lowe
11:00 – 11:45 – Diddi Dance for Toddlers
13:00 – 14:00 – Meet Magi Ann

For more information please contact: iolanda@racecouncilcymru.org.uk

Art Explorers: Silly Still Life
2026-07-20 11:00 - 12:00
20/07/2026 + 10/08/2026, 11:00 – 12:00
Join us in the gallery for a super silly still life drawing session! Practice drawing in just 30 seconds, with your wrong hand, with your eyes closed, plus lots more creative constraints to explore across an hour of drawing games and mark making.
This fun, fast-paced session will get you learning observational drawing techniques in the least serious way possible and generate lots of sketches to take home.

This session is most suitable for children aged 7 to 14. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Adults are encouraged to draw too!
This session is offered on a pay what you can basis. Any queries can be sent to teampawb@wrexham.gov.uk

Ffoto // Photo: Daria Liudnaya

Archwilwyr Celf // Art Explorers (7+) Tickets, Multiple dates | Eventbrite

Home Ed Garden Club
2026-07-17 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-07-03 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
3 July
17 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.

Term Time Play
2026-07-16 16:00 - 17:30, 2026-07-09 16:00 - 17:30
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!
Playwork projects | Wrexham County Borough Council

Family Art Club!
2026-07-11 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-07-04 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-06-27 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-06-20 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.

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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Warm Welcome Craft Sessions
2026-07-09 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-06-25 10:30 - 12:00
Warm Welcome Craft Sessions
10:30 – 12:00

Thu 11 June
Thu 25 June
Thu 09 July
Thu 23 July

Free making skills sessions with artist Ceri Wright. Each session includes a free hot drink.
All adults over 18 welcome. Email teampawb@wrexham.gov.uk for more information.

Degree Show: Wrexham School of Art 2026
2026-07-03 - 2026-07-17
An exhibition of art & design work by BA(hons) students from:
Applied Art
ceramics • jewellery/metalwork
Design
animation • graphic design • illustration • comics
Fine Art
Photography
Join us for the launch event: 5.30pm – 8pm July 3rd
To be opened by artist Bedwyr Williams
Gallery opening times: 10am-4pm

Music Club
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.

Multicultural Afterschool Club
2026-06-24 15:30 - 17:00
Multicultural Afterschool Club
Wednesday 20 May and Wednesday 24 June 2026
15:30 – 17:00
Free!
Children of all ages welcome – must be accompanied by an adult.
Refreshments provided.
​For more information, please contact Iolanda via: iolanda@racecouncilcymru.org.uk
This project is made possible thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund.
