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Wysing Arts Centre Wysing Arts Centre hosts residencies, commissions and events from our site in Bourn, Cambridgeshire.

Ceramics workshop with Wysing residency artist Roo DhissouCreative Youth Festival 2026 🧡Wednesday 28 OctoberSessions tim...
20/10/2026

Ceramics workshop with Wysing residency artist Roo Dhissou
Creative Youth Festival 2026 🧡
Wednesday 28 October

Sessions times:
12.15 – 1.15pm
1.30 – 2.30pm
2.50 – 3.50pm
4 – 5pm

As part of Creative Youth Festival 2026, join residency artist Roo Dhissou to make your own time capsule from unfired clay using simple hand-building techniques. Hollow clay forms will be created and filled with something chosen by each participant. A note, drawing, wish, memory, tiny object or found material could be placed inside, and what has been hidden does not need to be shared with anyone else.

Once the capsules have been closed, their surfaces can be carved, pressed and drawn into, with patterns, marks, symbols and fingerprints added to the clay. The clay will not be fired, so the finished objects will remain as raw earth. Over time, they may dry, crack and change. Each capsule can be broken open whenever its maker chooses, whether later that day, next year, or much further into the future.

A playful workshop about clay, hiding, remembering and making something to be discovered later.

Roo Dhissou (she/her) is an artist, researcher, publisher and writer. Her practice spans sculpture, installation, sound, craft, food, publishing and community-engaged collaboration. Grounded in care, her work reflects on disability, lived experience and the entanglement of social, environmental and material justice. Through process-led approaches, her projects emerge and often converge through an ongoing commitment to relationship building, intuition, and ethical place-responsive inquiry.

A full day of creative workshop for young people aged 11 – 18, Creative Youth Festival is an opportunity to be creative in a welcoming and inclusive space, make connections and enjoy time outdoors at Wysing.

More information, including other workshops, access information, travel options and booking at the link in our bio! 🔗

🎟️ Tickets available on a sliding scale £0 – £15, with free transport for those that need it!
📍Wysing Arts Centre, Fox Road, CB23 2TX

From Collage to Clay: Two-Day ceramics course with Emily Stubbs at Wysing Arts CentreThere’s still time to sign up to ou...
20/10/2026

From Collage to Clay: Two-Day ceramics course with Emily Stubbs at Wysing Arts Centre

There’s still time to sign up to our specialist weekend ceramics course with ceramicist Emily Stubbs

Designed for those looking to broaden their knowledge and expand their practice, you’ll explore the use of underglazes, glazes and oxides to create interesting surfaces with depth and movement. As part of a small group guided by expert Emily Stubbs, you’ll spend time in our countryside workshop and arts centre in Cambridgeshire, learn and experiment with new skills and create your own finished piece to take home.

Wysing is a non-profit organisation and charity. By purchasing a place on any of our ceramics courses and workshops, you’re directly supporting artists and young people.

Details
10am – 4pm
Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 November 2026

→ Lunch, teas and coffees provided
→ Materials, glazes and firing included
→ Limited spaces available

Full course details and booking at the link in our bio 🔗

Make a Mascot for Wysing with Louise AshcroftCreative Youth Festival 2026Wednesday 28 OctoberSessions times: drop in 12...
16/10/2026

Make a Mascot for Wysing with Louise Ashcroft
Creative Youth Festival 2026
Wednesday 28 October

Sessions times: drop in 12 – 5pm

If Wysing was a character what would it look like?

Dream up a mascot for Wysing Arts Centre, a character made from the things we love, value and believe in. Make, stitch, stick and move as you bring your mascot to life as a mixed-media puppet, complete with its own personality and catchphrase.

Louise Ashcroft (they/them) is Wysing Arts Centre’s Young People’s Artist in Residence. They make comedy performances, community projects, and mixed media ‘evidence’ of them meddling with societal systems to ask difficult questions about how we live now.

A full day of creative workshop for young people aged 11 – 18, Creative Youth Festival is an opportunity to be creative in a welcoming and inclusive space, make connections and enjoy time outdoors at Wysing. This year, we have DJ’ing, ceramics, printmaking, mascot making and makeup!

Find out more and book your ticket to Creative Youth Festival now at the link in our bio! 🔗

🎟️ Tickets available on a sliding scale £0 – £15

Volunteer day: Spring Bulb Planting at Wysing Arts Centre 23 October, 10am – 4pm 🪻🌱🌷Please join us at Wysing this Oc...
13/10/2026

Volunteer day: Spring Bulb Planting at Wysing Arts Centre
23 October, 10am – 4pm

🪻🌱🌷

Please join us at Wysing this October for a day planting native bulbs around our 11-acre site. The session will run 10am – 4pm, but any time you can give is welcome! Volunteers will be provided with hot drinks and light snacks, and given a tour of our site by Wysing’s Environmental Future’s Manager, Brendan Cavaciuti.

The Wildflowers will provide essential feed and habitat for a range of wild animals and support our thriving local ecosystem. In a few years the Wild Garlic will be ready for foraging, adding to the range of edible plants around Wysing’s site.

In Spring 2027, you will be invited back to Wysing for a celebration to see the impact of your work.

FAQ’s + access information:

→ We recommend wearing sturdy shoes, a waterproof in case of rain, and bringing sunscreen in case of sun!

→ If you have your own trowl or bulb planter, please bring them along. Otherwise we’ll have tools on site for everyone to use.

→ No experience needed! Just enthusiasm to join in and have a day outdoors with Wysing’s community and a group of like-minded volunteers

→ Our reception and gender neutral toilets are fully accessible

→ We have plenty of space indoors and outdoors to take a rest

→ We will be planting in our meadow and woodland across our 11-acre site some of which is uneven, but relatively flat.

→ Snacks will be provided, but please bring lunch if you plan to stay all day.

→ Planting will require us to work low to the ground.

Sign up now at the link in our bio 🔗

Self Discovery + Freedom Of Expression within Makeup with Jack Oliver 🎨 🌈Creative Youth Festival 2026Wednesday 28 Octobe...
12/10/2026

Self Discovery + Freedom Of Expression within Makeup with Jack Oliver 🎨 🌈
Creative Youth Festival 2026
Wednesday 28 October

Sessions times: 12.15 – 1.30pm, 2 – 3.15pm + 3.45 – 5pm

Join us for a demonstration and casual Q+A with Jack Oliver as you play along. Participants will have the opportunity to express themselves through image as we chat, and experiment with different products within an open and welcoming space.

Jack Oliver (they/them) is a Multi Artist based in the United Kingdom working Globally within Makeup Artistry + Advocacy for Safer Spaces within Diversity, Equality & Inclusion.

A full day of creative workshop for young people aged 11 – 18, Creative Youth Festival is an opportunity to be creative in a welcoming and inclusive space, make connections and enjoy time outdoors at Wysing.

Find out more and book your ticket to Creative Youth Festival now at the link in our bio! 🔗

🎟️ Tickets available on a sliding scale £0 – £15

Wysing Arts Centre in the 90’s 🌱Last week we were joined on site by Bella Milroy .milroy who is currently undertaking th...
12/10/2026

Wysing Arts Centre in the 90’s 🌱

Last week we were joined on site by Bella Milroy .milroy who is currently undertaking their research ‘Centering the Rural: Organisational Identities, Public Engagement and Curatorial Practice at Wysing Arts Centre, 1989 to today’, when we came across these photos of Wysing in the 90’s.

Capital works have seen plenty of change across the site, but mant spaces are still recognisable here – including our farmhouse, and what became our ceramics studio, project space, and many studios.

Introduction to DJing with DJ Boss Lady 🎤🎧🪩Creative Youth Festival 2026 Wednesday 28 OctoberSessions times: 12.15 – 1.30...
07/10/2026

Introduction to DJing with DJ Boss Lady 🎤🎧🪩
Creative Youth Festival 2026
Wednesday 28 October

Sessions times: 12.15 – 1.30pm, 1.45 – 3pm, 3.30 – 4.45pm

A fun, hands-on introduction to DJing for beginners. Participants will learn the basics of DJ equipment, test different music styles, and try beat matching and mixing tracks. No experience necessary, just enthusiasm and a willingness to get involved!

DJ Boss Lady is a DJ, tutor and founder of Rewind DJ Academy, delivering DJ workshops across Cambridge with a mission to make DJing accessible to everyone.

A full day of creative workshop for young people aged 11 – 18, Creative Youth Festival is an opportunity to be creative in a welcoming and inclusive space, make connections and enjoy time outdoors at Wysing Arts Centre. Other workshops include ceramics, printmaking and make-up!

Find out more and book your ticket to Creative Youth Festival now at the link in our bio! 🔗

🎟️ Tickets available on a sliding scale £0 – £15

Don’t miss Wysing Studio artist CJ Mahony’s solo show ‘A Void Being’, opening this Thursday 8th October with CORPUS host...
06/10/2026

Don’t miss Wysing Studio artist CJ Mahony’s solo show ‘A Void Being’, opening this Thursday 8th October with CORPUS hosted at The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ!

CJ Mahony’s practice invites confusion between objects and bodies, exploring abstraction as a process of representation and a means of testing the limits of what can be made visible.

Working predominantly with industrial materials, Mahony subjects plasterboard to processes of pressure and transformation, producing works that appear at once architectural and bodily. These labour-intensive and iconoclastic gestures give the works an ambiguous physicality, suggestive of skin, wounds, apertures or thresholds without resolving themselves into any single image or form. Mahony draws upon this tension between visibility and disappearance to unsettle the cultural demand to be seen and made legible.

Open weekly Thursday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm until 31 October 2026
The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, London

Following their exhibition at The Shop, Mahony will have a solo exhibition, ‘for fragile insides’, at CORPUS, opening on Saturday 14th November.

Image courtesy of the artist and CORPUS.

CORPUS Sadie Coles HQ 赛迪HQ画廊 .mahony

Ink & Print: From Sketch to Fabric with Davinia Clarke Creative Youth Festival 28 October 2026, 12 – 5pmJoin us at Creat...
01/10/2026

Ink & Print: From Sketch to Fabric with Davinia Clarke
Creative Youth Festival
28 October 2026, 12 – 5pm

Join us at Creative a Youth Festival this October half term for a full day of creative workshops including a hands-on printmaking workshop with artist Davinia Clarke.

Transform your drawings into bold prints on fabric using playful analogue printmaking techniques, and experiment with repeat patterns, playful textures and layering to create personalised designs for T-shirts, tote bags or homeware. Drawing inspiration from your favourite objects, people, music and food, you’ll create a one-of-a-kind design that reflects your own style.

Davinia Clarke (she/her) is a multifaceted artist and facilitator blending printmaking, digital art, and photography to create rhythmic, vibrant works rooted in her Caribbean-British heritage. Her practice celebrates everyday life, inviting reflection on the shared cultural, emotional, and community experiences that connect and shape us.

Creative Youth Festival is a day of creative workshops for young people aged 11 – 18 🌈

🎟️ Book your ticket to Creative Youth Festival now, and drop into Davinia’s sessions anytime between 12 – 5pm! Booking for young people wishing to take part is necessary but accompanying adults do not need to book.

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Wysing Arts Centre
Fox Road, Cambridgeshire
CB23 2TX

For further workshops, details on how to book, travel, and access information head to the link in our bio 🔗

From Collage to Clay: Ceramics masterclass with Emily StubbsWysing Arts Centre is excited to announce a new ceramics wor...
24/09/2026

From Collage to Clay: Ceramics masterclass with Emily Stubbs

Wysing Arts Centre is excited to announce a new ceramics workshop coming this November working with ceramicist Emily Stubbs

Designed for those looking to broaden their knowledge, this 2-day course explores the use of underglazes, glazes and oxides to create interesting surfaces with depth and movement.

Spend time in our countryside workshop and arts centre in Cambridgeshire, learn and experiment with new skills and create your own finished piece to take home.

Wysing is a non-profit organisation and charity. By purchasing a place on any of our ceramics courses and workshops, you’re directly supporting artists and young people.

Our ceramics studio and workshop buildings are supported by green energy across solar, air-source heat pumps and rainwater harvesting, making our courses a sustainable choice 🌿

10am – 4pm
Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 November 2026

⚪️ Lunch, teas and coffees provided
⚪️ Materials, glazes and firing included
⚪️ Suitable for all skill levels
⚪️ Limited spaces available

Full course details and booking at the link in our bio 🔗

Address

Fox Road, Bourn
Cambridge
CB232TX

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm

Telephone

+441954718881

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