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July 2024
Womad 2024
A huge diversity of music, as well as workshops, food, talks, dance, physics, spa and activities for kids.
Find out more »Young Fundraisers Challenge with Bath Cats and Dogs Home
Encouraging children and young people to get creative and choose their own challenge or plan a bake sale, sponsored challenge or sporting event, pet portrait sale, crafts sale, no treat week or geocaching. The aim is for each individual or team to raise £150 but any amount, large or small will help to make a difference. For example £20 will fund a mini-medical pack for a new cat or dog who comes in, giving them their essential flea and worm…
Find out more »Summer holiday activities: Ingenious Inventions at The Tank Museum
Get involved with hands-on games and interactives, see tanks roar round the arena, and experience a tracked vehicle ride. Plus, see the tank-themed outdoor playpark for mini-tank enthusiasts.
Find out more »Summer Code Breakers at WWT Slimbridge
Become a summer code breaker and experience a unique adventure that blends fun, education, and the beauty of nature in an interactive puzzle adventure suitable for all. Discover letters hidden around the site and unscramble them to solve the secret phrase and collect a special sticker and enter a prize draw for a chance to win a year’s family membership to WWT.
Find out more »The World Revealed exhibition at BRLSI
Free exhibition featuring a selection of the 150,000 artefacts, specimens and books donated and cared for in our the collections of the Institute. Highlighting key people and events in the Institution’s history to demonstrate how it survived through two centuries. Some items are on show for the first time and will explore the circumstances in which they found their way into the Collection, and what this reveals of the shifts in our scientific, cultural and moral understanding over this period.
Find out more »Bath on the Beach 2024
Bath’s most chilled out Summer venue is back with a unique Caribbean beach bar located right in the centre of Bath with shaded Cabanas, picnic benches, table tennis, boules, bean bag toss, cocktails and plenty of food options.
Find out more »Starry Skies Constellation Trail at the Herschel Museum
How well do you know the night sky? Find the hidden embroidered constellations in and around the museum in a summer star trail and when you’ve found them all, have a go at weaving a constellation to take home. Free drop-in activity included in museum entry (children enter free with a paying adult).
Find out more »Lego build and play weekend at The American Museum
Get creative and build with LEGO in the Stables . The Sunday sessions will also have a KidZFun zone, with all kinds of outdoor games and toys.
Find out more »American Road Trip at the American Museum
Celebrating a journey through the diversity of American landscapes, history and culture in this contemporary, immersive experience, where visitors join in and share their own stories. There will be large-scale-travel games, theatrical sets, and an array of American road-trip memorabilia, as well a chance to get up close to an original 1958 Harley Davidson Duo Glide motorcycle, on loan from Haynes Motor Museum. Explore the origins and stories behind the cultural phenomenon, and be transported across thousands of miles on…
Find out more »Doodle and Draw at the Holburne Museum
Explore the free children and adult museum trails through the museum to encourage doodling, drawing and creativity. .
Find out more »Doodle and Draw at the Holburne Museum
Explore the free children and adult museum trails through the museum to encourage doodling, drawing and creativity. .
Find out more »Soft Play Golf at Kingsdown Golf Club
For further details, please contact Dave Stockley, davecarlstockley@gmail.com
Find out more »We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Trail at Bristol Zoo Project
Swish, squelch and splash your way through the 3D sensory installations in Bear Wood to find real bears at the end in this fun family trail.
Find out more »Summer of Sharks at Bristol Aquarium
As well as six different types of sharks, native to the UK and from around the world, find the lesser spotted catshark, bull huss shark, Arabian carpet shark, brownbanded bamboo shark, banded Japanese smooth hound and the Port Jackson shark amongst the thousands of aquatic creatures. Watch sharks being fed at daily talks and get up close with some shark eggs and teeth in daily workshops. In addition, spot friendly cartoon sharks featured on digital screens in the city and…
Find out more »Henry Moore in miniature at the Holburne Museum
A survey of Moore’s sculptural output from his earliest works through to his last years, in which nothing is more than 30cm in size. The first exhibition of its kind, it will include works from every decade of Moore’s career, from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Find out more »Mr Doodle! Museum Mayhem at the Holburne Museum
The first ever UK museum exhibition of internationally renowned artist and internet sensation, Mr Doodle. Primarily characterised by black ink on a white background, his graphic style conjures up a world of quirky creatures and anthropomorphic forms, using ink pens and spray paint to weave together what he describes as “graffiti spaghetti”. The selection of personal sketchbooks will provide the starting point for a show that will fill the gallery and spread across the walls, floor and ceiling.
Find out more »Kids’ Dig at Stonehenge
Try your hand at unearthing the past in the special sandboxes and explore the Where’s My Shadow? summer quest. Artefacts from across the centuries are ready to be excavated, giving children the chance to learn more about the history of Stonehenge through the things that have been left behind.
Find out more »Interactive Nature Trail with Dorothy House Hospice
Through its seasons, nature reminds us of the fragility of life and offers peace and solace from sadness and overwhelm. The interactive nature trail aims allow anyone wishing to find a wellbeing space to reflect in nature, or to find serenity in grief. Take a pause and learn more about the bio-diverse species found in the meadows, do some nature rubbings, view the art installation and explore the site.
Find out more »Let’s Play Croquet at Tyntesfield National Trust
Head out into the Estate to discover the many ways to play. Stop by the croquet lawn to join an iconic Victorian game set against the backdrop of the House. Free with normal admission; no booking required.
Find out more »Echoes from the Aviary at Tyntesfield National Trust
A group of young people from Hartcliffe have been working with artists Oshii and Jono Gilmurray to create a sound and visual art installation for the aviary. The group explored the history of the building and the bird life that would have inhabited it, the significance of birds to the wider history and how the mining of seabird droppings (guano) for fertilizer made William Gibbs his fortune. The final artwork explores these histories and what can be learnt from them…
Find out more »Biophilic Bath at Museum of Bath Architecture
Featuring designs by innovative architects, engineers, and designers, which show future “biophilic” visions of the city.
Find out more »Toulouse-Lautrec at Victoria Art Gallery
Featuring around 100 posters, this blockbuster show brings bohemian Montmartre to Bath with bright colours and bold lines, Toulouse-Lautrec's striking artwork captured the essence of turn-of-the-century Parisian nightlife. Pieces include his first poster of the Moulin Rouge and the cancan dancers of La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine, alongside works by other celebrated artists of the day. Steinlein’s iconic Tournée du Chat Noir, an advert for Ruinart champagne by Alphonse Mucha and theatre posters by Jules Cheret as well as work…
Find out more »The Invisible Hands of Mompesson House: Servants
Find out what life was like for the people who worked behind the scenes from the servants of the eighteenth century to the housekeeper and gardener in the 1950s. There will be information available in each room with details of servants' lives throughout the years, an opportunity to dress up in an apron and try your hand at laying the Dining Room table for Elizabeth Mompesson’s grand dinner party. Free with normal admission, no booking required.
Find out more »Summer Activities at Melksham Library
With board games, baby rhyme time, lego club, and toddler rhyme time sessions, as well as other fun games and activities throughout the summer. Booking essential for all special events. Please call 01225 702039 or email libraryenquiries@wiltshire.gov.uk to secure your space. Children must be accompanied by an adult (children 8 and under must never be left unsupervised). If your child has any special needs that we need to be aware of, please advise.
Find out more »Summer Activities at Woolley Grange Hotel
Variety of activities available including planting and gardening, arts and crafts, kite workshop, games, mud kitchen, tie dye, mocktail classes, pizza making, scavenger hunt and more. Full details and schedule available online.
Find out more »ReDiscover: The Princess Bride at the Little Theatre
While home sick in bed, a young boy is begrudgingly swept up in a fairytale read to him by his grandfather: the story of Princess Buttercup whose true love Westley suddenly disappears, leaving her to become engaged to the evil Prince Humperdinck. But Westley soon arrives back on the scene and, along with his mismatched band of adventurers, sets off on a daring mission to rescue his beloved. A chance to dress up as one of the iconic characters from…
Find out more »Disney’s Aladdin at Bristol Hippodrome
Follow the adventurous Aladdin as he embarks on a journey to win the heart of Princess Jasmine and defeat the wicked Jafar. With the help of his genie, he navigates the streets of Agrabah and discovers that there's more to life than just material wealth. Featuring iconic music and filled with unforgettable magic, comedy and breath-taking spectacle. Suitable for ages 6+ years.
Find out more »Pop Princesses at Bath Forum
The four fabulous Fairy tale Princesses return with a new show featuring top pop hits from Taylor Swift. Meghan Trainor and Miley Cyrus, Dua Lipa and Lizzo, as well as a selection of songs from films and musicals.
Find out more »Hamlet at Dyrham Park
Join the Lord Chamberlain’s Men for the classic tragic tale of death and revenge.
Find out more »Disney’s Aladdin at Bristol Hippodrome
Follow the adventurous Aladdin as he embarks on a journey to win the heart of Princess Jasmine and defeat the wicked Jafar. With the help of his genie, he navigates the streets of Agrabah and discovers that there's more to life than just material wealth. Featuring iconic music and filled with unforgettable magic, comedy and breath-taking spectacle. Suitable for ages 6+ years.
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