Creative Kids: Fabled Beasts

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Creative Kids: Fabled Beasts

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Art Night

The Gallery opens late as part of Art Night, Europe’s large free contemporary arts festival

Creative Pathways: An insight into Spoken Word and Poetry

Have your chance to hear from creatives and entrepreneurs featured in the first London Borough of Culture's 2019 Programme. Hear about their own unique journeys, gain advice on flourishing in the Arts and network with others.

Family Day: Colourful Textiles

Make colourful textiles with crafts expert Momtaz Begum-Hossain

Creative Kids: Block Print Party

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Summer holiday activity: Traditional Block Printing

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: 3D Sculpture Workshop

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Marvellous Marbling

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Marvellous Marbling

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Wonderful Weaving

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Textiles Self Portrait

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Wonderful Weaving

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Marvellous Marbling

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Traditional Block Printing

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Wonderful Weaving

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Textiles Self Portrait

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Marvellous Marbling

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Printing With Nature

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Textiles Self Portrait

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Summer Holiday Activity: Printing With Nature

Free summer holiday workshop inspired by our collection and special exhibitions

Family Day: Mud Cloth Animals

Meet the Suntrap animals and have a go at making a traditional textile from Mali

Creative Kids: Make a Happy Mark

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Open House London Guided Tour- morning

A Curator led behind the scenes tour of the William Morris Galley and collections store

Curatorial tour of Madge Gill: Myrninerest

Join curator Sophie Dutton for a free tour of our Madge Gill exhibition

Open House London Guided Tour- afternoon

A Curator led behind the scenes tour of the William Morris Galley and collections store

Creative Pathways: An insight into film

Have your chance to hear from creatives and entrepreneurs featured in the first London Borough of Culture's 2019 Programme. Hear about their own unique journeys, gain advice on flourishing in the Arts and network with others.

Family Day: Icelandic Stories

Hear stories, decorate story telling stones to help you make your own magical tales

Morris: A Ghost for Today Symposium

An exploration of Morris’s relevance and why he matters in these times of ecological and political instability.

Women of Walthamstow: Cloth, Activism and Empathy

Rose Sinclair discusses the presence of Dorcas Clubs and Societies in and around Walthamstow

Creative Kids: Big Draw Special

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Children’s Mask Making Half Term Workshop

Join artist Nicholas Pankhurst to create Bauhaus-inspired masks

Family Day: Big Draw Special

Join us by the walled garden for outdoor ceramic tile drawings

Creative Kids: Build A Geometric Mobile

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Creative Pathways: An insight into Street Art

Have your chance to hear from creatives and entrepreneurs featured in the first London Borough of Culture's 2019 Programme. Hear about their own unique journeys, gain advice on flourishing in the Arts and network with others.

Family Day: Bauhaus Costume Design

celebrate 100 years of Bauhaus and create your own tabard inspired by the works of Bauhaus tutor Oskar Schlemmer

William Morris’s Flowers

A talk on the floral designs of William Morris

Creative Kids: Shine A Little Light

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Creative Kids: All Aboard!

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Volunteer Drop-In Day

Find out about volunteering at the William Morris Gallery or Vestry House Museum.

Volunteer Open Day

Gain new skills and experiences by volunteering at the William Morris Gallery or Vestry House Museum

Volunteer Open Day

Find out about volunteering at the William Morris Gallery or Vestry House Museum.

Curatorial tour of Pioneers: William Morris and the Bauhaus

Curator Roisin Inglesby leads a free tour of Pioneers

Family Day: Celebrate Chinese New Year

Make a Chinese Dragon and have a go at gilding using imitation gold leaf

The Strange Case of Kandinsky, Klee and the Bauhaus Artists in Calcutta

In December 1922 an exhibition of Bauhaus art opened in Calcutta. Why is this major transcultural moment hardly remembered today?

Creative Kids: Say It With Flowers

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Family Day: Digital Self Portraits

To coincide with our new exhibition, have your self-portrait taken against a Morris pattern!

Creative Kids: Happy Birthday, William Morris

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Printmaking online family workshop with Anna Alcock (am)

Relief printmaking at home: A William Morris Gallery online family workshop

Join artist Anna Alcock live from her studio for a virtual printmaking workshop  and get  first-hand expert guidance to create a 2-colour relief print with craft foam or polystyrene.

Printmaking online family workshop with Anna Alcock (pm)

Relief printmaking at home: A William Morris Gallery online family workshop

FJoin artist  Anna  Alcock live from her studio for a virtual printmaking workshop and get  first-hand expert guidance to create a 2-colour relief print with craft foam or polystyrene. For families with children age 5-15 years od

Arts Award Advice Session

Still time to join our summer Arts Award  Online programme and celebrate your childrens's  arts achievements

Each Friday morning of the summer vacation there will be 15 minute advice slots  for young people signed up with the LBWF Online Arts Award programme for Discover, Explore, Bronze or Silver. If you are new to Arts Award and want to find out more you can book one free advice slot before signing up.  For Discover you can use activities you have been doing over the holidays so for if you have a photo record of them. 

Arts Award Advice Session

Still time to join our summer Arts Award  Online programme and celebrate your childrens's  arts achievements

Each Friday morning of the summer vacation there will be 15 minute advice slots  for young people signed up with the LBWF Online Arts Award programme for Discover, Explore, Bronze or Silver. If you are new to Arts Award and want to find out more you can book one free advice slot before signing up.  For Discover you can use activities you have been doing over the holidays so for if you have a photo record of them. 

Creative Kids: Weave Anansi Spider

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Creative Kids: Fishy Tales

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular online session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Family Day Online: Mermaids and More

Hear mermaid tales from around the world with storyteller Wendy Shearer.
Make a moving mer-tail with artist Esther Neslen. 

Creative Kids: Make a Jolly Holly Wreath

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular online session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Creative Kids: Make a Fairytale Crown for Cinderella & her Prince

Play, make and get hands on with Creative Kids, a regular online session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers

Creative Kids Live: Make a Wild Animal Stained Glass Window

Creative Kids Live is a monthly arts and craft online session for children under five to enjoy with their parents and carers at home. Repeated at 1pm

Online Family Workshop: Exploring Drawing

Explore drawing and markmaking to create a woodland scene inspired by William Morris's love of nature

Online Family Workshop: Put Yourself in the Frame

Create your own artistic portrait based on the work of artist Kehinde Wiley

Online Family Workshop: Printmaking made easy

Have a go at basic relief printmaking inspired by the designs of William Morris