Family Sundays - Summer 2025

Family Sundays are back

Join our artists in residence for this summer’s Family Sunday’s programme. We’re thrilled to announce our artists for this term are Ania Bas and Francesca Robson. Here’s a bit more about them! 

Ania Bas

Ania Bas is an artist, writer and arts organiser who works across text, performance, publishing and social engagement. Her work has been commissioned by the Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Art on the Underground, Whitstable Biennale/Cement Fields and Coventry Biennial. Ania’s debut novel Odd Hours published in 2022 was named by Irish Examiner their novel of the year

Francesca Robson

Francesca Robson is a movement director and practitioner born in Wolverhampton. After training, she quickly went on to create poignant movement pieces that discuss social topics. Some of her works include: The Shed (Belgrade Theatre and Underground Lights), Faith (Royal Shakespeare Company), Moving On (Women & Theatre), Eyes Closed (Pilot Theatre). Selected to join and perform with Frantic Assembly's Ignition Company, her practice is heavily influenced by the freedom of movement and its ability to story tell. Community practice is at the heart of her work, movement directing the closing parade for Coventry City of Culture and also working on the Canley Parade with the Warwick Arts Centre

See below for a full breakdown of their workshops and when to catch them:

Ania Bas - Unfamiliar Family Portraits

Should a portrait include legs? Could a portrait have no face? Could a fork replace a nose? Be inspired by the exhibition and join these action-packed hands-on workshops making your very own unfamiliar family portrait. Spoiler alert: you may not recognise your family in your final work.

Sun 4 May 1.30 - 4pm

Sun 11 May 1.30 - 4pm

Sun 18 May 1.30 - 4pm

Sun 25 May 1.30 - 4pm

Francesca Robson - EXPRESS YOURSELF 

These sessions will be fun, playful and lively asking you to find new ways to express your physical self and story. With a strong theme of connection, each session will find a way to allow you to connect and reconnect with different versions of yourself giving time and opportunity to explore movement alone, with the rest of your family and others in the space. We won’t just focus on the movement of your body though, there will be a focus on material. We will explore how materials may move around the space. Puppetry, mask work and making stories from reeeeeaalllllly fun games or reeeeeaalllly boring objects that we use every day, re-imagining futures. 

At the end of the session you should feel energised, creative and reconnected to those around you, whether that be people at home or your community. 

Sun 1 June 1.30 - 4pm

Sun 8 June 1.30 - 4pm

Sun 15 June 1.30 - 4pm

Sun 22 June 1.30 - 4pm