Creative Socials

Creative Socials is the brand-new name for Workshop Wednesday! 

With a focus on creativity and wellbeing, our free weekly artist and student-led workshops allow you to immerse yourself in a creative process, meet new people, and take some time for yourself to unwind. 

Experience photography, words, illustration, clay, printmaking, sculpture, music, textiles and more. 

Drop in every Wednesday afternoon and learn a new creative skill!

See below for a full breakdown of workshops. 

Supported by Together at Warwick. 

Schedule 

Wed 28 Jan:  Chemigram Sculptures with Tom Godwin 

Learn all about the experimental photography process of chemigrams, an abstract and creative activity where you will paint, print and mark make on photo sensitive paper using a mixture of eco-friendly developer and fixer. Create your very own chemigrams inspired by the sculptures of Takuro Kuwata currently on show in the Team Bowl Punk exhibition in the Mead Gallery.

Wed 4 Feb: Design a tea bowl punk rocker! with Michael Kennedy

Inspired by the Tea Bowl Punk show, design comics, anime, animation or video game characters from their punk personality down to their bold fashion choices. Using coloured papers and graphic mark making techniques, the session is a combination of character design, world building and graphic poster art! Perfect chance to begin a storytelling project, develop your ideas or just make some character art in a chilled environment.

Wed 11 Feb:  Lumen Printing with Tom Godwin 

Step back in time to the very beginnings of photography with this, camera less process. Capture nature through your own solar photograms and learn about the early, experimental photography techniques that would lead to the world of photography we know today.

Wed 18 Feb: Lunar New Year with Nor and Dotti 

Come and celebrate Lunar New Year with this artist led Creative Social in collaboration with the Canley Community that explores calligraphy and batik techniques to create new year mementos!

Wed 25 Feb: Community Banner Making with Nor, Dotti and Pippa Church

Celebrating the Canley community and local history, join us to design and make your own flags and banners. Inspired by the proud history of miner's banners and grassroots movements, we'll be sewing, painting, drawing, writing, appliquéing, and stitching stories onto fabric. This is a collaboration between Warwick Arts Centre and the Canley community building towards the Canley Parade in June 2026! 

Wed 4 Mar: Tea Bowl Punk World Building with Michael Kennedy 

Inspired by the Tea Bowl Punk show, you’ll be designing flora, scenery, landscapes and environments in a visual world building workshop. Using coloured papers and graphic mark making techniques, put yourself in the shoes of professional concept designers for comics, anime, animation and video games. Build libraries of designs for future projects, workshop existing ideas or create a piece of concept art in a hands on but relaxed creative space.

Wed 11 Mar: Performance Poetry with Sipho Eric Ndlovu

Join spoken word artist, Sipho Eric Ndlovu in this powerful session that explores the possibilities of poetry for performance. This workshop will contain all the necessities to help encourage you to become a poet in an afternoon. Fun, accessible writing exercises, visual prompts and opportunities to practice your stage presence. 

Wed 18 Mar: Spoken Word Techniques with Sipho Eric Ndlovu

Following on from last week’s Creative Social, this workshop will give you the opportunity to work alongside Sipho Eric Ndlovu to explore techniques that make spoken word pieces pop on stage! Bring your own writing for tips on how to perform or come ready to write with support from Sipho before testing your work out live at Warwick Arts Centre.