Family Sundays:  Summer 2024

Free creative activities for families.

Every Sunday, drop-in for creative workshops led by our featured artists-in-residence. Working across visual arts, dance, drama, spoken word and music, we invite you to come and spend time together as a family making, exploring and having fun.

The Summer season starts on Sunday 5 May when we will welcome our new artists a residence, Naoibh McNamee, followed by our second Artist in Residence Tereza Bušková the following week.  

Look out for Musical Picnics and Family Singing on select Sunday mornings too, so you can make a day of it at Warwick Arts Centre.

Scroll down to find out more about these two amazing artists, as well as a schedule for the Family Sundays summer season.

Introducing our Artists in Residence:

Naoibh McNamee

Ranging from performance pieces and installations to stand-alone sculptural works, Naoibh McNamee’s camp and colourful practice invites the viewer to enter new worlds that transcend and subvert heteronormative and neurotypical societal expectations. Naoibh creates work from queer and disabled perspectives, particularly exploring gender non-conformity, family heritage, and queerness through the lens of autism.

Naoibh’s work draws attention to the very things that other them in society while celebrating the communities they find their home within. The artist’s most recent creations have explored their queer, autistic and Brummie-Irish existence, using alien and non-human forms to illustrate their very human experiences such as family, belonging, autistic joy and masking.

Tereza Bušková

Multidisciplinary artist, Tereza Bušková (b.1978, Prague) lives and works in Birmingham. Bušková celebrates and reinterprets often ancient rituals and customs through the media of print, performance and video. Bušková’s expansive and socially-engaged practice actively involves diverse, hard to reach communities in traditional craft-making and baking workshops inspired by Slavonic folklore as well as British, European and global cultural traditions.

Bušková is currently exhibiting her 2016 video Clipping the Church at the macLYON in France ‘Friends in Love and War’ - exhibiting alongside works from the British Council Collection and macLYON that explore the theme of friendship. This exhibition will be presented at the Ikon Gallery from September 2024.  

Schedule:

Every Sunday between 5 May – 23 June 2024.

Sunday 5th May 2024

Join artist Naoibh McNamee as we explore the question “What or who reminds you of home?”. Bring objects or pictures that remind you of home or use prompts provided during the session to create 3D cardboard popups. Naoibh will help participants to think abstractly and teach them different methods of stand-making, drawing, and decorating to make flat objects come to life.  

Naoibh will encourage participants to explore what and where “home” is – it is different for all of us! Naoibh will encourage participants to explore non-traditional definitions of home such as chosen family, safe spaces, and more.  

Creations will be kept and displayed at the final workshop, where they will form part of a larger home installation.

Sunday 12th May 2024

‘Otherness and Bread’

Join artist Tereza Bušková for a participatory workshop using our identities, bread and found materials to make a collective artwork.

Tereza uses bread as a medium of artistic expression. Bread brings together communities on different scales, starting from one’s home to a whole country. It can also define an individual’s role in the structure of those communities.  

Four humble ingredients—flour, water, salt, and yeast—come together to create something incredibly special. Bread is also effective tool for telling stories. But despite the simple nature of its components, bread needs an attentive hand and patience. Bread satisfies hunger but it can also act as a powerful intercultural link between nationalities. In this session, we will connect beautiful bread shapes together with other art materials to create one large artwork.