Arts and Crafts Workshops

Nottingham City and Kirkby in Ashfield

Arts groups currently run in Nottingham City and Kirkby-in-Ashfield. The workshops offer a safe and friendly environment to explore your inner creativity. We provide support throughout, offering ideas and practical advice. All are welcome. No experience necessary.

New Skills and New Friends

Our programme of Arts Workshops are designed to deliver a variety of new and interesting arts based activities across the county. The service not only enables visually impaired people to learn and develop new skills, but also provides a forum for individuals to meet in a supportive peer group environment. 

We hold a range of different workshops including pottery, textiles, jewellery making and flower arranging amongst many others. We are always changing our themes and ideas based on the requests from the groups themselves and have been on trips to galleries and museums, including the 2011 visit to the Tate Modern.  

New Staff Member

Vicky Price is newly appointed at NRSB as the Arts and Crafts Officer and she is the main contact within the Leisure Services Team for Arts and Craft workshop enquiries. Vicky is a professional artist-designer specialising in printmaking, illustration and animation. She is a highly experienced teacher and workshop leader. In 2012 NRSB are looking forward to a range of new Arts activities including ceramics, sculpture and carving, casting in plaster, felt-making and screen-printing. 

Where and When

Nottingham Group 1 meets at NRSB on Tuesday from 1.30 – 3.30pm.

Nottingham Group 2 meets at NRSB on Friday from 1.30 – 3.30pm.

Kirky-in-Ashfield Group meet at the Community Centre Point on Thursday from 1.30 – 3.30pm.

The groups do not run every week so please call 0115 9706806 for more information on when the group is next running in your area.

How Much?

Sessions cost £5 for member, £6 for non members and we can provide transport for a small cost.

Visit to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London - May 2011

Join us for an art gallery visit to The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, who provide Touch Tours for the visually impaired with a museum guide and talks about their collections. The visit is planned for 29^th May; exact dates and times to be confirmed. Travel to London will be by either coach or mini-bus depending on numbers for a minimum contibution towards petrol!

Contacting Us

If you would like to speak to us about this or any service please call 0115 9706806.