Event type: Workshops
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Make Your Own Woven Wheel with Colourful Minds (Drop-In)
Create a painted cardboard circle filled with colour using wools, yarns and scrap fabric. Sunday 24th May 11 – 3pm Suitable for 5+ No booking required
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Make Your Own Planet with Colourful Minds (Drop-In)
Create a shiny planet work of art using foil, marker pens and shiny collage materials. Suitable for 5+ No booking required
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Customise a T-shirt with vinyl
Upgrade your boring T-shirt using iron on coloured vinyl. We will spend time exploring your design ideas then bring it to life using a wide range of coloured vinyl, buttons, beads and trims. Bring in a T-shirt from home or purchase one on the day. These designs are washable and long lasting. Please note that…
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Letterpress Taster Workshop (Ages 10–16)
This two-hour letterpress taster workshop at Frankenstein Press is designed especially for young makers aged 10–16. It’s a fun, hands-on introduction to printing with type, with no experience needed. Participants will be guided through the basics of setting wood type, learning how to arrange letters and words to create bold and expressive prints. Using a…
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Linocut Taster Workshop (Adults)
Curious about linocut printmaking? This two-hour taster session at Frankenstein Press is the perfect introduction. Designed for complete beginners as well as those wanting to refresh their skills, this workshop offers a hands-on glimpse into the process of carving and printing your own design. You’ll be guided through the basics, learning how to use carving…
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Linocut Taster Workshop (Ages 10–16)
This two-hour linocut taster workshop at Frankenstein Press is designed especially for young makers aged 10–16. It’s a fun, hands-on introduction to the process of carving and printing your own design, with no experience needed. Participants will be guided through the basics of using lino carving tools safely, learning how to translate an idea into…
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Buy Artwork & Merch
Want to take a bit of Upfest home? Support the artists and help Upfest return in 2028, then visit our Upfest sales areas for artwork, t-shirt’s and merch, located at the Tobacco Factory and the Upfest Gallery.
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Make a Zine with Jazz Thompson
Tobacco FactoryRaleigh Rd, Southville, Bristol BS3 1TF Art is about making your voice visible. Join Jazz Thompson for a creative, illustration-based workshop exploring how characters and comics can be used to share ideas, tell stories, and respond to the world around us. Inspired by street art and zine-making, you’ll design your own original character based…
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Burlesque Life Drawing
Spirited196 North St, Southville, Bristol BS3 1JF Antonia Purdie is a multi-disciplined performer, who specialises in burlesque. A classic burlesque artist, with neo moves but classic styling. She explores and celebrates sexual empowerment, body positivity, unlearning societal shame through movement and creativity. Along side this, she is the person behind Purdie Life Drawing. Striving to…
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Lightpainting Photography Art with Andy O’Rourke (Drop-In)
Bristol Beer Factory 291 North St, Southville, Bristol BS3 1JP Create amazing light graffiti with our huge array of torches, brushes, and tools. Come and have your portrait taken whilst people weave magical light trails around you, then stay to create the trails for others. Open to all. No booking required. Multiple session times.