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Wellness Weekends: Flights of Fancy Craft and Slow Looking at South Shields Museum

Name: Wellness Weekends: Flights of Fancy Craft and Slow Looking at South Shields Museum
Start: 2026-10-31T09:30:00
End: 2026-10-31T15:00:00
Location: South Shields Museum and Art Gallery, Ocean Road, South Shields, NE33 2JA

A free Halloween-weekend Saturday of drop-in bird-making crafts, a guided Slow Looking session and a qigong class around Pierre Mignard's National Gallery portrait.

Saturday, 31 October 20269:30 AM - 3:00 PMSouth Shields Museum and Art Gallery, Ocean Road, South Shields, NE33 2JAFree (qigong and Slow Looking must be booked; craft is drop-in)by South Shields Museum and Art Gallery (North East Museums)

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About This Event

The museum's drop-in Open Studio craft session (11.30am to 3pm in the learning room) is Flights of Fancy, making a winged, feathery bird from craft materials, inspired by Pierre Mignard's The Marquise de Seignelay (1691), on loan through the National Gallery Masterpiece Tour. Families are welcome and no booking is needed. Earlier in the morning there is a free 30-minute qigong class at 9.30am and a free Slow Looking session at 10.20am, a guided, mindful look at the painting followed by sensory activities. Both are limited to ten people and must be booked in advance.