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Healing Arts Festival

A week-long, Birmingham-wide initiative exploring how arts and culture can support health, wellbeing and social change. MAC is presenting a day exploring creativity in action and uniting artists.
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Clare Hewitt: Everything in the forest is the forest

Acclaimed photographer Clare Hewitt presents new work that celebrates trees and their remarkable ability to nurture and communicate.
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Dive into new creative adventures

Unleash your inner artist and explore sessions in ceramics, stained glass, textiles, jewellery, painting, printmaking, wellbeing, music, writing and more.
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Summer at MAC

Get ready for fun-filled adventures this summer at MAC - join us for a fantastic range of hands-on creative courses, captivating screenings and spectacular performances for all the family.
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Upcoming events

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  1. Without by Neil Reidman

    Theatre
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  2. Stories 4 Nature

    Community
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  3. Healing Arts: Connect to the Forest Gallery Tour

    Talks
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Cinema highlights

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  1. A period drama scene set on the lawn of a grand English country house. Two figures in elaborate 18th-century costumes sit on either side of a dark ornate octagonal table bearing a bottle of red wine and two glasses. On the left, a young woman in a green and red floral silk gown with lace-trimmed sleeves sits on the grass, gazing away from the table. On the right, an older man in a dark red coat, embroidered waistcoat, and a large curled grey periwig sits in a carved wooden chair, his bandaged foot resting on a red cushion — suggesting gout. Behind them, a stone balustrade with obelisk finials borders a formal garden, and the façade of a Jacobean manor house is visible to the left, framed by autumn trees.

    Savage House

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  2. Two performers in elaborate period costume sit together holding wine glasses — one wearing a voluminous blonde baroque wig and ornate gold brocade gown with a small crown, the other in cream robes with a bold auburn wig topped by a jewelled crown and a styled moustache, both gazing off with theatrical expressions against a woven cane backdrop.

    Madfabulous

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  3. We see a young Black man wearing a black and white houndstooth flat cap, looking upward with a slightly open mouth and a wide-eyed expression. He is dressed in dark and patterned layers. Behind him is a wall with graffiti text partially visible, reading "...GEMENT" and "...MERC..." in large letters.

    Pay What You Choose: Pressure

    Cinema
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Creative courses

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  1. A range of colourful fabrics in a pile

    World of Quilts: India Kantha (ASC113)

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  2. A person is using a tool to cut the top of a pot on a pottery wheel

    Wheelwork for Beginners: 1 day (ASC109)

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  3. Healing Arts: Yoga in the Gallery

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