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MAC needs your chairs!

Transform your pre-loved chair into art. We invite you to submit your preloved chair to The Final Bid, a unique artwork and exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Michael Pinsky, opening at Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) in summer 2026.
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Easter at MAC

Join us for creative courses, spectacular shows and fun family films this Easter!
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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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A South Asian man in his thirties sits in an audiotorium with plush red seats. He is wearing a white ruff, a black outfit and red socks, and his feet are crossed over the back of the chair in front of him. He looks directly into the camera. In his left hand he holds up a human skull.

NT Live

The best of British Theatre brought to you from the stage to the screen.
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Made in the Middle: A Craftspace touring exhibition

An exhibition showcasing exceptional contemporary crafts being made currently across the West and East Midlands.
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Woman with brunette bob and earing white top and trousers. She is leaning forward with her hand out. On the right is the back of a boy's head. The screen in the background has a yellow box on it with the word 'touch screen'.

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Two little girls sit on beanbags in a cinema smiling to their left, dressed in halloween costumes

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MAC's building with their open-plan terrace in the sunshine. Trees frame the photo.

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Upcoming events

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  1. Made in the Middle: Panel Conversation

    Talks
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  2. TDE: Iain Ballamy, Mark Sanders and Arnie Somogyi

    Music
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  3. Made in the Middle: Artist & Maker Development Day

    Talks
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Cinema highlights

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  1. A man (Jacob Elordi) and woman (Margot Robbie) in period costume stand on a windswept Yorkshire moor. They both wear black, with the blonde haired woman wearing a black veil that billows in the wind behind her. She also has a gold cross on the front of her dress. They both wear sombre expression.

    Wuthering Heights

    Cinema
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  2. We see a heavily stylized image of an older Black man (David Harewood), a younger white woman with blonde hair (Caitlin Fitzgerald) and a balding older white man (Toby Jones) standing next to each other, all wearing black and all looking in different directions. The rest of the image is almost enturely red, with a yellow line of light shining horizontally across the eyes of each of the peopl.

    Othello

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  3. A Black man walks hand-in-hand with two young Black boys along a red dirt road in what appears to be a rural African setting. The composition is striking, with the man positioned centrally and slightly elevated in the frame, wearing a purple striped shirt, while the boys flank him on either side - one in an orange striped shirt and the other in a pink shirt with a backpack. The landscape around them features vegetation including banana plants and other greenery, with an overcast sky above. The dirt road stretches ahead of them, creating a sense of journey or purposeful movement forward.

    My Father's Shadow

    Cinema
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Creative courses

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  1. A person is using a soldering iron to connect a blue stained glass flower

    Stained Glass (VA110 Spring)

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  2. A person is arranging orange and black glass into a pattern

    Stained Glass (VA111 Spring)

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  3. A person is wrapping a piece of glass in copper around the edge, shown in the reflection of a mirror surrounded by blue glass

    Stained Glass (VA114 Spring)

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