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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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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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Upcoming events

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  1. Den Building with We Forest Folk and Clare Hewitt

    Community
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  2. Refugee Week: Middle Eastern Music Sessions

    Community
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  3. Anyone for Tennis?

    Comedy
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Cinema highlights

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  1. A cinematic close-up of a chicken's head and upper body. The bird has dark black feathers with warm auburn highlights along the neck. Its comb is red and upright, the wattles full and vivid red. The eye is large and alert with a golden-amber iris. The background is softly blurred in muted brown and grey tones, keeping full focus on the bird's face.

    Hen

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  2. The image shows an older man with white hair, dressed in a dark suit, crouched down with his face pressed to a white marble floor, licking a small pool of dark red blood.

    4K Film: Cronos

    Cinema
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  3. A young woman in a crimson 18th-century dress and matching hood plays a violin, holding the bow with focused intensity, while a man in period black attire stands closely behind her. Several violins hang on a dark wooden wall in the background, suggesting a baroque-era music room or instrument workshop.

    Primavera

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Creative courses

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  1. A group of people in a yoga studio, in child's pose on their mats

    Iyengar Yoga (WB93 Summer)

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  2. A hand is holding a black camera, with the background blurred. In the camera lens, there is a close up of plants.

    Exposure II: Digital Photography (DM02 Summer)

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  3. A person is writing into an open notebook, with papers to the side of them with text on it

    Introduction to Life Writing (WR110 Summer)

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