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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. TDE: Andersen Luft Sommer

    Music
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  2. Repair Café

    Free
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  3. Den Building with We Forest Folk and Clare Hewitt

    Community
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Cinema highlights

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  1. A young male athlete with damp, slicked-back blonde hair stands on a red running track, wearing a dark grey sleeveless top and a thin chain necklace. He gazes intensely into the distance with a serious expression. A sports stadium grandstand and green fencing are visible in the blurred background.

    Wild Foxes

    Cinema
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  2. A dimly lit interior scene showing two people facing each other in what appears to be a worn, dark-walled room. On the left, a Black woman with long braided hair wears a yellow corduroy jacket over a brown fleece vest, holding a bundle of fabric at her side. On the right, an elderly white man with white hair and a beard leans against a dark wooden door frame, dressed in a colorful blue-and-green striped sweater beneath an open blue jacket and navy trousers. A red object hangs on the wall in the background. The atmosphere is tense and theatrical.

    The Christophers

    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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