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Summer family fun

Get ready for fun-filled adventures this summer - join us for a fantastic range of hands-on creative courses, brilliant shows and captivating screenings for all the family.
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Sari Summer Season

Join us for a brilliant season of colourful fun-filled events inspired by The Offbeat Sari exhibition. You can also enjoy our special Indian-inspired food, drinks and special events including collabs with our friends at Dishoom, Zindiya and Indian Brewery.
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Creative Courses

Turn inspiration into action and develop a new creative passion at MAC, with over 150 options to choose from.
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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. Summer exhibitions: launch party

    Free
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  2. A close up of a woman in a crowd. She is sat in an outdoor theatre, smiling and clapping.

    Panel discussion: Art, Education & Culture in the Congolese Diaspora

    Community
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  3. A dancer has a happy expression with their eyes closed and move open and their hair is moving above their head - they wear a read headband and has spots of white paint over their arms and face.

    Congolese Independence Day 2025

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Cinema highlights

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  1. A father and his two children peer out of a bush, all of them wearing very little clothing. The father has a tattoo on his left arm and the little boy in the picture is growling at the camera. The little girl sits in her father's lap, smiling at him.

    A New Kind Of Wilderness

    Cinema
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  2. An older man in his fifties (Toby Jones) wearing glasses and a trilby hat walks over a bridge. Behind him is a younger man in his twenties. Both of them are wearing suits.

    Mr. Burton

    Cinema
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  3. A young Black man wearing a dark blue shirt and black trousers kneels down in some grass, his left arm resting on his left knee. He looks down at the ground in solemn prayer.

    Maona Art presents Disco Afrika

    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 persons hands is guiding yellow fabric through a white sewing machine

    Sew a Summer Dress (ASC905)

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  3. Someone is laying ceramic tiles in a wooden space surrounding a mirror

    Inspired by India: Mosaic Mirrors (ASC121)

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