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Event category: Family Activity

Price: £3 per child
Location: The Stained Glass Museum
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Come and join our toddler group on the first Wednesday of the month for informal fun in our beautiful setting. Enjoy crafts, rhymes and stories linked to the theme. Explore our light box and interactive toys and meet new friends, all whilst relaxing with a drink and a biscuit.
Story time will be under one of our beautiful stained glass windows.
Suitable for babies and children up to 5 years old

Suitable for ages: Under 5's
Contact: learning@stainedglassmuseum.com
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Event category: Adult Workshop

Price: £240 per person including all materials, equipment and tuition
Location: The Stained Glass Museum
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During your workshop you will be looking at the classical portraits and faces taken from our gallery at the Stained Glass Museum to recreate your own version to take home. You also bring your own portrait designs if you wish.

You will be using a mixed variety of techniques and brushes to create your final pieces. A selection of tinted coloured glass will be available to use and the chance to explore using a variety of mediums to paint with as well as applying silver stain to your work. Each piece of glass will be fired several times over the length of the workshop ready for you to take home. You also bring your own portrait designs.

The workshop will have a maximum of six students, allowing for ample individual as well as group tuition.
Suitable for ages: 18+
Contact: 01353 660347

Event category: Adult Workshop

Price: £250 per person including all materials, equipment and tuition
Location: The Stained Glass Museum & Lighthouse Ely
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You begin the first day with your tutor by choosing your own panel design from a selection of patterns, known as ‘cartoons’. Then selecting the coloured glass for your painted areas, you will learn how to cut it to shape and your tutor will demonstrate how to size and score glass to make a break line, and how to grind the edges of the cut glass to achieve a precise shape. The remainder of the day will be spent learning how to apply the enamel paint using different paint techniques. Finished pieces will be kiln fired at intervals throughout the day.


During the second day, you will learn the leading, glazing and soldering techniques that will enable you to assemble your cut glass pieces into a single stained glass panel. Your tutor will demonstrate how to frame your cartoon with wood laths, forming a matrix into which lead calmes and glass can be inserted. You will be taught how to cut lead calmes, and how to open up their central channel to accommodate cut glass. Once you have fixed all of your glass pieces in lead, you will be shown how to use a soldering iron to bond the joints of lead. If you would like to be able to hang your panel, your tutor will help you solder a fixture to the lead. This is the final stage of the workshop, after which you will be able to take your stained glass panel home to enjoy!

Suitable for ages: 18+
Contact: 01353 660347
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Event category: Children's Workshop

Price: £15 per child
Location: The Stained Glass Museum
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Learn the principles and theory of glass cutting, fusing and firing stained glass with our experienced glass fusing teacher.
You will then work on your own design and make a 10cm x10cm glass piece linked to our fun day theme of bugs, birds and butterflies. Please note that you will not be able to take your glass home with you on the day.
Your glass will need to be kiln-fired after the workshop is finished. This process takes 24 hours and will usually takes place within a week because someone needs to be on the premises during firing. Once your fused artwork has been kiln-fired and cooled, we will contact you to let you know it is ready for collection.

All young people must be accompanied by an adult for the duration of the workshop. Our workshop is limited on space so only one adult per child please. Come and enjoy this unique, fun activity in a beautiful setting!
Suitable for ages: 7-16yrs
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Event category: Children's Workshop

Price: £15 per child
Location: The Stained Glass Museum
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Learn the principles and theory of glass cutting, fusing and firing stained glass with our experienced glass fusing teacher.
You will then work on your own design and make a 10cm x10cm glass piece linked to our fun day theme of bugs, birds and butterflies. Please note that you will not be able to take your glass home with you on the day.
Your glass will need to be kiln-fired after the workshop is finished. This process takes 24 hours and will usually takes place within a week because someone needs to be on the premises during firing. Once your fused artwork has been kiln-fired and cooled, we will contact you to let you know it is ready for collection.

All young people must be accompanied by an adult for the duration of the workshop. Our workshop is limited on space so only one adult per child please. Come and enjoy this unique, fun activity in a beautiful setting!
Suitable for ages: 7-16yrs
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Event category: Children's Workshop

Price: £6 per child
Location: The Stained Glass Museum
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An interactive session in the gallery exploring our stunning stained glass panels. Participants will have the opportunity to look closely at the panels searching for bugs, birds and butterflies as part of our half term fun day. They can enjoy sharing views on the subject matter and techniques used. There will also be time to make sketches of their favourite pieces.

The participants will then be shown how to paint one of the pre-guttered silks (10 cm x 15cm) using a range of silk paints, mixing the colours that they would like. They will be able to take the finished piece home on the day to frame or make into a card.
Suitable for ages: 7 years +
Contact: learning@stainedglassmuseum.com
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Event category: Family Activity

Location: The Stained Glass Museum
Come and join us for our free drop-in session during our bugs, birds and butterflies May half term fun day. Enjoy time in our stunning gallery creating a fun, stained glass inspired craft to take home.

Donations to cover materials welcome!

All ages welcome. No need to book, just turn up!
For further details contact: learning@stainedglassmuseum.com



Suitable for ages: All ages welcome
Contact: learning@stainedglassmuseum.com

Event category: Adult Workshop

Price: £120 per person including all materials, equipment and tuition
Location: The Stained Glass Museum, South Triforium, Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4DL
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The art of painting on glass was mastered in the medieval period. Over the following centuries, stained glass artists have used painting techniques to draw with line and light, to create depth and detail, and to control the atmospheric quality of light’s transmission through glass.
In this practical workshop, glass artist Derek Hunt will teach traditional painting techniques. Using vitreous pigment and silver stain on clear glass, students learn to work with a variety of brushes, sticks, quills and sponges to create different effects and shading in both wet and dry matts. Glass work will be fired at intervals throughout the workshop, and ready to take home at the end of the day.



Suitable for ages: 18+
Contact: 01353 660347
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