Bow Families Special: create your own festive masks and hats with Nicola McEvoy
Sunday 7th December 2025 , 11:00am to 4:00pm
Join transdisciplinary artist Nicola McEvoy for a festive themed family workshop during this year’s Bow Road Winter Market. Create your own masks and hats to wear over the holidays! Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.
Wind down after your winter shopping and craft away with festive colours, tinsel and pompoms. Pose with your creations to make family portraits using real time video capturing and mixing software.
In this session, children and families will make festive themed masks and hats using paper plates, coloured card and other assorted materials. There will be a green screen and webcam on the day, so that families can perform in their own Winter Wonderlands, with an array of festively themed video backdrops to choose from.
This Bow Families Special is accessible for 4 to 11-year-olds (and adults too of course) and will take place inside the Bow Arts Courtyard Room.
Bow Families is a series of free, drop-in family art workshops that take place on the last Sunday of every month in the Bow Arts Courtyard. These sessions are a wonderful opportunity for local families to get creative and try something new! Each session is led by a Bow Arts’ Artist and all materials are provided.
More about Nicola McEvoy
Nicola McEvoy is a transdisciplinary artist who works across the mediums of analogue/digital video, cameraless photography, textiles and ceramics. Her practice-based research, ‘Television Alchemy’, investigates the liquid materiality of CRT TV. She explores the correspondences between moving image and dream as it emerges from the primordial waters of chaos. Nicola is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London.
As an artist educator and facilitator, she has worked with children and young people, as well as adults with learning disabilities.
Access information
The Bow Arts Trust courtyard room has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport information
Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
