Bow Families

Come and join Fatima Ali as we create a collective exhibition, designing your own creative self-portrait through drawing, painting and collage. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.

Taking inspiration from our everyday encounters with our communities, join Fatima Ali as we create a memory blanket telling stories through collage making. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.

Using vibrant watercolour pencils, join artist Katka Krajči to create your own unique drawings with playful mark-making — scribbles, swirls and freehand doodles. With a little water, those drawings will transform into colourful, swirling masterpieces where the lines blur and new shapes begin to emerge. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.

Join artist Katka Krajči in a family printmaking session to create seasonal cards with festive motifs. You can get to make your own stamps to work with from scratch.

Come and join artist Katka Krajči for a huge group doodle as we dream up and map out what our collective landscape of east London looks like and explore the new connections formed when creating on a large-scale together. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided

Taking inspiration from our everyday encounters in and memories of east London, join artist Katka Krajči as we capture the essence of these familiar streets and scenes through drawing and mark making. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided

Taking inspiration from the flora and fauna around us, join artist Christina Brown to make abstract and painterly prints using colourful, natural dyes extracted from fresh flowers. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.

Join fashion and footwear designer Hernán Guardamagna to design and customise your very own, unique overshoe accessories, inspired by a personal treasure. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided! 

Reminisce with creativity as we create our own vibrant prints honouring cherished memories with fashion and footwear designer Hernán Guardamagna. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided! 

Working with clay and paint, join us for a hands on workshop with fashion and footwear designer Hernán Guardamagna. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided! 

Come along and join us at Bowfest: Open Studios 2024 with fashion and footwear designer Hernán Guardamagna. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided! 

Join artist Christina Brown in this hands-on workshop exploring abstraction and colour through creating our own DIY monoprints. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided!

Join artist Sadegh Aleahmad as we build out our own abstract alter egos, playfully exploring different methods of portraiture and artmaking. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided!

Taking inspiration from the calming properties of floral aromas, learn how to make a scented pocket-sized pouch to soothe and help us go to sleep.

Exploring ideas around land and the healing power of nature, learn how to use natural and upcycled materials to weave your very own flower-shaped wall hanging. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided!

Catch the crisp wintery sun with artist and educator Lucia Ferguson as we make our own ‘stained glass’ suncatchers inspired by the nature around us, using tissue paper and paper frames. Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided!