At the end of October it’s time to honour lost loved ones again, with one of our favourite festivals. Decorate sugar skulls or lantern shrine jars, screen print tote bags with skull and flower designs, cut colourful papel picado hanging banners, make a skull mask or choose other creative activities in this day inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead. Continue reading
Explore magical chromatic processes with fountain pen ink artist Nick Stewart in his innovative ink and bleach drawing workshop. Continue reading
Our much loved Mexican Day Of The Dead themed festival for all ages returns this year on Sunday 3 November with lots of your favourite art and craft activities. Honour lost loved ones with a decorated shrine or sugar skull, print a tote bag, cut colourful papel picado hanging banners, decorate a skull mask, make jewellery, enter the drawing competition, and get your face painted… Continue reading
JanaB Jewellery brings her jewellery class to INTRA on May 5th, and these sterling silver stacking rings look really pretty. Create three rings in your choice of designs for £55, or two bangles for £75 including materials and refreshments. Continue reading
Fancy Tat have brought their exciting bottle cutting workshop to INTRA, and it’s been going down a storm. In their three hour workshop you can learn and practice Fancy Tat’s tried and tested methods to cut and sand salvaged bottles and make items including glasses or lanterns. Continue reading
Xtina’s popular ‘Print Your Own…’ workshop returns to INTRA on Sun 6th May – with a Rochester Sweeps and May Day theme. Create your own souvenir of the festival by mix and matching designs including green men, leaves and flowers etc. and screen printing them onto your choice of textiles: a flag, bag, t-shirt or … Continue reading
Following a recent successful exhibition and arts project in Medway, the Sick! Living With Invisible Illness team is running a further series of free creative workshops to support local people. Four sessions are on offer at INTRA, looking at different ways to create DIY publications and explore self-expression. The workshops will include combinations of therapeutic … Continue reading
June sees the launch of the first ever Medway Print Festival, an exciting new event featuring some of the key art institutions in the Medway area. Across two weeks, 9th to 26 June, there will be exhibitions, a print fair, courses, and printmaking activities for all ages. This year’s participating venues are: Rochester Art Gallery Sun Pier House … Continue reading
INTRA welcomes people of all ages and we’ve been really happy to host regular creative sessions for home education groups. We run weekly activities, alternating between craft and printmaking, in mixed age classes where parents attend and can also join in if they want to. Medway Fine Printmakers deliver the printmaking classes and the sessions are … Continue reading
We had a great time at the Swap, Pimp & Wear event in June, and from what you told us it seems like everyone else did too! As a follow up to our taster sessions pimping up the swaps, we’re running some longer classes this month, each run by the organisers of Swap, Pimp & Wear. We’re planning to … Continue reading
