Christmas Season Extended Hours & Closures

Plan your visit to Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery this festive season!

🎄 Christmas Lates

Late openings with festive activities on Thursdays 28 November, 5 and 12 December 2024 (until 8pm).

🎅 Holiday Opening Hours

Special hours apply over Christmas and New Year, including partial room closures on select dates due to private events.

For full details, visit our opening hours page.

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2023

24 September 2023

Open Sundays: September

2023

24 September 2023

Open Sundays: September

Overview

Cure your back-to-school blues with some art at Pitzhanger!

Please note that our art workshops and storytelling sessions are drop-in events and are not intended to be registered art classes. These sessions tend to be very busy at the beginning, so arriving later on will result in less crowding.

3 September

Rattles & Hums Music Workshop & Block Printing Bookmarks!

Rattles & Hums Music Workshop with Kjell Zillen

Kjell from Rattles & Hums will be leading two music sessions for families. Get set for a musical adventure that will have your little ones singing, playing and bopping along to some very catchy beats. From classic, much-loved nursery rhymes to modern children’s songs with interactive elements, expect tunes about pirates, a hungry boa constrictor, sleeping bunnies and more.

  1. 10:30am – 11:00am
  2. 11:15am – 11:45am

Block Printing Bookmarks with Neera Sehgal

Join us for a fun blockprinting session where you will hand print a pair of your own book marks to take away with you. Indian woodblock printing is a therapeutic creative activity, suitable for all ages. There will be a range of fun interesting blocks to choose from, we will be printing with water based acrylic inks, all materials will be provided.

10:30am – 12:30pm in the Education Room.

10 September

Open House Festival

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery presents a special Open Sunday for Open House Festival 2023. The festival is led by a community of Londoners who, for the duration of the festival, open up buildings they own, work or care for free so that visitors can explore.

Storytelling Tour with Sarah Richardson:

Drop in for Sarah Richardson’s storytelling tour! The tour will be 30-45 minutes in length, and there are two time slots:

  1. 10:30am – 11:00am
  2. 11:30am – 12:00pm

Drop-in Family Workshop with Tamira Kitchens

In this workshop you’ll be designing your dream houses, taking inspiration from Sir Anthony Caro and other architects to think about what to put into your design and sketching it up. Then you will be building a small cross sectional model of your design which you can bring home with you! You can design your entire house, or just choose one room to focus on in your model.

Drop-in from 10:30am – 12:30pm in the Education Room, space permitting.

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17 September

Architectural Pop-up Cards

Taking inspiration from the Artists At Home: Erin O’Keefe exhibition and Sir John Soane’s visionary architecture, participants will be led by architect and educator Tatiana Gentil Machado to make cut-outs of shapes found in Pitzhanger Manor to create their own pop-up 3D cards!

Drop in between 10:30am and 12:30pm in the Education Room.

24 September

Ealing Half Marathon

Come into Pitzhanger on the weekend of the Ealing Half Marathon! Whether you’re out to watch, cheer, or even run in the race, all are welcome in this drop-in family workshop with artist Judy Preece.

Drop in between 10:30am and 12:30pm in the Education Room.

Please note

  • These are drop-in events with access to Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery from 10.00 am to 12.30 pm. The art workshops and performances begin at 10.30 am.
  • There is no advance booking for this event.

Enquires

Please contact learning@pitzhanger.org.uk for more information.

Date and Time

3, 10, 17, 24 September (Sunday)
10.30 am – 12.30 pm

Venue

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ

Tickets

Free for Ealing residents
Children visit free with a paying adult if out-of-borough
Tickets available at the front desk

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20 November 2024

Teachers’ CPD: Cultural Institutions as Learning Resources

Come to Pitzhanger for a special Teachers’ CPD session in partnership with the University of West London.

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29 November 2024

Mini Makers

Play and explore this November with Mini Makers! Get creative in the colder months through an exploratory play session led by artist Lewis McVey.

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Contact Us

PITZHANGER MANOR & GALLERY
Ealing Green, London
W5 5EQ
Reception: 020 3985 8888
Venue Hire: 020 3994 0966
Office: 020 3994 0967
pitzhanger@pitzhanger.org.uk

Wednesday - Sunday: 10:00 - 17:00
First Thursday of the month: 10:00 - 20:00
Monday - Tuesday: Closed
Bank Holidays: 10:00 - 17:00

Last admissions one hour before closing

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