What's on | David Parr House

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Emerald Green, Mineral Green

Exhibition

23 Oct–5 Dec 2025, timed entry with House Visits
£15 (£17.50 with Gift Aid)

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An image of the top of a farming round silo structure painted in orange pollen based paint on a white background

Exhibition

Freddie Yauner’s Problems of Success

14 Feb–29 March 2025, Wed–Sat, 10.00am–4.00pm
Free to visit

A group of people, three women and two men dressed in jeans, dresses and summer clothes sitting on a picnic bench outside in a park on a sunny day

Event

Jyvä Ensemble at David Parr House

30 March 2025, 2.00pm–3.30pm
Free (£5 with donation)

The Man Who Painted His House Short Film about David Parr, his craft and legacy Poster, text over a close up view of the drawing room walls, highly decorated walls with warm toned foliage.

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Sold Out: The Man Who Painted His House: Preview Screening

2 April 2025, 6.30pm–8.00pm
£10 per person (£12 with donation)

a women standing outside on a gentle hill in the wind on a cloudy day, she is holding a long piece of white material embroidered with black text that is blowing in the wind and is spread across the side of the hill.

Talk

Connecting Threads: Tactile Social History with Lynn Setterington

23 April 2025, 6.30pm–8.30pm
£10 per person (£12 with donation)

a selection of Leach archive including books, bookplates and vases.

Talk

Traits and Traces: A Leach Family Legacy with Shelley Lockwood

30 April 2025, 6.30pm–8.30pm
£10 (£12 with donation)

The Man Who Painted His House Short Film about David Parr, his craft and legacy Poster, text over a close up view of the drawing room walls, highly decorated walls with warm toned foliage.

Event

Sold Out: The Man Who Painted His House Screening at All Saints' Church

20 May 2025, 7.30pm
£15 (£17.50 with donation) per person

Sashiko Workshop layout with indigo fabric and sewing tools

Workshop

An Introduction to Sashiko with Helen Entwistle

24 May 2025, 10.30am–1.00pm
£65 per person

An emblem in the shape of a yellow heart with a rose and a manchester bee in the centre. There is a scroll at the top with text reading: The Lyfe so short the craft so long to lerne

Talk

The Arts and Crafts movement in Manchester: An Untold Story with Barry Clark

28 May 2025, 6.30pm–8.30pm
£10 (£12 with donation)

Pre-firing buttons on a wooden board with different textures and pattens

Workshop

The Art of Button Making with Kate Webber

14 June 2025, 10.30am–1.00pm
£50 per person

Talk

Sold Out: Nan Youngman in Cambridge with Robjn Cantus

25 June 2025, 6.30pm–8.30pm
£10 per person (£31.50 with signed book)

a close up of carved lettering in curved edge of slate, visible words include body's seasons, robbery, ferment, interrupted, and an ampersand in gold

Exhibition

Rachel M. Butler: Lettering in Stone

4 July–31 July 2025, Wed–Sat, 10am–5pm
Free

Nastasha Boyce Block Print seed packets workshop orange blue pink packets with flowers

Workshop

Lino Block-Print Seed Packets with Nastasha Boyce

2 July 2025, 6.00pm–8.30pm
£55 per person

A number of colourful painted posters made using slodges of paint on a screen printing screen with white text overlaying the paint by participants of a workshop

Workshop

Sold Out: Evening Screenprint Mono-printing with Adam Bridgland

9 July 2025, 6.00pm–8.30pm
£55 per person

an embossed copper tile with a tool creating the embossed effect. The pattern is of foliage.

Workshop

Evening Decorative Copper Tile Making with Rebecca Stark

23 July 2025, 6.00pm–8.00pm
£55 per person

a porcelain pinch pot being made by a hand outside in the sun.

Workshop

Mini Ceramic Pinch Pots with Daniela Stief

30 July 2025, 6.30pm–8.00pm
£30 per person

Two hands holding up a small square of needlepoint work using purple, green and yellow threads to create patterns, diamond shapes and abstract motifs

Workshop

An Introduction to Bargello with Cecilia Charlton

2 August 2025, 10.30pm–1.30pm
£65 per person

Event

Out of the Kiln: Pop-up Ceramics Showcase

20-23 & 27–30 August 2025, 10.00am–5.00pm
Free to visit

Cyanotype image of handwritten text in white with three whited out leaves over the text

Workshop

The Art of Cyanotype with Susie Turner

6 Sept 2025, 10.30am–3.30pm
£75 per person

Workshop

An Introduction to Collage with Georgie Finn

13 Sept 2025, 10.30am–3.30pm
£75 per person

Exhibition

Heatwave in Antarctic: Prints by Tadek Beutlich

18 Sept–10 Jan 2026, Wed–Sat, 10.00am–5.00pm
Free to visit

A broom made by Jon Bailey to promote his workshop

Workshop

Sold Out: The Art of Broom Making with Jon Baily

27 Sept 2025, 10.30am–2.30pm
£80 per person

Exhibition

Emerald Green, Mineral Green

23 Oct–5 Dec 2025, timed entry with House Visits
£15 (£17.50 with Gift Aid)

Workshop

Tetra Pak Printmaking with Jenny McCabe

11 Oct 2025, 10.30am–4.30pm
£100 per person

workshop results of 5 people in Lovely Lydia's mapshade making workshop

Workshop

Print & Make a Lampshade with Lydia Finney

25 October 2025, 10.30am–2.30pm
£90 per person

Workshop

Sold out: An Introduction to Visible Mending with Luce Thread

Sat 8 November, 10.30am–2.00pm
£80 per person

Talk

Sold Out: My journey with Printmakers: An Evening with Emma Mason

Wed 12 November, 6.30pm–8.30pm
£10 (£12 with donation)

Workshop

Decorative Copper Baubles with Rebecca Stark

Sat 22 November, 10.30am–1.30pm
£65 per person

Talk

Sold Out: The Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May and William Morris with Suzanne Fagence-Cooper

Wed 26 November, 6.30pm–8.00pm
£10 (£12 per person)

Workshop

Seasonal Lino Block Print Baubles with Nastasha Boyce

Sat 29 November, 10.30am–2.00pm
£60 per person

Workshop

Sold out: Rush Christmas Decorations with the Ely Basketmaker

Sat 13 December, 10.30am–1.30pm
£65 per person

Event

Christmas Ghost Story Evening with Robert Lloyd Parry

11 Dec 2025, 7.30pm–9.00pm
£27.50 per person

Freddie Yauner as William Morris next to William Morris

Talk

Becoming William Morris - 6 years of Morris Quarter

12th March 2025, 6.30pm–8.30pm
£10 per person (£12 with donation)

Workshop

Victorian Valentine’s Puzzle Purse with Nastasha Boyce

8 Feb 2025, 10.30am–2.00pm
£60 per person

Talk

William Morris and Art from the Islamic World with Rowan Bain

12 Feb 2025, 6.30pm–8.30pm
£10 per person (£12 with donation)

Talk

Developing the Garden for House and Garden Visitors Alike: Climate Resilience and Biodiversity with Anna's Flower Farm

14 May 2025, 6.30am–8.30pm
£10 per person (£12 with donation)

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