What's on | David Parr House

See what's happening across the House and Studio Space

Highlighted event

Rachel M. Butler: Lettering in Stone

Exhibition

4th July - 31st July 2025, Wed- Sat, 10am-5pm
Free

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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

14th Feb - 29th March, Wed-Sat, 10.00am - 4.00pm
Free to visit

A photo taken on a film camera with a grainy look of a hand holding a lino cut square with an abstract foligae design in a red in, the background shows red in and rolling and cutting tools for a lino workshop.

Workshop

Designing and Printing with Block Print with Nicholas Hughes

Sat 29th March, 10.30am - 4.00pm
£80 per person

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

Sun 30th March, 2.00pm - 3.30pm
Free (£5 with donation) Booking Required

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: Preview Screening

Wed 2nd April, 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

23rd 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

Wed 30th April 2025, 6.30pm-8.30pm
£10 (£12 with donation)

Printed moths created using drypoint techiques by Susie Turner

Workshop

Sold out: Drypoint Etching and Chine Collé with Susie Turner

Sat 26th April, 10.30am - 3.30pm
£75 per person

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

20th 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

Sat 24th May, 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

28th 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

Sat 14th June, 10.30am - 1pm
£50 per person

Talk

Sold Out: Nan Youngman in Cambridge with Robjn Cantus

25th 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

4th July - 31st 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

2nd July, 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

Wed 9th July, 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

Wed 23rd July, 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

Wed 30th July, 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

Sat 2nd August, 10.30pm - 1.30pm
£65 per person

Workshop

Blossom & Bloom Children's Workshop with Mucky Pups

16th August, 11.00am - 12.00pm
£10 per child

Workshop

Floral Forms Children's Workshop with Mucky Pups

16th August, 1.00pm - 2.00pm
£10 per child

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

Workshop

The Art of Cyanotype with Susie Turner

Sat 6th September, 10.30am - 3.30pm
£75 per person

Workshop

An Introduction to Collage with Georgie Finn

Sat 13th September, 10.30am-3.30pm
£75 per person

Workshop

Signwriting and Gold Leaf Gilding with Carlie Allan

Sat 20th September, 10.30am - 3.30pm
£85 per person

A broom made by Jon Bailey to promote his workshop

Workshop

The Art of Broom Making with John Bailey

Sat 27th September, 10.30am - 2.30pm
£80 per person

Workshop

The Art of The Rag Rug with Lu Mason

Sat 4th October, 10.30am - 3.30pm
£85 per person

Workshop

Tetra Pak Printmaking with Jenny McCabe

Sat 11th October, 10.30am - 4.30pm
£100 per person

Richard McVetis Hand and very small black embroidery technique

Workshop

The Art of Hand Embroidery with Richard McVetis

Sat 18th October, 10.30am - 3.30pm
£95 per person

Workshop

Print & Make a Lampshade with Lydia Finney

Sat 25th October, 10.30am - 2.30pm
£90 per person

Workshop

An Introduction to Darning with Luce Thread

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

Adam Bridgland Screen Mono printing workshop image of him painting directly onto the screen

Workshop

Screenprint Mono-printing with Adam Bridgland

Sat 15th November, 10.30am - 1.00pm
£55 per person

Workshop

Decorative Copper Baubles with Rebecca Stark

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

Workshop

Seasonal Lino Block Print Baubles with Nastasha Boyce

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

Event

Christmas Ghost Story Evening with Robert Lloyd Parry

Wed 11th December, 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, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
£10 per person (£12 with donation)

Workshop

Victorian Valentine’s Puzzle Purse with Nastasha Boyce

Sat 8th February, 10.30am - 2.00pm
£60 per person

Talk

William Morris and Art from the Islamic World with Rowan Bain

Wed 12th February, 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

Wed 14th May, 6.30am - 8.30pm
£10 per person (£12 with donation)