Family Arts Festival
This Easter Weekend, join the Open Doors team as they travel across the district with their first Family Arts Festival.
Across multiple venues in each location, you’ll be able to turn your hand to everything from learning circus skills to handling historical objects, having a go at musical instruments to contributing your artistic skills to a collaborative art piece and so much more. Explore virtual reality through drawing on our headsets (for those aged 12 and over) or bring your little ones to Time Travel Tots or our Open Doors first birthday parties.
Not only are there activities for all ages but every single one of them is totally FREE for all participants.
To keep up to date join our Facebook event on our National Civil War Centre's Facebook page.
Saturday 30th March – Ollerton
Join Open Doors at Lifespring Centre, Dukeries Leisure Centre and Ollerton Town Football Club!
Book your tickets for sessions via the links below!
Lifespring Church
10am-3pm: Circus Skills, Face Painting
11am-12pm: Hand Drumming with Tim and Helen
1pm-2pm: Hand Drumming with Tim and Helen
Dukeries Leisure Centre
11am-3pm: VR activity with Samantha Peberdy (12+)
11.30am-12:30pm: Birthday Party session with Open Doors Milly
2pm-3pm: Birthday Party session with Open Doors Milly
Ollerton Town FC
12pm-3pm: Disc Golf, Face Painting, Our Heritage on Tour
Sunday 31st March – Newark
Join Open Doors at Hawtonville Children's Centre and the Buttermarket.
Book your tickets for sessions via the links below!
Sunday 31st March – Newark
Hawtonville Children's Centre
10am-2pm: Circus Skills, Face Painting, Disc Golf
10:30am-11:30am: Time Travel Tots with Donna
12:30pm-1:30pm: Time Travel Tots with Donna
Buttermarket
10am-2pm: Fabric Painting with Vanessa Stone
11am-12pm: Music Tech and Song Writing with Eddy and Tim
12:30pm-1:30pm: Music Tech and Song Writing with Eddy and Tim
Monday 1st April – Rainworth
Join Open Doors at Lifespring Centre, Dukeries Leisure Centre and Ollerton Town Football Club!
Book your tickets for sessions via the links below!
The Social Action Hub
10am-3pm: VR activity with Samantha Peberdy (12+), Circus Skills
10:30am-11:30am: Time Travel Tots with Donna
12:30pm-1:30pm: Time Travel Tots with Donna
Rainworth Village Hall
10am-3pm: Our Heritage on Tour, Face Painting
11am-12pm: Birthday Party session with Open Doors Milly
BSL and Access
Milly’s birthday parties will be a relaxed environment and all activities will be accessible however we would like to let everyone know that there will be loud music which may be difficult for people with sensory issues, so please feel free to bring along some noise cancelling headphones! There will also be basic British Sign Language (BSL) available during these sessions.
The musical sessions are accessible to everyone and soundLINCS welcomes everybody to come and create some fantastic music!
We will have BSL interpreters at our Circus skills workshop at the Lifespring Centre from 12pm to 1.30pm at Ollerton on Saturday 30th and at the Our Heritage on Tour activity at Ollerton Town Football club from 2pm to 3pm. There will also be a BSL interpreter during our fabric painting activity at the Buttermarket at Newark on Sunday 31st from 10:30am to 12:30pm. If you have any questions regarding BSL access please email visitorinformationcentre@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk.
Accessibility Information
The Open Doors festival is for everyone and all abilities. Please find here a list of the venues with their accessibilty information. Their adress and what 3 words are listed so that you can find the venues with ease.
Lifespring Church Centre (Sherwood Drive, NG22 9PP; W3W orchestra.apprehend.active)
Ramp from the carpark to the centre's front door. Flat access to all spaces that are being used once inside.
Dukeries Leisure Centre (Main Road, Boughton, NG22 9JJ; W3W sheepish.lilac.tanked)
Lift access available to the Sports Hall. More info here.
Ollerton Town FC (Walesby Lane, NG22 9UT; W3W emphasis.pounces.pillows)
The area is a grassed area, so precautions to be taken for wheelchair uses, dependant on the weather. No accessible toilet
Hawtonville Children's Centre (Bowbridge Road, NG24 4EG; W3W library.gilding.clumped)
Ramp access from outside. Flat access throughout the building. Two routes to outside space, one of which is accessible.
Buttermarket (Middlegate, NG24 1AL; W3W dodging.pacifist.damage)
Flat access from Middlegate entrance; lift up to mezzanine level.
Social Action Hub (Kirklington Road, NG21 0JR; W3W unwell.outnumber.option)
Ramp from outside; flat access throughout the building.
Village Hall (Kirklington Road, NG21 0JY; W3W crumples.posting.sneezing)
Ramp from outside; flat access throughout the building.