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Get to Know the Wyvern
Join us in exploring the Wyvern Theatre, from backstage to front of house! Get to see how a professional theatre operates and discover all the different roles there are in theatre!
Tickets £2 | Age 15 - 25
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Jason Yip Open Classes & Rehearsal
A special Signal Residency over 3 days of open dance classes, sharing and rehearsal. See Jason & Pinky develop a professional piece about play.
23rd - 25th July
Tickets £2 | Age 16 -25
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Double Take - art exhibition at Museum & Art Swindon
Museum & Art Swindon asked Swindon students to look… and then look again, challenging them to take inspiration from artworks in the Swindon Collection. Supported by practising professional artists, pupils produced their own creative responses, exploring the ways we experience and respond to the world around us.
Open Tuesday to Saturday only.
Free | All ages
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Pieces Of Me Exhibition
Who are you, really, when no one is watching?
Swindon’s young people will take you on a journey of self-discovery as Museum & Art Swindon presents its first interactive exhibition produced and curated by young people alongside Swindon’s collection. It brings their voices together and showcases thought-provoking work using different art medias to examine their own identities, self-expression and future hopes as young people in swindon.
Open Tuesday - Saturday every week.
Tickets Free | All Ages
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Secrets of the Gallery
Join gallery staff for a fun, bitesize 30 minute tour and be one of the first to see inside Swindon’s new museum and art gallery!
Explore two modern art exhibitions, two art exhibitions created by young people, and six history galleries.
Tickets Free | Age 16 -25
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Myth, Faerie Tales and Folklore in Storytelling with Marnie Forbes-Eldridge
What happens in Myths that can be used for our creating? Why do Faerie stories connect to something deep inside? How can we use Folklore in our making? This two-hour workshop will explore, play and delve deeper in the world of stories.
Tickets £2 | Age 14 - 25
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This is Signal! - Opening Showcase
The launch of Swindon’s first Signal Festival. Join us to celebrate the young artists making work in our town.
SOLD OUT | All ages welcome
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Spotlight One to Ones
Are you a young performer aged 11-17? Want to explore what it means to be a young performer on Spotlight and demystify the process of getting a Young Performers account on spotlight?
Join Ellie Samuels - Spotlight Young Performer Success Manager, on a 1:1 informal discussion online via zoom to share advice with you & your parent/guardian.
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Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 17
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Get into Digital Games Design
Interested in a career in Games Design? Explore what it means to enter the world of designing games, from learning how to design to discovering the software that professional games designers use!
Tickets 2 | Age 14 - 19
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Dance Workshop with Adrienne Hart
Join Adrienne Hart, Artistic Director of Neon Dance, for an hour-long workshop that explores movement and working with props.
Tickets £2 | Age 16 - 25
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Screen Writing with the BBC
Natalie Mitchell has been a writer for Eastenders & the BBC from 2013-2024. This masterclass in screen writing will explore what it means to be a screen writer, explore how to write for a series and ultimately write your very own scene for screen!
Tickets £2 | Age 16 - 25
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Get Into Dance
Join Adrienne Hart, Artistic Director of Neon Dance, for a Q&A discussing her career to date alongside dancer Jason Yip. Those who have attended the Jason Yip or Adrienne Hart workshop on this day previous to the Q&A will not need to pay for tickets to this event.
Tickets £2 | Age 14 - 25
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Poetry Open Mic
Sit and enjoy one of the best cups of coffee Swindon can offer while listening to original poetry from a group of talented young writers and acoustic sets from the best of Swindon’s young musicians.
Signal are also looking for performers for this open mic! If you would like to perform, please click on find out more.
Tickets £2 | All ages welcome
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Ottr Short Film Night
An evening of short films made by local, emerging young film makers in Swindon. Hosted by Ottr Works, a home-grown video production company located right here in Swindon.
Doors open at 6:30pm with the event starting at 7:00pm.
Tickets £2 | Age 14 - 25
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Billy Beaumont: Mural 1
Young people will make artistic contributions to a mural based on the theme of Youth, particularly on the youth of Swindon and their identities. They are asked to come along and make their own contributions to the mural, adding their own personal flairs and pieces connected to their own identities.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 16
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Creating Solo Autobiographical Theatre
This workshop with Claudia Jefferies is aimed at young, emerging and aspiring theatre makers. Participants will be asked to arrive with some idea of a theme/area of their personal experience and/or identity that they’d like to explore creatively. Throughout the three hours, they will be guided, through free-writing and devising exercises, to create either the first five minutes of a new piece of work or an outline for a piece they would like to make.
Tickets £2 | Age 16 - 25
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Paul Dudbridge: Introduction To Film Directing
Covering the fundamentals of directing film and TV- working with actors.
Tickets £2 | Age 16 - 25
U Can’t Comedy Club
Book a table and grab some friends for the U Can’t Comedy Club and enjoy a night of laughs. Featuring some first-time comedians and regulars of the Optimist stage and hosted by Tim Dennis, you won’t want to miss this!
Just turn up, email Optimistbar@hopkettle.co.uk or message The Eternal Optimist on instagram to book your table!
Starts 7:30pm | Age 18+
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Sofa Screening
Sofa Screening of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at Create Studios.
Tickets £2 | Age 12A
Billy Beaumont: Mural 2
Young people will make artistic contributions to a mural based on the theme of Youth, particularly on the youth of Swindon and their identities. They are asked to come along and make their own contributions to the mural, adding their own personal flairs and pieces connected to their own identities.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 16
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Ellipsis Audio Walking Tour
Belén L.Yáñez presents Ellipsis, an immersive 60-minute audio experience presented as a walking tour in urban spaces.
Performances are 3.00 - 4.00 p.m. and 5.00 - 6.00 p.m.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Lou Hamilton: My Life In The Creative Arts
Lou Hamilton shares her journey as a podcaster writer, artist, coach, and BAFTA award-winning filmmaker.
SOLD OUT | Age 16 - 25
Grimm Tales
Prime Youth Theatre’s exciting production brings together a talented cast of young actors to work with professional creatives from the world of theatre. Puppetry, music, and physical theatre combine to conjure up a macabre mix of humour and wickedness to tell the stories of Little Red Riding Hood, The Frog King, Rapunzel, Hansel & Gretel, and The Juniper Tree. There will be a short pre-show performance by our CentreStage group in the theatre 15 minutes before the show begins.
Tickets £2 | Age 11-25
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Marie Antoinette Sofa Screening
Sofa Screening of Marie Antoinette at Create Studios.
SOLD OUT | Age 12
Audio & Podcasting Skills
Explore audio skills with radio journalist Marie Lennon.
Marie Lennon (BBC Wiltshire) guides you through the great world of sound. Be creative with noise, news, radio broadcasting and podcasts. You don’t need to use your own speaking voice if you’re excited to get others to do the talking for you!
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Writing Stories and Novels
Easy writing exercises with Wiltshire writer Barney Norris.
If you’ve ever fancied putting pen to paper or finger to keyboard, this workshop’s for you. Find out how to get ideas out on a page, create characters and leave a reader wanting more. Suitable for all. Start from scratch or bring something to share.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Art House
Art House is a full day of creative activity in and around Central Library and Swindon Dance. Workshops include podcasting, scrapbooking, dance, musical theatre and creative writing. Drop in and chill out creatively. Finish the day with an extra-special performance from Neon Dance. Everyone will have a home at Art House.
Age 11 - 25
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Acting through song in Musial Theatre
Dive into the unique story telling approach that is Musical Theatre! Simply rock up to the class without any preparation needed as Jayma will have two well-known songs ready for you to learn all together.
The workshop will include group singing and options to perform solo.
SOLD OUT | Age 11 - 18
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Video Game Design Workshop
Join a fun videogame design workshop where you’ll add your own puzzles and effects to the escape room-style adventure.
Reserve a place or simply turn up at the start of the session!
FREE | Age 11 - 16
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Dancing for TikTok
Join Harpavan in this Dancing for TikTok Workshop covering a variety of dance styles such as Street, Urban, Commercial and Dancehall. There will be opportunities to contribute your ideas to the choreography and film what you have done! Enjoyable for all ages and levels.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Manga Workshop
Learn to create your own unique character in manga/comic book style, using simple shapes and adding detail. No drawing experience or skills needed – just an interest. All materials provided.
Reserve a place or simply turn up at the start of the session!
FREE | Age 11 - 25
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Comic Strip Workshop
Learn to create a comic strip or storyboard using your own characters and style. No drawing experience or skills needed – just an interest. All materials provided.
Reserve a place or simply turn up at the start of the session!
FREE | Age 11 - 25
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Say What Swindon Needs
What change would you like to see? Drop into our Art House day at Swindon Central Library and complete a label that tells Swindon what it needs to be a great place for young people. Share your opinion. Influence change. See the demands and desires Swindon has for its future. These labels will be used to shape future activities with SBC.
All ages welcome | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Song Writing & Music Production
Interactive introduction to songwriting and the basics of producing music, using instruments and music software.
Covering where to start, the process, group songwriting, music production and recording!
No musical experience or equipment needed.
Reserve a place or simply turn up at the start of the session!
FREE | Age 11 - 25
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Beginner Hip Hop
Bringing beginner Hip Hop/Commercial to Signal Festival 2024! Combine the energetic fundamentals of Hip Hop with the modern groove and style of Commercial dance in a supportive and upligting environment.
Tickets Free | Age 11-16 and 17-25
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Start Writing Plays
Easy writing exercises with Wiltshire writer Barney Norris.
Barney Norris writes about being young and living in Wiltshire. In this fun and friendly workshop you’ll try simple and effective techniques for creating speeches, scenes and plays. Start from scratch or bring an idea you’ve been thinking about or even been working on!
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Grimm Tales
Prime Youth Theatre’s exciting production brings together a talented cast of young actors to work with professional creatives from the world of theatre. Puppetry, music, and physical theatre combine to conjure up a macabre mix of humour and wickedness to tell the stories of Little Red Riding Hood, The Frog King, Rapunzel, Hansel & Gretel, and The Juniper Tree. There will be a short pre-show performance by our CentreStage group in the theatre 15 minutes before the show begins.
Tickets £2 | Age 11-25
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Said and Done Improvisation by Neon Dance
Neon Dance in partnership with Prime Theatre present a 20-minute live improvised event at Swindon Central Library, featuring musician and composer Barry Ganberg (Rambert Dance School), dancers from the Swindon Centre for Advanced Training course and Neon Dance.
SOLD OUT | All ages welcome
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Folded Pocketbook Making
Join us to make a folded pocketbook. The book is made using card and a glue stick making it easy to create your own at home. You do not need any previous experience of paper folding; this activity is suitable for everyone and anyone!
Reserve a place or simply turn up at the start of the session!
FREE | Age 11 - 25
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Digital Day
Experience a plethora of online content from the comfort of your own home, spanning the entire length of the artistic world on Digital Day!
Now live!
All Ages
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LGBTQ+ Writing
Join Emma Barr, the creative drive behind Queer, There and Everywhere, online to explore queer stories through writing. In this workshop you will draw from your own experience and use different stimulus, such as lip sync-ing to audio to create original work.
Tickets £2 | Age 14 - 25
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A Day of Dance
If you’re looking for a way to keep entertained this summer, this day on a Youth Summer School promises to be an epic day. It'll be filled with dance workshops that explore new techniques and styles as well as allowing you to explore your own creativity. There will be no public sharing on this day so perfect for beginners or those lacking in confidence. Workshops on this day will cover Jazz technique, African Gumboot, Street and Bharatanatyam.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 16
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Here & Now: Historic England Photography Workshop
Develop your photography skills with Historic England’s Lead Photographer, James Davies.
Tickets £2 | Age 16 - 25
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Discover Kelmscott Manor
Kelmscott Manor was the inspirational home of William Morris, iconic writer, designer, activist and founding father of the Arts and Crafts movement. As part of your visit, you’ll explore the Manor and its extraordinary collection of objects and furniture designed and made by the Morris family and their friends. You’ll discover the natural environment that inspired some of William Morris’s most iconic patterns, before stepping inside the print studio to create your own designs.
Transport will be provided using a Swindon Borough Council minibus, leaving 10.00 a.m. from the Wyvern Theatre.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Drama for those with Additional Needs
Accessible Drama for teenagers with Reach Inclusive Arts.
Reach Inclusive Arts lead this fun and friendly workshop full of games and enjoyable drama exercises. Suitable for anyone with additional needs and supported by professional staff and young actors ready to help. Find new skills and make new friends.
Tickets £2 | Age 16 - 25
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Look Here - Open Exhibition
Signal Festival presents ‘Look Here’, an exciting and eclectic Open
Exhibition of mixed media artwork made by young people in Swindon.
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Another Day of Dance
If you’re looking for a way to keep entertained this summer, this day on a Youth Summer School promises to be an epic day. It'll be filled with dance workshops that explore new techniques and styles as well as allowing you to explore your own creativity. There will be public sharing at the end of this day. Dance workshops on this day will cover Contemporary technique, Choreography & Creative and Musical Theatre.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 16
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Intro to Composing for Film and Screen
Explore composition for film and screen and learn how to set the tone or change the mood of a scene. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll get the chance to work with scenes from popular films, discover how the composers bring them to life and create your own version.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Media Makeup SFX Workshop
Come and explore body painting techniques to create realistic looking wounds suitable for theatre. Using water based paints you will learn shading and highlighting techniques to create depth and realism in painting wounds.
With Sue Bardwell and Ellie Baskerville, makeup teachers/artists with over 20 years experience in the industry.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Let’s Talk Art: visual arts careers event
Careers in the Visual Arts don’t tend to follow a specific path, so Let’s Talk About Art will give you the chance to hear from a panel of visual artists who are working professionally in Swindon about how they developed their practice across a range of genres and in a variety of ways.
What questions would you have for the panel?
In collaboration with Artsite and MAS.
Tickets £2 | Age 16 - 25
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Exploring Activist Art
An empowering workshop led by Ruth Butler from Representation Matters
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Grow Up
Join Prime’s Youth Theatre as they premier the work that they have done on ‘Grow Up’, an exploration of youth, adulthood and how you travel from one to the other. Interact with the performers, share your opinions and shape what the work will become.
Content Warning - fight scenes and themes of death.
Tickets £2 | All ages welcome
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Outbox: Growing Up Queer
Join Swindon’s Ben Buratta and help Outbox theatre create their new play about teenage LGBTQ+ lives and loves. The play, ‘Graphic Content’ will mix illustration and performance. Enjoy a fun and supportive workshop about what young hearts in a caring, sharing, accepting world.
Tickets £2 | Age 14 - 25
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Music Gym
Would you love to play an instrument but don’t know where to start? Come and try as many as you’d like - from drums to piano to guitar to harmonica.
Music Gym is a fun and FREE way to try different instruments. Try just one or a variety, or join in with a small group workshop. Facilitated by professional musicians in a supportive, creative, non-judgemental space.
Reserve a place or simply turn up at the start of the session!
Ages 11-18
FREE | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Reduced Entry to STEAM Museum
Visit Swindon’s award-winning STEAM museum for only £1 and view three new special exhibitions exploring the story of modernisation on the Great Western Railway. Just turn up between 10:30am - 3:00pm and mention Signal festival to get discounted entry. You can also drop into Bridge Builders Session during the day to build bridges, using Polydron and bespoke wooden models of IKB’s bridges!
Tickets £1 | Age 11 - 25
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Get into Theatre & Film
Swindon's first ever theatre and film careers event hosted by Get into Theatre, and showcasing a wide range of local and national organisations including LAMDA, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and the BBC!
Tickets £2 | Age 14 - 25
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Caryn Koh Acrylics Workshop
Caryn gives a mini masterclass on the fundamentals of acrylic painting. By the end, you will have created a painting of your own to take home.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Eternal Optimist Music Night
Bringing the best of Swindon’s live music and special guests to Old Town. Headlined by Ellis Evason and Bille-Angela.
Just turn up, email Optimistbar@hopkettle.co.uk or message The Eternal Optimist on instagram to book your table!
Starts 7:00pm | Age 18+
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Zine Workshop with Riley Mathers
A workshop to learn how to make simple zines with an A4 piece of paper with a brief history on how zines first came into being. No artistic or writing skills needed!
Tickets £2 | Age 16 - 25
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LAMDA - An Introduction to Production and Technical Arts
Explore the Production and Technical careers that exist in theatre, film and TV in this practical workshop with LAMDA.
Tickets £2 | Age 16 - 25
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Songwriting Skills
Musician Aga Serugo-Lugo helps you explore songwriting in all its styles and skills. For aspiring composers and lyricists of all kinds and levels of experience. You don’t need to play, you don’t need to sing, you don’t need to write…you just need an idea!
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Meet Mrs Smith - History Alive
Meet Mrs Smith as she opens her home at the Railway Village Museum.
Actor and history addict Louise Jordan guides you through her house in this exclusive tour. Discover life in Swindon in 1901. A housewife shares her busy day with a husband a at the railway works and children at school.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 -25
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LAMDA - Audition Preparation workshop
A workshop designed to give you all the tools you need to succeed in your next audition.
Tickets £2 | Age 16 - 25
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Hands on Film Workshop - Get close up with professional cameras!
Get hands on and try out your camera skills and understand team working to get the best shots - from industry kit, through to your phone - there are ways to get the best shots to tell a captivating story.
Tickets £2 | Age 13 - 16
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Opening Up Opera
An easy and fun exploration of opera and The Magic Flute!
Ace musician and opera expert Aga Serugo-Lugo helps blast away stereotypes and reclaim the fun in this working-class art form. Aga will help you enter the wild world of Mozart’s Magic Flute. No experience or Italian needed! Bring an instrument if you like!
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Tap & Brew Open Mic & Music Night
Sign up to perform at Tap & Brew's open mic or come along for an enjoyable evening of live music!
Starts 5:00pm | All ages welcome
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Online Free Write Workshop lead by Riley Mathers
Our Young Producer Riley will facilitate this online workshop aimed to help you work on writing by encouraging discussions amongst the group, leading sprints and having lists of prompts and scenarios at their fingertips if you’re not sure how to start. No matter if you're a seasoned author or novice storyteller, all are welcome.
Tickets £2 | Age 16 - 25
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Real words, real people, real life: Verbatim Theatre
How real words said by real people make verbatim theatre
Robin Belfield shows you how real people, experiences and words make great scripts. Learn how the most exciting theatre keeps all the ums, errs and dunnos. An easy workshop for people interested in theatre or just in seeing more people like them on stage.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Town Gardens Takeover
An entire day of pop-up performances and creative arts workshops. There will be Live music 11 - 5 pm, so come down grab a coffe and listen. Join in with some Writing, Poetry, Art journalling, Shakespeare as so much more!
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HerStories & Songs
Mini-concerts from musician Louise Jordan. Songs about extraordinary women covering spies, smugglers, suffragettes, and scientists. Listen and learn about the fabulous and fascinating females history often forgets. Louise is a Wiltshire based songwriter and performer with a Masters in Human Rights. Rock up to Town Gardens to watch & listen!
Age 11 - 25
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Art Journaling in Nature at Town Gardens
Have fun creating a nature-themed art journal page on a walk and draw through Town Gardens with artist and illustrator Jo Beal.
Learn tips for art journaling outdoors and on the move to help you record what you see, hear, feel and more using drawing and creative lettering. No experience needed and all materials provided.
Tickets £2 | Age 11-25
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Have a go at Shakespeare
Come and play with bits of Shakespeare supported by Robin Belfield.
Love Shakespeare? Hate Shakespeare? Never tried it?
Here's a perfect opportunity to try your voice with extracts from A Midsummer Night's Dream surrounded by Swindon's own beautiful natural landscape!
Robin Belfield creates and directs theatre of all kinds, from panto to musicals to Shakespeare.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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How to Predict the Future
Have you ever wanted to learn how to predict the future? Perhaps Bow&Arrow can teach you, or maybe even tell you what tomorrow holds.
A performance that combines music, theatre and live spooky happenings to teach you how to predict the future.
Tickets £2 | Age 14+
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Eternal Optimist Music Night
Bringing the best of Swindon’s live music and special guests to Old Town. Headlined by local legends Better Heaven.
Just turn up, email Optimistbar@hopkettle.co.uk or message The Eternal Optimist on instagram to book your table!
Starts 8:30pm | Age 18+
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Reduced Entry to Lydiard House Museum
Visit the wonderful Lydiard House Museum for only £1 and wander through the elegant State Rooms, where ornate plasterwork and original family furnishings are on display alongside portraits and photographs of the St John family, who lived here from Elizabethan times. Just turn up between 11am - 3:30pm and mention Signal festival to get discounted entry.
Tickets £1 | Age 11 - 25
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Art Journaling in Nature at Lydiard
Have fun creating a nature-themed art journal page on a walk and draw through the Walled Garden at Lydiard House and Park with artist and illustrator Jo Beal.
Learn tips for art journaling outdoors and on the move to help you record what you see, hear, feel and more using drawing and creative lettering. No experience needed and all materials provided.
Tickets £2 | Age 11-25
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Live at Lydiard
Watch, listen or take part in an entire day of creative arts workshops at Lydiard House Museum and enjoy a line-up of Open Mic music and theatre performances!
Bring a picnic and stay all day!
Full programme coming soon.
Click here to sign up for Open Mic slots
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Find Your Voice, Raise Some Noise
Play with words alongside poet/spoken word artist Saili Katebe. Saili mixes language, performance and live storytelling. You don’t need to be full of confidence, just feel like you have something to say about the world you live in.
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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Write & Draw Women from Swindon History
Writer and illustrator Flis Tattersall uses famous and not-so-famous Swindon females as inspiration. Explore creative writing and visual art, no experience needed - try both or just choose one you are more comfortable with. All materials provided. All genders welcome.
Tickets £2 | Age 14 - 25
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Banner Making
Come and stitch or print your own banner with stitch social banners and make your feelings clear!
You’ll have access to fabric, letter press blocks, inks and a huge variety of sewing materials in order to create your very own banner!
Tickets £2 | Age 11 - 25
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