Chichester BID

Make a Fairy House Workshop at Biscuit Pottery
2025-08-22 10:30 - 13:00 UTC | Biscuit Pottery, 16 The Hornet, Drapers Yard, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 7JG
Come and join us for a hand building workshop making your own fairy house for the garden.
Using white Stoneware clay you will build your house using the slab method and it will be both water and frost proof so it can live in the garden all year round.
You will have lots of clay to add detail to your house and we have a wide selection of slips and underglazes for you to decorate so you can make your house really special to you.
This workshop costs £30 and can be booked here.

Board Games for Families at Chichester Library
2025-08-23 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-27 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-25 09:00 - 16:00 | Chichester Library, Tower Street, Chichester, West Sussex, PO191QJ
Drop in to play board games with other families every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month, 9.00am-4.00pm.
Please contact Chichester Library for more details.

Chichester's Emergency Services & Community Day
2025-08-24 10:00 - 16:00 | Oaklands Park
FREE Entry – Donations WelcomeCome and enjoy a fantastic day out for the whole family as we celebrate the amazing work of our emergency services and community partners! Live demonstrations Emergency and military vehicles on display Meet crews from Fire, Police, Ambulance, Coastguard, RNLI, the Armed Forces, Royal Navy, and RAF Family fun zone, food court, stalls, music, stage shows, and local charities Dog training area – bring your well-behaved dogs along to join the fun! Careers & recruitment stands Interactive activities and competitionsThis is your chance to get up close with the services that keep our communities safe while enjoying a day packed with excitement, learning, and entertainment.We would love to see you there!

The Hole in the Wall Street Party!
2025-08-24 12:00 - 20:00 | The Hole in the Wall, 1 St Martins Street, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1NP
Join us for our legendary street parties featuring live music, 25+ beers & ciders, quality street food, and Chichester’s vibrant music scene and local talent!

Make an Artwork Workshop at Pallant House Gallery
2025-08-25 13:30 - 15:00 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
Carve your own mini soap sculpture inspired by Barbara Hepworth’s Single Form, Nocturne (1968).

Adults must accompany their children throughout this workshop. Please note, this workshop is designed to allow enough time for everyone to complete their artwork – some children may not require the full 1.5 hours.
This session is suitable for children aged 5+.
Why not make a day of it and take part in our morning Meet an Artwork too?
This workshop costs £7.50 and can be booked here.

Summer Art Club: Sculpting Clay Faces at Pallant House Gallery
2025-08-27 11:00 - 14:00 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
Be inspired by everything from famous portraits to church gargoyles to mould a face in clay, adding lots of features to create a truly unique portrait!
Join Artist Educator Helen Friend for this Summer Art Club workshop exploring clay techniques. You will start by visiting the Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists exhibition at the Gallery. This will inspire us to start drawing faces, thinking about the different shapes of each feature (eyes, nose, mouth) and all of the details on the face, such as eyelashes, eyebrows and even moustaches and beards!
We will be using hand-building techniques and clay modelling tools to help us create our wonderful air dry clay portraits. Adding lots of detail to our faces, such as crazy hairstyles or magnificent hats will make them look even more fabulous!
What is Summer Art Club?
This is a series of studio workshops for children, exploring a range of media in a fun and friendly environment. These workshops are led by experienced artist educators who specialise in working with children and young people. They are designed for children aged 7+ with a selection of dates across the summer holidays.
Parents or carers are not required to stay for these workshops, although you are welcome to do so should you prefer.
Please provide a packed lunch for your child.
There are six sessions to choose from. Pay £22 per session or mix and match any three for £60. Just add your selected workshops to the basket and the discount will be applied at checkout.
Click here for the full range of Summer Art Club workshops

Summer Art Club: Prints and Pieces Collagraph at Pallant House Gallery
2025-08-28 11:00 - 14:00 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
Learn how to create a series of beautiful images using a printing technique called collagraph*.
Artist Educator Helen Friend will lead you through this Summer Art Club workshop, exploring patterns, shapes and forms from works in our collection and using them as inspiration to create our own unique design for a collagraph block. We might choose to arrange our patterns and shapes to resemble a face, or a landscape, or we might want to make a wonderful decorative pattern out of them.
Once our collagraph blocks are made, we will then print them onto a range of different papers, using specialist printing inks, to create wonderfully unique works of art.
* A collagraph is a collage of materials of various textures glued on to a printing plate. The plate is often made of thin wood or card.
What is Summer Art Club?
This is a series of studio workshops for children, exploring a range of media in a fun and friendly environment. These workshops are led by experienced artist educators who specialise in working with children and young people. They are designed for children aged 7+ with a selection of dates across the summer holidays.
Parents or carers are not required to stay for these workshops, although you are welcome to do so should you prefer.
Please provide a packed lunch for your child.
There are six sessions to choose from. Pay £22 per session or mix and match any three for £60. Just add your selected workshops to the basket and the discount will be applied at checkout.
Click here for the full range of Summer Art Club workshops

Summer Art Club: Tiny Worlds Photography at Pallant House Gallery
2025-08-29 11:00 - 14:00 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
Join us for this Summer Art Club workshop – a photoshoot with a difference!
This Summer Art Club workshop will be led by Artist Educator Helen Friend, who will help you design your own tiny worlds complete with teeny, tiny people whilst learning about how to capture your creations on camera.
Imagine you are a tiny person living in a magical world, where there are broccoli trees and cereal bowl swimming pools full of Cheerio rubber rings!
You can create your own unique world, using everyday objects and favourite foods to build your imaginative landscapes. Then take a photoshoot of your hand-made scenes to show all your friends and family!!
All materials, miniature figures and camera will be provided by the Gallery to capture your images.
What is Summer Art Club?
This is a series of studio workshops for children, exploring a range of media in a fun and friendly environment. These workshops are led by experienced artist educators who specialise in working with children and young people. They are designed for children aged 7+ with a selection of dates across the summer holidays.
Parents or carers are not required to stay for these workshops, although you are welcome to do so should you prefer.
Please provide a packed lunch for your child.
There are six sessions to choose from. Pay £22 per session or mix and match any three for £60. Just add your selected workshops to the basket and the discount will be applied at checkout.
Click here for the full range of Summer Art Club workshops

Craft Club: Summer Scrapbook at Jam Cafe
2025-08-30 10:30 - 12:30, 2025-08-30 13:00 - 15:00 | JAM Cafe, 33 Southgate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1DP
Bring along any bits and pieces that remind you of your summer holidays and crate into your very own scrapbook!
Tickets cost £5 and can be purchased here.

Open Day at Pallant House Gallery
2025-09-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
Visit our exhibitions for FREE
Find out more about our incredible collection of art with our Highlights of the Collection tours
Let our Curatorial team unveil the fascinating stories behind some of our artworks in our Library Show and Tell
Join our Artist Educators for a range of fun, drop-in creative activities suitable for all ages
Discover the story of our Gallery and Historic House with our Secrets of Pallant House Gallery guided tour
Take part in our Portrait Challenge, where we’ll be asking you to draw a portrait with a difference!

Whether you’re a seasoned art lover or just curious, there’s something for everyone. Bring your friends, bring your family, and most importantly—bring your imagination!
No booking required. Just turn up and enjoy!

Shippam's Family Day at The Novium Museum
2025-09-20 11:00 - 15:00 | Novium Musuem, 1 Tower Street, Chichester, PO19 1QH, United Kingdom
Celebrate the story of one of Chichester’s most iconic businesses at our Shippam’s Family Day – a fun, hands-on event suitable for all ages.
Children can enjoy themed craft activities inspired by the Shippam’s brand, while grown-ups can explore fascinating stories and share memories of a local company that left a lasting impression on generations.
Handle real objects from the Shippam’s archive, dive into family-friendly heritage trails, and take part in memory-sharing sessions that bring the past to life. No need to book – just drop in and join the fun!
11am – 3pm | Free | Drop In

Listeners Lounge at Jam Cafe
2025-09-20 19:00, 2025-10-18 19:00 | JAM Cafe, 33 Southgate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1DP
Join Jam Cafe every third Saturday of the month for their listeners lounge where they’ll have 3 talented artists performing.
Doors at 7pm
Tickets-
Adults – £3
Under 18s- Free

Fold Our City at CFT
2025-10-25 11:00 - 15:30 | Chichester Festival Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester, PO19 6AP
Join us at this free family event where we will create our wonderful city in a day. Using handy templates (designed by our friends A Line Art), you can craft favourite landmarks or invent your own, and together we will build a large origami model inspired by our local area and community. It’s all about having fun so come along and get creative!
Fold Our City returns offering families and friends a fun, free activity over October half term. So, come rain or shine, drop into the Theatre and spend some time creating your favourite local landmarks (and people!) to add to our giant 3D map.
Our welcoming Café on the Park serving barista coffee, delicious cake, pizza and sandwiches, as well as healthy snacks and drinks for the kids, will be open and you can check out our family spaces where children can discover toys, colouring-in, chalkboards, fancy dress and books in the nooks.
It’s free and fun for all the family – just drop in from 11am; we recommend last entry at 3.30pm so you get to finish your masterpieces! We hope you can make it.

Halloween Workshops at Lush
2025-10-27 10:30, 2025-10-27 12:30, 2025-10-28 10:30, 2025-10-28 12:30, 2025-10-29 10:30, 2025-10-29 12:30, 2025-10-30 10:30, 2025-10-30 12:30 and 2 more dates | Lush, 87 East Street, Chichester, PO19 1HA
Welcome to Lush Chichester Halloween Workshops! Join us at Lush Cosmetics Chichester for a spook-tacular event filled with fun and creativity. Get ready to learn how to make your own Halloween-themed bath bomb and get hands on in some games and activities! Our talented staff will guide you through the process, so don’t worry if you’re a beginner. This is a fantastic opportunity to get into the Halloween spirit and create your own bath bomb to enjoy at home. Don’t miss out on this exciting event – sign up now!

Join us instore for 45 minutes of Spook-tacular fun at one of our Lush Chichester Halloween Party workshops!
What is included:

Exclusive Halloween Bath Bomb making workshop which you get to take home with you

Halloween games and activities using our iconic products

Take home a Goodie Bag of limited edition LUSH samples!

! To get into the spooky season fancy dress is encouraged !
Minor’s Policy:

Age 5+ and over

16+: No supervision needed

Cost: £15 per participant attending
Book your space here.

Create Your Own Cathedral Window at Pallant House Gallery
2025-10-28 - 2025-11-02 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
Create your own colourful cathedral window
In collaboration with Chichester Cathedral, Pallant House Gallery invites you to create your own colourful cathedral window in this FREE self-led studio activity.
Inspired by Chichester950 Light Experience we will be celebrating the wonderful effects of light and colour, using a selection of Chichester’s finest historic windows as inspiration, including Chichester Cathedral’s Marc Chagall window and Pallant House Gallery’s wonderful picture window. Make your own beautiful window out of craft materials which you can then add to our Studio’s mini-exhibition, enhanced with our very own special lighting effects!
Want to get some inspiration? Why not visit Chichester Cathedral’s Chichester950 Light Experience installation by Luxmuralis before dropping into the Pallant House Gallery Studio for this self-led activity available all day. Feel free to visit anytime to create your artwork using the materials and templates provided. You can take it home or leave it with us to display.
Free Drop-in

Family Workshop | Light: Illuminated Windows at Pallant House Gallery
2025-10-29 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-10-30 13:30 - 15:00 | Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
Create your own illuminated stained glass style window.
Inspired by Chichester950 Light Experience we will be celebrating the wonderful effects of light and colour throughout October half term.
In this family workshop, we will visit some of the windows of Pallant House Gallery for inspiration before returning to the studio to create our own beautiful windows. We will use a range of materials to replicate the effects of stained glass and if you choose to, you can then add your finished work to our studio display.
Tickets cost £4 and can be purchased here.
Please note:
Adults must remain with their child throughout this workshop.
