This May Half Term
JOIN THE HERDS
HERDS EVENTS
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HAPPY HOMES FOR HEDGEHOGS
Saturday, May 24, 2025
11:00 AM 3:00 PM
Join Family Art Club for an extended session exploring the lives of hedgehogs. Play at being a hedgehog, create their perfect garden, and build and take away a puppet made from recycled cardboard.
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PUFFIN FINGER PUPPETS
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
10:00 AM 12:00 PM
Family Art Club participants will explore the coastal lives of puffins, and the food they eat. Come and catch some fish with our puffin finger puppets!
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PUPPETEER FILMS
Wednesday, May 28 - Saturday, May 31
As The Herds make their way from Central Africa, you can visit The Exchange to see some of the incredible puppeteers talk about their work creating the large-scale puppets, and the smaller ones that we will be making and using for a series of Family Art Club sessions.
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BUILD A HEDGEHOG HOME
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
10:30 AM 12:30 PM
Join The Exchange and Men in Sheds to make a series of Hedgehog Homes that will be housed across public spaces in North Bexley, creating safe havens and safe route through our built-up borough.
Whilst making these houses, you will learn basic woodworking techniques and learn about the habitats of the UK’s favourite animal, the hedgehog.
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SAVE THE SEA TURTLES
Friday, May 30, 2025
10:00 AM 12:00 PM
At this Family Art Club session, you will build a Sea Turtle puppet and help it to find its way out of a maze of hidden dangers in our seas.
ABOUT THE HERDS
THE HERDS is public art and climate action on an unprecedented scale - an ambitious coming together of culture and climate. From April to August 2025, life-size puppet animals will travel a 20,000km route from the Congo Basin to the Artic Circle, symbolizing their flight from climate disaster. THE HERDS unites leading artists and organisations committed to driving change, including The Exchange.
Supported by the Art Fund, The Exchange’s Habitats & Homes programme explores the habitats of some of our favourite animals and craft of puppet-making.
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