Bluecoat
With a city centre location and striking, Grade I listed building, the Bluecoat offers a dynamic programme of exhibitions and events, an award-winning programme for families and children and a bustling café serving delicious homemade meals. Our legendary garden is open all year round, it’s the perfect spot for a coffee break.
We’re also home to several independent retailers and creative businesses. From wedding dresses and handmade gifts to vintage records and house plants, get your shopping fix while you’re here.
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- Bluecoat: Birds, Bugs and Botanicals of the Bluecoat: A Blue Room Exhibition - 20.9.25 - 12.10.25 - 11:00 - 17:00
- Bluecoat: Introduction to UV Screen Printing on Fabric - 6.9.25 - 11:00 - 17:00
- Bluecoat: Direct Monoprint Techniques - 30.8.25 - 11:00 - 17:00
- Bluecoat: Introduction to Copper Sulphate Etching - 21.6.25 - 11:00 - 17:00
- Tracing the Independents Biennial - 7.6.25 - 14.9.25 - All Day
- Tony Phillips: Above Us Only Sky? - 7.6.25 - 14.9.25 - All Day
- Bluecoat: TetraPak Printing - 31.5.25 - 11:00 - 16:30
- Bluecoat: Garden Cyanotypes: Family Print Session - 28.5.25 - 12:00 - 15:00
- Bluecoat: Bluecoat's Big Music Weekend: Family Print Session - 25.5.25 - 13:00 - 15:00
- Bluecoat: Bluecoat's Big Music Weekend: Open Mic in the Garden - 24.5.25 - 12:00 - 17:00
- Bluecoat: Bluecoat\'s Big Music Weekend: Archive Drop-in Session - 24.5.25 - 11:00 - 16:00
- Bluecoat: Joanne Masding: Body of Pieces Live Reading - 8.5.25 - 18:00 - 19:00
- Bluecoat: Exploring Bhanu Kapil\'s Ban-en-Banlieue - 7.5.25 - 17:30 - 19:30
- Bluecoat: Introduction to UV Screen Printing - 26.4.25 - 11:00 - 17:00
- Bluecoat: Introduction to Multi-Colour Lino Cut - 12.4.25 - 11:00 - 17:00
- Bluecoat: Lino Printed Postcards - 5.4.25 - 12:00 - 15:00
- Bluecoat: Rowena Harris: Long-Covid and the Culture of Disbelief - 4.4.25 - 11.5.25 - 11:00 - 17:00
- Bluecoat: Joanne Masding: The Moveable Scene of the Page - 4.4.25 - 11.5.25 - 11:00 - 17:00
- Bluecoat: All Together Now: Portraits by Veronica Watson - 4.4.25 - 4.5.25 - 11:00 - 17:00
- Bluecoat: Exploring Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee (1982) - 2.4.25 - 17:30 - 19:30






