Winter Warmer Fête @ the Baltic 🎄🍪

Join us for gingerbread making, some coffee and conversation, talks about trees(!), a guided tour of the exhibitions and a creative crafts market as the season of winter wonder begins at the Baltic! 🎅🏻

We’ll convene in the café from 11.45am onwards to gather together and chat with one another before heading up to our first adventure: Tree Stories, which begins at 12.15pm ☕️

Discover more about the secret world of trees with a local tree expert, and explore 'Heartwood', an exhibition of five tree prints created from a disc of the felled Sycamore Gap tree’s trunk. We’ll follow the storyteller for an engaging woodland tale with the prints as a backdrop 🌳

At 1.30pm, there’s a guided tour to enjoy, offering a little extra insight on the current exhibitions and the history of the building and the gallery 🖼️

After that, we can browse the Endless Love Creative Makers Market and the Happy Mart Pop-Up Shop, with over 60 art, design and craft stalls to explore. It’ll be a great opportunity for some unique gift buying, if you want to get going with your Christmas shopping! 🎁

There’s all sorts on offer, including ceramics, jewellery, textiles, print, illustration, botanicals and homeware. We’ve gone along to these before and been super impressed by what we find. We always come away with something! 🛍️

There’s also a winter raffle to parttake in, with prizes to win! Entry to the makers’ market costs £2. You can pre-book here; we would suggest the 2pm-3pm arrival slot.

Finally, we’ll head to the Front Room to chat and chill and create some Christmas cookies! There’ll be gingerbread to decorate and to eat as we discuss what we’ve viewed and what we’ve bought, and enjoy getting to know one another better 🍪

Feel free to join whenever during the day; we’ll stay in touch via the comment section to keep you posted about where we are. If we get hungry at any point, we can retreat to the café for snacks.

Let the festive fun begin, folks! 🤩🎄