We have some amazing workshops on offer at this year’s Dearne Community Arts’ Festival, happening on Saturday 27 September 2025 between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. at Astrea Academy Dearne in Goldthorpe.

Funded workshops include Circus Skills, hot wax painting, AmazeLab’s pompom cannons, henna designs & paper flower making, making a crankie theatre with Rebecca Dye, writing workshops with John Irving C;larke and metal embossing (new for this year) with Hannah Lord from Flying Fish Studios., Outdoors we’ll have spray painting with Jayde Marie Bell (Eye Violet) and nature art with James Brunt.

We are grateful for all the local organisations who run workshops for us, including Barnsley Museums (poppy making), Barnsley Libraries (crafts), Goldthorpe Brownies & Guides (glass engraving) and Kathryn Wild (creative writing.) We’re also grateful to DCAF volunteers who will be running workshops with sand art, glass painting and sock puppet making this year.