https://www.creativehertfordshire.com/listings/events/?archive=1&user=5754&view=rss Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/opening-reception-enchanted-alchemies-17-00-18-30/ Join us for the opening of Enchanted Alchemies – a group exhibition exploring magic, mystery and folklore drawn from the University of Hertfordshire Art Collection! Celebrate the launch of the exhibition with an eveni... Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/finissage/ Celebrate the past, present and future of St Albans School of Art at a special closing event for 'Firm Foundations Part II' – and your last chance to see the exhibition before it closes! Join us for an evening of crea... Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/romeo-juliet-james-mayhew/ Celebrate love and music with the de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra! Enjoy enchanting extracts from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and The Love for Three Oranges Suite, while children’s author and illustrator James Mayhe... Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/sat-art-day-july2024/ Join us this Sat-ART-day to explore Weaving Relations – an exciting showcase of textile works by artist Nicola Moody. Come and get creative – make, see, and hear about the exhibition! Kick off the summer holidays with... Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/university-of-hertfordshire-de-havilland-campus/ Don’t miss this performance of Passengers by award-winning writer Kit Redstone. Securing multiple 5* reviews, Passengers is a semi-autobiographical dark comedy that explores identity, mental health and how the mind copes... Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/photogram-workshop/ Join UH Arts + Culture to create your very own photograms, discover the magic of the darkroom and learn about illustration! In the first part of this workshop, you'll be invited to a short tour of our World Illustrati... Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/sat-art-day-illustration/ Join us this Sat-ART-day to explore the World Illustration Awards Touring Exhibition– a showcase of exciting new illustrations from across the globe! Come and get creative – make, see, and hear about the exhibition! Thi... Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/summer-solstice-concert/ Join UH Arts + Culture for their final concert of the season to mark the Summer Solstice, with beautiful summery tunes performed by our resident de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra. • Smetana – Vysehrad from Má Vlast... Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/echoes-of-elegance-berlioz-saint-sa-ns-elgar/ Join de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra on a journey through the Romantic era in a perfect prelude to the upcoming festive season! The concert opens with the dashing Roman Carnival based on themes from Berlioz’ opera... Wed, 05 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/design-in-practice/ Design in Practice is the second showcase of extensive work produced by alumni from the School of Creative Arts. This digital exhibition brings together product and interior designers, architects, model makers and fashio... Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/together-portraiture/ UH Arts + Culture proudly present Together – an exhibition of portraits from the University of Hertfordshire Art Collection, in its inaugural year as an Accredited Museum. A small snapshot into the multiplicity of hum... Sun, 19 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/weston-auditorium-mosquito-way-hatfield-al10-9eu-uk/ Six remarkable stories from James Mayhew's award winning book' Once Upon a Tune' are brought to life in music and illustration live on stage. Be swept away by tales of trolls and flying carpets, swans and bumble-bees,... Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/sat-art-day-free-art-activities/ It's the final Saturday of the 'Static' art exhibition by Fiona Curran presented by University of Hertfordshire Arts + Culture, and that means it's our Sat-ART-day! Come and get creative – make, see, and hear about the e... Sat, 28 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/sat-art-day2/ Join us for some Half Term fun this Sat-ART-day and explore Together – an exhibition of portraits from the University of Hertfordshire Art Collection! Come and get creative – make, see, and hear about the exhibition. ... Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/inside-the-world-of-illustration-in-conversation-free-talk/ To coincide with our World Illustration Awards Touring Exhibition, UH Arts + Culture are delighted to host this FREE In Conversation event, chaired by Senior Lecturer in Illustration at the University of Hertfordshire, D... Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/hp/ Based around found objects this semi-autobiographical one woman show starts by introducing the audience to a flat caught between two timelines and personalities: the home of Anne Clarke during 70s bohemian Brighton, and... Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/beyond-the-battlefields-k-the-buchler-s-photographs-of-germany/ Beyond the Battlefields is assembled from a unique series of images made by Photographer Käthe Buchler (1876-1930) made before, during and after the First World War in Germany. Buchler’s exquisitely posed portraits an... Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/bringing-arts-alive-in-hatfield/ This exciting performance will be supported by various arts organisations, schools and professional creative practitioners in order to create an exciting event for all to enjoy. Mid Herts Youth Orchestra  (Hertfordshi... Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/fantastic-pictures/ The orchestra will perform Berlioz’ Symphony Fantastique whilst James explores its highly appropriate subtitle ‘An episode in the Life of an Artist, in Five Parts’. The Symphony contains some wonderfully rich and evocati... Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/double-bill/ Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black celebrates dancers of black and Asian descent. As part of their latest double bill, renowned British choreographer Cathy Marston choreographs a new ballet based on Can Themba’s moving fable Th... Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/sonic-herts/ Sonic Herts is the University of Hertfordshire’s annual music festival run by students and staff and open to all. The programme offers an exhilarating mix of performances ranging from classic to experimental, from acoust... Tue, 08 May 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/guesthouse/ A grandmother, mother and a daughter have to set aside differences as they decide the fate of their family-run Guesthouse. Battling family demons and the crashing waves of a troubled past, tensions are high in Clacto... Sun, 13 May 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/english-seascapes/ The sea has been a rich inspiration for composers living in the British Isles and our concert opens with The Sea by Frank Bridge followed by Elgar’s much loved Sea Pictures featuring our Hatfield and District Music Festi... Sat, 19 May 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/sarah-and-duck/ Join Sarah and Duck and a host of your favourite friends including The Ribbon Sisters, The Shallots, Flamingo & John and Umbrella, as they plan a birthday party for Scarf Lady in their garden. Told through a fantastic bl... Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/whats-on-2022-play-full-workshop/ Join artist Sarah Evans for a creative lunch / afternoon break in the Art + Design Gallery Cafe at the University of Hertfordshire. Create your own artworks exploring shape, colour and relationships inspired by the id... Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/what-we-do-in-the-shadows/ Book your seat for a unique music event offering a rare insight into the activity associated with scoring music to moving image. A dynamic string quartet will work live with Rob Wright (Head of Music in School of Crea... Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/elstree-originals-present-the-railway-children/ For eight years, the University of Hertfordshire has worked on ‘The Elstree Project’ to celebrate the output of Elstree and Borehamwood’s studios, by recording almost 70 oral history interviews with cast and crew members... Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/young-people-s-book-making-workshop/ Thursday 5 April, 2pm Share your stories about local places and fill pages of your very own miniature book. We would like to invite you to join local artist Jane Glynn to participate in a bookmaking workshop and ex... Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/whats-on-2022-volatile-creatures/ UH Arts + Culture, at the University of Hertfordshire, is delighted to be hosting a celebration of abstract artist Graham Boyd this summer, focussing on three key periods in his career. The show captures how different me... Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/art-and-design-gallery-university-of-hertfordshire-hatfield/ Explore basketry then and weave your own story for today. New Geographies is a project redrawing the map of East England through stories and reflections of overlooked or forgotten places. Join us for an afternoon of ... Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/dreaming-art-beyond-the-gallery/ Dreaming: Art beyond the Gallery UHArts invites you to come, re-think and re-contextualise art outside the gallery. Open to all those interested in art in the public sphere, including art-lovers, students, artists, arts... Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/reflections-artist-working-in-a-covid-context/ Artists’ event to share ideas on working in a changing world – post 2020 and COVID. See what other artists have been up to during lockdown and tier restrictions. Join in an informal conversation on strategies to make t... Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/masquerade/ Susie MacMurray dresses the splendid Assembly Room with a specially commissioned sculptural installation. Taking inspiration from the room’s former function, Susie uses a combination of silk velvet and raw wire to commen... Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/accumulate/ The new St Albans Museum + Gallery opens June 8 following the transformation of St Albans’ Town Hall. UH Arts is delighted to be a partner in this pioneering project, contributing a range of exhibitions and events. The d... Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/private-peaceful/ Direct from London's west end Commemorating the 100th year anniversary of the end of World War One, Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. Durin... Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/the-fishermen/ In a small Nigerian town, unbeknown to their parents, four young brothers decide to go fishing at a forbidden river. They meet a local madman who utters a terrifying prophecy that one will kill the other. At that moment ... Thu, 03 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/colour-snap/ “Colour is a physical phenomenon, not just a visual one”. – James Turrell Colour has a profound effect on us even though we may not be aware of it. Colour represents, more than any other attribute of our visual experien... Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/inside-the-art-collection/ The exhibition showcases artworks from the Collection store of the UH Art Collection – to highlight some of the gems that we have acquired over the years but which currently have no publicly accessible home. Many of the ... Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/artist-in-residency-upswing/ UH Arts are delighted to be hosting circus theatre company Upswing in our art gallery for the final part of a two year long partnership. Inspired by the pioneering research of Dr Theo Gilbert, University of Hertfordsh... Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/r-ves-de-la-france-de-havilland-philharmonic-orchestra/ De Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra take us on an exhilarating musical journey across France with Ravel, Maurice and Bizet, before treating us to a symphony by Belgium’s most celebrated composer Cesar Franck. Concert ... Sun, 07 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/weston-auditorium/ Launching our new season by celebrating the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth with American music. The de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra opens the 2018-2019 season with a celebration of the centenary of Leonar... Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/in-flanders-fields/ To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, the de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra presents this unique and profoundly moving concert featuring music composed by Butterworth, Gurney and Vaughan Williams aro... Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/what-we-leave-behind/ This is a spoken word (poetry) event for students, staff and the general public to attend at lunchtime. What We Leave Behind explores loss and legacy using wit, warmth and funeral tunes. The show was originally develo... Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/dracula/ This Halloween, join us for the launch of our new season with this screening of Hammer classic ‘Scars of Dracula’. After the screening we will be welcoming actress Jenny Hanley (Sarah Framsen) and Chair of Elstree Stud... Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/together-lunchtime-exhibition-tour-2024/ It's your last chance to see our portraiture exhibition – don't miss this exclusive opportunity to learn about your local art collection! Join us for a guided curator's tour of our exhibition, Together – a diverse sho... Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/responding-to-art-with-words/ As part of the ‘Inside the Art Collection’ exhibition, UHArts is hosting a workshop that invites students, staff and visitors to consider how we might write about art. Run by artist Helena McGrath, this 2-hour worksho... Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/st-albans-museum-gallery/ From mid November, local artists Suman Gujral and Jane Glynn will exhibit in the Keeper's Galleries, bringing their autobiographical, considered approaches to these former domestic rooms. The artists use drawing, printma... Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/labyrinth/ Join us for a screening of Labyrinth (1986) starring David Bowie & directed by George Lucas. This event will include an interview with Assistant Director Ken Baker. In partnership with Studio Canal, and hosted by Howa... Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/a-clockwork-orange/ This March join us for this screening of A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess. Set in futuristic Britain, the dystopian crime film follows Alex, whose gang sets o... Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativehertfordshire.com/uharts/who-framed-roger-rabbit/ Come and enjoy the first days of Spring with our exciting outdoor pop up screening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. In collaboration with the Student Union. With special guest interview from Barry Wilkinson, BAFTA award winn...