What's On and Things To Do Around Willenhall

The Colourful Salsa Party is Wolverhampton’s prime Latin party, boasting the biggest international artists in the world of salsa with a leading guest teacher each month. We have a different colour theme for each month; this month’s colour is (check website for details).

Bootleg Blondie: Tickets avaiable.

Nightclub event for people with learning disabilities or learning difficulties, a great place for you to come and experience a nightclub within a safe environment. also a great place for you to meet new friends.

Bon Accord quartet will be providing an evening of gypsy jazz at the Trumpet, Bilston on Thursday, 19th July.

Meet the costumed volunteers as they sew, embroider and stitch their way back to the 17th century. Discover the lost art of handmaking, stitch by stitch, your clothing from underwear to outerwear. Our volunteers are sewing costumes from the 16th and 17th century using techniques almost lost from everyday life.

Isn’t there something so satisfying about a handmade object' Have a go at wood turning your own bowl from start to finish in the wonderful woods at Moseley. This one day course will focus on the traditional techniques of turning a bowl from green wood using a pole lathe.

Step back in time with a visit to this inspirational ½-acre garden which incorporates country cottage planting at its very best. Unusual rhododendrons, acers, shrubs and perennials planted in mixed borders.

Following the success of the previous two years, the city’s favourite funfair, Wolverhampton Fiesta will be making a grand return for a jam-packed weekend full of entertainment, rides and stage performances perfect for a family day out.

Funtopia is a fantastic fun-packed event which is perfect for tots to tweens. Open 10am-4pm. Filled with bouncy castles, obstacle course, activity inflatables, crazy golf, under 5’s area, circus skills, interactive play system and much more!

Three London chums decide that a boating trip up the Thames is just the ticket to help cure them of their imaginary ailments, including "a general disinclination to work of any kind".

A riot of colour welcomes visitors to this quintessentially English garden. The wide central circular bed and side borders overflow with classic summer flowers, including the tall spires of delphiniums, lupins, irises, campanula, poppies and roses.

A romantic garden of surprises, which gradually reveals itself on a journey through deep, lush planting, full of unusual plants. From the sunny, flower filled terrace, a ruined folly emerges from a luxuriant fernery and leads into an oriental garden, complete with tea house.

B Black Country is a family friendly theatre festival, produced entirely by young people aged between 8-18, happening across the Black Country. The project is part of Black Country Touring’s Young Promoters Scheme.

Have some good old-fashioned fun as you discover the hobbies and pastimes that entertained Black Country folk from Victorian times to the 1930s.  

Come and join us for a guided pond dipping session every Saturday in May through to July at RSPB Sandwell Valley. Our expert volunteers will be on hand to help you discover our pond minibeasts, how to identify them and the best way to use our equipment.

Wildlife Explorers is the junior section of the RSPB for children aged between 8 and 12 years old. Here at Sandwell Swans our aim is to enthuse and engage children with nature by having fun learning about wildlife and the natural world through a mixture of outdoor activities, games, stories and crafts.

Get the family together, get sponsored, and get ready to make some messy memories when you tackle Messathon, the NSPCC’s fun, family obstacle course. You and your little messathletes will splatter through mud, swoosh along the water slide and scramble over hay bales. And it’s all for a good cause.

Three London chums decide that a boating trip up the Thames is just the ticket to help cure them of their imaginary ailments, including "a general disinclination to work of any kind".

On Saturday July 7th 2018, Tividale Park continues to celebrates its 90th anniversary year with a Black Country Festival event featuring entertainment from talented members of the public, as well as professional and semi-professional bands/artists, acts and star turns.

Join us for an evening of readings, therapies, crystals and free stuff. 7pm-10pm 1-2-1 readings available with experienced professional readers offering Clairvoyance, Mediumship & Card Readings (£25-£30 for 20-30 minutes, payable to the reader on the night).

Come along and indulge in a wide variety of therapy and healing modalities, charges start from £10. Pre-book your tasters to avoid disappointment on the day via the website below. Free Admission. For more info visit www.holisticavenueevents.co.uk

Join Nicola Jarvis, tutor at the Royal School of Needlework, as she teaches you the skills of hand embroidery. Nicola Jarvis is a globally-renowned artist who uses embroidery in a range of art, design and textile applications.

Our cleaning season doesn’t finish in the Spring! Meet our conservation team this Summer and learn about how they protect and look after the items in our care. From light damage to pests, dust to humidity, many things can damage our collection.

A talk by art historian and Conservation Assistant, Hannah Squire, learn about the variety of deeds and words used by women in Wolverhampton to help further the cause of women’s rights.

Be inspired by the fantastic beasts you’ll find throughout the Manor and in the De Morgan gallery, and over the course of this three day stone-carving workshop. Miranda Wakeman from Amerton Arts Studio will show you how to bring your own creation to life in a stone sculpture for you to take home.