Based on the world-famous story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince is brought to life using Protein’s award-winning mix of dance, humour and spoken word. With an original score by Frank Moon, design by Yann Seabra, lighting by Jackie Shemesh and video design by Daniel Denton, Protein’s new show invites us to look at the world through one’s heart and to reconnect with our inner child. 

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Suitable for children young and old. Everyone's welcome.

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Images by Chris Nash

Come and join our craft class for some creative family fun. There will be painting stations, toddler table, hama beads station plus many more! A light lunch will be provided. 

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Wear some old clothes and get messy!

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This is a FREE event, however donations are welcome. 

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Date: Saturday 24th July

Location: Matson Baptist Church, Matson Avenue, GL4 6LA

Time: 10am-1pm

🎨Adult Craft Class🎨

Autumnal Wreath Making 

​We are so excited to be running our first adult craft class! We will be making Autumnal Wreaths.

There will be a small charge of £4.00 per person. This is to cover the cost of some of the materials.

Refreshments will be provided.

Date Wednesday 29th September

Time 9.30am-11.30am (approx. finish time)

Location Matson Baptist Church, Matson Avenue, GL4 6LA

🎨Adult Craft Class🎨

Autumnal Mason Jars 

Our next adult craft class will be Autumnal Mason Jars.

There will be a small charge of £3.00 per person. This is to cover the cost of some of the materials.

Refreshments will be provided.

Date Wednesday 20th October

Time 9.30am-11.30am (approx. finish time)

Location Matson Baptist Church, Matson Avenue, GL4 6LA

🎨Adult Christmas Craft Class🎨

Christmas Baubles

We will be running a Christmas Adult Craft Class and making Christmas Baubles.

There will be a small charge of £3.00 per person. This is to cover the cost of some of the materials.

Refreshments will be provided.

Date Wednesday 10th November

Time 9.30am-11.30am (approx. finish time)

Location Matson Baptist Church, Matson Avenue, GL4 6LA

🎨Adult Christmas Craft Class🎨

Christmas Table Centrepieces 

This will be our last adult craft class for the year. We will be making Christmas Table Centrepieces.

There will be a small charge of £4.00 per person. This is to cover the cost of some of the materials.

Refreshments will be provided.

Date Wednesday 24th November

Time 9.30am-11.30am (approx. finish time)

Location Matson Baptist Church, Matson Avenue, GL4 6LA

The Rainbow Project

This summer, Filstkit Theatre will be running a new series of colourful, fun family play sessions all based around the colours of the rainbow. We will move and Dance! We will play games together! After a difficult years of lockdowns and social distancing, this is a great opportunity for children (and their grown ups) to come back together, have fun and get colourful and creative. 

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Age: unders 4's, with siblings welcome to join

28th September - 19 October 2021

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Matson Baptist Church, Matson Avenue, Matson Gloucester, GL4 6LA

Our Dancing Shadows

VR headsets, gold coats and a massive gantry are landing in Matson. Dance through outer space in the middle of the green on the estate! 👨‍🚀

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Our Dancing Shadows explores two sides of the same experience, one in VR and the other watching on. It uses the latest VR technology to enable people to collaborate in the same virtual world at once, untethered and outside.

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You can choose to watch the dancers and/or be a dancer yourself. If you choose to dance, you’ll take to the stage wearing a VR headset. You do not need to have experienced VR before in order to be a dancer, or have any experience of dance. It is not a competitive environment. If you choose to be a dancer in the VR experience you will find yourself guided through a gentle, poetic VR world.

🎨Christmas Family Craft Class🎨

Come and join us at our Christmas craft class for some creative family fun! This is a FREE class. We will be making Christmas themed crafts and decorations. 

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Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided.

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Date: Saturday 11th December 2021

Time: 10.00am-1.00pm

Location: Matson Baptist Church, Matson Avenue, GL4 6LA

Christmas Grotto 2021

In 2021 we transformed our office into a Christmas Grotto. This was a free event and we are very proud to say this event was sold out. 

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Thank you to Maddi from Mad About Art for making our office into a magical Christmas Grotto. 

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Thank you to Councillor O'Donnell for playing Santa for the week.

🎨Adult Craft Class🎨

Exploding Cards

This is our first craft class of 2022. We will be making Exploding Cards.

There will be a small charge of £3.00 per person. This is to cover the cost of some of the materials.

Refreshments will be provided.

Date Wednesday 26th January

Time 9.30am-12.00am (approx. finish time)

Location Matson Baptist Church, Matson Avenue, GL4 6LA

🎨Adult Craft Class🎨

Rolled Flower Frames

This is our next adult craft class. We will be making Rolled Flower Frames.

There will be a small charge of £5.00 per person. This is to cover the cost of some of the materials.

Refreshments will be provided.

Date Wednesday 9th March

Time 9.30am-12.00pm (approx. finish time)

Location Matson Baptist Church, Matson Avenue, GL4 6LA

🎨Adult Craft Class🎨

Easter Wreaths

In our next adult craft class we will be making Easter Wreaths.

There will be a small charge of £4.00 per person. This is to cover the cost of some of the materials.

Refreshments will be provided.

Date Wednesday 30th March

Time 9.30am-12.00pm (approx. finish time)

Location Matson Baptist Church, Matson Avenue, GL4 6LA

Club Origami

A perfect daytime activity for under-5s. Get inspired by beautiful, imaginative performance and play. Bring your little ones along to Matson Library for a morning of unique paper performance and play. Penguins, monsters, the sea…if you can dream it, Takeshi and friends can make it and bring it to life – just from paper! Enjoy a gentle, creative performance with live music to fire up your imagination. Then get stuck into the giant pile of scrunched up, torn and folded paper for yourself 🎉Stay and play afterwards, too!

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⏰ 45 mins long, plus stay and play afterwards👶 Ideal for under-5s but suitable for older children too😌 Relaxed performance – get up and move around whenever you need to

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Date: Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6th April

Time: Performances at 11am and 1pm

Location: Matson Library, 6 Winsley Road, Matson, GL4 6NG

John Pfumojena Workshops

John Pfumojena is a Mbira and Marimba musician, actor and composer. His practice is concerned with exploring the ancient art of Mbira music for contemporary audiences, storytelling and collaboration.

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John and an ensemble of performers are coming to Matson, Gloucester to run workshops with the Gloucestershire based artist JPDL, and we are looking for people in the community to join us!🙌  

The workshops will explore music, togetherness, joy and expression. This is part of the Collaborative Touring Network. Head to CTN below for more information http://ctn.org.uk/

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John is developing a new show called Bunker Of Zion which will be touring to Matson, Gloucester later this year.

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Dates and Locations

Tuesday 19th April - 12pm - The Ewe Space, Matson, GL4 6LL

Wednesday 20th April - 10.30am - The Redwell Centre, Matson, GL4 6JG

Thursday 21st April - 10am - Matson Baptist Church, Matson, GL4 6LA