Big Days Out: Signs & Symbols

Wednesday 26 February

Ground Floor
10:00-18:00 | Leap Then Look: Play, Interact, Explore 
Featuring large, tactile sculptural objects and colourful assemblages, everything in this exhibition is interactive.*
10:00-14:00 | Early Years Play

Front Room
10:00-11:00 | Cereal Disco & Sign
Get your free breakfast fix with us before your day at Baltic (with our music turned up!) Dance before or after breakfast, if you need inspiration for dance moves, use our screen of Makaton signs to show us that you are full up or need more.
13:00-16:30 | Sign Up Club
If you were in charge of making signs at Baltic, what would your sign say? Make your sign out of vinyl and put it up on our window in Front Room.

Level 1 
10:30-15.30 | Whose sign is it anyway?
Make your mark on our mini city. Join artist Zoe Allen to build a special kind of town with buildings, parks, bridges and more, but this town is a bit different… where signs spread smiles instead of just rules. Create friendly symbols, craft kind messages and help design a city that symbolises a friendly, helpful and happy place to live.

Level 2 
10:00-18:00 | Mani Kambo: Ax·is Mun·di
10:30-11:00 | Wander and Wonder Tour
Join our friendly and fun tour where you and your little one can discover signs and symbols in Mani Kambo’s exhibition: Ax·is Mun·di through sensory exploration using materials, movement and sound.

Thursday 27 February

Ground Floor
10:00-18:00 | Leap Then Look Play, Interact, Explore 
Featuring large, tactile sculptural objects and colourful assemblages, everything in this exhibition is interactive.*

Front Room
10:00-11:00 | Cereal Disco & Sign
Get your free breakfast fix with us before your day at Baltic (with our music turned up!) Dance before or after breakfast, if you need inspiration for dance moves, use our screen of Makaton signs to show us that you are full up or need more.
11:00-16:00 | Sewing signs of Spring
Spend the day sewing with us, we’ll be sewing bees (like every week) and looking to the environment for signs of Spring. Cross stitch materials will be available to make your own creations of flowers, insects and buds.

Level 1
10:30-15.30 | Whose sign is it anyway?
Make your mark on our mini city. Join artist Zoe Allen to build a special kind of town with buildings, parks, bridges and more, but this town is a bit different… where signs spread smiles instead of just rules. Create friendly symbols, craft kind messages and help design a city that symbolises a friendly, helpful and happy place to live.

Level 2
10:00-18:00 | Mani Kambo: Ax·is Mun·di
11:30- 12:00 | Story Session
Join our friendly learning team on Level 2 Learning Lounge for an interactive and creative storytelling session aimed at all ages. 

Friday 28 February

Ground Floor
10:00-18:00 | Leap Then Look:Play, Interact, Explore 
Featuring large, tactile sculptural objects and colourful assemblages, everything in this exhibition is interactive.*

Front Room
10:00-11:00 | Cereal Disco & Sign
Get your free breakfast fix with us before your day at Baltic (with our music turned up!) Dance before or after breakfast, if you need inspiration for dance moves, use our screen of Makaton signs to show us that you are full up or need more.
13:00-14:00 | Self care, signs & symbols
Mindfulness Therapies will be here for a drop-in session that looks to give time for self-reflection, take time to consider your needs and hear about how to signpost yourself to positive self care.
14:30-16:30 | Signs of the times
A drop-in poetry session to share your favourite poems of peace and love. Come along and hear poems from our invited guest poets. With time to talk and write together, exploring ways of describing what symbolises goodness in the world today.

Level 2
10:00-18:00 | Mani Kambo: Ax·is Mun·di
11:30- 12:00 | Story Session
Join our friendly learning team on level 2 Learning Lounge for an interactive and creative storytelling session aimed at all ages. 

Saturday 1 March

Ground Floor
10:00-18:00 | Leap Then Look: Play, Interact, Explore 
Featuring large, tactile sculptural objects and colourful assemblages, everything in this exhibition is interactive.*

Front Room
10:00-11:00 | Cereal Disco & Sign
Get your free breakfast fix with us before your day at Baltic (with our music turned up!) Dance before or after breakfast, if you need inspiration for dance moves, use our screen of Makaton signs to show us that you are full up or need more.
15:00-17:00 | Language Cafe

Level 1
10:00-17:00 | Endless Love Creative Makers Market
Shop independent designs from prints and ceramics to jewellery and textiles from over 60 stallholders.

Level 2
10:00-18:00 | Mani Kambo: Ax·is Mun·di

Sunday 2 March

Front Room
10:00-11:00 | Cereal Disco & Sign
Get your free breakfast fix with us before your day at Baltic (with our music turned up!) Dance before or after breakfast, if you need inspiration for dance moves, use our screen of Makaton signs to show us that you are full up or need more.
13:00-14:30 | Big Days Out Bingo
Bring your bingo dobbers people! We’re holding a big bingo session, using signs & symbols instead of numbers. Who will be the first to get a line or call 'Baltic'? If you’d prefer to do a quieter version of this activity, take a blank Signs & Symbols sheet from Hello Desk and speak to a member of Baltic Crew on each floor who will show you a secret symbol to draw on your sheet. Complete your collection and we’ll give you a little prize at the desk on your way out.

Ground Floor
10:00-18:00 | Leap Then Look: Play, Interact, Explore 
Featuring large, tactile sculptural objects and colourful assemblages, everything in this exhibition is interactive.*

Level 2 
10:00-18:00 | Mani Kambo: Ax·is Mun·di
14:00-16:00 | Meet & Make
Take part in a free artist-led workshop perfect for families with children aged 5-12.

*We want you to have space and time to enjoy this exhibition so we may need to maintain a set capacity at busy times, if this is in place due to us having a busy day, please pick up a time slot on the day – just ask Baltic Crew for details during your visit.