Events

This Improvers 1 level domed jewellery course takes place every Wednesday evening for 6 weeks, starting Wednesday 5th November 2025, from 6pm to 8.30pm.

Learn how to make your own pendant and earring jewellery set in our bright and shiny jewellery making workshop in Birmingham. You will learn to make a domed silver pendant and earrings with your own unique textured pattern in the metal. A wonderful and personalised set of jewellery for you to wear home at the end of the course or to give away as a gift.

This Improver 1 level jewellery making course is suitable for students who have completed our Beginners course. It takes place over six consecutive Wednesday evenings from 6.00pm – 8.30pm. Adding to the skills that you have already learnt as a beginner, on this course you will start by experimenting with metal texturing techniques. Once you’ve chosen your favourite pattern, you will learn doming, sweat-soldering, and how to make a handmade catch to finish off your pendant and earring set. The tutor will make the silver jewellery set alongside you and use their pieces to demonstrate each step. You will be provided with a printed handout in case you need a little reminder along the way, and to refer back to if you’d like to make another set! Each class takes you through the next stage of the process, so please make sure you can attend all the dates.

You will need to bring your reading glasses, if you wear them, and a notebook and pen. You must know how to solder silver jewellery unassisted as a pre-requisite to attend this course (which you can learn on the Beginners course).

The ever changing RBSA Membership is given the opportunity to exhibit current work every year in the Society’s flagship show, the RBSA Annual Exhibition.

In 2025, the Society welcomed 16 new Associates, and four artists were elected to become full Members. This annual growth ensures the survival of the RBSA and means that, not only is this yearly exhibition a showcase of work, it is also a celebration of the continued success of one of the oldest art societies in the country.

An incredible broad spectrum of practices are represented in the show and visitors can expect to see paintings, drawings, textiles, photography, ceramics, prints, and sculpture. All of the work in the exhibition is for sale and pieces by the RBSA Membership are held in both public and private collections around the world.

Since the first Annual Exhibition in 1827, there remain only three years during which the show could not be held, 1940, 1941, and 2020. The RBSA Archive holds copies of exhibition catalogues for the vast majority of these events and recent, full colour, editions continue this tradition.

Exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery at various times throughout the show to talk to visitors.

Private View: Thursday 20 November 6.00pm – 8.00pm

Exhibition closes: Saturday 3 January 2026 5.00pm

Featured image: Bing Shi RBSA, Sunset On Oxford Canal At Thrupp

Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10.30am – 5.00pm

Affordable, family panto is back in Birmingham this Christmas!

Birmingham in the 19th-century was hailed as the ‘workshop of the world’. The Jewellery Quarter was its busy hub, producing jewellery, silver and tableware.

About 40% of British jewellery is still made there. Behind a frontage of terraced houses, J.W.Evans Silver Factory is among its most complete surviving historic factories. Crammed with tools and equipment, it’s preserved as if the workers might return at any minute.

Tours

Entry to J.W Evans is through guided tours only and advance booking is essential. Tours will be available every Friday from Friday 7 November to 27 March 2026. This excludes 26 December and 20 February 2026.

Learning Calligraphy Uncial Script

An early historical script still in use today, the session will look at the lettering as well as introducing the use of an ‘edged’ metal dip pen.
Held at the Pen Museum classes are designed for both beginners and more experienced calligraphers. Learn the key elements of calligraphy and take information away to continue developing your style at home. Some materials will be provided, and calligraphy products can be purchased from the Museum shop.
12 Spaces are available for each session:
Session 1: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Session 2: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
£12.50 per session.
No requirement to book both sessions.
Museum admission is not included.
Course suitable for adults only.