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What’s on in Walsall – February 2026
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Here’s your guide to all the activities going on at Walsall’s visitor attractions in February 2026.
This February, whether it is a romantic Valentine’s Day date to a local show for you and your significant other, a girls’ crafting session to celebrate Galentine’s Day, or reaffirming those long forgotten New Year’s resolutions with the beginning of Lent (starting 18 February), here’s your guide to all the activities going on at Walsall’s visitor attractions.
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Gallery Square, Walsall WS2 8LG
Tuesday–Saturday 10am-5pm | Sunday 12pm-4pm | Closed Mondays and Bank Holidays
Studio Prints: Celebrating the Balakjian Collection BSL Tour
Saturday 7 February, 2pm
Free admission
Join Deaf artist, Olivier Jamin, for a tour of Studio Prints: Celebrating the Balakjian Collection in British Sign Language. Interpretation into spoken English will be provided, making the tour accessible for D/deaf visitors and hearing visitors.
Lunar New Year
Saturday 21 February, 12pm-4pm
Free admission, drop-in sessions
Join the team to celebrate the Lunar New Year. This year is the Year of the Fire Horse. Activities include:
- Lion dance performance
- Horse lanterns with artist, Benny Semp
- Stories of The Great Race Legend accompanied by traditional Guzheng sounds
- Glitter Tattoos with Creative Factory
- Chopstick games
Hannah Maybank: Un-Still
Throughout February
Free admission
This exhibition, from nearby Stafford-born artist, Hannah Maybank, took inspiration from the 1974 Garman Ryan Collection – a collection that first went on display in the gallery above the library on Lichfield Street. This collection would go on to have a pivotal influence on Hannah’s development as an artist. Alice Weldon’s drawing of Cyclamen inspired work for her Art A-Level, and now Hannah has created a brand-new painting, ‘Gathering’, featuring chrysanthemum flowers, as a gift for the gallery’s 25th birthday.
Sunday Art Club
Free admission, drop-in sessions
Ages four years old and above
Sunday 1 February – Wish Boxes – decorate a box to keep your wishes in!
Sunday 8 February – Clay Icons – celebrate the work of Sally Ryan by sculpting a portrait from clay.
Sunday 15 February – Monochrome Making – get creative using black and white materials.
Sunday 22 February – Blended Oil Pastel Flowers – draw colourful flowers using oil pastel techniques.
Half-term fun at The New Art Gallery Walsall
Galloping Horses
Tuesday 17 – Friday 20 February, 10am-4pm
Free admission, drop-in sessions
All ages welcome
Mini Makers – Fabulous Fire Horses
Tuesday 17 February, 11am-1pm
£3.50
Ages two to five years old
Wednesdays For All – Power Ponies & Fire Horses
Wednesday 18 February, 11am-3pm
Free admission, drop-in sessions
Ages four years old and above
Young Masters – Felt Horse Keyrings
Thursday 19 February, 11am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3pm
£4.50 per child – advanced booking is essential as numbers are limited.
Ages six years old and above
Leather Museum
Littleton Street West, Walsall WS2 8EW
Tuesday–Saturday 10am-4pm | Closed Sundays and Mondays
Assistive Objects Exhibition
Throughout February, 10am-4pm
Free admission
During her 2025 Artist Residency at Walsall Leather Museum, generously supported by the John Feeney Trust, Heritage Crafts Association and QEST, Rachael Colley worked with the museum’s archive to create a new body of work.
Rachael has created connections between horse and human adornments to explore notions around ‘wearable control’ which reference medical assistives and refer to Rachael’s own health conditions. As a sufferer of a long-term chronic autoimmune disease, Rachael’s work is a deeply personal response to both her own health and the museum’s collections.
What’s on at Walsall Parks
Nordic Walks
Nordic Walking uses poles which adds major benefits to walking. The use of poles means the upper body muscles are used as well as the legs, the poles also help propel walkers along – this means they work harder than usual yet the support given by the poles makes it feel easier!
Walsall’s Nordic Walking sessions are welcoming, supportive, and suitable for beginners. You will be shown the technique and encouraged to go at a steady, comfortable pace. Poles are provided.
Sessions in February include:
- Mondays throughout February, 11am-12pm, Walsall Arboretum
- Wednesdays throughout February, 11am-12pm, Brownhills
- Fridays throughout February, 11.15am-12.15pm, Willenhall Memorial Park
Walsall Arena
Hawbush Road, Leamore, Walsall WS3 1AG
Box Office: 0300 555 2898 (Monday – Friday, 10am–2pm) walsallarena.com
Simon Yates of Touching the Void – My Mountain Life
Thursday 5 February 2026, 7.30pm
Tickets from £21
Join Simon Yates, an avid mountaineer and climber, as he shares the story of how he found himself in a desperately unenviable position. He was slowly being pulled off the mountain face by his injured partner, Joe Simpson. His decision to cut the rope saved both their lives in the epic of survival that followed.
Russell Kane: Funny Beeseness at Walsall Arena
Sunday 22 February 2026, 6pm
Tickets from £28.50
Multi-award-winning comedian, presenter, actor, author and scriptwriter Russell Kane is a regular on TV, and will be the headline act for this special Funny Beeseness event at Walsall Arena in February. Joined by Stephen Bailey, the proud northern, working class, gay man, and Jo Enright, a local from nearby Birmingham, famed for her appearances in Phoenix Nights, I’m Alan Partridge and The Job Lot.
An Evening with Wolves Legends
Thursday 26 February, 7.30pm
Tickets from £33.50
Step into the golden era of Wolverhampton Wanderers and relive unforgettable moments with three iconic figures of the club’s history. Steve Bull, Steve Daley, and Andy Mutch, take to the stage to share their incredible stories, laugh-out-loud anecdotes, and insights from their celebrated careers.
