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New Groups for Young People and Families

While Beth who volunteers her time to run Art Play is busy running the Saturday Club for Andover College and CAS we are having a break from Saturday Art Play.  However, we are not cutting down the sessions we run to empower families to get creative.

Adding to our regular Thursday group, Creative Youth for 11 – 16 year olds, we also have three new groups starting in March.

Every Monday from the 4th March we are running Creative Kids for kids from birth to ten years of age.  This is a space for younger children to engage in art play, watch short film, build dens, make friends, learn artistic skills and grow in confidence with their care givers.

Flyer for Creative Kids starting March 4th 2024

 

On alternate Tuesday afternoons from 5th March we begin our Home Ed Into Film Club where young people 12+ will come together to watch films together, to learn about film making, film theory and film criticism, with other opportunities available to them through Into Film

Into Film Club flyer

 

On the first and third Wednesdays of the month we will be running a Home Ed All Age Lego Club at the Titchfield Parish Rooms.  This is a chance for children of all ages who are home educated to come together to learn and play through creating together with other children and their families.

Kids Father Christmas Puppet Workshop and other Creative Fun

Join us the weekend before Christmas for a great creative family session!  From 10:30 -2:30 we will be running a bookable session where families can come and get thoroughly festive together.

Book an hour-long session where your children can get Christmas creative!  We will have a range of activities on hand from making a Father Christmas hand-puppet (suitable from 6 up if sewing and from 3 if gluing with help from caregivers), to making your own Christmas giftbag, cracker making, festive bookmarks, tree decoration, giftwrap printing and card making.

We will also have festive music and festive treats!

compostie image showing the types of things you can do during the session

The cost to book in for the Christmas creative activities is £4.90 per child.  It will also be possible to drop in and pay for activities individually during the session.

 

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Make a SuperHero Cape!

Join us on Saturday November 4th at 2:30pm for a 2.5 hour workshop to create a superhero cape for the little person in your life.  At this workshop you will be provided with all the materials you need to create a superhero cape of your choosing.

 

super hero cape

Working with felt you will create a personalised cape for your little one featuring their own superhero name and be able to use an assortment of felt shapes we have precut for you to design a cape they will cherish.  As part of this workshop we will provide you with a bag of assorted decorations for your little one to add with you at home to continue the fun and make them feel like a real hero as they work with you to make the cloak of their dreams!

This workshop will cost £25 for which you get all materials required and extras to take home and finish the cape with your little superhero!

We will soon open booking and when we do so please choose which colour you would like for your cape.

Funny Bones / Day of Dead Mini Monets Taster Session


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Join us for our Mini Monets Taster session at SPACE Fareham (next to the sweet shop in Osborn Mall Fareham Shopping Centre) on Thursday 19th October between 11am and 12pm.  Little ones from six months to five will have spooky fun creating skeleton art whilst exploring the artist Edward Burra’s Dancing Skeletons, the seminal children’s book, FunnyBones, and the sugar skulls of the Mexican celebration, Day of the Dead.

Edward Burra, Dancing Skeletons, 1934, three skeletons painted in elaborate colours dance ina haze of colour
Dancing Skeletons 1934 Edward Burra 1905-1976 Purchased 1939 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05005

The whole ethos of Mini Monets is getting creative together and having fun while creating large scale group pieces that you couldn’t do at home. Whether your children are 6 months or 5 years old, there will be a way for them to engage.

Mini Monets starts after October half term and will be priced at £6.50 per 1.5 hour session, payable half-termly.  This taster will be an hour long and will cost £4.

 


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Mini Monets Coming Soon

Have children between 6 months and five years and want to get creative with them but don’t want your house covered in paint, glitter, glue and more arty loveliness?  Considering joining a baby creative group but don’t want to spend your time making the item for your child rather than them being able to fully engage?  Want to join a new Fareham based group run by two local mums who just so happen to be professional artists and workshop facilitators working with major galleries and arts organisations?

 

Then look no further!!

“Mini Monets” is a new artist-led not for profit accessible art group where babies from 6 months up until 5 can collaborate and have creative fun with each other and their care givers!  Through the sessions we will introduce babies and young children to brilliant artists through characters from well-known books and popular culture and create large scale collaborative art pieces through play and safe materials.

 

As parents of young children ourselves it is important to us that this group is suitable for all small children irrespective of whether they’re a crawler or walker.  Because of this these sessions will have sensory aspects, storytime, play time and more.

 

Our sessions will be held on a Thursday between 10:30am and midday and will cost £6.50 a session with a half-term payable in advance. For the half term leading up to the festive break this will be £39 (six sessions).  If siblings attend this will be reduced to £70 for both of them, a saving of £9 (sadly we cannot offer more of a discount due to the costs of our materials not decreasing with numbers).  If a walking child attends then a sibling babe in arms will be free.

 

More information and booking form coming soon!

Family Lantern Workshop in Half-Term Holidays

Join us for a family workshop to make your own lanterns for Fareham’s first lantern walk on Friday 27th October.  Families will get the chance to work together to create their own lanterns out of willow, rattan, or wire.  These are then covered in a special type of wet tissue paper and decorated.  Attendees will also have the opportunity to make their own rods for the lanterns.

For the youngest family members we will have small pre-made lanterns they can decorate and add a light to ready for the lantern walk.

 

The session starts from 2:30 and runs until 5:30pm, if you finish beforehand, we ask you return at 5:45 to assemble your lantern and then join us and others outside Three Joes for Fareham’s first lantern walk starting at 6pm

If you don’t have the time to attend the full session.  You can still drop in with your children to decorate a premade lantern

 

To make your own lantern please book via this link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-spooky-lantern-making-workshop-and-drop-in-tickets-743180963267?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

The cost per lantern is £4.  You will get to take home and keep your lantern after the lantern walk (including the light)

 

If decorating  a pre-made lantern the cost is :

 

£3 large

£1:50  small

 

 

Half-Term Halloween Lanterns and Lantern Walk: Free for 11+

This half term join us for Halloween fun, making willow, wire and rattan lanterns and then join us at 6pm on Friday 27th October outside Three Joes for Fareham’s first lantern walk!

lanterns covered in tissue paper

As part of the Million Hours fund we will be running three sessions over the school holidays for young people aged 11-18 (25 with additional needs) to make their own lantern for Fareham’s first lantern walk on the 27th October.

witches hat lantern in progress

These sessions will run as follows:

 

Monday 23rd October – 1-3pm, this is where they will learn about lanterns and design their very own Halloween/spooky/ Day of the Dead lantern and make the frame out of willow/rattan/ wire and masking tape

 

Wednesday 25th October – 1pm – 4pm this extended session they will cover their lantern and while waiting for them to dry make their lantern rods

 

Friday 27th October 1-3pm in this session they will put any finishing touches to their lanterns, including adding any colour they wish.  From 2pm we will be running a family session where they can share their newly found skills with families making simplified versions.  At 5:45 pm we ask that they return to SPACE with any family members and friends to attach their lanterns to their rods and add their lights and then we will meet with others outside Three Joes for Fareham’s first lantern walk!

Once the event is over they are welcome to bring their lanterns home with them and use them for decoration!

 

These are a drop off session, although those requiring a carer/support worker to attend are of course welcome!  There is no cost for this funded week of workshops.

Our workshops are run by professional artists who are DBS checked and we have a safeguarding policy in place.

 

To book please use this link (coming soon)

Creative Youth : SPLIT… the preparation

This half term our Creative Youth group has been busy creating two new pieces and learning all about the basics of curating.  They put this newfound knowledge to good use by curating, and largely installing by themselves, their first-ever show, SPLIT.

The exhibition is a thoughtful showcase exhibiting some of the work they have created through the last nine months, both individually, and as a collective.  It spans various media and art forms and demonstrates the progression many of them have made through the year.

The exhibition will be opening this Saturday and running for a week, open for several days and culminating in a special celebration event next Saturday.

 

Drop In Bonfire Night Kids Activity

Join us on the 5th of November where we will be running a drop-in Bonfire Night activity for kids in SPACE (not the cosmos, our small unit in Fareham Shopping Centre).  For a £1 contribution kids can colour in a Guy Fawkes mask and make a card Capotain hat as worn by the Gunpowder Plotters including Guy Fawkes.

Younger ones can join in and help us make a big firework-inspired picture for the wall, blowing paint around with straws, flicking paint with toothbrushes and using other every day items to create all manner of fireworks!

Art Play will still be on and donations are appreciated for this!

We will be running from 10:30 to 1pm so come down and see us!