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Creative Youth Halloween

It’s been a busy half term at our Creative Youth group and we’re so proud of the work undertaken by our group.  Over the last few sessions the girls learnt how to make willow lantern ghosts which we hung in the windows of SPACE next to our black cat lantern head.  A couple of the girls also helped group facilitator, Beth with creating a giant witches hate lantern for Halloween.

As always we’re very proud of the progress our group members are making and are looking forward to welcoming them back for Christmas term.  Beth promised the group they could start working on Christmas decorations and goodies after the Half Term Break and so we’ll be back on Thursday and the now growing group will be working on making dried citrus fruit swags for use over the festive season.

 

We’ve got loads more great workshops for home ed young people over this half term that is run on a voluntary basis with only a small contribution to materials, so if you have a home educated adolescent who’d like to make new friends and develop their creative skills, get in touch about coming along to our Thursday sessions!

Free Family Play Sessions Fareham

 

Free family play sessions in Fareham are coming!  Next week we are launching ART PLAY, a new weekly event where we invite you to join us at SPACE between 10:30 and 13:00 to take part in creative play.  Making use of our new large construction play kit; mouldable sand; light play; cardboard construction; paint a shape picture making and more, you can come and spend some time as a family letting off steam and having fun doing something different.

Art play poster

 

We are a small arts organisation that receives no regular funding, and while we will be making no charge for this session, donations are very much welcome!

Creative Youth: Home Ed Arty Youth Group

We’re excited to announce that last Thursday was the first of our CREATIVE YOUTH! sessions, a new drop-off arty youth group for home-educated teens.  Taking place from 2:30pm-4pm every Thursday, these sessions will enable young people of senior school age to hang out, make new friends, get creative and learn new skills all for just the cost of materials and sundries (£3.50 a week).

Last week was a getting to know you session where we played ice-breaker games; came up with our group rules; discovered a bit about what people enjoy creatively, and while some of us made giant paper tissue flowers for a new installation, others sat in our cosy corner and did some crochet.

If you are a home-educated young person who would like to join us (obviously speak to your parents/guardians about it first), then please join our group on Facebook (subject to approval) where you can find out more and get involved!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/455307766507546

A digital flyer for new Arty Youth group, Creative Youth

Jubilation! Poetry Book Published

It’s been a long time coming but the JUBILATION! Children’s Poetry Anthology is now published.  You can see a digital version here:

Or if you would like a physical copy please get in touch with us and we will send you one (postage and packing payable).  This is FREE but all donations are gladly received.

Thanks Jim!

We were delighted last week to welcome Hampshire singer-songwriter and workshop facilitator,  Jim Chorley to SPACE to run our 2 workshops with local young people to create a song for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.  Jim’s interest is in how the Queen and in particular, her seventy-five years on the throne have fostered a sense of community and how this can be explored through song.  Working together Jim and our young people created a song entitled Lovely Jubbly Jubilee.  You can find the lyrics and listen to the song below.

 

 

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Lovely Jubbly Jubilee

 

The Queen lives in London

The Jubilee was on Thursday

We had lots of fun

She slayed the day away

 

Chorus:

Let’s have a lovely Jubbly Jubilee

Seventy years of Majesty

Lovely Jubbly Jubilee

 

Her favourite dog is a corgi

She loves all animals

She created the dorgi

Maybe the next will be camels

 

Chorus

 

There are Monarchs all over the world

But none as cool as our Elizabeth

Her hair looks great straight or curly

And she’s got many private chefs

 

Chorus

 

She’s never without her pearls

She loves to wear the colour blue

Her hair is worn in curls

How about you?

 

Chorus

EXHIBITION NOW OPEN!

This weekend, and for the next two weeks you can come down to SPACE and see the JUBILATION! giant artwork in all its glory.  Featuring the work of our Art Course workshop group and backed onto blue satin this giant artwork celebrates the remarkable feat of 70 years on the throne through the eyes of local children and young people.

There is also the chance to read some of the poems written by Fareham children between the ages of 7 and 12 and which will be featured in our poetry collection coming later this summer!

Poetry Sessions

Our poetry workshops culminated in an in-person session today, a nice change from our online sessions.  We’re so proud of our workshop group and the brilliant way they’ve worked together and on their own poems over the last few weeks and we look forward to showcasing their work in the JUBILATION! poetry work we’ll be publishing over the summer.

Writer Lucy Flannery going through the children's poetry

Huge thanks to Lucy Flannery who took today’s session and who has been running our outreach sessions with a local school.  We’re busy going through all the poems from these at the moment and are looking forward to including as many as possible in our eagerly awaited book of children’s poetry.

 

We’ll be updating here as soon as possible with details of the upcoming book!