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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.

 

Link to follow

Screenprint a Large Christmas Gift Sack

Join us to make an extremely special and unique Christmas/gift sack for your favourite person in the festive workshop.

 

In this three hour session, from 1-4pm, a high-quality gift sack will be provided and you will be taught a screenprinting technique to produce something very special and original. These will be heat set for long-lasting use and will be able to be collected the following week (limited to 6).

 

By using screenprinting, unlike sacks featuring vinyl lettering, you are producing something that cannot peel off and once it is heat set it is washable at 40 degrees many times.

You will have the opportunity to learn some basic embroidery to adorn your rather wonderful personalised sack and have materials provided to do this if you know how to embroider already.

Itinerary:

We will start by looking at the three main methods of screenprint and you will be shown how you can do small-scale screenprinting at home cheaply.  Using our larger frames you will get used to handling the equipment and learning how to produce prints.  Once comfortable with the equipment you will start to design your print and recreate it for the screen.

 

Once happy you will make a test print and then reproduce your screenprint on your high-quality sack.  This will be left to dry and then heat set for you so that you can return to collect it the following Sunday or at another time by appointment.

fworkshop participant looding a screen

The cost for this session will be £29.50 including all materials and a mince pie and mulled apple juice.

Booking link to follow

Linocut Christmas Card Workshop 1pm-4pm

Join us and get festive this yule with our linocut Christmas card workshop.  This takes place between 1pm-4pm  on Sunday 3rd December at a cost of £30.

sign showing some christmas cards to illustrate the workshop

Learn the art of linocut and have a go at making reductive linocut Christmas cards. In this session you will learn how to create 2-3 colour linocut prints using the reduction method and produce 6 Christmas cards to take home (or leave with us to drive and pick up the following Sunday).

We will start the session by learning about how this form of printing works.  To start the creative juices flowing we will create simple styrofoam prints you can reproduce at home even with young children.  Once warmed up we will look at the different tools and then how to perform different basic cuts on a test piece of easy cut lino.

someone linocutting

When comfortable using the lino gouger you will design a 2-3 colour festive design/ or any holiday you follow and learn how to create your reduction print using high quality block printing oil based ink.   Once the session ends you will have 6 finished cards.

All materials and equipment provided. Plus mince pies and mulled apple juice

 

Booking link to follow

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.

Make your own funky Video light!!

Join us on Sunday 15th October for this fun workshop where you will learn how to make your own funky video light and then get to take it home with you.  This two hour workshop is held at SPACE in Fareham Shopping Centre and all materials and great company will be provided!

Starting at 1pm, during this two-hour workshop you will upcycle a VHS cassette and fill it with lights to create your very own funky light to give as a gift or keep for yourself.

light up video

As part of the workshop you can choose to design your own label or keep the  original label on your video.  You can even send us a picture before the session to be printed on to your own personalised video label to be attached during the session.

 

The cost for this workshop is £8.50 per person

 

Link to book will follow shortly!

 

 

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)

Workshop Assistant Opp

Live Art Local CIC are looking for a student or graduate artist/creative industries to act as a workshop assistant this summer to assist the lead artist in workshops with young people aged 11-18.

We are not expecting you to have previous experience of running/assisting in workshops although this would be beneficial.

Thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund we are running a series of free workshops for young people over the holidays, every week will feature a different artform and there will be three sessions a week (Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday), we are looking for an assistant for either the Tuesday or Thursday sessions.

All workshops begin at 1:30pm and all last for between 2-3 hours.  The hours and artforms are given below:

Week 1: Experimental Mark-Making, both Tuesday and Thursday sessions are 2 hours long

Week 2: Printmaking Tuesday session is 2 hours, Thursday is 3 hours

Week 3: Sculpture Tuesday and Thursday are both 2 hours long

Week 4: Filmmaking Tuesday is 2 hours long, Thursday is 3 hours long

Week 5: Product Design Tuesday is 2 hours long, Thursday is 3 hours

 

The payment for the sessions are as follows:

2 hour sessions £50

3 hour sessions £74

 

We expect you to arrive 20 minutes before the session to help with set up (13:10) and to start behind and help clear up at the end of the session.

 

This is a special fund for the summer holidays, and as a result we only found out two days ago (28th July) that our bid was successful.  Therefore we are working very fast to very tight deadlines.  The sessions begin this week and so we will be running your first session as a trial.  You will be paid for this trial and we will let you know by the next day whether we will continue working with you.  As this is a freelance position you are responsible for your tax.  We will ask you to invoice us (we can send you a template) for your session and you will be paid by the end of the following week for each session you work (the quicker you get the invoice to us the quicker we can pay you!).  We will pay the money direct to your bank account.

 

To apply please fill out the form below.  Please feel free to call 07941435835 for an informal chat