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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.

 

Linocut Christmas Card Workshop Fareham

Join us at SPACE on Sunday 20th November for the first in our series of Christmas art workshops.  This 2 and-and-a-half-hour-long festive workshop will provide you with the skills to create your own Linocut cards for use this Christmas.  In this beginners’ workshop, we will begin with looking at the equipment you need to undertake linocut, and then using a small piece of practice softcut lino you will learn and practice simple carving techniques so that when you come to making your printing plate you will feel confident with your tools.

Once you have learnt how to use the tools you will then start to sketch out your design.  Here you will have the option to either create a single colour print (well two colour really owing to the card) (which is the easier of the two options) or a two (three) colour print using a reduction technique.   Once completed you will transfer your image to the softcut to begin your carve and produce 5 Christmas Cards.

Due to the time of year we will have Christmas music and mince pies.

We have a limited number of aprons so please do bring one if you have one!

We want this workshop to be affordable and so have limited the cost to £27

linocut workshopimage featuring linoprints

 

Cost:  £27

BOOK: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linocut-christmas-card-workshop-fareham-20th-november-tickets-466740141327

You have the option to purchase your own linocut set to continue creating at home for £20.  This includes:

Linocut tool

Barren (used to transferring the image from the printing block)

Ink Brayer (roller)

Ink tray x 2

Softcut sheets x 2

4 small pots of oil-based ink

Card to print on

BOOK: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/linocut-christmas-card-workshop-fareham-20th-november-tickets-466740141327

 

 

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!

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

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!