SPLIT, the first exhibition created and curated by our group of young artists, Creative Youth has almost finished installation and will open this weekend. We hope to welcome various people over the week and share this brilliant work by young people from the region. More to follow…
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.
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
Cost: £27
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
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!
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
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.
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
We were really excited to welcome Funkformat to SPACE the other day to run our JUBILATION! Dance workshop. Over half a day, Sasha from the dance company joined a small group of young people to create and workshop a dance to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Thanks to all those who took part
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.
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!
This week our lead artist has mainly been in SPACE working on the giant art piece for the culmination of JUBILATION’s Art Course for 7-11+ year olds.
This has involved many hours of painstaking work, cutting, gluing and stitching, and not to mention choosing where to arrange and how to assemble pieces
