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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

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.

 

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

 

 

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

chinwag virtual networking for artists and arts professionals

Chinwag Virtual Network

If the pandemic has taught us anything it’s the importance of two things, one, community, and two, the value of the internet in making human connection possible even when there are barriers that pre-internet would of been insurmountable.

The relaxation of all Covid measures means that the world is opening up again and in-person meetings and networking are possible again. However, this is not the case for all, the extremely vulnerable, those with disabilities, those with mental health issues and those in remote locations have found our newly discovered, but now ubiquitous platforms, such as Zoom, a lifeline in reaching out to others and building their networks, and fostering new communities.  What a shame if all that were to go now that Boris has deemed it “safe” to mingle again.

 

That is why, we at Live Art Local are creating the Chinwag Virtual Network.  A network for creatives and arts/culture professionals from all over to connect virtually once a month to discuss new projects, build partnerships and to share advice/have a good old moan.  This network will be free to attend but donations will be greatfully received to support the running/administration costs.

 

The first meeting will be on Tuesday 22nd February at 6pm GMT and we then hope to meet once a month thereafter on the Tuesday closest to the 22nd.  The session until we secure funding will last 40 minutes.

 

Please sign up via Eventbrite, the link is here

 

We Are an Arts Award Centre!!!

 

We are delighted to announce that Live Art Local CIC, and our space in Fareham Shopping Centre have been given Arts Award centre status.  This means that we will soon be offering courses and other opportunities for children and young people to gain these nationally-recognised qualifications.  We are currently able to offer Arts Award Discover and Explore for Primary aged kids and above (although we can make exceptions), and Bronze and Silver Arts Award for older children and young people up to 25 years.  We will seek to offer opportunities for the Gold Arts Award in the future.

 

These opportunities will be within art and literature, however we are looking to working with Arts Award advisers in other artistic fields (music, theatre and dance) to expand this offer in the future.

 

What is Arts Award?

Arts Award is a qualification, moderated and awarded by Trinity College London.  Arts Award’s unique qualifications support children and young people to develop as artists and arts leaders.  The programme develops skills for success in 21st-century life including creativity, leadership, reflective thinking and communication skills. Young people also develop knowledge and understanding of their chosen art forms.
It is open to anyone aged 25 and under and embraces all interests and backgrounds.  Through Arts Award young people learn to work independently, helping them to prepare for further education and employment.

Week 6 – Steph Reeves (Gynormous Rawkus) – Junk Puppets

It’s week 6 of our Culture @ Home programme and we were lucky enough to have Steph Reeves of Gynormous Rawkus  join us this week to show us how to make a puppet out of the junk you have lying around at home and a few other materials.

This week is doubly special as our session took place as part of Children’s Art Week, a two-week celebration of free activities for children.

Our Culture at Home sessions as made possible thanks to Arts Council England Emergency Response funding, which has enabled us to pay creatives to share their talents with you at home, making it free for you!  We still have 7 sessions coming up, with each one being suitable for children, so to find out more and book a session (always at 2pm on a Wednesday), visit liveartlocal.co.uk/culture-home

 

To join this session you will need:

Cardboard; pens; scraps of paper or fabric; carrier bags; newspaper; tape (preferably double-sided and masking).  Pipe cleaners and other scraps are also very useful!

 

 

 

NATIONAL LOTTERY FUNDED