Home » News

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

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

 

 

Drop In Bonfire Night Kids Activity

Join us on the 5th of November where we will be running a drop-in Bonfire Night activity for kids in SPACE (not the cosmos, our small unit in Fareham Shopping Centre).  For a £1 contribution kids can colour in a Guy Fawkes mask and make a card Capotain hat as worn by the Gunpowder Plotters including Guy Fawkes.

Younger ones can join in and help us make a big firework-inspired picture for the wall, blowing paint around with straws, flicking paint with toothbrushes and using other every day items to create all manner of fireworks!

Art Play will still be on and donations are appreciated for this!

We will be running from 10:30 to 1pm so come down and see us!

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.

Jubilation: the book

Exciting news!!!  JUBILATION! A poetry collection by children aged 7-12 years is now at our printers and should be available in early August.  We look forward to giving free copies to all children who took part, local primary schools, libraries and even sending one to the Queen herself!

Here’s a sneak peek at the cover art

book cover art featuring an illustration of the Queen