We are very excited to announce our Creative Youth Summer Sessions starting on the 1st August. These brilliant sessions have been made possible thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund Million Hours initiative to support young people over the summer holidays. These are being held at our venue SPACE, in Fareham Shopping Centre’s Osborn Mall (next to the sweet shop and down from B &M, if coming from outside this is the Millets entrance). To keep with our ethos of making the arts accessible to all, we have decided to make these sessions completely FREE, with the chance of attaining a recongised qualification, either Arts Award Explore or, if they attend every session over the summer holidays, a Bronze Arts Award (requires additional work).
Our sessions are open to anyone aged 11 – 18, although if there is an additional need, we can accept people up to 25 (please note a carer/support worker will need to be present in this case).
Every week there will be 3 sessions within a particular art form. Young people will be challenged and engaged to create exciting work that increases their skills and confidence, and we hope, inspire a few friendships along the way. Every session is between 2 and 3 hours long and light refreshments will be provided.
The details of sessions are below, including expected time. It is expected that when you book on to an art form you attend all three sessions.
WEEK 1:
Experimental Mark Making
Tuesday: Graffiti/ Street Art Mark Making Inspired by Keith Haring
Thursday: Taking a Light for a Walk (installation) Inspired by Bernard Cohen
Saturday: Our Obliteration Space inspired by Yayoi Kusama
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WEEK 2:
Printing
Tuesday: Giant Monoprinting (and smaller)
Thursday: Linocut (2 techniques)
Saturday: Screenprinting – Create a stencil and screenprint a T-shirt
WEEK 3:
Sculpture
Tuesday/Thursday: Giant Cardboard Headdresses or Masks, inspired by sculptural art and by different indigenous cultures around the world we’ll create giant art pieces out of cardboard
Thursday/Saturday: Reed and Paper lamp installation. Participants will learn how to create a reed and tissue paper lantern and then these individual pieces will be brought together to form an installation.
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Week 4:
Filmmaking
Tuesday: Ideas Generation, storyboarding and film theory
Thursday: Filming
Saturday: Filming and basics of editing. A Roughcut of their film will be produced which our team will finish over the weekend. This will be available to watch on our site and there is the potential to enter it into competitions.
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WEEK 5:
Product Design
We will be working with serious equipment so young people will have to act responsibly and calmly (including, laser cutters, 3D printers, Cutters, Plotters, etc)
Tuesday: IDEAS – Discussing the process of coming up with a product. Designing your product either wood or acrylic or 3d print. Also a possibility for screenprinting.
- Learning how to use the machinery
- Start making product
Thursday: Product Creation
Saturday: Product Assembly. Basics of marketing/selling their product. Pop up shop for the last hour to sell their pieces which they will keep any profit for.
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