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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

Art Boxes for JUBILATION! are packed and ready!

This weekend we’ve been working hard on creating our bespoke art boxes for every child/young person taking part in the JUBILATION! art course over the next 5 weeks.

box filled with items for the Art Course Art materials for Art Course box filled with items for the Art Course

Every week for four weeks we will undertake a new project, acquiring a new skill.  The workshops will be held over ZOOM! to ensure Covid safety and then on week 5 we will meet in-person to create our individual squares for the large JUBILATION! Art work, celebrating 70 years on the throne for HRH the Queen.

Thanks to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation and funding from Arts Council England, every child taking part has been gifted art equipment and materials that will enable them to continue with their newfound skills even after the course is over and every single child/young person will also have the opportunity to attain an Arts Award Discover, all for Free whilst undertaking this course!

Arts Award Explore

We have great news, for those of you who already have an Arts Award Discover, you can now use our FREE JUBILATION! workshops to achieve your Arts Award Explore, for only the cost of moderation with Trinity College London (our outside moderators who check our marking and administer the award).  This means that your son, daughter, or non-binary child can access our free workshops and achieve the next level of arts award for very little cost.

 

Those who wish to undertake the Arts Award Explore will need to attend all the workshops as part of JUBILATION! Art, Music, Poetry, and Dance, this is because the Arts Award Explore is a higher award and requires more work and evidence than the Discover.

 

The cost to us for moderation and certificate is £14 per a child, but we are able to reduce this cost by to £12 using some of our contingency funding.    If you would like your child to undertake an Arts Award Explore then please email us and we will invoice you via paypal.  This will need to be paid as “friends and family” or a “seller you trust” otherwise there will be costs added and it will cost us money rather than saving you money on moderartion.

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

free digital photos.net theatre curtain image

Micro Commission: Micro Performance – Culture @ Home

Liv Art Local CIC are excited to announce our latest opportunity for creatives in the UK.  With news that live performance still cannot take place, but that soon families will be able to spend more time with friends and family members outside of their home, we are looking to commission a micro play/performance (between 5-10 minutes in length), that can be performed by a group of socially distanced people at home without any prior experience or training.

We view this as a great way to bring theatre into the home this summer and to bond people by creating something together, we are also keen to support UK talent, although we can only offer a modest sum of £250, and to take their work to a wider audience.

We will be inviting people to share their performances with us if they feel happy to share and we hope to be able to upload some of these to our website in the months ahead.

This opportunity is open to all creatives, whether from a theatre, writing, art, music, or dance background, and can take the form of a mirco play, a way of creating music/sound together, or a movement piece.

It is up to you how you convey this, however, all works must be on the theme of connection.

To apply for this opportunity please fill out our brief application form and submit an outline of your idea (max 250 words).  The deadline is the 7th August and we will contact the selected applicant by 10th August and would look to have the work, whether that be a script, a video lesson, a sheet of instructions etc. .. completed and uploaded to our website by 22nd August.

 

If you would rather you can send a video application via WeTransfer to us at help@liveartlocal.co.uk using the application form questions, and up to 5 minutes to explain your idea.

Payment will be made the following Friday (28th August) via Paypal or bank payment.

 

Culture @ Home week 4: Sarah Gane – Cut + Paste Zine Making

For the forth week of our Culture @ Home sessions we were joined by magazine editor and art director Sarah Gane for her zine making workshop.  If you were unable to make the session, or if you just want a refresher, you can access this workshop below:

 

For those who attended the workshop and would like to access the slides, please find them below:

slides for Cut + Paste ZINE workshop_SarahGane

 

Our Culture @ Home programme has been supported by Arts Council England through Emergency Response funding.  You can book sessions until 19th August when our final session runs!

To find out more and book visit liveartlocal.co.uk/culture-home

Your Art in a Magazine

YOUR ART IN A MAGAZINE!

So it’s that time of year again, South Central are once again on the lookout for interesting, challenging, or beautiful work for it’s winter edition.  South Central is  the Art and Culture magazine for the south central region of the UK and is available at various locations about the region.

Artists interested in being featured must send a high res image of their work (at least 300dpi, this is best print quality and you can click on “properties” to make sure this is at the right level), their name, the title and materials of the piece and their website,  by midnight on Sunday 30th October, to editorial@southcentral.co.uk.

All selected artists will be informed before Saturday 5th November.

Journeys Festival International is HERE!

So tomorrow is the launch of the Portsmouth leg of Journeys Festival International.  This yearly event is a celebration of the amazing stories and talent of refugee artists and through its program it aims to create a “positive interface” with the community.

Over twelve days there is an assortment of paid for and free events where people are invited to watch, to view, to listen and most importantly, to participate with the work of refugee artists; learning more about their stories and engaging with their practice.

Nikos Papadopolous, from Plasticobolism
Nikos Papadopolous, from Plasticobolism

Events range from the container project, know as the “Well-Come” project where 10 young artists from the refugee and asylum seeker community will work with urban artist, M-One, exploring their creativity inside the container.  To Cafe Conversations on a variety of topics related to the themes that affect refugees and the wider world; to a reading from Hidden  a Sunday Times book of the week by young person’s author, Miriam Halahmy; to pop-up theatre; more theatre; visual art including the work of Nikos Papadopolous’ Plasticobolism series which will be viewable around the city (you can find our more about the work here) and later in The Container Project.

 

We will be checking in with quite a lot of the work over the coming twelve days and will keep you updated, our highlights will also feature in the Winter edition of South Central.

To view the catalogue visit http://issuu.com/artreach4/docs/jfi_a5_brochureportsmouth_digital/4?e=25748967/39138086