Tag: christmas

October 4, 2023

Kids Father Christmas Puppet Workshop and other Creative Fun

Join us the weekend before Christmas for a great creative family session! From 10:30 -2:30 we will be running a bookable session where families can come and get thoroughly festive together.

Book an hour-long session where your children can get Christmas creative! We will have a range of activities on hand from making a Father Christmas hand-puppet (suitable from 6 up if sewing and from 3 if gluing with help from caregivers), to making your own Christmas giftbag, cracker making, festive bookmarks, tree decoration, giftwrap printing and card making.

We will also have festive music and festive treats!

The cost to book in for the Christmas creative activities is £4.90 per child. It will also be possible to drop in and pay for activities individually during the session.

Link to follow

October 3, 2023

Screenprint a Large Christmas Gift Sack

Join us to make an extremely special and unique Christmas/gift sack for your favourite person in the festive workshop.

In this three hour session, from 1-4pm, a high-quality gift sack will be provided and you will be taught a screenprinting technique to produce something very special and original. These will be heat set for long-lasting use and will be able to be collected the following week (limited to 6).

By using screenprinting, unlike sacks featuring vinyl lettering, you are producing something that cannot peel off and once it is heat set it is washable at 40 degrees many times.

You will have the opportunity to learn some basic embroidery to adorn your rather wonderful personalised sack and have materials provided to do this if you know how to embroider already.

Itinerary:

We will start by looking at the three main methods of screenprint and you will be shown how you can do small-scale screenprinting at home cheaply. Using our larger frames you will get used to handling the equipment and learning how to produce prints. Once comfortable with the equipment you will start to design your print and recreate it for the screen.

Once happy you will make a test print and then reproduce your screenprint on your high-quality sack. This will be left to dry and then heat set for you so that you can return to collect it the following Sunday or at another time by appointment.

The cost for this session will be £29.50 including all materials and a mince pie and mulled apple juice.

Booking link to follow

October 3, 2023

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.

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.

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

September 29, 2023

Make a SuperHero Cape!

Join us on Saturday November 4th at 2:30pm for a 2.5 hour workshop to create a superhero cape for the little person in your life. At this workshop you will be provided with all the materials you need to create a superhero cape of your choosing.

Working with felt you will create a personalised cape for your little one featuring their own superhero name and be able to use an assortment of felt shapes we have precut for you to design a cape they will cherish. As part of this workshop we will provide you with a bag of assorted decorations for your little one to add with you at home to continue the fun and make them feel like a real hero as they work with you to make the cloak of their dreams!

This workshop will cost £25 for which you get all materials required and extras to take home and finish the cape with your little superhero!

We will soon open booking and when we do so please choose which colour you would like for your cape.

September 29, 2023

Make your own funky Video light!!

Join us on Sunday 15th October for this fun workshop where you will learn how to make your own funky video light and then get to take it home with you. This two hour workshop is held at SPACE in Fareham Shopping Centre and all materials and great company will be provided!

Starting at 1pm, during this two-hour workshop you will upcycle a VHS cassette and fill it with lights to create your very own funky light to give as a gift or keep for yourself.

As part of the workshop you can choose to design your own label or keep the original label on your video. You can even send us a picture before the session to be printed on to your own personalised video label to be attached during the session.

The cost for this workshop is £8.50 per person

Link to book will follow shortly!

October 18, 2015

New Opportunity — Christmas Artist-Maker Market spaces available

CHRISTMAS ARTIST-MAKER MARKET

This November we are once again holding an arts market at Locks Heath shopping village. On Saturday 28th November we invite you to join us in the celebrations that lead to the shopping village’s Christmas Lights Switch on. There is bound to be a big crowd that day as the shopping village are pulling out all the stops to guarantee a successful event.

As with the Summer Art Market we will only be accepting high calibre work; we believe it is not fair to anyone to accept lower quality work. But if you are an artist, maker, designer, or upcycler we want to hear from you!!!

As part of our ethos we do not charge the large amounts of other art markets (it may be a long wait until our gazeebos are paid off!) as we want to bring great work to the masses and to enable artists and creatives to better make a sustainable living from what they do that doesn’t happen if you are paying out more for a pitch than you are likely going to make. It is therefore again we are only charging low prices for a place.

Live Art Local members will only be required to pay £5 for a spot if they own a gazeebo and £10 if they do not and require one to be provided.

Non-members will be asked to pay £15 if they own a gazzebo and £20 if they require one.

All artists and creatives are invited to join Live Art Local. To find out more about joining visit http://liveartlocal.co.uk/get_your_art_seen/.

We will be publicising the market from the beginning of November and will have 2 large banners on the day to guide people and make them aware of the event.

This is a FREE entry artist and makers market as part of a larger event.

Please fill out this form if you are interested in securing your place at this event

Artists are required to help promote their appearance at the artist-maker market, we can provide you with flyers.

We will where required provide you with a gazeebo, artists are responsible for organising their own display equipment, including tables, chair, boards

Artists must make sure they have adequate change

Set up times will be confirmed later in the week

To find out more about the venue please visit http://locksheathshoppingvillage.co.uk

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