Tag: Fareham

September 29, 2023

Funny Bones / Day of Dead Mini Monets Taster Session

Join us for our Mini Monets Taster session at SPACE Fareham (next to the sweet shop in Osborn Mall Fareham Shopping Centre) on Thursday 19th October between 11am and 12pm. Little ones from six months to five will have spooky fun creating skeleton art whilst exploring the artist Edward Burra’s Dancing Skeletons, the seminal children’s book, FunnyBones, and the sugar skulls of the Mexican celebration, Day of the Dead.

Dancing Skeletons 1934 Edward Burra 1905-1976 Purchased 1939 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05005

The whole ethos of Mini Monets is getting creative together and having fun while creating large scale group pieces that you couldn’t do at home. Whether your children are 6 months or 5 years old, there will be a way for them to engage.

Mini Monets starts after October half term and will be priced at £6.50 per 1.5 hour session, payable half-termly. This taster will be an hour long and will cost £4.

September 29, 2023

Mini Monets Coming Soon

Have children between 6 months and five years and want to get creative with them but don’t want your house covered in paint, glitter, glue and more arty loveliness? Considering joining a baby creative group but don’t want to spend your time making the item for your child rather than them being able to fully engage? Want to join a new Fareham based group run by two local mums who just so happen to be professional artists and workshop facilitators working with major galleries and arts organisations?

Then look no further!!

“Mini Monets” is a new artist-led not for profit accessible art group where babies from 6 months up until 5 can collaborate and have creative fun with each other and their care givers! Through the sessions we will introduce babies and young children to brilliant artists through characters from well-known books and popular culture and create large scale collaborative art pieces through play and safe materials.

As parents of young children ourselves it is important to us that this group is suitable for all small children irrespective of whether they’re a crawler or walker. Because of this these sessions will have sensory aspects, storytime, play time and more.

Our sessions will be held on a Thursday between 10:30am and midday and will cost £6.50 a session with a half-term payable in advance. For the half term leading up to the festive break this will be £39 (six sessions). If siblings attend this will be reduced to £70 for both of them, a saving of £9 (sadly we cannot offer more of a discount due to the costs of our materials not decreasing with numbers). If a walking child attends then a sibling babe in arms will be free.

More information and booking form coming soon!

September 29, 2023

Family Lantern Workshop in Half-Term Holidays

Join us for a family workshop to make your own lanterns for Fareham’s first lantern walk on Friday 27th October. Families will get the chance to work together to create their own lanterns out of willow, rattan, or wire. These are then covered in a special type of wet tissue paper and decorated. Attendees will also have the opportunity to make their own rods for the lanterns.

For the youngest family members we will have small pre-made lanterns they can decorate and add a light to ready for the lantern walk.

The session starts from 2:30 and runs until 5:30pm, if you finish beforehand, we ask you return at 5:45 to assemble your lantern and then join us and others outside Three Joes for Fareham’s first lantern walk starting at 6pm

If you don’t have the time to attend the full session. You can still drop in with your children to decorate a premade lantern

To make your own lantern please book via this link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-spooky-lantern-making-workshop-and-drop-in-tickets-743180963267?aff=oddtdtcreator

The cost per lantern is £4. You will get to take home and keep your lantern after the lantern walk (including the light)

If decorating a pre-made lantern the cost is :

£3 large

£1:50 small

July 22, 2023

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.

April 30, 2020

Fareham Heritage Trail Map Now Free to Download!

As the Covid-19 outbreak has a huge effect on all our lives, and the world we inhabit gets smaller, we have decided to make the Fareham Heritage Trail Map available for FREE download from today.

The Fareham Heritage Trail Map was created in 2016 after workshops with the local community (you can find out more via our Projects page) and provided a journey through the borough’s history, from Portchester to Swanwick, much of it acessible on foot.

It recently dawned on us that as people are moving around on foot and exploring their local area more than usual the map could provide a welcome accompaniment to daily exercise and offer a distraction from what’s going on in the world, and provide an opportunity to learn more about the rich history of Fareham Borough.

The map can be downloaded as a PDF below, and on our homepage. Although it is free, as a not for profit hit hard by the pandemic we welcome donations, and you can do so via the Donate button below

July 20, 2016

Fareham Art Open Submissions closing in 3 days

This Saturday see’s the close of the Fareham Art Open submission. This is a great Exhibition opportunity and artists who wish to enter this yearly competition to be in with the chance of a solo show in Sticks Gallery main space and £100 cash must get their work in by midnight Saturday to have a chance.

Entering is simple! It is FREE for Sticks Gallery Affiliate Artists to enter work, including Bronze members (who only pay between £3 and £10 a quarter) and they can do so by visiting here.

If you are not a member and you would like to join to access many opportunities for Artists, FREE exhibition opportunities, selling opportunities, artist development opportunities, social gatherings and more then please visit “JOIN”

Or to enter by donating £3 to help our work making the arts accessible to all and supporting artists please do so here

November 2, 2015

We have 2 new venues to add to our exhibition spaces

We have some exciting news to share with all of you. Live Art Local CIC has added two new spaces to our art spaces: Garbos Exhibition Space and the Southsea Orthodontists Gallery, both previously curated by Island City Art and before them, Just Add Art.

We see this as a brilliant way to break into Portsmouth and increase our reach, showcasing some amazing up and coming artists to an even wider audience.

Live Art Local CIC/ Sticks Gallery now organises exhibitions in 5 venues, including our current gallery space. As we continue to grow I hope you join us as we seek to bring wonderful contemporary art by brilliant up and coming artists, with a few established creatives thrown into the mix to bigger audiences!

September 1, 2015

The Criminal Conclusion: Fareham Library

Lovers of Crime fiction will not want to miss this great event at Fareham Library on Wednesday 30th September.

The Criminal Conclusion is a great evening event where a panel of local crime authors including:

Tracey Gorman

Richard V Frankland,

and

Diana Bretherick

will draw you in to their dark and twisted world of murder, mystery and suspense. Find out more about the writers by clicking on their names to be take to their websites.

This is a ticketed event priced at £3. As with all evening events at the library the panel begins at 7pm