5 sessions from Mon 29 Jul 2024 [Show]
Each day a visiting artist will lead art workshops with the children, supported by our creative playworkers. We cover a wide variety of art and crafts with a focus on learning and most of all FUN! With access to a full range of arts facilities and equipment, and use of our extensive grounds, lawns, gardens and woodland.
Our artists daily activities for this week will be avilable soon!
Details…
The club is for primary school children aged 5-12 years and will run from 9am – 3.30pm
(drop off from 9am-9.30am, pick up 3.30pm sharp)
The club costs £33 per day, this includes the provision of a wide range of art materials, refreshments, and snack.
Children will need to bring their own packed lunch and raincoat/sunscreen.
We hope to get outside into our beautiful grounds to explore as often as possible, so please pack raincoats as well as dressing in suitable clothing and footwear.
The club is for children with a love of art and crafts.
This is a busy and noisy environment with up to 32 children participating daily. Please note that we are not a registered childcare provider, and we do not have additional support beyond our Artists and Creative Playworkers.
We want all our children to get the most from their art club workshops, in a safe and happy environment. If you would like to discuss accessibility, please give us a call.
This ticket is for people who are on benefits such as Income based Council Tax or are unemployed or unable to work and worry about meeting their and their family's basic needs. There is a limited number of these tickets.
There are a maximum of 4 free places available to be shared amongst families low income families. Please select one session per week, per child.
These few places are much needed, please be considerate when booking so that other families can also benefit from the sessions.
Universal Credit - Please note, our Universal credit ticket no longer exists. As Universal Credit has recently restructured, our free ticket criteria has been updated to make sure that these are reaching the families who cannot afford them otherwise.
Join Artsist Craig McCorquodale for a week of art, den building and theatre in the grounds at Forgan Arts Centre.
Criag is an artist based in Glasgow, usually working in theatre and performance. Working both in the UK and internationally, his work seeks to invite a range of people into the artistic process and on to the stage.
Believing that the most exciting artworks find ways to collaborate with people who might never have done anything like this before, Craig brings new configurations of people together to make bold decisions about where art can exist.
'HAPPENINGS'
Over the course of the week, Craig will guide the group through a process inspired by the idea of HAPPENINGS. In New York in the 1960s, a group of artists got together and made a series of experimental artworks which came to be known as Happenings. They did things like cover a car with shaving foam and invite members of the public to make large sculptures out of ice. These events had a real DIY spirit and would often pop up and disappear – they just ‘happened to happen’ – questioning at their core who could be an artist and where, how and why art happens.
This summer, the Children’s Art Club will make a series of Happenings each day with Craig, questioning what exactly art is, finding new places to make it happen and creating fun, playful, one-off live events.
MONDAY
HELLO – NICE TO MEET YOU, WHAT’S YOUR NAME? - Today, we will explore the idea of ‘portraits’. We will think about who we are, draw pictures of ourselves in charcoal with our eyes closed and draw each other in chalk outside on the ground. We will look at famous portraits from classical paintings and replicate them outside with photography, then make a huge collage as a group portrait. We will also make self portraits outside with found materials like twigs, rocks and leaves and create a group exhibition around different points outside!
TUESDAY
THEATRE CAN BE ANYTHING! -Tuesday’s session will introduce the young people to new ways of making theatre. We will begin the day by playing games, exploring movement and voice techniques both indoors and outdoors. We will then divide into groups and make small scenes or group dances, playing with our experiences of being young people rather than playing characters. During the afternoon, we will make pop-up stages around the grounds of Forgan Arts Centre, with the children leading the design of how these stages are configured. To do this, we will use materials like palettes and fabric to physically create small stages that we can perform our scenes upon.
WEDNESDAY
PLAYING WITH FILM - Today is all about film. We will look at our favourite films and recreate several iconic moments in the world of cinema. We will split into groups and plan a storyboard for our films, thinking about filming techniques to make things more dynamic. Outdoors, we will begin bringing these films to life, working site-specifically to tell the stories we want to tell. Each group will make a stop-motion animation as part of the piece, editing these animations. Finally, we will make posters for our movies and watch them together in a temporary cinema on the big screen.
THURSDAY
MAKING ART WITH UNUSUAL MATERIALS - On Thursday we will explore the potential of unusual materials to make new work. Beginning with the more traditional materials, we will explore how we are feeling with a ‘charcoal check in’, mapping how we are feeling today on to paper. We will then play with potato printing and try various found materials from outside to see what works on paper. Later, we will work outdoors with a selection of materials (things like sand, soil, rocks and even oranges!) to create sculptures and performance improvisations. This whole day will be led by the interests of the young people, thinking about how we can be led by our instincts to play with unusual materials.
FRIDAY
CHILDREN ONLY DENS! - It’s Friday, which means things are getting serious. Today, the children are in charge! In the morning, we will look at some examples of artists who make forts and dens – large sculptures that people can play inside. We will then begin the process of designing our own forts, a space for children only – no adults – first exploring the grounds to get inspired and then planning on paper. In groups, we will then head outside to make our Children Only forts, playing with found objects as well as cardboard, sheets, chairs and other materials to build a structure. We will make flags together, thinking about what we might want to write on them, then fly them from our dens in a huge declaration of the power of young people!
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