There is an opportunity for an artist to deliver a full day taster session to a group of vulnerable women who have suffered physical and verbal domestic abuse. If you have the artistic and interpersonal skills required please get in touch ASAP. The workshop will take place at the end Feb in Guisborough.
Happy New Year to you all from Club Creative. 2012 promises to be a busy year for us with some big developments in Creative Enterprise and Arts Mark in schools, and work with hard to reach young people and adults in the community. We also continue to offer our regular programme of after school clubs, Y6 transition activities, creative fun days, workshops, events and much more.
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Kiltonthorpe School , which is a Special school in Brotton, Cleveland, achieved Specialist Arts College status just over three years ago.
The students across all areas of the school have enjoyed a vast range of Art, ICT, Film and Dance opportunities , and the school community celebrate their achievements with a special event., on Wednesday 23rd November 2011 .
We invited all parents of Secondary and 6th Form students to our afternoon Cinematic showing of the best of our Arts College work from the last three years, along with Governors and Friends of the school, including ex-students. .
Kiltonthorpe Film-maker and Animators Adam Reamswood and Ben Hopkinson presented an impressive show, supported by Lauren Henderson, Arts Facilitator.
The 40 minute programme of film clips, movies, animations and videos of activities, followed a packed morning where students attended workshops within school. Classes ranged from Physical Theatre and Stage combat , Circus skills, Photography, Drumming, Batik, Textiles, Art and Craft, Multi-sensory experience with Head massage and Face Painting.
It was a fabulous day, being able to share our successes with the students, staff, artists and practitioners who have featured highly in our Arts Programmes, over the years.
The event was planned by Director of Specialism, Kate Watson and organised by Neil Walker of Club Creative, (neil@club-creative.co.uk) with his team of student Event organisers.
Club Creative has been working with schools in Redcar & Cleveland, Stockton and soon Middlesbrough to provide practical arts based alternative education for the most challenging, disengaged students.
We have years of experience designing learning programmes for those students who for a variety of reasons are not engaging with the school curriculum. Often with a strong Enterprise focus, we will teach students new creative skills whilst working towards a final exhibition, performance or even selling their produce at market to the general public.
The results have been astonishing with students surprising their teachers, support workers and parents with their focus and commitment. We have noticed a marked improvement in concentration, communication skills and confidence in the students.
Our Alternative Provision programmes are designed first and foremost to engage students with creative learning. We can also work with the school to fit the programme into existing qualification frameworks.
Please get in touch to discuss your requirements.
Club Creative has just won a contract to deliver a programme of creative activity for a Redcar & Cleveland Secondary school. The weekly full day sessions will aim to engage to most disengaged Y10 & Y11 students. Beginning with a series of taster workshops in the summer term, there will be a full programme of activity starting in September.
We require creative practitioners with experience of working with hard to reach young people. The overall aim is to engage, inspire, build confidence and self esteem whilst learning new creative skills. There should be an enterprise agenda built in to each activity.
Please get in touch if you would like to more information.
Thanks,
Neil
The children of Bader Primary in Thornaby and John E Batty in Redcar have been working all year with Club Creative artists on a range of arts after school clubs. Images from last half term can be found here and we can’t wait to see what they have been up to recently but the artists are very excited!
If you would activity for your school be it after school clubs, major projects, work with disengaged pupils or Gifted & Talented – Club Creative can help.
Club Creative has been asked by Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council to manage a two day event in the Easter Holidays taking place on the beach and foreshore of Saltburn-by-the-Sea.
The aim will be to engage the general public in fun, creative workshops which are designed to stimulate interest in the Creative Industries development in Redcar & Cleveland. The workshops will be lead by Saltburn based professional artists, thus re-enforcing the message that it is possible to be a self employed creative professional within the borough.
Taking place on Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 April between 11am-3pm, the event will include a range of FREE creative taster workshops for children and families in the following areas:
The workshops will take place on the beach, foreshore and in the Community Room in the Sea Front Building. Using Saltburn’s natural and man made features such as the pier, cliff lift and Huntcliff as subject matter, young participants will be taught the basics of each discipline by professional artists who reside in Redcar and Cleveland.
The event hopes to tie in with the many plans for Saltburns 150th anniversay, and also act as a sign post to the exciting developments taking place in Redcar, in particular the Creative Hub which will host up and coming creative businesses. Visitors to the town over Easter should also take in the brilliant Time and Tide exhibition featuring panoramic photographs of all the pleasure piers in Britain which is currently being exhibited on Saltburn pier.
Watch this space for details of the artists who will be involved.
UPDATE – Artists announced:
Glen Humphrey – Photography
Local award winning photographer Glenn Humphrey will be giving an informal introduction to composing your digital images. This free event is for anyone that can hold a camera and is seeking guidance and practical advice on improving their photographic skills. Bring your compact camera or mobile phone with camera. These are all drop in sessions however, if you would like to book a place please get in touch.
Tracey Potter - Sketching
We will be based at the Seafront Building on the Lower Promenade at Saltburn. From this vantage point the workshop will be an exercise in observing our surroundings and unleashing your creativity. The sketching workshop with professional artist Tracey Potter is an opportunity to experiment with pencils and paints! Some of the themes include the beach, foreshore and landscapes, or buildings and architectural details. The key theme of the day is to have fun, loosen up and enjoy being creative.
All materials will be provided and each session will last for approximately 45 minutes. Children and adults are welcome.
Clare Hansford – Graffiti Art
Create a graffiti sampler with local artist Clare Hansford. Clare will show you how to use a variety of textures and painting techniques to create your own unique design inspired by graffiti art from all around the world. Drop in, have some fun, and make your own colourful design that you can take home.
Derek Mosey and Helen Gaunt – Mosaic
Help Helen and Derek create a large scale mosaic which will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the railway arriving in Saltburn. The mosaic will be the first of several pieces that will be installed on the walls of Sainsburies in Saltburn. This is your chance to create public art, made by the public, for the public!
The BrU
Look out for these incredibly talented young acoustic musicians who will be performing around the seafront area across both days. They are a group of young people between 14 and 16 years old who are involved in a project called Can U? ( a CoMusica project ) based in Redcar. They play guitar ukulele and cahon and anything else they can lay their hands on and sing a variety of songs from Cee Lo green to Paulo Nutini as well as some of their own stuff.
Polaroid scans by particpants of Glen Humphrey’s photography workshops. So nostalgic…
Hi all, it’s been a busy few weeks during which I have personally visited the majority of primary and secondary school in Middlesbrough, Stockton, and Redcar & Cleveland. New projects have been planned, and some have begun.
John E Batty Primary in Redcar has enjoyed the first half term of after school arts workshops. Club Creative will be working which each year group over the course of the school year, ensuring all pupils have the opportuntity to access after school creative activity.
Marton-cum-Grafton school near York has just finished 6 weeks of after school art club, with demand strong for the club to continue after half term. This is the first time Club Creative has worked in the school and we have enjoyed every minute.
Our partnership with Kilton Thorpe Special school continues to develop with weekly full day film making workshops every Friday. We can’t wait to see the finished results!
We continue to provide creative activity for the Main Project social clubs, and we begin weekly Short Breaks provision for children and young people with disabilities. Catering for all disabilities, this club is by direct referral via social workers only and is designed as respite care funded by the Aiming High for Disabled Children Fund.
Half term activity in Oakfields School in Middlesbrough signals the start of what we hope will be a significant and long lasting partnership with the school. Club Creative is providing film making, street dance and art sessions for a range of ages.
With cartoon clubs in Egglescliffe and St Mary’s schools underway, art clubs and a Thornaby’s Got Talent club in Thornaby CoE Primary, an amazing project with East Coast Training to engage their young people with an artist to create a permanent piece of steel sculpture, Arty Parties planned with Tees Valley Leisure, and much more in the pipeline, it’s going to be a busy end to year!
That’s all for now.
Neil.
Club Creative is working in partnership with the Main Project to provide a regular Saturday Club for children and young people with disabilities. The service is by referral through a social worker only and will provide breaks for families of children and young people with a wide range of disabilities.
Club Creative would like to invite creative practitioners from the following disciplines to register their interest in providing 2hr sessions. The aim will be to engage the group effectively with creative activity and in the longer term to teach new creative skills and techniques. The most important requirement however will be to provide quality, engaging, participative creative sessions for a pan disability group.
Creative areas are as follows: Drama, Visual Arts, Film Making, Circus Skills, Drumming/percussion.
Because the exact nature and requirements of the group is unknown at this stage, it is likely that we will initially provide a range of taster sessions. Once we have feedback from the group, we will then book in up to 6 weeks of sessions in one particular activity.
The start date and location are currently still TBC but the Main Project are working hard to get everything confirmed and it is hoped that the Saturday Clubs will start within the next month. The location will be in the Teesside area. It is thought the clubs will run from 11am – 3pm, to include two different 2hr sessions.
If you are interested in being involved please register your interest here and include your name, details of past experience, the nature of the workshop you would offer, and of course your contact details.
As well as a fee for delivery, there will be training opportunities in how to deal with disabilities offered through the Main Project.
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