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June 2015

Holmfirth Arts Festival-finale!

Big thanks to Holmfirth Arts Festival! The Owd Towser was the perfect place for the installation of  The 180  Boggards and Jenny Green teeth puppets made by local 8-14 year olds! The project has not only engaged children with the Arts through making, music and poetry but has also engaged them with local history .

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Colourful, large-scale paintings at The Children's Art School Holmfirth

Colour and scale

How lovely to walk in to all this colour in the studio!I love it when our Art School children work BIG! The large boards in this photo are work in progress by children aged between 9 and 12. Based on using the letters of HOPE BANK WORKS to create a composition and using colour theory

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Sound track for Holmfirth Arts Festival

Holmfirth Arts Festival Installation update Wow! wow! wow! I heard the sound track today which Charlotte Watson has created for the installation at the Owd Towser……its amazing!! Made entirely of recordings  of the children at the schools we visited the soundtrack layers the children’s voices saying words and phrases they have used to describe their

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Juniors in national exhibition

Great news! The lovely ‘Dinosaur world’ created by Saturday Juniors (big print and collage featuring erupting volcanoes and added dinosaurs) has been selected to be part of a National Touring Exhibition! To find out more click this link: http://www.engage.org/genartupdate Well done Juniors!.. here’s the piece in the making….

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