Please donate to help keep the MakerWorld doors open
Please donate to help keep the MakerWorld doors open
We are delighted to have partnered with Huddersfield Literature Festival for their Lockdown Lantern Installation. 10 lantern making packs have gone out to some of our young artists who have been busy making lanterns at home to be hung in the courtyard at Lawrence Batley Theatre from March 23rd as part of this years festival. […]
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We have started to receive photos from children throughout Kirklees who have been making, drawing and getting creative with our Healthy Holiday packs delivered by Kirklees Youth Alliance and our Make a BUG activity packs funded by Kirklees Council. We love seeing what you do with the packs so keep sending us photos and we
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We are loving our latest ‘how to’ film presented by one of our regular young artists at The Children’s Art School. She’s only 9 but she absolutely smashed it! This film has been made to support children who have received one of our 300 Make a BUG activity packs. These packs, funded by Kirklees Council,
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In October 2020 we reopened our Maker World space in Huddersfield’s Piazza shopping centre and launched Our Biennale! This first event was a weekend of drop-in workshops as part of The Big Draw – the world’s largest drawing festival. Under the theme ‘The Big Green Draw: A Climate of Change’, we invited families into a story-telling experience
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We are just loving being back with our preschoolers! Fun creativity for 2-4yr olds on Fridays at Holmfirth Tech. 10-11am and 1.30-2.30pm.
Little Art Club is back! Read More →
Join us this half term for some creative fun- all FREE! First up- we have The Big Draw at Maker World in Huddersfield, part of the Our Biennale Festival on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October: We also have 2 drop in days at Maker World on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th October: We are
HALF TERM creativity! Read More →
We have loved being part of this project with Home Valley Sharing Memories group! The project celebrates the origins of the Holmfirth Technical Instititute, which became Holmfirth Adult Education centre and is now known as the Tech . In 1984 a newspaper article in the Huddersfield Chronicle https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Huddersfield_Chronicle_(12/May/1894)_-_A_New_Technical_Institute_for_Holmfirth reported the opening of the building and
Museum of Curiosities Read More →
January 2020 is proving an exciting time for The Children’s Art School with our launch of MakerWorld in Huddersfield town centre. This project has been made possible by the generous support of One17 Charitable trust. Based in the old Outdoor World shop in the Piazza Shopping Centre we are opposite Huddersfield Art Gallery and in
Have a look at our fantastic animation created in collaboration with Sharing Memories with all the visuals created by our 11-17yr olds at The Children’s Art School. The animation is based around memories of local people who shared their stories about Hope Bank Pleasure Gardens in Honley. Many of the children came to our classes
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Woven is a Kirklees celebration of all things Textiles taking place between 8th-16th June 2019 As part of Woven The Children’s Art School have been busy delivering the Future Fashion Challenge project to Kirklees schools for the festival. We have recruited 16 schools and worked with 500 children to deliver artist led workshops developing innovative