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Another lovely project for our children and young people- the Holmfith Christmas parade takes place on 26th November at 4.30 and will be shimmering and glittering with gorgeous icy crowns, Jack Frost masks and wonderful capes depicting wintery scenes. The children and young people have embraced the opportunity to create sculpted wearables and to represent […]
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The Children’s Art School is expanding into Huddersfield town centre bringing more opportunities for hands-on creativity to more children and young people in Kirklees. We are very pleased to announce that we have secured funding from Kirklees Councils Arts in the Neighbourhood scheme for a 6 month residency in Huddersfield’s Byram Arcade starting in January 2017.
All our groups have been busy imagining what Hope Bank Pleasure Gardens must have looked like Little Art Club have created flowers for the garden and a train for visitors to ride in.. and have used printing techniques to create a train track… Intermediates have been drawing carousels using charcoal and collaged characters into
“Wanted – your memories of Hope Bank Pleasure Grounds” Family Open Day – Saturday 29th October 1pm-4pm We have been working with Holme Valley Sharing Memories group to create a range of artworks to support their open day inviting residents from the Holme Valley to share their memories of Hope Bank Pleasure Grounds near Honley. The
WOW! What an amazing day! We are so proud to have been a part of the Holmfirth Arts Festival Creature Carnival Parade.. The Children’s Art School provided the ‘Bird’ section of the parade- here they all are pre-parade but ready to go!! Little Art Club and Juniors were ducklings hatching out of eggs: Whilst their
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Creature Carnival- Holmfirth Arts Festival 2016 The Holmfirth Arts Festival is nearly here! We are so pleased to be part of it again this year We will be helping to create a Creature Carnival inspired by the story of Holmfirth’s Fenella the Tiger. This carnival will see wild and wonderful creatures on the streets of
Ebb and Flow paintings installed! The paintings for our Ebb and Flow project have been installed along the river wall underneath the Picturedrome… and they look amazing! They were up just in time for the Holmfirth Folk Festival so have been seen by thousands of people! The river area in the centre of Holmfirth is
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Junior Art Clubs artwork still on tour! So proud that our Junior Art Clubs fabulous Dinosaur world print and collage continues its National Tour as part of Engage, Generation Arts Young artists tour. Find out more here: http://engage.org/genart.aspx
City Project Over the last few weeks we have been creating a city in the studio. First there were the big prints and collages by Little Art Club and Junior Art clubs. They imagined skyscrapers and drew their own houses using monoprint techniques. f Juniors and Intermediates explored the idea of a city skyline using
…a further communication with our MP about creativity in education I believe it is disingenuous to suggest that schools/teachers/parents actively want academisation. Academisation ultimately will allow business to run education with no involvement from parents: how can this ever be in our children’s best interests? I have not met any parents who support this (both