Little Art Club is back!
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.
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HALF TERM creativity!
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
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Museum of Curiosities
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
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MakerWorld
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
Animation: Tales of Hope Bank Pleasure Gardens
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
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
Our Biennale animation
Fantastic animation created with 5 schools across Kirklees. Poetry, visual art, animation, music and sound- brilliant!
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Our Darkness and Light Animation
In the last few weeks we have worked with 330 children in 5 schools across Kirklees to create an animation around the theme of Darkness and Light; another project for Our Biennale www.ourbiennale.org 4 primary schools ( Marsden I and N, Birkby Juniors, Hillside Primary and Holmfirth JI and N) initially developed ideas through poetry
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Art and Dance- collaborative project
We have loved facilitating this collaboration between artist Zoe Robertson and Phoenix Dance, Leeds for Our Biennale www..ourbiennale.org. Not only have dance and art students worked together to really challenge their creativity but the outcomes will be taken into Kirklees schools to produce new dances which will be performed at the Our Biennale finale on
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Paintings now exhibited at Honley Station
With support from the Penistone Line Partnership the first station to hang paintings for the Great Kirklees Railway Exhbition is Honley. 30 paintings are now exhibited along the platform at Honley Station depicting Castle Hill, Honley, The Penistone Line and the Tour de France. Both colour and imagery reflect the theme of Darkness and Light
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