Creative Midlands South

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• Godiva Awakes
• Mini Makers: Soft City Studio
• Mini Makers: Pocket Puppets
• Mini Makers: Big Place, Big Face
• Mini Makers: Push the Story (Part 2)
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• Summer Holiday Family Workshop_5
• Summer Holiday Family Workshop_4
• Summer Holiday Family Workshop 3
• Summer Holiday Family Workshop 2
• Summer Holiday Family Workshop 1

Godiva Awakes Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:06 PM PDT Wednesday 1.8.2012 Children & Families Offsite Learning Event Godiva Awakes Campbell Park, Milton Keynes, Wednesday 1 August / 5pm onwards / Free Godiva Awakes is a Cultural Olympiad project by Imagineer productions and supported by the Arts Council.  As Godiva travels to London from Coventry via a cyclopedia (100 cyclists), she rests in a different town each day and on Wednesday 1st August she stops in Milton Keynes. Contributing to the city's welcome for Godiva, MK Gallery joins the fun in Campbell Park, offering family activities with storyteller John Kirk and artist Tamsin Tyers-Vowles.  Come along and get creative with puppet making and some magical stories!  Find out more about Godiva Awakes in Campbell Park

Mini Makers: Soft City Studio Posted: 13 Jul 2012 11:24 AM PDT Saturday 25.8.2012 Children & Families Mini Makers Soft City Studio with Willow MitchellSaturday 25 August / 1 - 3pm / Free Suitable for children aged 4+ Join artist Willow Mitchell as we recreate our own 'Soft City'. Working playfully with paper we'll bring to life a scene from Pushwagner's graphic novel Soft City. Together we will transform our studio space into our own dystopian landscape, constructing a city to be entered and explored. You never know, you might even become part of the story… See more events for Children and Families

Mini Makers: Pocket Puppets Posted: 13 Jul 2012 11:09 AM PDT Saturday 18.8.2012 Children & Families Mini Makers Pocket Puppets with Kerrie MaxwellSaturday 18 August / 1 - 3pm / Free Suitable for children aged 4+ Come along and take part in a hands-on session making puppets in all different shapes and sizes.  Shape and style them using paper, card, collage and various other materials, then take control of your creations as you become the puppet master. See more events for Children and Families

Mini Makers: Big Place, Big Face Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:59 AM PDT Saturday 11.8.2012 Children & Families Mini Makers Big Place, Big Face with Thom ReesSaturday 11 August / 1 - 3pm / Free Suitable for children aged 4+ Create your own larger than life response to Pushwagners mouth seen on the outside of MK Gallery.  Using the materials supplied, design, shape and make each component ready to build your own big face.  Cut, stick, glue and paint your way to the perfect smile!! See more events for Children and Families

Mini Makers: Push the Story (Part 2) Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:32 AM PDT Saturday 4.8.2012 Children & Families Mini Makers Push the Story (Part 2) with Clare Ridgeway Saturday 4 August / 1 - 3pm / Free Suitable for children aged 4+ Continuing the story board theme, Clare will work with participants to create a 3D model city using cardboard and comic strips. This will include making buildings in large scale, such as tall skyscrapers, roads and vehicles, in an abstract form playing with scale and context. See more events for Children and Families

CreativeNhants: RT @_NorthantsEP: Get free legal advice for business start-ups today at Northampton Central Library 3.30 - 5.30pm http://t.co/o8fcWcZW Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:23 AM PDT CreativeNhants: RT @_NorthantsEP: Get free legal advice for business start-ups today at Northampton Central Library 3.30 - 5.30pm http://t.co/o8fcWcZW

CreativeNhants: RT @nesta_uk: New £7m Digital R&D Fund for the Arts now live supporting arts projects using digital tech! Find out more http://t.co/ ... Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:22 AM PDT CreativeNhants: RT @nesta_uk: New £7m Digital R&D Fund for the Arts now live supporting arts projects using digital tech! Find out more http://t.co/ ...

Summer Holiday Family Workshop_5 Posted: 11 Jul 2012 05:59 AM PDT Friday 31.8.2012 Children & Families Discover Sian Griffiths Friday 31 August / 10am - 4pm / Free A fun, creative, drop-in session, suitable for ages 4+ and their families.   These artist-led workshops provide you with an opportunity to contribute to a collaborative artwork, which will be completed by the end of the drop-in session.   In the process you will enjoy finding out about an individual artist and their work.   Join Sian to create a truly collaborative installation that grows and interacts with the architecture of the space as the day progresses;  a fun a lively large scale artwork that climbs up the wall and across the floor.   Sian Griffiths' work engages with the vast language of sculpture through a specific interest in low value objects that are sourced from pound shops, stationers and charity shops. A process of transformation occurs in which the objects' original functions are ignored in favour of their pure aesthetic qualities and how they can be presented as a creative statement.  Sian's playful pieces offer an insight into her own fantastical language, in which all her thinking is carried out through an obsessive relationship with their materiality.  This is a process that is of upmost importance to the development of her practice.

Summer Holiday Family Workshop_4 Posted: 11 Jul 2012 05:58 AM PDT Friday 24.8.2012 Children & Families Discover Thom Rees Friday 24 August / 10am - 4pm / Free A fun, creative, drop-in session, suitable for ages 4+ and their families.   These artist-led workshops provide you with an opportunity to contribute to a collaborative artwork, which will be completed by the end of the drop-in session.   In the process you will enjoy finding out about an individual artist and their work.   Join Thom  Rees as he introduces his practice and takes you on a journey exploring processes, materials, light, sculpture and installation.  You will help create The Ugly Bug Ball, a light installation that references the work of contemporary artists such as Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker.  You will help us fill our entire Project Space with a swarm of origami insects such as butterflies, moths, ladybirds and other creepy crawlies, resulting in an interactive and visually rewarding artwork.  Thom Rees is a Milton Keynes based sculptor and printmaker.  In his current practice he explores the aesthetics of space and how it is translated by the use of light, or manipulated through a variety of materials we use to build our everyday environment.  Thom's work looks at the meanings of materials and processes, much of which we use to construct our own lives within a space.

Summer Holiday Family Workshop 3 Posted: 11 Jul 2012 05:58 AM PDT Friday 17.8.2012 Children & Families Discover Alicja Rogalska Friday 17 August / 10am - 4pm / Free A fun, creative, drop-in session suitable for ages 4+ and their families. These artist-led workshops provide you with an opportunity to contribute to a collaborative artwork, which will be completed by the end of the drop-in session.   In the process you will enjoy finding out about an individual artist and their work. During this idea-driven workshop, you will be reflecting on the history of Milton Keynes and where the world is heading today, and you will help  create a utopian model of a future town using various materials and techniques, from drawing to sculpture and collage. Alicja Rogalska's work explores themes such as culture, politics and the economy, using sculpture, photography, installation and video, often focusing on a specific location.  In the process she collaborates with a wide range of people, from electroacoustic composers and folk singers to mathematicians.  Alicja, who graduated from Goldsmiths College, London with a Masters in Fine Art, has received awards from both the European Cultural Foundation and Arts Council England,  and has exhibited internationally.  As an artist educator Alicia has worked with Tate Britain, Towner Contemporary Art Gallery aand Modern Art Oxford and Creative Partnerships, amongst others.

Summer Holiday Family Workshop 2 Posted: 11 Jul 2012 05:57 AM PDT Friday 10.8.2012 Children & Families Discover Storyteller John Kirk & Poet Sam Berkson Friday 10 August / 10am - 4pm / Free A fun, creative, drop-in session suitable for ages 4+ and their families. These artist-led workshops provide you with an opportunity to contribute to a collaborative artwork, which will be completed by the end of the drop-in session.   In the process you will enjoy finding out about an individual artist and their work. Storyteller John and poet Sam work together for the first time in a session that aims to bring literature alive; poetry and language will transform the space and send words spinning around you as you delve into the world of words.   John Kirk has presented a wide variety of experiences, from Greek Myths and Aesop Fables to English Folklore and believes that exchanging stories makes us uniquely human.   Over the last decade he has worked with some of Britain's largest Theatre in Education and Children's Theatre companies.  As a drama workshop facilitator he helps people of different backgrounds and abilities to discover and develop their talent for storytelling using games and role play in his fun packed sessions. Sam Berkson has been performing poetry since 2002, taking his work around the UK and abroad. His work deals with the truths and lies of everyday life, attempting to uplift, emphasising the connections and similarities between people and trying to capture those moments where we see the world for what it is.  He won the Brighton Festival Slam and the Liverpool Capital of Culture Slam 2008 and he has featured as the English representative at a Danish International Literature Festival. His work has been published in magazines and books, has been set to music, working with beatboxers, DJs and bands.  As a host of Hammer & Tongue, he organises and promotes live poetry events for the biggest promoters of slam poetry in the UK.  With seven years teaching in secondary schools, he has a great deal of experience of educational work and was the subject of a feature in The Guardian newspaper on poets who work in schools.  "Year 9s are won over by his conviction and clarity, and soon become mesmerised" - Judy Friedberg, The Guardian.

Summer Holiday Family Workshop 1 Posted: 11 Jul 2012 05:50 AM PDT Friday 3.8.2012 Children & Families Discover Artist  Willow MitchellFriday 3 August / 10am - 4pm / Free A fun, creative, drop-in session suitable for ages 4+ and their families. These artist-led workshops provide you with an opportunity to contribute to a collaborative artwork, which will be completed by the end of the drop-in session.   In the process you will enjoy finding out about an individual artist and their work. This week we meet Essex-based artist Willow Mitchell, whose practice lies somewhere between drawing and making.  Through collecting and assembling fragments of observed, imaginary and abstracted imagery her works take shape on paper or as physical objects and become rhythms of her thoughts. She looks for inspiration from dwellings, shelters and vessels and works intuitively with a wide variety of modest and unusual materials.    Join Willow to contribute to a growing work of art which will take shape throughout the day.  The main focus is 'Drawing in Space' exploring light and shadow in an open-ended and playful approach avoiding the traditional and more obvious drawing techniques.

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