children workshop
Create in Clay: Faces & Masks for Kids with Ursula Waechter
8 April 2017
Time: 10am to 12pm
This workshop is a great opportunity for your child to be taught by professional ceramicist Ursula Waechter.
Looking at images of masks and faces for inspiration, your child will plan the design of their mask, with step-by-step instructions and handy tips.
Using red clay and pottery tools, they will find out how to make the features of the face, using just their hands.
The masks will then be fired for you and ready for collection, from City Arts, three weeks after the workshop.
Cost: £15 (all tools & materials included)
Age: Teens & Kids 8+ (unsupervised)
*Booking Your Child’s Place, email us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Foam Marbling with Rachel Cheer
11 April & 24th July 2017
Time: 10am to 12pm
One of our most popular workshop is returning…
This workshop, with Rachel Cheer, is all about introducing youngsters to art, and older children to a new way of creating unusual artwork.
Shaving Foam Marbling is a great way to experiment with creating colourful and unique images on paper; the workshop is for all abilities.
Designed especially for parents/ carers and children to enjoy together. Your children must be supervised at all times.
Age: 4+ with a parent / carer
Cost: £8
*Booking Your Place, email us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Foam Marbling with Rachel Cheer
Monday 24th July 2017, 10am – 12pm
One of our most popular workshop is back!
Foam Marbling, with Rachel Cheer, is all about introducing youngsters to art, and older children to a new way of creating unusual artwork, and of course letting adults have fun too!
Shaving Foam Marbling is a great way to experiment with creating colourful and unique images on paper; the workshop is for all abilities and ages.
Designed especially for parents/ carers and children to enjoy together, so bring the whole family/ team/ tribe and get stuck in!
~ Age: universal (with a parent / carer)
~ Cost: £8 (all materials included)
DRESS FOR MESS!!!
*Booking Your Place, email us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Easter Flower Baskets with Kim Harrison
This Workshop is Cancelled
14 April 2017
Time: 10am to 12pm
Come along and join in the Family Fun on Good Friday 14th April 2017, with Florist Kim Harrison of ‘Lavenders’
Create your own Easter Flower Basket for your home, or maybe a special Easter gift.
Each group will design and make a basket, using beautiful, seasonal flowers from Holland.
*Each group will have their own work station:
~ After a brief introduction from me, we will start by fixing the oasis to the basket
~ Then we will start to green-up, by adding foliage to create the outline of your design
~ Everyone will then begin to add seasonal flowers
~ There will also be ribbons and decorations available
Age: 8+ with supervision
Cost: £25 per family (all materials included)
*Booking Your Place, email us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Design, Create & Frame for Kids with Bonni Southey
13th May 2017
Time: 10am to 1pm
Trained initially as a fashion designer and illustrator, expressing a love of textiles and a ‘magpie’s eye’ Bonni Southey offers this wonderfully creative workshop for children.
The workshops are fun, relaxed, empowering and bring a meditative quality to the time spent creating the beautiful, finished artworks which result.
During the workshop, children will be:
~learning the design process
~experimenting with a wide variety of materials and text
~exploring colour and texture
They will then create their own framed picture, with Bonni’s guidance and helpful tips.
Age: 10+
Cost: £25 including all materials
*Booking Your Place, email us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Father’s Day Canvas with Sarah Moorcroft
SADLY, DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, WE HAVE HAD TO CANCEL THIS WORKSHOP.
11 June 2017
Time: 10am to 2pm
Come and design & create a unique, personalised canvas for your Dad or Carer.
You can paint, draw and use mixed media on your canvas – be as creative as you like!
This is a workshop for the whole family, all ages are welcome, with adult supervision.
Age: All Ages (with adult supervision)
Cost: £8 (all materials included)
Booking Your Place, email us, : info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
Silk Suncatchers for Kids with Sarah Moorcroft
Monday 31 July 2017
Time: 11am to 2pm
This is a great workshop, with artist Sarah Moorcroft, for children who want to learn how to work with silk.
You can use a set theme, or choose one of your own. There will also be the opportunity to add different embellishments to your suncatcher.
During the workshop you will learn the design process and practical application of silk painting. This technique involves planning your design on paper and then transferring it to your silk, guttering up the design and then allowing it to dry. You will then paint your silk, having learnt which colours work well together and how to apply them.
Age: 10+
Cost: £12 (including all materials)
To Book Your Child’s Place, Email Us: info@cityartsnewbury.co.uk
