We are very proud to be an Arts Award centre! Arts Award is a wonderful programme designed to inspire young people, encourage creative talents and develop leadership skills. We are currently offering the Discover and Explore levels as part of our alternative education provision, and it’s also a programme we can run with community groups.
Typically, we offer the award in a modular structure where participants explore a particular theme for 4-6 weeks, working with a guest local artist as part of their studies. The topic of the module is decided between the tutor and the young people taking part. Examples of topics include:
You can find out more about the Arts Award programme by visiting the Arts Award website.
On a walk to a lake with a young person who was using a camera for the first time, excitedly crouching, zooming, snapping away. He photographed cow parsley, a passing puppy, daisies, obliging moorhens, oblivious ducks, bracket fungi, all sorts of colourful delights. On approaching the water we could see roaming dragonflies, too far away […]
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“An artist is not a special kind of person but every person is a special kind of artist” – Hakim Bey. I love everything about the arts, I love viewing, watching and observing how people express their creative sides. From dance, music, drama, painting, creative writing, spoken word poetry, storytelling, sculpting, crafting, animation. Arts Organisations […]
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Last half term during our Arts Award sessions, we were working on creating stop-animation films, with a little bit of inspiration from Aardman studios, the creators of Wallace & Gromit! To begin our module, we began making Thaumatropes, a toy from the Victorian period that, when spun, gave the illusion of movement. We also made […]
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