For the Fine Not Fine campaign set up by our amazing friend Jordanna Campbell to help young people struggling with mental health.
With artist Elizabeth Cooke
Fine Not Fine Launch Event
Art and performance
Teachers’ CPD evening at Kettles Yard: zine making and poetry
An evening of poetry and zine making with the staff of Grove Primary School, inspired by Kettles Yard house. Poetry workshop was led by Claire Collison. Continue reading
The Curious Cabinet Day 1: a site responsive artwork to encourage future stories and art-making
Dear Class,
You are invited to visit the Curious Cabinet. The cabinet has been delivered to your school for your inspection, deliberation, fascination and to make you curious too.
Go and examine the weird and wonderful objects within, consider the things that might live there, look for ways in, look for ways out, look for any magic you might be the only one to see. Use your wildest imagination.
Then, shut your eyes and invent what you would like to be there…
Write to me, describing what you are thinking of…
Is it a creature? Is it a place? Is it an adventure?
Please tell me what only YOU know about what there may be in my cabinet.
Roll up your paper, tie it carefully, and deliver it to the cabinet to inspire someone else another day.
With my thanks for your help,
The Keeper of the Cabinet Continue reading
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds 200th anniversary: a community made mosaic
The mosaic designed for a very large wall in the theatre garden shows various characters associated with the story of the theatre since its opening 200 years ago. Continue reading
Into the Somewhere
Working with theatre maker Dominic Biddle
Into the Somewhere started out as a research project investigating innovative ways to bring together performance and visual art. It also looked to make an art encounter relevant to the thoughts and concerns of primary school children. Continue reading
Open Day, Theatre Royal Carnival Characters
Theatre Royal Festival Launch
Alien communication
Black hole swallowing up solar system
Space pets
Space pets
Alien to alien communication
Today the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds launched their annual Children’s Festival and we teamed up with theatre educator David Whitney to offer some activities for local schools. Continue reading
Found Faces, Art and Storytelling at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
We came away from this morning’s workshop at the theatre really inspired by the way the children had responded to an integrated art and storytelling approach.
Art and story-Found Faces woodland workshop at Theatre Royal BSE
Art and Story-Found Faces woodland workshop-Theatre Royal BSE
Drama Extravaganza, Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds: Aztecs
Drama Extravaganza this summer is all about the Aztecs and we started the week with a full day of art activities.
The children talked about the reasons why the Aztecs made art and decorative objects and how they used human and natural forms as symbols to represent ideas about religion and war.
We then spent a while looking at Aztec motifs practising the drawing style and allowing the children to try out symbols of their own.
These were used as the centre piece of some impressive Aztec shields. For decoration we thought about the Aztec craft of feather work and looked at images of Montezuma II’s headdress made from the feathers of more than 250 Quetzal birds. The children learnt their own craft of paper feather making and added these to their shields.
