Tall Sticks and Tall Tales
In this workshop participants are introduced to the memory stick as a method to remember a story. The same basic story will be told in various ways and moods. Each participant will then be encouraged to think how they might want to tell the story, and shown how to construct a memory stick as an aide memoir for their own particular version of it, which depending on time, they will then perform to their fellow participants, singly or in groups depending on the story. (Key stages 2; design and technology, using materials, and English drama)
Re-Enchanting the Landscape Workshops
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A Festival in Crafts and Stories
Most of the great festivals by which the passage of the year was marked (such as Beltane, Midsummer or All Hallows) had both stories and rural crafts associated with them. Participants in this workshop will be encouraged to make something using these crafts, while they are told a sequence of stories associated with the time of year (key stage 1-2 design and technology, using materials, history, understanding a chronology, and English Listening)
Activities for after school clubs and regular meetings.
As well as offering the above workshops, we are also available to clubs and schools on a more ‘regular basis’, and are always happy to discuss how we might fit our activities within any existing programme of events (or click here to see the kind of things we have done) ..
Landscape as Stage
In this workshop a landscape, which could be either park or school playing field is transformed into a temporary performance venue. Participants are shown how the simplest of landscape interventions can transform a space, opening it out to the imagination, and to storytelling. The nature and permanence of such interventions can vary. The landscape constructed could either not outlast the workshop or could, if desired become a more lasting or, if there was funding, permanent feature (Key stage 2-4 art and design, exploring ideas, investigating materials, and thinking about different approaches to a large scale project)
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Leather Workshops and Words.
In this workshop we show how to make fairly simple leather bracelets, gauntlets and masks. And once everyone has got going with chord, leather and scissors, we tell stories about bracelets,cobblers, and leather! (Design and technology Keystage 2, using materials)
General Information:
All our workshops (unless we say otherwise) are designed to last 1-2 hours, and are suitable to groups of 20-30 of ages 10 and above. please note the National Curriculum keystage applications are meant for guideline purposes only
Making Masks
Make a mask, with masking tape, a net curtain and a trusting friend! and then decorate it. This session is suitable for children aged 11 and up, and will require a high number of helpers to make it work efficiently (keystage 2-3, art and design, investigation and making)
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