so, thursday... well, i spent my day folding letters and addressing envelopes and doing some research for various projects. the planning meeting for the HAC happened, which i couldn't sit in on because there were so many people there already... bit miffed at that but could understand it. sad though.
friday maria was away pretty much the whole day, so i made a treasure map and then went into town to research the camera we wanted to buy. spoke to folks in jessops. did more research in the afternoon on that for the cheapest prices. had a wee marketing meeting with christine for saturday
saturday we were at the HAC mags, karen and douglas again worked really well. christine was around to do some press and marketing with the kids. worked well.
tuesday maria and i went to RAPA (reidvale adventure play association) for a meeting about the training maria was to deliver the following wednesday. in the afternoon, had more research to do, then went to see the workshop space.. should be awesome when its done... :)
wednesday we had stanecastle and the HAC again. at stanecastle mags had both classes together to work on the story aiming to get it filmed in the next few weeks... should be interesting... at the hac jenny let the kids have their say about what they wanted to make. everyone created a few more pieces, which was cool.
thursday, there was a meeting about saturday express that i tagged along to. giant are doing a day of workshops in the hidden gardens. saw the exhibition at the cca
pub lunch since it was kinda my last day, so that was nice.
phoned round loads of schools about giving them flyers for their p5,6 and 7 kids.
friday, i phoned even more schools and organisations and then split up bundles of flyers for distribution. left at 4 with the camera and tripod for saturday.
saturday, arrived late at the hac, filmed each group telling their stories.
Wednesday, 7 March 2007
Thursday, 22 February 2007
end week four, start week five
thursday: we had a meeting with lex first thing thursday morning to design the flyers for "creative sensations!" the new series of workshops that are taking place in the workshop space in easter. we had a pub lunch and then finished off collecting materials and get sorted for friday's workshops.
friday: 9am set off for bellshill hilton, set up and ready to go by 11... but then they ran late. so, workshop one started at 11.30, workshop two 1.15. both workshops went really well- activities included blind drawing, scribble and pass it on, self-portraits, a unique drawing experience, and creating clay models... both groups enjoyed the experience and seemed to get alot out of it.
saturday: both workshops did a session with mags on the movement of all the characters in their stories. in the first group, karen and douglas went through the scripts and sounds with a few things still to finalise. second group was purely movement.
monday: in for an hour to speak to julie re placement, re essay. went well, just hope i can remember all the things we talked about...
tuesday: morning was spent collating materials and doing photocopies and creating packs for phylis and marias workshop on friday, did some research about what was going on at the art galleries and museums in the easter holidays so that the creative sensations workshops could tie in with that...
wednesday: stanecastle- mags led the kids in becoming pirates, with directions like scrub the deks and splice the mainbrace. both groups enjoyed this although group one were much better behaved and more into it at the moment... next week both groups will work together and hopefully inigo can film it. aiming to get a couple more sessions with them to finish up the theme.
HAC- jenny created some more amazing felt with the group, this time onto scrim...
maria and i had a chat about how we visualised the project looking, in preperation for the planning meeting today.
friday: 9am set off for bellshill hilton, set up and ready to go by 11... but then they ran late. so, workshop one started at 11.30, workshop two 1.15. both workshops went really well- activities included blind drawing, scribble and pass it on, self-portraits, a unique drawing experience, and creating clay models... both groups enjoyed the experience and seemed to get alot out of it.
saturday: both workshops did a session with mags on the movement of all the characters in their stories. in the first group, karen and douglas went through the scripts and sounds with a few things still to finalise. second group was purely movement.
monday: in for an hour to speak to julie re placement, re essay. went well, just hope i can remember all the things we talked about...
tuesday: morning was spent collating materials and doing photocopies and creating packs for phylis and marias workshop on friday, did some research about what was going on at the art galleries and museums in the easter holidays so that the creative sensations workshops could tie in with that...
wednesday: stanecastle- mags led the kids in becoming pirates, with directions like scrub the deks and splice the mainbrace. both groups enjoyed this although group one were much better behaved and more into it at the moment... next week both groups will work together and hopefully inigo can film it. aiming to get a couple more sessions with them to finish up the theme.
HAC- jenny created some more amazing felt with the group, this time onto scrim...
maria and i had a chat about how we visualised the project looking, in preperation for the planning meeting today.
Wednesday, 14 February 2007
end week three, start week four
thursday: am research for various thibgs to do with the projects. pm after lunch maria and i went in search of parchment paper for saturdays workshops, andthen i had a meeting with karen so that i could fin out all the information i needed for my placement report.
friday: maria and i went to dundee to the sensation science centre to do some research into the senses, which was fun. met my mum in the dca for lunch and then, after looking at the exhibition, went for the megabus back to glasgow. which was, of course, delayed.
saturday: HAC workshops with karen, which all went really well, although i did feel a little but redundant, however i just tried to get involved and join in. mags is going to do more drama stuff next week, which will be really cool, they kids have some really nice little storylines. Karen m did more music with them and recorded little musical moments,which were lovely.
tuesday: started off running a few errands, gettig some refreshments for the evaluation meeting that was happening for WBMF that evening. then spent several hours ripping up old exhibition stuff, as no need to keep it... prep for saturday, some clear-out of the sparky office.
wednesday: planned a planning/catch up meeting with the artists involved inte HAC its a shore thing exhibit. confirmed information re the conference on early years that maria and i are running a workshop at on friday. gathered materials for that workshop.
ran a test session to see how each activity works.
friday: maria and i went to dundee to the sensation science centre to do some research into the senses, which was fun. met my mum in the dca for lunch and then, after looking at the exhibition, went for the megabus back to glasgow. which was, of course, delayed.
saturday: HAC workshops with karen, which all went really well, although i did feel a little but redundant, however i just tried to get involved and join in. mags is going to do more drama stuff next week, which will be really cool, they kids have some really nice little storylines. Karen m did more music with them and recorded little musical moments,which were lovely.
tuesday: started off running a few errands, gettig some refreshments for the evaluation meeting that was happening for WBMF that evening. then spent several hours ripping up old exhibition stuff, as no need to keep it... prep for saturday, some clear-out of the sparky office.
wednesday: planned a planning/catch up meeting with the artists involved inte HAC its a shore thing exhibit. confirmed information re the conference on early years that maria and i are running a workshop at on friday. gathered materials for that workshop.
ran a test session to see how each activity works.
Thursday, 8 February 2007
end of week 2, start of week three
thursday: i started separating the work from the three schools involved in the world beneath my feet project (wbmf) and beginning to pack them up for delivery to those schools. this took up most of the morning, and we had to go and try to find appropriate boxes to put it all into. I also spent some time finding out about plastazote, a foam material that we were using for our costumes. i ordered the quantity we needed and arranged to pick it up the next day.
friday: we packed up all the materials from the three schools, posted off the work from drummore primary and drove out to forth and ruchill primaries to give them their work. after this we did some work with the cameras and worked out how to create some stop frame animation.
after popping back to the office, we headed out to kirkintilloch to pick up the plastazote. upon returning, Maria had a meeting and i started clearing out the sparky office, discarding lot and lots of junk in the process.
saturday: met maria at the office at 1, in order to be at the tramway for saturday express starting at 2. we had three groups. each group started by finishing off or creating a monster creature from their drawings. we then took them out into the hidden gardens and took digital images and polaroids of all the creatures in their "natural" habitats.
the second group ended up consisting of only two children, brothers, dexter and coltrane. along with their mum, we took the boys and their monster creations out into the hidden gardens and took photos of them. the boys used this chance to play in the hidden gardens, with dexter demanding to be read to and not wanting to go back inside. it took some bargaining, but we all eventually got back inside and got cleared up for the last group (after dexter had me play wrestling and fill in his evaluation for him...)
the third and last group was made up of three slightly older children, so, with this group, we created a group animation, using one of the cameras. the film they created was really funny and a good result for them all.
this saturday express workshop was the last in the series for this term, although a big one day event has been planned for march and as long as there is funding, it will continue til next term.
week three
monday; i had the day off- yippee!
tuesday: spent a fair amount of the day reserarching variou parts of pirate costume. we had a staff meeting first thing and i had to try and organise a small gathering for the artists involved in wbmf. which i did. tuesday afternoon i started on cutting out the plastazote to create costumes or costume templates.
wednesday: Stanecastle
P6/7 class first again, brought in a treasure chest with some costume pieces in, introduced the children to Karen and open up the chest. The group explored the contents of the chest and then had the chance to create their own costumes. They drew designs onto paper for each of their costumes and then transferred these onto the plastazote. This they then cut out, decorated and wore. Photos were taken of all the children wearing their costumes and the hope is to be able to film them doing some drama in their costumes…
The second group progressed in much the same way, the whole class got involved in creating and wearing their costumes, and were quite sad when the session was over for that week.
Stanecastle have an in-service day next Wednesday, so there will not be a workshop until the week after, when Mags should be back as well, as she was unwell this week.
In the time between Stanecastle and HAC, we went to the beach and made some sand casts, with varying success. In the rest of the time after the tide was coming in, we went to troon for a walk along the beach front.
HAC
When we reached the Harbour Arts Centre, Jenny was already all set up and had sewn together the seaweed from last week to create two long strips that hung from the ceiling. The children all enjoyed looking at their creations and eagerly created two more pieces- one that they had started the previous week and another. The first was a piece that had been laid out lengthwise and had some other materials trapped in it. The second seaweed creation was a tubular piece that was created by wrapping wool tops around the polystyrene tubing. This piece was harder to felt than others, but the results were awesome. The children all really enjoyed it. Next week is the half-term, so there is no HAC either.
thursday: is today.. so far i have written this and made sure i know what i need to ask in order to write my assignment. meeting with karen later on to ask some questions.
friday: we packed up all the materials from the three schools, posted off the work from drummore primary and drove out to forth and ruchill primaries to give them their work. after this we did some work with the cameras and worked out how to create some stop frame animation.
after popping back to the office, we headed out to kirkintilloch to pick up the plastazote. upon returning, Maria had a meeting and i started clearing out the sparky office, discarding lot and lots of junk in the process.
saturday: met maria at the office at 1, in order to be at the tramway for saturday express starting at 2. we had three groups. each group started by finishing off or creating a monster creature from their drawings. we then took them out into the hidden gardens and took digital images and polaroids of all the creatures in their "natural" habitats.
the second group ended up consisting of only two children, brothers, dexter and coltrane. along with their mum, we took the boys and their monster creations out into the hidden gardens and took photos of them. the boys used this chance to play in the hidden gardens, with dexter demanding to be read to and not wanting to go back inside. it took some bargaining, but we all eventually got back inside and got cleared up for the last group (after dexter had me play wrestling and fill in his evaluation for him...)
the third and last group was made up of three slightly older children, so, with this group, we created a group animation, using one of the cameras. the film they created was really funny and a good result for them all.
this saturday express workshop was the last in the series for this term, although a big one day event has been planned for march and as long as there is funding, it will continue til next term.
week three
monday; i had the day off- yippee!
tuesday: spent a fair amount of the day reserarching variou parts of pirate costume. we had a staff meeting first thing and i had to try and organise a small gathering for the artists involved in wbmf. which i did. tuesday afternoon i started on cutting out the plastazote to create costumes or costume templates.
wednesday: Stanecastle
P6/7 class first again, brought in a treasure chest with some costume pieces in, introduced the children to Karen and open up the chest. The group explored the contents of the chest and then had the chance to create their own costumes. They drew designs onto paper for each of their costumes and then transferred these onto the plastazote. This they then cut out, decorated and wore. Photos were taken of all the children wearing their costumes and the hope is to be able to film them doing some drama in their costumes…
The second group progressed in much the same way, the whole class got involved in creating and wearing their costumes, and were quite sad when the session was over for that week.
Stanecastle have an in-service day next Wednesday, so there will not be a workshop until the week after, when Mags should be back as well, as she was unwell this week.
In the time between Stanecastle and HAC, we went to the beach and made some sand casts, with varying success. In the rest of the time after the tide was coming in, we went to troon for a walk along the beach front.
HAC
When we reached the Harbour Arts Centre, Jenny was already all set up and had sewn together the seaweed from last week to create two long strips that hung from the ceiling. The children all enjoyed looking at their creations and eagerly created two more pieces- one that they had started the previous week and another. The first was a piece that had been laid out lengthwise and had some other materials trapped in it. The second seaweed creation was a tubular piece that was created by wrapping wool tops around the polystyrene tubing. This piece was harder to felt than others, but the results were awesome. The children all really enjoyed it. Next week is the half-term, so there is no HAC either.
thursday: is today.. so far i have written this and made sure i know what i need to ask in order to write my assignment. meeting with karen later on to ask some questions.
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Stanecastle and HAC
Stanecastle School and HAC workshops wed 31/1/07
Stanecastle
Maria and I arrived at the school at around 9.40 in time to meet Mags (drama worker) and get set up for the first of the two workshops.
The first workshop was with a class of six children, aged 10 and 11. With this group, Maria introduced me as a new helper, then showed the children the shapes they had marbled the week before whilst explaining that we were going to turn these into costumes in the near future.
Mags then took over and asked the children toile down on the floor and then pretend that they were fish. They had to curl up under their rocks. Mags put on some gentle calming music and then asked the children to begin to wake up as fish, stretch and gently begin to look around- make sure there were no predators or scary fish. Once they had done that they were to get up and start swimming around as little fishes. The group joined in eagerly and swam around the room for several minutes.
The next section involved getting a fish on a big long pole and swimming together as a school, following one child each time and trying to stick together. The general good behaviour of the class meant that this worked well and there were no injuries.
The last section involved creating little pieces of costume from the material the children had created the week before. They made head bands and bracelets with fishy creatures attached. Once they were suitably attired we lay some blue material on the ground and the children pretended they were on the seabed. Several of the more vicious sharks attacked me, as did a killer starfish and several octopi. This resulted, sadly, in a slightly melodramatic death on my part. Maria had an extra piece of blue material and took to waving it across the group to encourage them that it was the fishy bed time. Once the children were settled, the session ended and everyone went for a break time.
The second workshop was after break time, and again it consisted of six children, as the seventh child was not in school that day.
With this group we had a short discussion at the start about their class theme- which is Pirates. (This discussion may have been influential in deciding the direction of the other sessions…) Maria then showed the class the little pieces of costume the last class had created from all their work.
As with the first group, Mags ran through the first two exercises, with varied success, there was one child who wasn’t really interested in joining in, but we included him as much as possible.
The group then put on some of the costume pieces and lay on the floor, as sleeping fish while Maria created a sea effect over them with some transparent shiny cellophane type material. This group really enjoyed that and were keen to play on, however the time was up after that.
The clear up for this group was simple and we were soon back in the car, heading for lunch.
Maria and I had a few hours to kill before the next workshop, so we had thought about going to the library to find some sea books, especially about seaweed, however once we found the library, discovered it was shut on a Wednesday. Instead we spent more time on the beach collecting seaweed samples to show the group…
HAC
At around 3.40 Maria and I arrived at the Harbour Arts Centre (HAC) where Jenny (a felt-making expert) was all set up and ready to begin the workshops. Julia, who is the usual tutor for “Slap Happy Art”, the art workshops run in the HAC, joined us for these workshops. Unfortunately, she seemed a bit confused as to the fact that we were running six or eight weeks of felt-making workshops, and was worried the parents didn’t know what they were signing up for. However, all the kids loved it.
The felt making ran for an hour and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Jenny and Maria started by showing the children the pieces of seaweed we had collected and getting them to feel the texture and shapes in it. Jenny went on to explain the materials we would be using and the process.
Jenny created her seaweed by laying bits of wool tops (the wool used) on her piece of bubble wrap, layering it up and the sprinkling water all over. The water was warm and mixed with some washing liquid to make it soapy. Once the design was wet and the air had been squeezed out, Jenny covered it with more bubble wrap and then rolled it up and push-rolled it hard to get the felting process going. She did this from both ends, rolling and pushing thirty times each way. Once this was done, the felt was removed from the bubble warp and rolled up in a cane roller blind. The same thing happened as with the bubble wrap. After that she kneaded it to get all the bubbles out. The children all had a go and created some really nice pieces of seaweed felt that, once they are dry will become part of the installation in the HAC.
Before the end, jenny demonstrated how to catch things in the fibres of the felt and the group each started another piece of felt, to be finished next week…
This group ran really well, seven children attended, which was a good number as there wasn’t really room for many more.
Stanecastle
Maria and I arrived at the school at around 9.40 in time to meet Mags (drama worker) and get set up for the first of the two workshops.
The first workshop was with a class of six children, aged 10 and 11. With this group, Maria introduced me as a new helper, then showed the children the shapes they had marbled the week before whilst explaining that we were going to turn these into costumes in the near future.
Mags then took over and asked the children toile down on the floor and then pretend that they were fish. They had to curl up under their rocks. Mags put on some gentle calming music and then asked the children to begin to wake up as fish, stretch and gently begin to look around- make sure there were no predators or scary fish. Once they had done that they were to get up and start swimming around as little fishes. The group joined in eagerly and swam around the room for several minutes.
The next section involved getting a fish on a big long pole and swimming together as a school, following one child each time and trying to stick together. The general good behaviour of the class meant that this worked well and there were no injuries.
The last section involved creating little pieces of costume from the material the children had created the week before. They made head bands and bracelets with fishy creatures attached. Once they were suitably attired we lay some blue material on the ground and the children pretended they were on the seabed. Several of the more vicious sharks attacked me, as did a killer starfish and several octopi. This resulted, sadly, in a slightly melodramatic death on my part. Maria had an extra piece of blue material and took to waving it across the group to encourage them that it was the fishy bed time. Once the children were settled, the session ended and everyone went for a break time.
The second workshop was after break time, and again it consisted of six children, as the seventh child was not in school that day.
With this group we had a short discussion at the start about their class theme- which is Pirates. (This discussion may have been influential in deciding the direction of the other sessions…) Maria then showed the class the little pieces of costume the last class had created from all their work.
As with the first group, Mags ran through the first two exercises, with varied success, there was one child who wasn’t really interested in joining in, but we included him as much as possible.
The group then put on some of the costume pieces and lay on the floor, as sleeping fish while Maria created a sea effect over them with some transparent shiny cellophane type material. This group really enjoyed that and were keen to play on, however the time was up after that.
The clear up for this group was simple and we were soon back in the car, heading for lunch.
Maria and I had a few hours to kill before the next workshop, so we had thought about going to the library to find some sea books, especially about seaweed, however once we found the library, discovered it was shut on a Wednesday. Instead we spent more time on the beach collecting seaweed samples to show the group…
HAC
At around 3.40 Maria and I arrived at the Harbour Arts Centre (HAC) where Jenny (a felt-making expert) was all set up and ready to begin the workshops. Julia, who is the usual tutor for “Slap Happy Art”, the art workshops run in the HAC, joined us for these workshops. Unfortunately, she seemed a bit confused as to the fact that we were running six or eight weeks of felt-making workshops, and was worried the parents didn’t know what they were signing up for. However, all the kids loved it.
The felt making ran for an hour and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Jenny and Maria started by showing the children the pieces of seaweed we had collected and getting them to feel the texture and shapes in it. Jenny went on to explain the materials we would be using and the process.
Jenny created her seaweed by laying bits of wool tops (the wool used) on her piece of bubble wrap, layering it up and the sprinkling water all over. The water was warm and mixed with some washing liquid to make it soapy. Once the design was wet and the air had been squeezed out, Jenny covered it with more bubble wrap and then rolled it up and push-rolled it hard to get the felting process going. She did this from both ends, rolling and pushing thirty times each way. Once this was done, the felt was removed from the bubble warp and rolled up in a cane roller blind. The same thing happened as with the bubble wrap. After that she kneaded it to get all the bubbles out. The children all had a go and created some really nice pieces of seaweed felt that, once they are dry will become part of the installation in the HAC.
Before the end, jenny demonstrated how to catch things in the fibres of the felt and the group each started another piece of felt, to be finished next week…
This group ran really well, seven children attended, which was a good number as there wasn’t really room for many more.
Sunday, 28 January 2007
Giant week 1
monday: arrived at the offices at ten to meet Karen and Christine... spent the morning finding out about giant and reading the child protection stuff. pm, was researching funding organisations for the new musician in residence project. also phoning re alarm systems etc.
tuesday: 9am at giant. met Maria, visual arts director. went to tramway with her to meet ruchill primary and cdu at their exhibition. saw hidden gardens too. pm, research about marbling for wed am workshop, creating samples.
wednesday: couldn't go to irvine for the morning workshop, so met christine at 9am to get props to create an image for the grubs up tour in october. created various images. afternoon off to go to a funeral.
thursday: CCA 10.30 for a movement in early years workshop with jasmine pasch and indepen dance. spent the day playing games and learning how movement in children helps their development.
friday: 9am giant. 10am tramway to invigilate. 4pm take down exhibit.
so that was week one.
tuesday: 9am at giant. met Maria, visual arts director. went to tramway with her to meet ruchill primary and cdu at their exhibition. saw hidden gardens too. pm, research about marbling for wed am workshop, creating samples.
wednesday: couldn't go to irvine for the morning workshop, so met christine at 9am to get props to create an image for the grubs up tour in october. created various images. afternoon off to go to a funeral.
thursday: CCA 10.30 for a movement in early years workshop with jasmine pasch and indepen dance. spent the day playing games and learning how movement in children helps their development.
friday: 9am giant. 10am tramway to invigilate. 4pm take down exhibit.
so that was week one.
Saturday, 27 January 2007
momentum
my first placement was with momentum. that was in first year. this is second year and while i shall probably attempt to record some of the stuff from last year, this is mostly to help me with this year and subsequent placements/work....
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