Nature plays a wonderful role in our creative expression and we will discover artists who have used nature as their inspiration for visual arts, music, and writing over the next season. Using the natural resource of the Richard Jefferies Museum and gardens, we will have a go at some of the techniques used by Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claud Monet, Richard Jefferies, and Stravinsky. We will also go haiku catching!
Thursday 19th May - Celebration and exhibition: Explore Certificate presentation.
Thursday 16th June - Jackson Pollack, Pool Fun! Deadline for Explore Arts Awards.
Thursday 14th July - Art Party and Celebration.
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
BEVIS AND ALL ABOUT COATE: SECRET ISLANDS, THE TEMPEST and SEAS OF STORIES
ARTS AWARD DISCOVER: SHAKESPEARE
In these next five sessions we will be adventuring with Bevis and discovering secret Islands. We'll be looking at William Shakespeare and his play The Tempest to help us gain a special Shakespeare award. We will also prepare for an exhibition of our work.
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| Fishermen at Sea, by JMW Turner, 1796 |
April 16: The Tempest by William Shakespeare - other Islands. We'll also look at and listen to Storm Interlude by Benjamin Britten.
May 21: The Big picture: creating an exhibition of words and pictures to show at the museum. Homework: Learn a poem by heart. See this website for ideas. A verse of a poem is fine, or a whole poem: http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/
June 18: Poetry:
Floating
Island by Dorothy Wordsworth: Poetry Foundation LINK Find out about the
life and work of Dorothy Wordsworth. Writing or drawing poems.
Bevis The Story of a Boy was written by Richard Jefferies in 1882. The book explores the environment of Coate Farm (now the
Richard Jefferies Museum) where Jefferies was born and the wider landscape of
Coate Water. Bevis has many adventures around the man-made lake of Coate Water:
he makes a raft, imagines savages, learns to swim, meets a witch, falls in the
quarry, and gets shipwrecked on an island.
July 16th: Sharing Party and Arts Awards presentations.
For a course of 5 sessions:
£50 per child for five sessions (early bird £45 if paid by February 28th 2015)
£75 for two children (early bird £65 if paid by February 28th 2015)
Send cheques payable to: Hilda Sheehan, 28 Brunswick Street, Swindon. SN1 3NB
BANANA
Early bird payments via paypal and split payments in two segments:
July 16th: Sharing Party and Arts Awards presentations.
For a course of 5 sessions:
£50 per child for five sessions (early bird £45 if paid by February 28th 2015)
£75 for two children (early bird £65 if paid by February 28th 2015)
Send cheques payable to: Hilda Sheehan, 28 Brunswick Street, Swindon. SN1 3NB
BANANA
Early bird payments via paypal and split payments in two segments:
ARTS AWARDS 1: LANDSCAPES: INTERIOR, EXTERIOR AND IMAGINATIVE
In these four sessions we have discovered hidden doors and imagined what might be behind and where they might lead.
We also visited 'Turner in the West' at the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery and discovered new artists and made calligrams from the language in the museum.
In January we enjoyed the story of Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt' and Grieg's 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' (One of BBC's Ten Pieces) and imagined our own strange landscapes in words and pictures.
On February 12th we visited the Swindon Recital Series with Paul Turner and James Cullen.
Please see below for the Artsbox pages to see what we have achieved in more detail:
October 2014: BEHIND THE DOOR
November 2014 J M W TURNER
January 2015 IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING: LANDSCAPES OF THE IMAGINATION
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