Sheffield Children’s Festival 7 June – 6 July 2014

Creative Classrooms and Showtime!

There are two ways for your school to get involved in Sheffield Children’s Festival. You can book onto one of our specially devised art projects led by professional practitioners and artists or put on a show or concert in a theatre.

Our art projects are listed below followed by details of how to put on a show in a theatre together with information on a special Arts Award offer. We hope you can take part this year and help us celebrate our children’s creativity.

To book any of the projects or a theatre date simply call us on 0114 273 4400Or you can e-mail michelle.taylor-steer@sheffield.gov.uk

Inyerface Arts Showtime 2013 Glass Harp Creative Classrooms 2013

Dream Birds Creative Classrooms 2014

Creative Classrooms:Project 1

Tales from a Tommy

Let history live in and inspire the heart of your school with this project designed by Griffin

Theatre Arts to commemorate the centenary of the start of World War I. Characters from

local and wider UK history will be transported into your school where they will deliver in-

role living history sessions. These sessions will not only teach pupils about different aspects

of World War I in a very accessible way, but also act as an exciting springboard for visual art,

creative writing and literacy work.

Each workshop will last a full school day. During the morning each group of children will

experience a carousel of three living history sessions set up in different areas of the school.

Professional actor practitioners will lead each performance and explore different elements

of the Great War including a tale from a soldier and the home front.

In the afternoon each participating group will be visited by the in-role practitioners who will

set a creative writing task inspired by the immersive morning sessions. Children will also

have an opportunity to illustrate their written work if they wish.

A selection of the work produced by each school will be displayed in the Winter Garden

during part of the festival. The remaining work will be placed in a folder and displayed to

the public in the Central Lending Library.

Learning: History (local and UK wide), English, Drama, Literacy, Illustration

Availability 5 schools - Up to 180 children per schoolCost to school £500 (for 180 pupils works out at £2.77 each)Age Group Key Stage 2 (Years 3 to 6)

Project 2

Dream BirdsA project designed to capture the hopes, dreams and aspirations of children led by experienced artists Charlotte Armitage and Wayne Sables. Also taking part in delivering the workshops will be Veolia’s Kate Townroe. The project will use the mediums of storytelling, creative writing, film, sculpture, visual art and installation.

The children will listen to and engage with a specially created story written by the artists and Veolia. This story will include the message of reuse, reduce and recycle and will be turned into a keepsake picture book for the school to keep.

Then the children will each create their very own unique dream bird from a re-cycled plastic milk bottle. Inside each bird will be a scroll on which each child will have written their hopes and dreams. The children can also illustrate their scroll if they wish. The birds will become part of a special flock installation within the school and the artists will advise on the hanging of the artwork.

The children will participate in a beautiful short film celebrating key elements of the Dream Bird project. The film will be projected as an art work in the Cube in the city centre Winter Garden as part of the Children’s Festival. A DVD copy of the film will also be made available to each school as part of their keepsake book.

Learning: Literacy, Storytelling, Recycling, Creative Writing, Sculpture

Availability 10 schools - One class / 30 children per schoolCost to school £300 (includes the half-day workshop, filmmaking, Veolia’s special

workshop, keepsake book and inclusion in the DVD)Age Group KS2: (Years 5 and 6)

NB: Each school will collect 30 plastic milk bottles (one per child) in preparation for the workshop. School scissors, paper and pencils will also be required.

All children must have permission to be filmed and photographed throughout the process for documentation purposes. Some footage may be used as part of the final installation and as evidence online. If individual children cannot be filmed the artists should be informed.

The project is supported by Veolia

Project 3

Re-inventing the Wheel

Celebrate your local area and The Tour de France with this visual arts and text project led by

professional arts practitioner Jenny Seymour who will work with the children to create

beautiful pieces of visual art shaped like an old fashioned bicycle wheel with spokes.

After learning about the visit of the Tour de France to Sheffield, children will be work in

groups to discuss what is special about where they live and their favourite places. For the

final artwork, each child will create a picture of something special to them about their local

area. It might be their home, a park, school, their road – whatever inspires them. Children

can choose to draw or paint, use fabrics or collage to create their individual artwork . Each

picture will be designed on a pre-cut triangle which will be provided.

Each triangle will then be placed within their group’s bicycle wheel so that the end result is a

colourful, visually exciting representation of the local area on two wheels for each class (as

on a bicycle). Children will also contribute words describing their area and celebrating Le

Tour and add these to the ‘tyre’ of the bicycle surrounding the artworks. These sessions will

not only inspire pupils to think about where they live, but also act as an exciting springboard

for visual art and text.

Each workshop will last for half a day and is for one class or 30 children. The finished

artwork will be exhibited in the Winter Gardens during the festival and possibly in a further

city centre venue.

Learning: Visual arts, literacy, fractions and angles, exploration and discussion of locality

Availability 10 schools - One class or 30 childrenCost to school £250 Age Group Key Stage 1 and 2 (Years 2 to 6) The project can also be made

available to Reception classes

NB: All materials will be provided except for non-consumables such as scissors, dabbers, paint trays and pencils.

Project 4

Garden Up : The Sculpture Trail

Sheffield’s Botanical Gardens are the inspiration for this project to fabricate a fantastic series of sculptures which will form a sculpture trail or art walk through the Botanical Gardens. The trail will be launched as a key feature of the major event Garden Up to be held at the gardens in June 2014 and will remain in situ throughout the summer, to be viewed by thousands of visitors. Garden Up is Sheffield’s new garden innovations and inventions show in collaboration with the RHS. The event will focus on plants, gardens, new technology and sustainability and is expected to attract thousands of visitors from Sheffield and across the region. www.gardenup.org

Schools have the opportunity to take part in this exciting event by creating unique sculptures using a variety of materials and an array of tools and techniques. The project can be taken up on 2 different levels and to an extent this will lead the processes and pieces that schools make. This project offers the chance to participate in some specialist activities working with processes and materials unusual to schools.

Young people across the city will work on this sculpture project. Individuals and schools will make their own sculptures to be suspended or ‘rooted’ along the trail in the gardens. The workshops will be led by professional artist Lucy Coyne who will spend either 1 day or 1 and a half days in each school working with 30 children.

Schools will experiment with a variety of materials – you might work with wire, metal sheet, yarns, card, recycled materials and natural resources collected from the Botanical Gardens to create separate intricate, detailed pieces or a dramatic, bold piece as a group sculpture.

Techniques may include wirework, metalwork, weaving, wrapping, hammering, patination and printing. There are a range of sites within the trail and many exciting opportunities to explore inspired by the plants, trees and wildlife found in the Botanical Gardens. Pupils will focus on and emphasise the incredible details, textures and structures of the natural world.

Learning: Visual arts, sculptural techniques, sustainability, the natural world

Availability 8 schools - 30 children per session Cost to school £340 1 day in school inc materials £440 - 1.5 days in school inc materialsAge Group Key Stages 2, 3 and 4 (Years 4 to 9)

Project 5Onomatopoeia (on•o•mat•o•poe•ia)

1. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named e.g. cuckoo or sizzle.

In this creative workshop, children aged 9-11 will delve into the dictionary in search of

onomatopoeic words which they will capture and bring to life using film and animation.

Working together, teachers, workshop leaders and children, will explore the relationships

between words, sounds and pictures by asking: What does a sound look like? How might

words move? How can we capture the meaning of words using drawing, collage, movement

and sound? The workshops will be led professional digital artists Janet Jennings and Jon

Harrison.

Through speaking and recording onomatopoeias the children will experiment with adding

emphasis to the sounds of words. They will visualise a selection of words in a variety of

ways, using experimental animation and video recording techniques. The children will then

see how they can create 'sound sentences' with words like 'boing', 'jangle', 'drip', 'clatter',

'slither' and 'squeak' to experiment with rhythm and syncopation. The children will use a

range of film techniques to explore visual metaphors. For example amongst a rhythmic

sequence of sharp and explosive words a pile of pans might ‘crash’ to the floor in silent slow

motion. In other sequences, descriptive verbs like 'scuttle' will be given living characteristics

such as running haphazardly across the screen to take cover from a buzzing bee.

A selection of sequences will be compiled to form a video art installation in Sheffield’s

Winter Garden as part of the Children's Festival accompanied by an online gallery.

Learning: Literacy, vocabulary, film making, visual arts, animation

Availability 10 schools - 60/90 childrenCost to school £450 for 60 children (1 day) £650 for 90 children (1.5 days)Age Group Key Stage 2 (Years 5 and 6)

NB: The workshops will require a quiet, clear space such as a hall or classroom and variety of

interesting everyday objects and art and craft materials. All equipment will be provided.

Children will need photographic / filming permission and the artists must be informed of

any children who should not be filmed.

Project 6Roman Sheffield In the year 43 AD the Romans invaded Britain. By 47 AD they had settled and built a fort at Templeborough to guard an important supply route - a roman road that ran through Sheffield. Sheffield and the surrounding areas were very important to the Romans and over the years many Roman artifacts have been found. Among these finds are pieces of jewellery decorated with animals such as hares, owls and peacocks, pottery, bronze sculptures of animals and coins.

In each workshop the children will learn about Roman Sheffield and see some actual Roman artifacts. They will learn about the bronze, silver and gold figurines and animal sculptures which the Romans created and what they were used for.

Then each child will make a miniature Roman style animal figurine which looks as if it is made from bronze, silver or gold. Working with artist Richard Johnson of Kidology Arts, children will use special paints, patinas and aging effects to make their figurine look 2000 years old.

Once complete, the animals will be arranged as a large scale sculptural installation resembling a wonderful archaeological find. This display will be shown as one of the first exhibitions in the newly refurbished Sheffield Cathedral.

Learning: Roman history, local history, visual arts

Availability 10 schools - 60 children Cost to school £350 full day workshopAge Group Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 (Years 1 – 8)

Notes: All materials are provided and each school will receive animal sculptures back following the exhibition. The workshop will be adapted to suit different ages.

Project 7Who eats Who?Greno Woods is an ancient woodland in Sheffield which is home to a large variety of living things including over 60 species of birds. In May 2014 Museums Sheffield will be opening a new display at Weston Park Museum to highlight Greno Woods and to show how food chains keep the woodland alive.

Professional practitioners from Museums Sheffield will work with your class exploring the food chain and discovering how it works. The children will work together on a sculptural artwork which illustrates the food chain. Taking the idea of Russian nesting dolls the children will create sculptures of some of the consumers of the woods. The sculptures will be displayed at Weston Park Museum and Grenoside’s historic Reading Room during the festival and can be used as a tool to demonstrate who eats who.

The materials used to create each part of the sculpture will be mod roc and wire. All materials will be provided.

The workshops will be held at Weston Park Museum from 10am until 2.30pm with a 30 minute lunch break. Schools will have use of the lunch space at Weston Park Museum.

Learning: Science, Ecology, Nature, Visual Arts, Sculpture

Availability 10 schools - 32 children per sessionCost to school £400 full day workshop Age Group Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 (Years 2 to 8)

NB: Children will need photographic permission and we need to be informed of any children who should not be photographed. Gloves will be provided for children with allergies and the workshop leaders must be informed of children this applies to.

Showtime!

Available dates in the Montgomery Theatre are:

Monday 16 June

Tuesday 17 June

Wednesday 18 June

Monday 23 June

Wednesday 25 June

Thursday 26 June

Monday 30 June

Tuesday 1 July

Wednesday 2 July

Tuesday 8 July

Wednesday 9 July

The Montgomery Theatre seats 420. As well as a large stage, the theatre has a good number of dressing rooms. The hire cost is £420 which is for the theatre hire from 10am till 10.30pm and will include a lighting technician from 12noon until 5pm, then from 6pm until the end (this can be flexed, but the tech person must have a break between sessions). Schools generally cover the cost of the hire through charging a ticket price. We can help you work out this budget if you wish.

The Montgomery Theatre does not yet have disabled access.

www.themontgomery.org.uk/venue-hire/

The Blue Shed

Some dates are available in The Blue Shed – just contact us if you are interested.

www.theblueshed.co.uk/spaces/

Sheffield Children’s Festival and Arts Award

Did you know that taking part in Sheffield Children’s Festival can count towards an Arts Award?

Arts Award is a nationally recognized, arts based qualification that inspires children and young people to develop their arts and leadership talents. It is a creative, valuable and accessible award that can be achieved at five levels - Discover (KS1) Explore (KS2), Bronze, Silver and Gold (all of which are accredited except the introductory award ‘Discover’)

CapeUK has teamed up with Sheffield Children’s Festival to offer Arts Award training and support to schools and creative practitioners involved in the 2014 festival.

An Arts Award can be incorporated around any arts or media activity and can be used as a framework to engage young people in the arts and creativity. There are no entry requirements, no time limit for completing the award and no set rules on how the final work is presented.

Find out what inspires your young people. They can share their talents, and they will walk away with an award that makes a real difference in the world of work and the arts.

To become an Arts Award adviser and support children and young people through Arts Award you need to successfully complete a training course. We are offering a special bespoke training geared towards Sheffield Children’s Festival at a reduced price.

We’ll be running information and training sessions in February or March (depending on demand). To register your interest please email rachael.harrison@capeuk.org

Arts Award is managed by Trinity College London in association with Arts Council England. Employers and colleges recognise it as proof of skills and commitment. To find out more about Arts Award visit www.artsaward.org.uk