Exploring scrap & mod roc

Back by popular demand for 2012!!  We are delighted to offer two Community Arts & Crafts Training Courses in January.

The aim of these courses is to build artistic skills, confidence, develop creativity and generate new ideas for those working, or wishing to work, with community groups.

Community Arts & Crafts Training Course – LEVEL 1 – Entry requirements: No formal qualifications necessary.  Level 1 comprises two comprehensive units, exploring basic visual language, including painting, printing & collage.

Community Arts & Crafts Training Course – LEVEL 2 – Entry requirements: No formal qualifications necessary, but completion of Level 1 is an advantage.  Level 2 comprises three units including mosaic and sculpture from found materials.

Start Date: Thursday 12th January 2012
Time: LEVEL 1 -  2.30-5.00pm / LEVEL 2 – 6.00-8.30pm
Venue: Play Resource Training Room
Duration: 2.5 hours x 12 weeks
Cost: £55 member / £65 non-member

Places are limited, your completed booking form and fee will secure a place and must be received by Thursday 5 January 2012.

Community Arts & Crafts Course Booking Form 2012 Level 1

Community Arts & Crafts Course Booking Form 2012 Level 2

Simply download, complete and return the relevant Booking Form with appropriate fee.  Or for further enquiries contact nicola@playresource.org or call 9035 7546.  Deadline to register Thursday 5th January 2012. Book now!

We 3 Snowmen

Looking for Ideas & Inspiration? We are now taking bookings for our exciting programme of Christmas Workshops including ideas for early years, decorations and big Christmas characters!

All workshops take place at Play Resource, Training Room from 1.30pm – 4.30pm.

This year includes

• Monday 7 November – Early Years Christmas, with Artist Sally Young
• Tuesday 8 November – Festive Fun with Paper , with Artist Anushiya Sundaralingam
• Wednesday 9 November – Big Ideas for Christmas, with Artist Laureen Magill
• Thursday 10 November – Quick Ideas for Christmas, with Artist Anna O’Kane

For full information of the workshops download the Christmas Workshops Booking Form 2011.  Return the booking form with payment to secure your place.  Book now to avoid disappointment!

Help re-create Van Gogh’s famous masterpiece ‘Starry Night’ for Culture Night on a giant scale using only scrap at our free fun family friendly drop-in art workshop!

Each child or adult can create their own unique tile using scrap to be slotted into the big picture. The piece of artwork will grow over the course of the evening to create one giant ‘work of art’ from scrap materials.  By the end of Culture Night we will have an exciting scrap collage to exhibit at Play Resource to give others ideas & inspiration.

Come and join the free event led artist Anne Quail and Play Resource staff!

Or for the full programme of hundreds of free exciting and fun events visit Belfast Culture Night 2011.

Course Student Created Scrap Butterfly

Get ready for the return of the popular Play Resource Community Arts & Crafts Training Course – starts on Thursday 15th September!!

The aim of this course is to build artistic skills, confidence, develop creativity and generate new ideas for those working, or wishing to work, with community groups.  It is a fantastic opportunity for personal or professional development.

Start Date: Thursday 15th September 2011
Time: 6.00-8.30pm
Venue: Play Resource, Training Room
Duration: 2.5 hours x 12 weeks
Cost: £60 (non-members) & £50 (members)
Entry requirements: No formal qualifications necessary

Enrolment: Contact nicola@playresource.org  or call 028 9035 7546 by Monday 12th September 2011.

For full course details download the flyer Play Resource Community Arts & Crafts Training Course Level1 Sep 2011. Sign up now!

Out in the Garden!

Arts Training for Summer – Creative Outdoor Play Workshops

To celebrate 25 Years of funding by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Play Resource is offering the following training workshops to our members free of charge!

One day with two free workshops on offer on Thursday 26 May 2011 at Play Resource.

1. Big Ideas – Arts and Adventure in the Great Outdoors!
Artist: Laureen Magill
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30pm
It’s all about having fun outdoors and working together, creating big structures…. What about a castle with all its furnishings! All you’ll need is cardboard boxes, scrap materials, a basic supply of arts materials and imagination!

2. Quick Ideas For Creative Outdoor Play
Artist: Sally Young
Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Imaginative and sometimes slightly messy, small and large scale ideas using mainly scrap for outdoor play, willow wigwams, includes fairy houses, scrap tree or fence hangers, giant sized outdoor paintings and painting with a difference (action painting).

Due to limited places only one person per group can attend each workshop. Booking is essential.  If you wish to attend please complete the Summer Training Booking form 2011 and return it to Play Resource by Wednesday 18 May.

Date & Time: Saturday 8 May, 10am – 3.30pm
Venue: Training Room, Play Resource
Cost: £5 per workshop, if you book 3 get 4th session free.
Open to: members only, suitable for adults.
Booking: in advance is required for any workshop session.

Choices of Workshops for the day include: carnival masks, t-shirt design, face painting, kites & moving toys, Quick Things to Do, puppets, viking huts and clay modelling! Download full details of the workshop schedule and booking form, or call 028 9035 7545 to book now and secure a place!

Design Objectives are providing free drop-in demos of Summer Ideas through out the day too,  using a range of products we stock suitable for work with children & young people.

Beat Carnival Puppets

Master class ONE – Monday 12th & Monday 19th April

10am – 4.30pm at The Play Resource Centre

Master class TWO – Monday 10th & Monday 17th May

10am – 4.30pm at Beat Carnival Centre

For The Beat, 2010 is the year of the puppet. The Belfast City Carnival, 19th June will be a large scale ‘Puppet Picnic’ in the City Centre and at the City Hall.

For this reason The Beat Carnival has joined with the Play Resource to offer exciting puppet making master classes in spring 2010. The aim of these sessions is to assist community and youth leaders working with groups to participate in Belfast City Carnival and in their own local festivals. It also offers practicing artists a great training and development opportunity.  Download the booking form for more details!

For further information contact Eileen Eileen@belfastcarnival.com or Matt matt@belfastcarnival.com at The Beat Carnival, telephone 028 90 434 767. The deadline for registration is Wednesday 31st March.