Home Ed Creative Sessions: Lightpool (Secondary age 11-16 years old)

This term, we're inviting home educated young people to help us create an illuminated installation to be exhibited at Lightpool Festival this October.

The project theme is the Green Man and we'll explore folklore, traditions and practices, with a focus on our relationship with nature. The project will be delivered in 3 sessions for secondary school aged students.

Blackpool-based artist Karl Hanrahan will guide these hands on, interactive sessions.

Session 1: Research – Participants will be introduced to the core theme of the project and will be asked to conduct information research into Green Man folklore. They will also be asked to collate some visual research on the subject of Nature and the natural environment. Attendees are invited to bring their own devices to use as research aids to these sessions.

Session 2: Development – Participants will use their research to inform the direction their creative work will take. They will highlight their most relevant findings and use this to create a plan of action for their work. They will be offered several different choices for their creative outcome and then produce design sketches, notes and ideas for their final design.

Session 3: Practical – Participants will use their plan of action and their design ideas sketches to produce either a mask, a drawing/painting or a T-shirt design based on the project theme.

Price:

£4 per young person

Free Chaperone tickets available at checkout.

All materials and equipment will be provided.

Age Range:

The sessions will be tailored to secondary school age 11-16 years old.

Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian for supervision. Supervising adults are not required to participate in the activity but we will have somewhere for them to hang out and a brew station.

Dates

● Sessions for secondary age (ages 11-16)

Thursday 3rd October 10.30-12.30

Thursday 10th October 10.30-12.30

Thursday 17th October 10.30-12.30

Important physical access info:

Please note that this session is upstairs. We are in the process of installing a lift, however due to unforeseen delays this is now due to be completed later in the year. The event space is up a single flight of 14 steps then you go around the corner and there are two small steps. Once you’re upstairs there’s a loo. You shouldn’t need to come downstairs for anything until the end of the activity.

If you have additional access needs (e.g. large print, BSL interpreter, level access) please let us know by emailing (using the contact organiser button/link) or sending us an SMS text/WhatsApp message on 07957 602790.

• Tram & Train to Blackpool North Station
• Bus: No 6 or 18 to Topping St., No 3, 3a, 5c, 6, 18 to Church St (Stanley Buildings), No 5, 5a, 5b, 6, 7a, 14 to Talbot Rd.

• Driving: The closest pay and display car parks are on East Topping St and Talbot Road multi storey. There is also parking at the nearby Sainsbury’s supermarket, please make sure that you check the terms before you use the car park.

About the project

Aunty Social will be presenting a light installation at this year’s Lightpool festival. Whilst learning about nature, sustainability and folklore and the symbology of the Green Man, we will explore how decisions can be made to protect and preserve the natural environment for the benefit of the human and non-human communities that hold these spaces and how folk practices can help to change attitudes and encourage caring and sustainable behaviour towards nature.

Through exploration of light art, traditional and contemporary crafting techniques and working with plastic waste, workshop attendees will imagine the Green Man’s realm, creating textures, masks, floral arrangements and foliage to create a collaborative final installation using plastic bottles, inspired by the Green Man and the folklore surrounding its history.

Host or Publisher Aunty Social