Posted by: Helena on: August 6, 2009
Although the sun seems to be hiding the summer holidays are here and I have been thinking about plans for the arts activity in the Museum’s primary programme next year. We have begun to work with more arts practitioners and are extremely lucky to have a huge pool of talent in Manchester including arts students [...]
Posted by: Hannah on: July 2, 2009
As previous posts have explained, myself and Neil have been working with a group of Year 5 pupils from Old Hall Drive, in collaboration with Cedar Mount High, on a multidisciplinary (science-art-drama-design-type affair) space project. The overall aim has been to get the pupils to create their own planet, to design some form of life [...]
Posted by: Pete Brown on: June 22, 2009
What do Philip Pullman, Dame Judi Dench, Antony Gormley and Doreen (aged 9) have in common?
They all “get it”: the power of cultural learning, that is. They are all quoted in the report recently published by the Culture and Learning Consortium, after lengthy consultation both within the arts sector and with its users and stakeholders [...]
Posted by: Neil on: June 10, 2009
Our Space project reached a very satisfying end recently when, after creating their alien beings (and adding to their designs back in school), the group of children from Old Hall Drive primary school arrived at the Whitworth Art Gallery (our ’sister’ university gallery and, coincidentally, my other place of work).
We had a fun-packed day and [...]
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