Thursday 8 August 2024 , 9am to 4:30pm – individual sessions timings below.
4 art activities throughout the day with various artists tutors
£15 per single activity, 10% of for 2 activities, 15% for 3 activities and 20% off for 4 activities on the same day (whole day price per child is £48) .

These art sessions are for kids 7 years old and over.

Enjoy an totally arty day doing various activities (or choose only one to do).
During the day you’ll explore Compass and Scraper Art with Jacky, Collage with Sabrina, Printmaking with Charlotte and Painting Pinch Pot Sea Animals with Pots of Hope Susie.

Our artists tutors will guide, inspire and develop the Artist in everyone. Participating children who would like to, will be able to display up to 3 pieces in our August Exhibition entitled ‘Playful’ which is free for visitors to enjoy and appreciate from 9 to 25 August at City Arts Newbury, during the Art Hub Café opening hours.

Choose either individual sessions or various set combinations when you buy your tickets.
Times, topics and description of each of the sessions for 8 August 2024 are as follows:

• Session A – 9 to 10:30 – Scraper and Compass Art with Jacky Purtill – Enjoy using different tools to scrape the paint across the paper creating amazing effects. Then have more fun using a compass and paint brush to create painted circles on-top of the scraper art background. Finally enjoy drawing back into the scraper and compass art. Take home some colourful and amazing artwork and enjoy being with and sharing your creatively and artwork with other Creative Summer Workshop Artists at City Arts. 
  [ For Your Safety: we will be using sharp compasses in the workshop. Therefore, it is important to listen to the guidance of the artist delivering this workshop and to follow the health and safety guidance as required in the workshop session].
  
• 10:30 to 11 am Morning Break (while artists swap their tools) – there will be a small children activity run by a volunteer and a chance of having a snack (bring your own) to keep your energy going.
  
• Session B – 11am to 12:30pm – Further Fantastic Worlds and Creatures Collage with Sabrina Talana-Carruth – Develop and finalise fantastic worlds and creatures with compositions and completed collage creations by combining and affixing cut out shapes, paying close attention to the final details of your visual story onto a background material.
  A temporary mini gallery will be set up to showcase the work and there will be an optional informal “show and tell ” together with the chance to exhibit in the City Arts August Open Exhibition combining storytelling linked to the stories depicted.
  
• 12:30 to 1pm – Lunch Break (while artists swap their tools) – Bring your own packed lunch and drink – there will be an informal children activity run by a volunteer.
  
• Session C – 1 to 2:30pm – Playful Gelli Plate Printing with Charlotte Adcock – In this fun summer workshop for children you will explore the world of mono prints and Gelli plate printmaking. Come and be inspired to get creative and learn new printmaking techniques. You will make lots of prints to take home with you, dress for mess!
  Come and explore the world of printmaking, get creative and have fun this summer at City Arts.
  
• 2:30 to 3pm – Afternoon Break (while artists swap their tools) – there will be a small children activity run by a volunteer and a chance of having a snack (bring your own) to keep your energy going.
  
• Session D – 3 to 4:30 pm – Painting Pinch Pot Sea Animals and Pop Up Ocean Backdrops with Pots of Hope Susie – Paint, or make and paint, your favourite sea animals to display on a pop-up ocean scene backdrop.
  Mix and apply acrylic paints to bring your dry in the air clay sculpted sea creatures to life and create a fabulous 3D display board on which to present them.

If staying for the whole day there will a few short pauses (30 minutes) at 10:30, 12:30 and 2:30
Bring a packed lunch and any drinks and snacks required for the day.

Dress for mess – bring an apron or clothes you don’t mind getting dirty.

buy tickets

Siblings get a further discount on second ticket – please book your full priced ticket and we’ll refund £3/session booked (up to £12 for the whole day).

Cancellation policy.

Please note that a ticketing fee of £2 (per session) is included in the price of this workshop and this is not refundable in any circumstance.

If you are unable to attend the workshop and you cancel your attendance more than two weeks prior to the workshop, the ticketing fee above will be retained.  If you cancel less than two weeks before the workshop no fees are refundable.

In the event of City Arts having to cancel the workshop due to participants’ numbers falling below the minimum requirement or government advice changes, we will refund the whole workshop amount.