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As well as our fabulous swarms of buzzing bees our older groups made their very own flying machines alongside The Children’s Art School Director Chloe Williams who was commissioned to make her own fantastical flying machine. Using willow and tissue paper the groups started by creating wings or balloons: Then used junk modelling to create
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We have loved being involved in this years Holmfirth Arts Festival Parade, working alongside Bee from Handmade Parade and artist Dave Young: With the theme of Flight we had a fantastic few weeks working in the Market Hall , Holmfirth delivering our own sessions and helping out at the public workshops… We created bee
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WOW! What an amazing day! We are so proud to have been a part of the Holmfirth Arts Festival Creature Carnival Parade.. The Children’s Art School provided the ‘Bird’ section of the parade- here they all are pre-parade but ready to go!! Little Art Club and Juniors were ducklings hatching out of eggs: Whilst their
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Creature Carnival- Holmfirth Arts Festival 2016 The Holmfirth Arts Festival is nearly here! We are so pleased to be part of it again this year We will be helping to create a Creature Carnival inspired by the story of Holmfirth’s Fenella the Tiger. This carnival will see wild and wonderful creatures on the streets of
Big thanks to Holmfirth Arts Festival! The Owd Towser was the perfect place for the installation of The 180 Boggards and Jenny Green teeth puppets made by local 8-14 year olds! The project has not only engaged children with the Arts through making, music and poetry but has also engaged them with local history .
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Holmfirth Arts Festival Installation update Wow! wow! wow! I heard the sound track today which Charlotte Watson has created for the installation at the Owd Towser……its amazing!! Made entirely of recordings of the children at the schools we visited the soundtrack layers the children’s voices saying words and phrases they have used to describe their
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Wanted posters for Holmfirth Arts Festival… look out for them around Holmfirth during the Arts Festival Our Senior Art Clubs and the Arts Award students have been busy drawing mug-shots of the dastardly Holmfirth boggard to be used in Wanted posters for the Holmfirth Arts Festival. Using charcoal and rubbers and exploring light and shade
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Holmfirth Arts Festival….project update Only a few days to go before the start of the Holmfirth Arts Festival so here’s a sneaky preview of the Jenny Greenteeth and Boggard puppets hanging in the Owd Towser… Come and see it all finished and hear the amazing soundtrack … soundtrack and puppets created by the children from Scholes
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‘WANTED ‘ for HOLMFIRTH ARTS FESTIVAL 2015 This project sees 200 local children imagining local folklore characters, Jenny greenteeth and the Holmfirth boggard. Artist Chloe Williams, musician Charlotte Watson and poet Victoria Garbutt have worked with 5 local schools and children at The Children’s Art School to create 200 puppet heads and to write and record
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