Art workshops

Summer 2016 What have we been up to??

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LitterARTI has been busy with loads of different workshops and events over the Summer, here are a few pictures to show you what we have been up to.

Our next event is with Cirque Bijou at the Balloon Fiesta – 13 and 14 August 2016 celebrating recycling with scrap musical sculptures. They are amazing! Hope to see you there!

M32 Underpass and Lower Eastville Community engagement event with the closure of the M32 in June 2016.

M32 Underpass and Lower Eastville Community engagement event with the closure of the M32 in June 2016.

LitterARTI supported Sustrans and Ikea with the Cycle Path clean up Community project. Sculpture made by Eduardo Allen and the artwork by Tom Deams.

LitterARTI supported Sustrans and Ikea with the Cycle Path clean up Community project. Sculpture made by Eduardo Allen and the artwork by Tom Deams.

LitterARTI supported Sustrans and Ikea with the Cycle Path clean up Community project. Mural with the local schools Maypark and Glenfrome Primaries.

LitterARTI supported Sustrans and Ikea with the Cycle Path clean up Community project. Mural with the local schools Maypark and Glenfrome Primaries.

Milkbottle Maskmaking workshops at the Vench with Groundworks South

Milkbottle Maskmaking workshops at the Vench with Groundworks South

ARTISTS PLAYDAYS @ SCRAPSTORE!

Artists Playday with LitterARTI at Children's Scrapstore
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Join us for Artists Playdays @Scrapstore on Tuesday 13 October!

This is a venture we have been hoping to get off the ground since our Waste of Space Exhibition at the Trinity Centre in August 2014. The collaboration between artists, the coming together and sharing of ideas and just playing together!

This is a free event, and we hope in partnership with Children’s Scrapstore, one of many more to come, utilising the space which they have opened up in the shop – to be used for creative activities.

What we are planning on the day is for Scrapstore will fill the room with scrap, and then we will be creating crazy stuff using the materials. After the playdays, Scrapstore will display the artworks created in the shop, together with the opportunity for artists to market themselves to customers in the shop!

So do bring your own tools – we will have a few bits , but you know what you are like!… and also some foody bits to share, we will do the same. Then also remember your business cards!

Really hope you can join us!

 

Wednesday, Day 2 – a Waste of Space – workshops with Fiona Campbell and Pete Margerum

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An interactive sculpture by Artists, Tim Floyd, and Fred Plumley, made from discarded wood and beer cans found in the local park

An interactive sculpture by Artists, Tim Floyd, and Fred Plumley, made from discarded wood and beer cans found in the local park.

A Waste of Space exploring waste and discarded materials creatively. All visitors are invited to participate in the exhibition by making something out of waste.

Monstrous bird work in progress created by group and artists Phipholle and Bridget Ely

Monstrous bird work in progress created by group and artists Phipholle and Bridget Ely

Tree Sculpture made be Pete Margerum and Fiona Campbell. litterarti, WasteofSpace workshop

Tree Sculpture made be Pete Margerum and Fiona Campbell. litterarti, WasteofSpace workshop

We had a lovely day yesterday ,creating a monstrous bird, mutated after consuming plastic over a multitude of years.

How wonderful to see people having fun and stripping off the layers of perfection inhibiting them to truly be free to create.

Today’s workshop include helping to create a tree out of copper wire and exhaust pipes. The structure has already been created by Fiona and Pete, and we will be adding branches, leaves, insects and all things wild and wonderful to the structure. The materials we are exploring today are softdrink cans and plastic bottle lids.

Both Pete and Fiona have been working with waste materials for years and have a lot of workshop experience between them. They both work at schools in the South West as eco-educators, really communicating sustainability messages in their work while expressing themselves creatively.

Sessions start at 11 am and 1:15 pm. Hope to see you there!

 

Creative workshop assistants and photographers needed (voluntary and half-paid / half – voluntary)

litterARTI exhibition and workshops by Recycling Artists at the Trinity Centre in Bristol
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litterARTI and Trinity Community ARTS are hosting a weeklong exhibition / workshops at the Trinity centre from the 4 – 9 August.

It would involve an arts exhibition and workshops by Recycling artists for local youth groups and charities.

We would love to have people to assist us with the week. The type of people who would enjoy and benefit from this are people interested in the arts, education, and environment. We are looking to set up a team to help us with this work for next year on a much larger scale, so there is an intention that good relationships will be formed to allow for paid work for next year.

The theme we are exploring is our relationship with waste, and will do dedicated creative workshops and sessions around specific materials each day.

The duties for the week between 4 – 9 August would include:

  • Assisting the artists with workshops.
  • Assisting the organiser / curator with exhibition duties – including set up, and moving displays around each theme.
  • Assisting educators ensuring the information about the environmental impact of the materials get communicated clearly.
  • Photography, and filming the exhibition

How you can benefit:

  • Learn environmental facts and experience ways to educate about waste / recycling / sustainability creatively.
  • Training to assist in creative workshops with artists.
  • Learn how to organise events and curate exhibitions.
  • Opportunity to meet local charity groups and build potential relationships with these groups, for further work.
  • An event to document (for portfolio purposes) – we are raising funds for this opportunity currently.
  • Be part of a ground-breaking event and a grassroot organisation, with lots of potential for collaboration for future events.

We would also benefit from expertise in crowd funding, project management, admin duties and graphic design as well as marketing , from the 21st July, which will include, social media, administrative duties, managing a crowd funding campaign and other fundraising incentives. also research into topics, and design of posters and collateral for the exhibition.

Please let us know you interest, expertise, or what you can offer.Also let us know what days you would be available. We would require character references from people who would like to assist with workshops.

Apply at: volunteers@litterarti.com