Creative Courses Summer Term Showcase 2021

Our Creative Courses regularly bring together young people aged 11-19 from diverse backgrounds, in community settings across Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

Creative practitioners delivered Music, Dance, Textiles, Art and Animation courses both online and in person, enabling young people to express themselves creatively. We hope you enjoy the uplifting and inspiring work you can find documented below.

Well done to every single one of you for finding inspiration and expressing yourselves and your emotions through creativity!

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Dance

In this 5 week course new choreography was taught each week to enhance the dancers’ movement vocabulary. Creative tasks using props and personal experience developed solos and duets exploring things that weight us down and how to relieve ourselves from them.

This resulted in the creation of our work in progress 'Baggage’, a short piece that tells the story of women who work together to share the weight of the world.

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This term on the Art Course we have been having fun and learning new creative activities. During our group zoom sessions we have been learning briefly the history of Mandala Art, the benefits of it and where it originates from.
Craft and Textiles

This term the group learned and improved their hand sewing skills and made their own sewing patterns. They learnt and experimented with embroidery stitches and techniques.
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Over the past five weeks, the young people have learned through participation. Exploring contemporary music production techniques such as drum programming, using midi controllers to play a variety of software instruments and samplers.
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From flip books to shadow puppets, the young people learnt a lot of new skills and applied them through making short films. All the animations are experimental, from exciting new ideas.

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