Offers and
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Our roundup of the best upcoming cultural and creative opportunities for schools, young people and families
Offers For Schools
October Gallery
Free in-school workshops for Secondary schools to promote our youth collective programme (Age 14-24) FREE
These will be delivered by our current youth collective members
Our exhibition workshops are delivered and developed by artists alongside the Head of Education and reflect the October Gallery current exhibition themes.
Donmar Warehouse
Donmar LOCAL programmes - new season announcement (Secondary/Sixth Form)
Are you or your school interested in the Donmar LOCAL programmes?
We will be announcing our new season of work very soon. Sign up to our schools mailing list below to be among the first to apply.
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Illustration workshops
Soon to open the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, we are the UK's centre for this varied and vital art form, empowering everyone to tell their stories through images.
Book an in-school workshop led by professional illustrator-educators, to help students learn across the curriculum in fun and creative ways. Tailored to your topic, workshops support students' communication and wellbeing as well as subject learning, and are rated good or excellent by 100% of teachers. For all abilities including SEND and EAL.
When: 2022-23 dates now available
Cost: School workshops from £295 (2 classes) / Free teacher Resources
Age Range: All primary stages from EYFS to KS2.
Jewish Museum London
Baking Workshops
The Jewish Museum London is delighted to launch baking workshops in our new Community Learning Kitchen. Primary schools can book our new Shabbat Shalom & baking or Passover and Matzah baking workshops. Secondary schools can book a Shabbat and Challah Baking workshop.
In these workshops students will discover why Jewish people celebrate Shabbat or Passover, explore how they are celebrated at home and in synagogue and understand the symbolism of key Festival objects. Students will experience baking challah bread or Matzah in our new learning kitchen and enjoy the freshly baked goods together to experience the community feeling of Festivals.
Where: Jewish Museum London
Cost: View pricing info here (the baking workshop costs an additional £1 per student)
Jewish Museum London
Life with Loss: Understanding Grief & Memory
This new workshop for primary school years 5 & 6 and Secondary school, supports students with their mental health around the universal emotions of grief and loss as told through the story of Holocaust survivor Solly Irving, the sole survivor of his family. Discover how Solly lived with grief and loss through filmed testimony. Reflect on the importance of memory and process this difficult topic through creative response.
Where: Jewish Museum London
When: We are open for school visits from Mondays – Thursdays
Cost: View pricing info
Please note: This workshop focuses on mental health. If cost is a barrier for your school, you can book this programme though our Bursary Scheme generously funded by the Irving Family. Please get in touch for more information.
Cockpit Studios
Creative Careers Morning (Secondary) FREE
Cockpit studios are looking for two Camden based secondary schools to visit with up to 30 students for a Creative Careers morning (or afternoon) this Autumn 2022.
Generously funded by John S Cohen, your students will visit three craft Makers in their studios, hear about careers in craft and the creative industries, learn about the different materials used in craft and take part in a hands on making workshop.
Dates available in September and October 2022, it takes around 3 hours with a small break included, visits to Makers can be tailored if necessary. Let us plan your visit together.
Teacher CPD
The Poetry Society
Cloud Chamber: Poetry CPD FREE
Cloud Chamber is an online network where poets and teachers meet to share ideas, resources, and best practice. Any practising poet, teacher or youth worker who works in education settings is welcome to join. It is free to attend.
Cloud Chamber meets quarterly on Zoom and focuses on a different theme each session. In a typical session, an experienced facilitator shares ideas for poetry activities, before opening up to the floor for discussion. Supporting resources created around each theme are freely available to Cloud Chamber members.
Where: Online
When: Four times a year, 4-5pm
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Illustration workshops and CPD this term
Soon to open the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, we are the UK's centre for this varied and vital art form, empowering everyone to tell their stories through images.
Our CPD sessions and free online teaching resources support teachers to use illustration techniques in the classroom, across the curriculum.
Where: We deliver sessions online or in-person at schools across the UK.
Cost: From £850 (half-day) / Free teacher Resources
Family Activities
Offers for Young People
Complicité
Mudlarks: Young Devisers FREE
Mudlarks: Young Devisers is Complicité’s new, free training programme for young people 18-29. The programme, in partnership with the Barbican, is intended for young artists who either self-identify as experiencing socio-economic barriers to the arts, have English as an Additional Language, or are facing other barriers to arts training.
Sitting within our artist development umbrella, this is a one week free training programme for young people with a genuine interest in exploring devised theatre, to be held at the Barbican in March 2023. It aims to create a community of future theatre makers with a core understanding of working with - and from - the body.
Where: The Barbican
When: The intensive pilot week of training will take place from 20-24 March 10am-5pm. Participants will receive a bursary of £70.71 per day to support participation during working hours. Taster sessions on 27 January and 1 February.
Cost: Free
University of the Arts London
UAL Insights Autumn-Winter School 2022 FREE
Not everyone has an equal opportunity to enter higher education. We want to change that by supporting students via our UAL Insights programmes. UAL Insights is the Outreach programme run by University of the Arts London. We offer young people access to our Colleges for creative activities and pre-university advice and guidance.
UAL Insights Autumn-Winter Schools provide tailored support and in-depth advice for students who wish to apply for UAL’s foundation diploma or undergraduate degree courses starting in September 2023. Each Autumn-Winter School is a series of practical workshops and events to prepare you for submitting your application(s) to UAL.
Where: Various UAL Campuses
When: From 19 October 2022 – 02 March 2022 depending on the College of choice. Times vary depending on College of choice.
Cost: Free
University of the Arts London
Saturday Club at Central Saint Martins (for ages 13-16) FREE
Whether you aspire for a career like former International Vogue Editor Suzy Menkes, or current Editor of UK Vogue Edward Enninful, or you dream to update your growing TikTok audience about the latest designer collaboration, the National Saturday Club's Fashion Journalism course with world-renowned university Central Saint Martins has got you covered.
From teaching you the fundamentals of fashion writing for print and online titles, to equipping you with the editorial and digital skillset you'll need to thrive as a multimedia journalist today, you'll walk away feeling inspired, informed and ready to start your own media platform.
Throughout the 15 sessions, 13 of which will be taught at Central Saint Martins' award-winning campus, you'll get a taste of what it's like to study at university-level without the pressure or commitment to a degree, all while meeting like-minded creatives who have the potential to become the next generation of agenda-setting fashion journalists.
The final outcome will be to produce a contemporary website, that will be shown at the NSC Grand Exhibition at Somerset House in June.
Where: Central Saint Martins campus - Granary Building, 1 Granary Square N1C 4AA
When: Saturdays 11am-2pm from 5 November 2022 to 11 March 2023
Cost: Free
Donmar Warehouse
YOUNG+FREE - free theatre tickets (for ages 16-25) FREE
We want you to experience the Donmar, so we’re making thousands of our tickets available across each year, for free!
YOUNG+FREE tickets are offered by ballot to people signed up to our YOUNG+FREE list. If you are aged 16-25, simply fill in the form and tick the box to receive email updates and to be included in the YOUNG+FREE ballot for all our productions.
Sign up now via the link below for your chance to see productions like the Broadway hit musical The Band's Visit
October Gallery
OG Youth Collective FREE
This is a FREE group for young people in London. We welcome everyone and do all sorts. We make art, film, exhibitions and discuss current art projects, as well as visiting other local museums and galleries to further our understanding of contemporary art and exhibitions.
When: Mondays 4.30- 6.30pm
Where: October Gallery
The Place
Children & Youth Dance Classes
The Place, London's hub for dance, offers children the chance to get playful with movement in classes which spark their creativity and imaginations. Sessions draw on a range of practices - including dance forms from the African Diaspora, Hip Hop, South Asian dance styles as well as North American/Western Contemporary dance styles. All abilities welcome, no experience necessary!
Cockpit Studios
The Rosalind Stracey Ceramic Award at Cockpit (for age 16+) FREE
Cockpit has three opportunities open for applications, they are looking for Makers working with needles, ceramics and traditional crafts in this round. Each Awardee or Bursary recipient will receive a space in a shared studio with hugely subsidised studio cost and tailored business support:
This Award is for a ceramicist who has a strong desire to experiment and take risks with their practice. We are looking for makers who demonstrate originality, innovation, creativity, craft skill and quality in the work and concepts presented.
The Award comprises a heavy subsidy towards one year’s business support and studio space at Cockpit in Deptford, including the use of a kiln provided as support from Rohde kilns.
Cockpit Studios
Cockpit Arts Society Bursary FREE
A bursary for professional craftspeople using traditional craft skills, including those that are at risk of dying out. The Cockpit Arts Society Bursary includes one year of business support and subsidised studio space.
The Bursary contributes to one year’s business support and studio space at Cockpit.
Cockpit Studios
The Needlemakers’ Award at Cockpit FREE
An Award for a maker who uses needles in the course of their work. (This use is not limited to hand sewing needles and may be at any stage in the making process.) We are looking for an individual who can demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit as well as creative excellence and craft skills.
The Award comprises a heavy subsidy towards one year’s business support and studio space at Cockpit.
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