It’s nearly Easter 2017 – can you actually believe it? I surely can’t…..
Well as always, I’ve rounded up some of the lushest activity for your minis for holiday season – so here it is Easter holidays in a nutshell………jam packed with activity in Gateshead for kids, families and young people; Gateshead has it covered with a diverse and interesting programme of fun cultural activity……
So get yer skates on and get planning for some fun things to do over the holidays for your mini Culture Vultures before these seasons are booked up….
Digital Makings: Family Music Workshop
Leam Lane Library, Saturday 8 April, 10am – 12pm
Start off your Easter holiday making some noise with us and spend a morning as a music producer; you’ll be using your favourite songs to help inspire you to create your own compositions using apps on iPads. Work with We engAGE on a variety of instruments and learn the art of designing a piece of music from scratch.
Suitable for ages 8+
Design Your Own Easter Egg
The Gallery, Gateshead Central Library, Monday 10 April, 10am – 12.30pm
Drop in across the morning and join The Culture Vulture to design your own Easter Eggs and enter the competition. Go 3D and use a hard-boiled egg and create a sculpture, a character, or something eggcellently Easter related.
Or go 2D and design your egg from scratch like a pro. We’ll have LOTS of different materials for you to get your hands on.
Your finished designs can be entered into a competition which will be judged by three professional artists!
Suitable for all ages.
Digital Makings: Wearable Tech
Gateshead Central Library, Tuesday 11 April, 2pm-3pm
Art and Science come together with our electronics maker activities – make your own piece of wearable tech. Become a digital fashionista!
Suitable for ages 8+
£5
Culture Camp: Soundscapes
Caedmon Hall, Gateshead Central Library
Wednesday 12 April, 9.30am – 4.30pm
A full day workshop with artist Ben Freeth exploring and creating soundscapes using digital techniques and coding. Unsure of what a soundscape is….well artists used them this year at Enchanted Parks and they are a regular thing on immersive theme park rides…..
Sounds pretty cool right? You’ll be learning how to use open source software to explore the Sound Library and Archives in Gateshead Library and take existing digital media and manipulate it to create your own unique locational compositions.
Suitable for ages 10-18yrs.
£20
Accidentally Minecrafted
Blaydon Library, Wednesday 12 April, 10am
Addicted to Minecraft? Well Blaydon Library have it covered with a whole host of Minecraft activities so drop in and get Minecrafted…..
Suitable for ages 8+
Free – just drop in (small charge may apply to come activities on the day)
Culture Camp: Make a Play in a Day
Caedmon Hall, Gateshead Central Library, Thursday 13 April, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Back after last Summers’ smash hit success of a day…..join drama teacher David Raynor and The Culture Vulture to create an entire play in a day! You will experiment and explore a variety of acting and movement techniques, take part in confidence building workshops and character development, script writing, costume and staging activities.
This is a must for all budding Ryan Gosling and Maddie Ziegler ….
At the end of the day, you will perform the finished play to an audience of parents and Gateshead Culture Team.
Suitable for ages 8-14yrs.
£20
Design your own T-shirt
Birtley Library, Thursday 13 April, 11am
Well this session is for mini fashion designers in the making…..you’ll be making your own designs using stencils, paints, fabric pens or if you’re feeling super creative and brave, try free hand!
Suitable for ages 6+
£3
St Mary’s Storytime
St Mary’s Heritage Centre, Friday 14 April, 10.30am
Pop down to the beautiful St Mary’s for a lively storytime for under 5s in a beautiful venue! Your baby or toddler will experience lovely immersive storytelling and a mini rhymetime. After the session refreshments are available too!
£1 – Pay on the door.
For more information and dates of other sessions
Culture Camp: Film Director Workshop
Caedmon Hall, Gateshead Central Library , Wednesday 19 April, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Join artist Karen Underhill to experience what it’s like being a Film Director; you’ll have the opportunity to create your own movie exciting and magic film trailer during this fun collaborative day. Learn how to work together to storyboard, act, record and edit a short fiction movie trailer.
Suitable for ages 8-14yrs.
£20
Culture Camp: Animation on location
Caedmon Hall, Gateshead Central Library, Thursday 20 April, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Join animator Sheryl Jenkins to learn about the animation process and work with a mobile animation studio using animation apps, alongside digital photography, drawings and natural materials to create an animated film inspired by what we find in the library. You will then create an animation on a green screen to bring the library to life with using your favourite book characters. Mint!
Suitable for ages 8-14 yrs.
£20
LEGO Drag Race
Caedmon Hall, Gateshead Central Library, Saturday 22 April, 11.30am & 1pm
Working with Richard Carter “Bricks Mcgee” build the fastest, meanest drag cars from our selection of LEGO elements, and race your creation against others as part of Maker Month – Maker Faire UK . Take your vehicle back to the pits and change the design to make your car faster, then compete in the grand final! Who will be victorious!?!?
There are 2 sessions to choose from please select your ticket for 11.30am -12.30pm or 1pm – 2.00pm
Suitable for families with children ages 6yrs+
Free – spaces limited so pre-booking is essential.
Get planning Culture Vultures…….
The Culture Vulture xx
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