Current Project: Big on Play - Weapons of Sound

This half term we have commissioned Weapons of Sound - the UK's most eco-friendly band to run free workshops to inspire children by using recycled materials to produce infectious rhythmic music on drums.

 

Recycled Music hits the right notes - Leamington Observer Thursday November 20, 2008

"The sound of green music could be heard in Leamington recently.

 

Youngsters made some noise at a series of unique eco-friendly music workshops using recycled instruments.

 

Arts in Warwickshire Education service WEAVE (Warwickshire Enviro Arts Vision for Education), provided the recycled materials for the workshops. The service, which offers a creative recycling resource for schools, pre-schools, further education and community groups to explore new ways of re-using waste materials, is currently involved in a number of projects throughout the county."

 

 

 

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Current Project: Exploring Cultural Diversity through Performance Poetry

Arts in Warwickshire Education are working together with Art 4 Social Change to present forthcoming workshops which will Explore Cultural Diversity through Performance Poetry > Read More

Current Project: Extending Language through Provocations and Artefacts

"Our environments are like landscapes of possiblilities and suggetions. The entire school fosters relationships among the children themselves and between the children and the materials. If we value the children's desire and pleasure in carrying out investigations either by themselves or in groups, then we must make sure that the sorts of materials we provide allow this to happen.... materials that do not impose a direction but that pose questions and elicit hypothesis and the desire to experiment" Paolo Strozzi in Making Learning Visible > Read More

Current Project: Filter Theatre

In November 2008 Filter Theatre will be bringing their RSC commissioned 'Young People's Shakespeare' performance of Twelfth Night to 1500 Warwickshire children in 10 schools across the county. Read More >

 

 

Current Project: Justice For All - Warwickshire Justice Agencies, Art Competition

All of the Justice Agencies will be co-located in this new Warwickshire Justice Centre. This will be the Police, Crown Prosecution Service, HM Courts, Probation Service, Youth Offending Service and Victim and Witness Services. All of the Warwickshire Justice Agencies will be working in partnership to provide: improved access and confidence in delivery of justice, improved support for victims and witnesses, improved facilities for suspects and offenders, improved working environment.

The Warwickshire model is unique and it is this unique approach which will enable each agency to deliver their national and local strategic aims and objectives.

 

 

Current Project: LIFE! Drawing

A project to support teachers in helping children and young people make sense of their physical existence on a fragile planet. Read More >

Current Project: Warwickshire Artsweek 2008

Warwickshire Artsweek 5th – 20th July 2008 is a biennial festival of creativity showcasing the work of the county’s artists and craftspeople, both amateur and professional. Many schools have contributed to the event over the past 8 years which gave them the opportunity to show case their children’s creativity both in the brochure distributed to homes throughout the county and exhibitions in their local area. Read More >

Current Project: WEAVE @ The PRU

Emily Warner, our WEAVE artist in residence will be supporting PRU primary staff in facilitating pupil's design and development of their own learning spaces and space. The focus of the project is to encourage play opportunities as a way of fostering independent learning and influencing positive behaviour. > Read More

Current Project: WEAVE

WEAVE at Whitnash is open to schools and community groups. It is designed to inspire creative use of recycled materials by children, young people, families, educators and community workers. The process of exploration is the focus and not the end product.

 

"WEAVE is a vehicle to illuminate the whole learning process. Creativity and the arts have an essential place in education and development whatever the social and economic circumstances of the day and never more so than in a fast-changing world with changing views about work and non-work, formal and informal learning, the role and purpose of schooling and a changing curriculum." Professor Carol Aubrey, Director of Research, Institute of Education, University of Warwick.

WEAVE works with professional artists to encourage participants to approach the resources in an open ended and exploratory way. WEAVE actively sources unusual materials that are aesthetically interesting, which hold exciting potential and value for creativity, learning and communication. Read More >

Archive Project: Culturally Diverse Projects

Biddy Roberts was a dynamic member of the Artists in Warwickshire Education team, part of Warwickshire County Council’s Education Department. Following her death, colleagues established the Memorial Fund to help schools develop more of the kind of artist-led learning opportunities to which she was committed. A huge range of artist-led projects focusing on cultural awareness and diversity take place in schools every year thanks to grants from the Biddy Roberts Memorial Fund. Read More >

Archive Project: Forest Schools

Practical workshops were designed to explore open ended creative processes, pattern using natural materials, outdoor spaces and structures. There were opportunities to problem solve, work collaboratively, develop ideas, experiment, explore shape, space and pattern, light and shadow and have FUN! Read More >

Archive Project: Kenilworth Cluster

The project aim was to impact on the teaching and learning of literacy and language by modelling and supporting creative practice, with particular reference to the use of found objects and recycled materials. Read More >