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Explore Day Taster Workshops
2 April, 2021
Scroll on through and feast your eyes on everything on offer from Norden Farm on Friday 2nd April. There is absolutely everything to spark the interest of all ages and family sessions too.
Explore: Digital Painting
Fri 2 Apr 10am – 11am | £6 per household
Led by Art in Flux’s Aphra Shemza. Create your own digital paintings! Join world renowned multimedia artist Aphra Shemza in her new digital painting workshop. The workshop is centred around her shemza.digital project which is a collaboration with computer artist Stuart Batchelor. Shemza.digital is based on the work of Aphra’s grandfather, the well-known British/Pakistani painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. During the workshop you will be introduced to the artist’s work and create your own digital paintings using the bespoke shemza.digital painting application.
Suitable for ages 10+ years.
You will need a laptop, computer or tablet to access Zoom and the online painting application.
https://norden.farm/events/explore-digital-painting-10-years
Image Credit: Matthew Kaltenborn
Explore: Comic Book Drawing (6+ years)
Fri 2 Apr 10am – 11am | £5 per household
Seriously Strange Superhero Splatdown! Design your own weird wacky and wonderful heroes under the expert guidance of James Parsons.
https://norden.farm/events/explore-comic-book-drawing-6-years
Explore: Family Stop Motion Animation
Fri 2 Apr 11.15am – 12.15pm | £6 per household
Led by Discovery with Three. Get ready to bring toys to life! You will learn how to shoot and edit a short, animated film. You will plan and create the toys story using props and scenery – Lego works great, or use anything you like!
You need access to a computer or tablet. You will be asked to download free software as part of the session.
Suitable for ages 5+ years and their grown-ups.
https://norden.farm/events/explore-family-stop-motion-animation
Explore: Magic (Families)
Fri 2 Apr 11.15am – 12.15pm | £6 per household
Led by Patrick Ashe. The Magic Circle has very strict rules about revealing any secrets of magic, however, for one day only, PaTRICK will be revealing some of his favourite magic tricks, all of which are easy to do, impressive and fun to learn! Each ticket includes a special magic box, which contains some of PaTRICKs favourite tricks, so you can look and feel like a real-life magician – even if you’ve never done magic before!
Your ticket includes a Magic Prop Box – box to be collected from the Norden Farm Takeaway ahead of the session. Family Workshops are designed for children and adults to get creative together – your ticket is for your household.
Suitable for ages 5+ years and their grown-ups
https://norden.farm/events/explore-magic-families
Explore: Comic Book Drawing (Families)
Fri 2 Apr 12.30pm – 1.30pm | £6 per household
Led by James Parsons. Three-headed fire-breathing medieval chicken sorcerors! Zombie princesses on skateboards! Half-alien, half-giraffe, half-Prime Minister, half-Pokemon cyborg future warriors! Cute bowls of custard with magical powers! Barbarian dentist superhero grannies!
In a family festival of creative eccentricity we’ll be creating a dynamic poster / front cover and designing some of the most off-the-wall characters ever to have burst from the infinite bounds of the imagination! Expect random stuff, unexpected things, and lots of drawings you didn’t predict!
https://norden.farm/events/explore-family-comic-book-drawing
Explore: Digi Den – Online Taster (8 – 10 years)
Fri 2 Apr 1.45pm – 2.45pm | £5 per household
Led by DJ Mhlanga. The digital arts club! Explore your creativity and get a taste of various apps and software you can use to tell stories, whether through music making, graphics/animation or writing and editing films in an engaging, open discussion. All you will need is to think of your favourite films, music or animations!
Suitable for ages 8 – 10 years
https://norden.farm/events/explore-digi-den-online-taster-8-10-years
Explore: Magic (5-8 years)
Fri 2 Apr 1.45pm – 2.45pm | £5 per person
Led by Patrick Ashe. The Magic Circle has very strict rules about revealing any secrets of magic, however, for one day only, PaTRICK will be revealing some of his favourite magic tricks, all of which are easy to do, impressive and fun to learn! Each ticket includes a special magic box, which contains some of PaTRICKs favourite tricks, so you can look and feel like a real-life magician – even if you’ve never done magic before!
Your ticket includes a Magic Prop Box – box to be collected from the Norden Farm Takeaway ahead of the session.
Suitable for ages 5 – 8 years
https://norden.farm/events/explore-magic-5-8-years
Explore: Family Digital Painting
Fri 2 Apr 1.45pm – 2.45pm | £6 per household
Led by Art in Flux’s Aphra Shemza. Create your own digital paintings! Join world renowned multimedia artist Aphra Shemza in her new digital painting workshop. The workshop is centred around her shemza.digital project which is a collaboration with computer artist Stuart Batchelor. Shemza.digital is based on the work of Aphra’s grandfather, the well-known British/Pakistani painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. During the workshop you will be introduced to the artist’s work and create your own digital paintings using the bespoke shemza.digital painting application.
You will need a laptop computer or tablet to access Zoom and the online painting application.
Suitable for ages 5+ years.