Summer Holiday Workshops
We are famous in the local area for our summer holiday projects.
The Gallery on Ashdown Crescent and the London School of Mosaic are the central locations for all of our vibrant, exciting workshops.
Every year we create a unique schedule with a variety of arts classes with our amazing tutors. The courses provide vital structure for many of our young people
2020
Funded by LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN, THE LORD MAYORS APPEAL CHARITY, HELEN MCCRORY OBE, CAMDEN GIVING, The Peoples Health Trust Lottery Funding, GOLLP with fundraising on BIG GIVE being match funded by CHILDHOOD TRUST, CAMDEN
During these unprecedented times, just coming out of Lockdown 2020, we didn’t know if we would be able to continue our crucial summer holiday projects. We were so excited to them access to some very exciting projects being delivered safety with government guidelines. This made it possible to continue our legendary summer holiday workshops:
Illustrating an album cover – (zoom and face to face) by the NY Times Illustrator Trisha Krauss. This was a fantastic course including a competition giving the winners and runners up a cash prize to support their art resources.
Creating a Carnival Puppet – in partnership with See Through Theatre giving young people freedom and creativity to explore dance and theatre in designing huge puppets for carnival giving which had a positive effect on their confidence in team building.
Drones and Robotics – an exceptional workshop giving our young people access to skills in drone operating, coding and instilling new ideas for future careers and possibilities. This was course taught by Urban Flyers, giving our young people a sense of freedom and positivity.
Fashion – We designed our own fashion masks and personal kit bags with our partners Little Hands Design giving our young people skills in pattern making design working together for our young people going back to school 2020.
2019
Funded by: Mayor’s Culture Seed Grants, Arts Council, The People’s Heath Trust Lottery Funding, Veola
Our Summer Holiday Project 2019 was delivered in Camden and Deptford, giving access to free art workshops to support disadvantaged children and young people.
This year we were awarded the Mayor of London Culture Seeds Award 2019 and the Best Project on the BIG GIVE Fundraising platform with Childhood Trust 2019. This project reached over 325 young people during the 7 weeks of Summer 2019 supporting children and young people the gift of ART and MEDIA free workshops available every day of the week.
2018
We raised funds this year on BIG GIVE with match funding supported by Childhood Trust
Our Summer Holiday Project this year was delivered in Camden at our Pop-Up gallery in Queens Crescent, Camden.
This project reached over 215 young people during the 7 weeks of Summer.
We delivered highly skilled workshops in Oil Painting, Sketching, Sculpture, Photography and music.
We even created a short film documentary ‘Queens Crescent’ and produced two music videos with songs written by our young people.
To celebrate the young people’s achievements, we curated an exciting exhibition at our gallery.
