CHILDREN & SEN: Toytheater – Online Art Activities
Event Description: Original art activities that help young people express their own creativity while developing visual learning skills, abstract idea expression, decision making, mathematical and scientific intuition, cultural awareness and problem solving.
TEEN & YOUNG PEOPLE: Jane Lock - Positivity Through Creativity
Event Description: Jane Lock is a Thurrock artist that has a Facebook group which she uses to share top tips for arts & crafts, hosts creative session to get you creating and making at home!
ADULTS & FAMILY: QUEENS THEATRE - LOCKDOWN STORIES
Event Description: We want to know what’s happened to you during lockdown so that we can share our collective stories in a special new project. You can join in by responding to these simple questions. No detail is too small! Answer as many as you want - one or two questions is fine. All responses will be treated anonymously.
ADULTS & FAMILY: Safety Nets for Thurrock
Event Description: The Safety Nets for Thurrock project invites you to join in with this. You can find out a bit about Thurrock's history, do a bit of drawing / writing / painting / collaging, learn the skills to make net bags (much better than plastic!) and think about what community means to you.
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07/06/2020 - 08/12/2020
TEENS & YOUNG PEOPLE - Hightide: 40 Plays/40 Nights
Event Description: Hightide tweet out 40 simple standalone play-writing tasks and invite writers (& budding writers!) to share their responses online for feedback, discussion and celebration. All tasks will also be uploaded to the link below.
TEENS & YOUNG PEOPLE - Arts Council England – Let’s Create Packs
Event Description: The National Lottery funded Let’s Create packs are aimed at primary and secondary school-aged children, and contain easy-to-follow creative activities. The pack is free to download and is filled with fun things to do.
ADULTS & FAMILY - Royal Opera House - Design Challenge
Event Description: The Royal Opera House’s prestigious annual Design Challenge competition aims to inspire the next generation of set and costume designers. The programme is usually run through schools and colleges across the country, but in the current circumstances, we are offering a modified version of the challenge for you to take up at home.
CHILDREN & SEN - Smiles4All – Arts at a distance
Event Description: Smiles4All is a free project in Thurrock encouraging creative collaboration in these difficult times. Complete the fun art activity, and what you make will be shared with somebody in your community who could benefit from making art with you – from a distance!
This project is simple and fun for all ages, all you need is your hand, some paper, and some imaginative decoration ideas!
CHILDREN & SEN - Jerry’s Artarama - Free Online Art Classes
Event Description: Free Video Art Lessons aren’t just for adults and serious artists, we have creative art video projects for kids, too! Encourage the creativity of your own budding artist and watch their imagination bloom. Enjoy spending quality time with your child or grandchildren in these easy and exciting projects.
TEENS & YOUNG PEOPLE - Rendered Retina - A Salvaged Thurrock 2020
Event Description: A Salvaged Thurrock is a community project aiming to create a greener and more culturally engaged Thurrock. Renowned local theatre company‘Rendered Retina’ will be forming an ensemble of young people who will create a piece of theatre to be performed in a local green space in September this year. The piece will delve into Thurrock's history and will use thrown away items we find around the borough to form the set and props. Join in with them to get creative and have fun together!
TEENS & YOUNG PEOPLE - Online Learning Platform – Royal Opera House
Event Description: Whether you're looking for simple activities, a creative home schooling project, or theatrecraft fun, Create and Learn invites you to explore the magical world of the theatre from home. All of our new resources are free to access and do not require you to login.Each week we'll bring you fun, new activities to get you singing dancing and making. There will also be a 'Challenge of the Week', which we invite you to share with us on social media using #ourhousetoyourhouse.
ADULTS & FAMILY - Creativebug Studios – Youtube Classes
Event Description: Creativebug offers classes on sewing, painting, dyeing and other creative techniques. Beautifully shot and easy to follow along with, the mini-tutorials are perfect for small projects.
CHILDREN & SEN - Online Learning Platform: Royal Opera House
Event Description: Whether you're looking for simple activities, a creative home-schooling project, or theatrecraft fun, Create and Learn invites you to explore the magical world of the theatre from home. All of our new resources are free to access and do not require you to login.
Each week we'll bring you fun, new activities to get you singing, dancing and making. There will also be a 'Challenge of the Week', which we invite you to share with us on social media using #ourhousetoyourhouse.
TEEN & YOUNG ADULT - Firstsite Gallery: ‘Home Is Where The Art Is’ Activity Packs
Event Description: 'Art is where the home is’ will give you ideas about how to get creative at home. Anyone can have a go – there are no specialist materials required, plus it’s completely FREE to download! Stay inspired with Firstsite’s artist created activity packs, featuring contributions from UK artists including Antony Gormley, Sarah Lucas, Gillian Wearing, Idris Khan, Richard Wentworth, Cornelia Parker, Jeremy Deller, Vanley Burke, Mark Wallinger and more.
ADULT & FAMILY - Kinetika: VE Day Drawing Resources
Event Description: The 75th Anniversary of VE Day takes place on 8 May 2020 and will be marked by both military and civilian groups as well as schools all over the UK. Working with Barking & Dagenham Council, Kinetika have created a resource pack for schools to look back at this moment in history and draw parallels with today. In the spirit of sharing, Kinetika have released the resource pack online so that everyone can use it to create their own drawings to mark the occasion.