Othello Unbound at Cambian Oaks

Using beautiful gold inks at Cambian Oaks during the  #othellounbound project. 

We talked about publishing a book of prose and poetry created during the workshops and the possibility of extending the work to other residential spaces run by the Cambian Oaks group.

These Arts and Health workshops are part of the Othello Unbound Project which is a creative exploration of Shakespeare’s Othello. This Destinations Arts initiative is supported by Sheffield Hallam University and funded by Arts Council England.

Using the Makey Makey Interface to Create Music Out of Paper!

Reader Project students have just finished creating unique musical instruments using the creative controller interface – MakeyMakey.

Each instrument had both software and hardware elements. Students used MIT’s SCRATCH programming environment to create a program script that allowed their physical instruments to trigger sounds in the computers. Using paper, graphite, copper sticky tape (slug barrier tape) and aluminum foil, participants created final working versions of their instruments.

“I like that we are able to create our own images and touch them and sound comes out, and we can get a character to move across the screen in a game.”

“We learned certain materials were better at conducting than others – I learned that the better conductors produced faster graphics and sounds.”


“Its a fun way to sneak physics into our after school club and a great way of getting both girls and boys involved in coding and the Maker movement.”

Find out more at the Destinations Arts website

February Half Term Challenge 2015 is here!

This years Theme: 3D Art Evolution

From the 17^th, 18^th and 19^th February from 10am until 3.30pm at Sheffield Hallam Univeristy.

Making Movements ...

A lot of our stories contain robots!

I have learned a variety of things that has helped me in my story ( tour in the future). Like our finishing dance and our scripts.  Aria

I have learnt some robot moves. Gianah

I have learnt different types of actions as well as dance moves such as the robot to help with my story. Parsa

I learnt all the different things that I  need to think about when produving my individual idea and I also learnt some new dance moves which are connected to our theme of technology.Zaynab.

I have been learning about creating a scipt to help oragnise my story (The Caveman) and some dance moves to help with other children's storys and scripts.I enjoyed it. Thandie.

Reader Group - What We've Been thinking...

 3/6/14

Over the last few weeks we have been thinking and planning our project about technology and in that time so far we have created a timeline of where each of our individual ideas are going to fit into the performance ,  who is going to do what and what their role is in the performance, the roles are narrators , actors,  prop makers and organisers.


After planning our project, we will present all this by a series of presentations like drama, dances, posters and speeches and we are all doing this to get across what we think about the future.we are going to include our ideas for the performance such as gianah's idea about robots arias about the future.

This entry was written by Zaynab, Aria, Thea, Parsa and Gianah.

We'll post some more info soon!

Half Term Challenge, February 2014

February Half-Term Challenge 2014

Over the past few days we have been learning about DNA , genetic engineering and synthetic biology.

I have enjoyed working as a group ,  dancing  and making a rap.I thought the quizzes and , learning about the bacteria was interesting. 
Parsa

My favourite part was doing the rap and the voice exercises, and I also liked it when we had to guess the answers for the quizzes. 
Fatimah

I learnt the many uses genetic engineering has which I  found interesting , and learning in more detail about synthetic biology even though we have done it at school . Learning the rap a making up our own dances was fun. 
Zaynab


I loved dancing and performing in the show and watching the videos

I want to do more dancing and using computers and more performance.
Makahi

It's a Wrap!

Well we've successfully completed our February 2014 Half-Term Challenge! Following our previous creative explorations of DNA, this years challenge explored the principle ideas behind bio engineering and synthetic biology. 

Over three days young people worked alongside local Artists and created dance and music and a script reading inspired by bio engineering!

Special thanks goes to the all the tech crew who helped to document events and then produced a fantastic film showing all our hard work! 

Thanks to Angga from Hantu collective for helping participants to shape their performance and to local artiste JKAS for helping the group deliver a genetics themed rap! 

Of course our challenge would not have been possible without the support of parents and Maxine Greaves MBE, Equality and Community Engagement Business Support manager at Sheffield Hallam University for hosting and facilitating the project.

Our next challenge will be in the summer.

The Reader Project strikes again!!!!!

                                   
                         The Reader Project strikes again!!!!


At the start of the Reader Project ( Technology)we began to plan out our ideas for our project for example the cavemen(and how we have developed from them), blood transfusions and flight(various inventions that have been created by humans through out the years and examples of how technology has changed and developed.Further information from previous weeks are as follow:

Week 1:
 Our project was based on timelines like the past and the future and at the end of that session, we agreed on Technology.Then we got the homework for something that ocurred with Technology.

Week 2: 
Been given was to research technology in different places around the world.
We talked about our own ideas for the project, we also drew a hand with things that we did in the past and the things we want to do in the future. The homework had

Week 3:
We gave in our homework, created a story board based on our homework and presented our work as a short drama piece, the rest of our group had to guess what we were acting out.

Week 4:
We produced a script of how our ideas would be presented, and we were given homework to type on the subject then email.We also did a short drama piece based on our scripts, we had various ideas. Eg. how we adapted, how cars were made ect.

Summer Challenge 2013

How have we worked together and what have we created?

Hi everyone 

Welcome to the second day of Summer Challenge 2013 at Sheffield Hallam University!

Use the blog comments box to explore your group work and tell us  about what you have made!

Archie Markham Project - 19th March 2013

 Creating An App was a tricky business....

Storyboard plan for App

Today we began outlining what sort of interactive application we wanted to create.  

Participants created storyboards illustrating the user experience.

We had a big discussion about different types of interactive media and what media was.

Archie Markham project - 12th March 2013

At the Hallam University workshops, we have just completed our body of poems'! 

Participants used Haiku poetry form with life sized outlines of their bodies.  They decorated the cutouts with poems and words and drawings 

Watch the video!

Archie Markham Project Febuary Half Term 2013

Participants capturing images of their local environment to inspire Poetry and new work

Over 3 days participants worked with Artists and volunteers to create Art and Apps based on the work of Archie Markham!

A the end of the project, students put on a show for parents!

Archie Markham Project - 12th Feb 2013

At the Hallam University workshops, participants talk about their work in todays session.

Watch the video!

Archie Markham Project - Comments From Participants

Hucklow School Participants comments about the Project!!

Archie Markham Project - 29th jan 2013

We had the first Readers Group workshop at Sheffield Hallam University today. We continued our creative learning journey exploring the life and work of writer Archie Markham.

Students made full length cut outs of themselves filled with poetry!

Archie Markham Project Launch

A media Arts and performance project celebrating the writing and life of E.A. Markham!

Fours creative's -  an Actor, a Writer, a digital Artist and a Dance Artist will work with pupils from Huckolow schoool to produce a spectacualr performance for Black HIstory Month 2012!

Themed 'many voice' our first session involved pretending to be someone else. With our help, students worked out  a scenario where they pretended to be old by dressing up, speaking in an old way and moving in a  old way - it was fantastic!

Afterwards students evaluated their experience and told us how they wanted to project to do in the future.

Archie Markham was professor emeritus at Sheffield Hallam Unvieristy, he died in 2008.