Join us to explore how creative performance-based activities can support relational practice in a Thrive informed approach to creative classrooms.
John Quinn is a multi-disciplinary artist and Thrive trainer who has recently facilitated a GLOW Newcastle Artist Residency at South Gosforth First School. Drawing on this residency experience John will invite you to explore how drama games can develop emotional resilience, how journaling can support creativity and how making gifts can strengthen relationships and empathy. We will provide a handout of the workshop activities explored and references for wider reading.
John is a multi-disciplinary artist and Thrive trainer. His work in arts, emotional and mental health has included numerous in-school interventions, as well as training clown doctors for TinArts, working with primary and secondary age children on the Healthy Emotional Lives programme, and working with children and young people on the Loneliness Projects in Gateshead and the West End of Newcastle.
Date and time: Tuesday 8th October 4 – 6pm
Venue: South Gosforth First School
Tickets: £25
We welcome you to our introductory workshop exploring our brand new GLOW Newcastle Creative Careers Gallery. This session is aimed at Career Advisors, Teachers and Youth Workers who want to support young people’s awareness of Creative Careers.
Come and grab your chance to be the first to explore our brand new practical careers resource and find out about opportunities for students to gain experience of work in Newcastle’s creative and cultural sector.
This unique resource has been developed by GLOW Newcastle for young people 25 years or under, and aims to make learning about work in Newcastle’s creative and cultural sector inspirational, relatable, accessible and fun. We will demonstrate activities which can be used in learning settings to explore and utilise the resource. We will also invite you to share your ideas about how else we can work together to demystify and build pathways into creative careers.
We will provide a handout of accompanying resources including activities and suggestions for incorporating our Creative Careers Gallery into careers lessons and student self-access opportunities.
Date and time: Thursday 14th November 4 – 6pm.
Venue: Online
Tickets: £15
This interactive online session will utilise video of children Kate has worked with to inspire your creative practice and play with our youngest children.
See and hear for yourself how 2 year-olds at Riverside Family Hub engaged with Kate’s offer in 2023. Reflect in small groups about the children in your care, and how we can better facilitate child-centred music and movement play experiences. We will consider, what engagement looks and sounds like? What it means to be child-centred in creative practice? Are we really engaging parents as partners? Can we use OWL (Observe, Wait, Listen) to better effect?
Kate Maines-Beasley is a music and movement play facilitator for 2-yr-olds and their families with over 20 years’ experience. She’s nationally recognised as a creative force in her field. She advocates that it is every child’s human right to move, play, sing, make music and explore their own creativity fully. She plays flute, 4 ukulele chords and djembe.
Kate incorporates action research into all project work, and has a particular interest in digital technologies.
Date and time: Tuesday November 19th, 10am – 12pm
Venue: Online (zoom)
tickets: £15 (includes access to Kate’s songbook and resources)