KIDS+ teens term time classes return wednesday 2 september
NEW
OIL PAINTING ONGOING COURSES: WEDNESDAY am, SUNDAY AFTERNOONS + evenings
Workshops for SEND kids + teens

Botanical CyanotypeART
Led by artist Kate Goodrich. Sensory based, forage and make beautiful botanical printmaking art. Outdoor activity – come rain or shine.
FOR
Up to 12 students aged 8 - 16.
SEND inclussive
DATE
Sunday 1 November
TIME
14:00 - 16:20
FEES
£35
LOCATION
St Mary's Secret Garden, Hoxton

mini metal sculptures/FIDGETS
Led by artist and metal worker Izzy Lombardo. Design and make your own fidget toys from scrap metal. Mini sculptures with optional kinetic and ASMR components!
FOR
Up to 6 students per session
Ages 10 - 16.
8 - 10 year olds and children with higher needs welcome with their parents or carers.
SEND inclusive
DATE
Sunday 1 November
TIME
Session 1: 10:00 - 13:15
Session 2: 14:30 -17:45
FEES
£50
LOCATION
Hackney Fine Arts Farmyard Studio at Hackney City Farm

Hapa Zome
japanese FABRIC PRINTING
Led by artist Claudiu Oprea. Forage and make your own botanically printed t-shirts or tea towels. Japanese technique to transfer raw plant pigments into beautiful, bespoke patterns. Crafting a gorgeous botanical tea towel or an upcycled recycled t-shirt into a wearable work of art
FOR
Up to 12 students aged 8 - 16.
SEND inclussive
DATE
Sunday 1 November
TIME
10:00 - 12:00
FEES
£35
LOCATION
St Mary's Secret Garden, Hoxton
BRING
A white T-shirt for printing! or some white cloth.
Art, nature and sustainability. a place to be celebrated: new workshops for our SEND students
Created in collaboration with St Mary’s Secret Garden and established artists and educators whose work connects with permaculture, sensory experience, sustainability and hands-on, physical art practice.
A magnificent opportunity for kids + teens to engage with nature and art, while being nurtured and celebrated for their unique gifts.
BOTANICAL CYANOTYPE
Kate Goodrich is a multi-disciplinary artist working across abstracted mixed media paintings and collage. Goodrich uniquely grows the materials for her practice, which draws from a broad knowledge base of permaculture principles and sustainable methods of growing and preserving plant matter.
She will be leading a Cyanotype printing workshop. Kids and teens will get a chance to connect with nature and create a cyanotype work in the grounds of Mary’s secret Gardens. They will forage natural materials to use to create unique and beautiful pieces. It’ll be a sensory based, botanical art practice and outdoor activity – come rain or shine. Children will be encouraged to experiment and play. There’ll be no right or wrong with this process.




MINI metal SCULPTURES/FIDGETS
Izzy Lombardo trained as an industrial designer and works around the world at art events and fabrication. She worked as a
Technical tutor at Kingston, is a regular workshop leader for kids and adults as well as manufacturer and arts and events fabrication. She is part of Bristol based collective Women Teaching Fabrication.
Her workshop's vision is to empower to create what participants see in their mind's eye and develop agency to alter their world through play.
Getting kids to use tools to work with metal to create what they imagine. The results are brilliant kinetic and AMSR creations with a steampunk flair.




HAPA ZOME japanese fabric printing
Claudiu Oprea is a bioartist, permaculture educator, chef and bodyworker who has spent over a decade working across cultures and creative environments. Worked at Glastonbury Festival, kitchen gardens in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, outdoor edible classrooms in the jungles of Goa, and living ferments prepared for top end French restaurants. He founded The Edible Classroom project in Goa, India, and has since consulted on alternative education and outdoor learning projects across Asia, North America and Europe, Central to his practice is a belief that outdoor learning through connection to other bodies of nature and play can be as much if not more rich than classroom based learning. Foraging, gardening and cooking are inherently sensory and tactile, full of texture, smell, taste and touch. His workshop will involve foraging, natural dye printmaking and learning about plants, food and art.



