Clay Modelling

Sculpting

London

Lewisham

Have you seen the whale sculpture made of plastic litter at Canary Wharf? We will make a more optimistic 3D piece, crafted of clay and decorated. Why not make a little snail to keep him company, as told in Julia Donaldson's 'The Snail and the Whale'?

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Where Are The Whales? (5-11 yrs)

Taking inspiration from the natural forms of some endangered species (including insects, plants, mammals and sea creatures), we will design and make our own special costume. At the end of the day, we will model our creations on a catwalk! No materials are required, but you are more than welcome to bring any old garments you'd like to reuse or recycle.

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Nature's Fashion Show

Roll up your sleeves and step right into the circus ring in this fun-filled children’s workshop creating playful papier-mâché circus animals! Inspired by the colourful world of the big top, young makers will sculpt, layer, paint, and decorate their own imaginative creatures. Through hands-on making, children will explore shape, texture, and character while learning traditional papier-mâché techniques in a creative and supportive environment. This workshop encourages imagination, experimentation, and messy artistic fun, with every child taking home their own spectacular circus creation.

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Papier-mâché Circus Animals

Dinosaurs? Ancient Sea Creatures? Preserved plants? Fossils can be all sorts of things and now we can create our own! We will make clay reliefs and imprints with found and natural objects, cast them in plaster and decorate them.

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Cast Your Own Fossils

Dive beneath the waves and create your own miniature 3D underwater world inside a shoebox. Using paint, collage, simple model-making and origami sea creatures, you'll build a colourful ocean scene full of fish, coral, seaweed and hidden treasures. A wonderfully imaginative day combining art, storytelling and construction.

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Underwater Seaworld

Ukulele is a fantastic first instrument and a wonderful stepping stone to other string instruments. Our friendly tutors will help you play your first song, have fun making music with others and learn skills in rhythm, pitch and notation as part of fun musical games! All levels are welcome. Bring your own instrument or borrow ours! 

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Uke & You (3-5 yrs)

Set sail on a creative adventure in this imaginative children’s workshop where participants become castaways stranded on a mysterious deserted island!

Using storytelling and art, we will create our own handmade survival journals filled with discoveries, wildlife observations, secret maps, poems, diary entries, and letters home. Along the way, young artists will experiment with a wide range of exciting techniques including collage, printmaking, paper ageing, image transfer, drawing, and paper marbling to bring their island journals to life. From documenting unusual creatures to recording survival tips and hidden treasures, this workshop encourages creativity, imagination, and immersive world-building through art and writing.

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Deserted Island Diary

David Hockney's invention and creativity continued throughout his long career and there is currently a free exhibition of some of his later work at the Serpentine Gallery. A panoramic exploration through the seasons at his home: colourful and full of mark-making. This work was created on an iPad but we will replicate the effects and vitality using brushes, watercolours, inks and pastels.

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Hockney's Happy Landscapes

Learn how to make hanging plant holders using macrame, a textile craft that uses knotting instead of weaving or knitting. You can create intricate designs that jazz up your plants and give them some extra style!

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Make a Macramé Plant Holder - Specialist Focus

Patterns and prints are all around us on posters, textiles and on screens.

You will learn how to create marks and patterns using a wide variety of printing techniques. You will use what you learn to print onto t-shirts and artworks which you can take home and show off to your friends and family.

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Printmaking Inspired by Nature

Join us for this unique and memorable hands-on workshop where you’ll create a beautiful plaster cast of your hands! Choose individual sets or a joint cast of hands intertwined. Using safe, skin-friendly alginate to make a detailed mould you’ll capture a special moment together before casting it in plaster. Once your sculpture is set, you can get creative decorating and personalising your finished piece with paints and embellishments. A fun, messy, and meaningful activity for all ages - and a keepsake to treasure forever!

Please note that adults and children each need a ticket. One adult can accompany two under 10s (and more children if they are over 10)

Cast Your Hands - Family Class (5+)

Inspired by the amazing art of by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, we will paint still life - fruits, vegetables, dry wheat and flowers and create a collage on A3 paper using our own faces as an outline.

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Summer Painting - Food Art

Faith Ringgold was an African American artist with a passion for folklore, colour and women's stories. We will make our own vibrant and eye-catching patchwork collages, inspired by her children's books, quilts and paintings.

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Colourful Collages

Craft vibrant 3D flowers and headdresses inspired by the hot, bright colours of Mexico in this Frida Kahlo inspired class.

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Fabulous Frida Kahlo (3-5 yrs)

Inspired by Ivonne Coomber, we will all paint a beautiful summer field with wild flowers, using an amazing (and very fun!) technique "splatting"!

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Summer Flowers (5-11 yrs)

Ever wanted to learn more about composition and songwriting? This inclusive class is accessible for both musicians and non-musicians to learn about composition: working together to compose, arrange and write lyrics for our own original tune.

Working with a professional musician, band player and educator, musicians and lyricists will have a lovely opportunity to work and play together, covering musicianship, a little theory, how to groove together and respond and play to support the overall sound as opposed to isolated, solo practice. Taking inspiration from whatever is happening in the community, the scope and stories of myths and legends, or whatever inspires us, the aim will be to "learn to create the music YOU love". If you play an instrument please bring it with you on the day!

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Songwriting & Playing Together

Our year-long Play programme is a fantastic opportunity to learn an instrument in supportive small groups following our tailored curriculum. Perfect for those who have just completed Roundabout, or complete musical beginners who are just interested in finding out and trying out, these fun one day courses will give you a little taster of each instrument. Participants will come away with new skills, have fun and perhaps select the instrument they would like to continue on Play! 

Led by your expert tutor, each day will be composed of musical exercises and games, some music theory, and LOTS of playing! You will learn the basics of the piano perfectly setting you up for a year of further learning on our Play! course or individual tuition. All instruments will be provided. 

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Prepare to Play! Piano

Join two West End actors for a three-day musical theatre workshop and learn songs and scenes from top West End and Broadway shows! You’ll work with Connor and Mary-Jean, who’ve performed in hits like Heathers the Musical and most recently Les Misérables, where they’ve both recently finished the World Tour.

By the end, you’ll have improved your singing technique, learned new improvisation and acting skills and created your own short musical. Be prepared to act, sing and dance your heart out but most importantly to have fun!

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Make A Musical (8-14 yrs)

Do you want to be a mermaid or merman and live under the sea? Inspired by the Disney classic, calypso and classic sea shanties, we will make music, puppets and beautiful art creating the moving effects of water. This class blends together art and music in a uniquely Conservatoire way, taught by specialists in both practices.

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Art and Music Workshop - The Little Mermaid and Merman

The Conservatoire

We are Blackheath's local arts centre. We provide a broad mix of top quality music, art, drama classes to visitors aged 0 to 100!

The quality of the arts that we offer remains at the centre of our mission – all of our teachers are professional musicians, artists and performers, trained at the best schools, and also inspiring teachers.

Where Are The Whales? (5-11 yrs)

The Conservatoire

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