Workshop proposals/briefs

Microteaching planning brief

For this brief i will be holding a workshop session based on an area of my personal practice, after considering a number of activities I have cosen to do a yarn wrapping session as a demo, I will consider various learning styles and how i would need to adapt my lesson plan for any of the following: Age, mental health issues disabilities, age groups etc. As it will only be a 10 minute workshop i have done some preparations to ensure the students get the most out of the time, I have prepared a small hanout 'package' that contains the following: a worksheet showing examples of different yarn wrappings and a written step by step guide, two A4 images for the students to choose from, a ready made viewfinder and 3 pieces of card for wrapping prepared with double sided tape. (see fig.1) For the planning form see fig.2.

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This workshop willbe held on the 15th May 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

External workshop proposal for Stockport creative festival

 

As a group of five, we came up with an idea for a workshop that could have taken place on the Saturday 17th May in Stockport Studios for the public to drop in to an all day session. After walking around the beautiful town with its historic and cultural buildings, we decided that they would be a great basis for our workshop as there is a wide variety of building styles to choose from. We decided to plan an Orientation Workshop that would consist of the public of either taking their own pictures of a section of a building on the street the studio is on, or choose a photograph from the many we would have pre done on the wall. They would then chose from four different techniques – Hand stitching (plastic needles for young children), Embroidery, Drawing ( fabric pens), Sewing machines. According to certain age groups, some stations may be suitable for specific ages and interests. Each of us were given a role to enable contribution from each member of the group, the roles were finding imagery/ taking photographs of stockport, creating posters and leaflets to advertise the workshop, creating examples of embroidery to show possible outcomes, showing drawings styles and techniques that could be used and also finding various artists or designers who use similar approaches to their own practice so the public can see the techniquies being used in a profesional manor.

Aim:

Involve the general public in creating art from a section of a building by using a stitching technique on an individual A5 piece of fabric, using the Stockport council colours (Green, yellow, blue, grey, black). Every piece will be sewn together to create a big quilt, this will then be given to the Stockport council to display and allow people to appreciate Stockports architecture.

Objectives:

Run an open stitching and drawing workshop that will run throughout the day continuously that is based on photography and sight-seeing of Stockport. It will hold four stations that will suit all age groups and abilities.

Resources:

Plastic needles
Embroidery beads
Fabric pens
Embroidery needles
Embroidery threads
Normal threads
Calico Fabric (cheapest)
Rip and cut the fabric into A5 pieces

From doing this workshop proposal I have learnt that there are many things that need to be considered on the groups behalf as well as who the workshop will be delivered to, things like abilities, learning styles, skills, availability and also financial situations will have a major affect on the planning of a workshop so it is important to alway sconsider these from the very beginning. If they are not considered people may feel left out, offended or not want to take part. Also as materials can prove to be rather costly it is important to source materials wisely and always see if you can gather/ use materials you already have at home.