Arts Award Official!
Photo by Fred Glenister
It’s official! Offshoots CIC, the organisation behind the Circle of Light project, has worked long and hard but can finally announce that we are registered as an Arts Award Centre. To make it even more exciting, one of our young people, Husna, has been trained as a Discover and Explore Arts Award Advisor and will be delivering the award as part of our future projects. We love it when the next generation take charge! Go on Husna!
Here is what she got up to on a recent project:
“I went into a SEND school in Leicester as a creative practioner and Arts award advisor, working with kids aged between 12-17. I helped facilitate and organise activities alongside Trekkah to help the children gain an discover award.”
Splitting primarily into three groups, the children partook in numerous small workshops including drawing, painting and music.
On the first day Husna helped facilitated a workshop alongside Kate Rounding to complete Part A and B of the arts award criteria for the arts award award discover. On the second the children went on an outing to the botanical gardens. Husna led a foraging workshop to gather multiple different leaves, pine cones and other forest materials to use in art and sound workshops the next day. On the third day, back in school Husna would be busier leading 2 different activities through the day. In the morning Husna would showcase herself as an artist (with her Alias DreaM17). She lead lyric writing workshops with the children and they identified words or phrases to be used associated with their trip experience to the botanical gardens, which would later be used to create resources for the school and a song for the kids to sing. Then in the evening a short Husna led a workshop where the children would share their experience of the last few days, noting what they had learn and enjoyed. Fulfilling the final Part of their arts award. The Day was rounded off by a mass sharing of songs and artwork created throughout the project.
Photo collection by Husna