Artswork, the Bridge organisation for the South East, have developed a suite of resources to help teachers deliver creative workshops.
Artswork have collaborated with three South East arts and cultural organisations to produce a suite of resource booklets and video tutorials, focused on practical ways to lead arts activities in the classroom. Focused on three different activities – creating a vegetable orchestra, lyric/song-writing and spoken word performance – each resource contains background information, lesson plans and information on how to adapt activities for different settings. The resources can also be used to support a setting on their Artsmark journey, demonstrating how to plan and arts activity, and evaluate and evidence its impact. and how these can be part of your settings Artsmark journey.
Creating a vegetable orchestra
Created with SoCo Music Project, the first resource focuses on how to create an orchestra in your classroom – using vegetables! The resource, and accompanying set of video tutorials, provides a guide to creating carrot whistles, pepper shakers and courgette castanets, as well as providing information on interesting world instruments made from organic matter just like the soothing sound of bamboo panpipes.
Download extracts from the resource, and access the YouTube playlist here.
Lyric writing
The second set of resources, created with Young Urban Arts Foundation, focused on the art of lyric and song-writing. Led by Mister Lees from YUAF the accompanying set of video tutorials explores warm-ups, coming up with song concepts, lyric writing, and rehearsals to enhance participant’s abilities to write and perform songs.
Download extracts from the resource, and access the YouTube playlist here.
Spoken word poetry
The final resource was created in collaboration with Apples & Snakes, and poet Kat Francois. The booklet explores creative ways to engage young people in spoken word poetry, from creating their own poems through to performance, alongside poetry examples for different ages
Download extracts from the resource here.
All three resource, and the accompanying videos, were created for Artswork’s free Artsmark Celebration Events in 2020/21, exclusively for schools in the South East on their Artsmark journey. Other Artswork resources can be found here.
