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The company creates unique events for children
incorporating drama, visual arts, music, theatre,
story-telling and puppetry.
These
events can be solely Giant projects or produced
in partnership with other organisations.
They might be based on a special festival such
as Mardi Gras and Hallowe’en or on a different
themes such as food or the beach.
Using
our inclusive arts approach we set up environments
for the different activities to take place in.
Often, these are a combination of workshops and
shows.
Green
Fingers, Photos and Fun at the Hidden Gardens
(2006)
Chef's
Special (2006)
The
Giant Christmas Cracker (2005)
Funky
Food and Festival Fun (2005)
Torch
Trail (2005)
Munch Days
(2005)
Fèis Ghlaschu
(2004)
Bonfire Bash
(2004)
Lights on the Bus
(2004)
North Ayrshire
Children’s Festival (2002-2004)
Colour and
Movement (2004)
Family Festival
Days (2003/04)
Art on the Bus
(2003)
Hallowe’en
(2002)
Costa Del Clyde
(2000)
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Green
Fingers, Photos and Fun at the Hidden Gardens
(April 2006)
Programmed during the spring break
this week of workshops combined outdoor exploration,
garden themed art activities, storytelling and
pinhole photography at the beautiful Hidden
Gardens behind the Tramway Theatre.
After
following our storytelling gardener around the
gardens participants then had the chance to do
a bit of their own exploring collecting seeds,
petals, tree rubbings, stone casts and other bits
and pieces for their garden packs.
In the
Hidden
Gardens workshop space 'the boiler house'
everyone was given a pinhole camera to decorate
and shown how to use it. After placing the camera
in the gardens to capture a picture of their surroundings
each person then saw their image magically develop
in the dark room before their eyes!
The week ended with everyone being
invited to an exhibition of all the photographs
and other art work created throughout the week.
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Chef's
Special (February 2006)
A weekend
of cooking, designing and eating food at The Glasgow
School of Arts popular cafe 'Where the Monkey
Sleeps'.
Invited
to attend either a brunch, lunch or high tea workshop,
the children and their families got the chance
to help prepare and cook with head chef Austin
in his kitchen.There was also the opportunity
to be creative in a variety of food themed art
activities devised by Giant including plasticine
modelling, jewellery making, and t-shirt graffiti.
These
two hour workshops finished with everyone sitting
around the table to sample the delicious culinary
treats they had helped to make such as muffins,
soups and omelettes....yum!
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The
Giant Christmas Cracker (December 2005)
As part
of the Internatoinal Day of Disabled People Programme
this Christmas event treated families to a magical
winter experience.
Activities
included making Christmas crackers and decorations,
interactive storytelling and movement through
a specially created winter forest and the creation
of a large frieze of festive images and winter
lights using shadow drawings and projection.
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Funky
Food and Festival Fun (2005)
A day
of family arts workshops as part of the Merchant
City Festival.
After
warming up with some games and dancing participants
went on to create food themed costumes, jewellery,
masks, noise makers and pictures from a variety
of food stuff and art materials.
They
then had the chance to show off their creations
in a mini carnival parade.
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Torch
Trail (July 2005)
Inspired
by the British Special Olympic Games being hosted
in Glasgow, Giant programmed an event for 3-11
year olds and their families. Influenced
by previous summer events, Torch
Trail was a combination of making, movement,
music and story trails.
Based
in the Lighthouse, everybody made their own Olympic
torch which was then taken on a story trail.
The trail went outside onto Buchanan St and was
accompanied by live music! Afterwards, everybody
arrived back for a workshop inspired by water.
There was movement and making with the sounds
of the waves crashing in the background…
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Munch
Days (January – March 2005)
A series
of one day events based around the theme of food
that took place in Partick Burgh Hall, Glasgow.
A menu of different taster sessions was drawn
up for participants to pick and chose what they
wanted to do. They could pop in for a snack
or stay for the full three courses! Drama,
music, storytelling and visual arts were used
to creative chef’s hats, giant pancakes
and vegetable patch puppets as well as lots of
other foodie delights.
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Fèis
Glaschu (October 2004)
In May
2004, Giant was approached by An Lòchran,
Glasgow’s Gaelic Arts Development Agency,
to run some taster workshops during the West End
Festival with the hope of developing a week long
Fèis (festival) for children during later
in the year.
In the
October holiday children from the city gathered
at the Bunsgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu (Gaelic
Primary School) for a week of different activities.
Each morning there was a storyteller followed
by a range of activities for different age groups:
Gaelic song, the Chanter, Fiddle and Step Dance.
The session finished with a creative play workshop
which formed the basis of a short performance
at a sharing event for families and friends at
the end of the week.
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Bonfire
Bash (November 2004)
Giant
was invited by East Dunbartonshire to a programme
a day of events for families involved in different
parent-support groups across the local authority.
The days theme was Guy Fawkes and the Bonfire
Bash incorporated lots of different workshops
– a treasure trail to make your own sparkler;
explorations of light and projection and creating
indoor fireworks with paint explosions!
It was a messy but fun day which finished with
a story round the bonfire.
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Lights
on the Bus (July 2004)
The
bus was back! This year the bus took its
passengers on a light filled extravaganza to a
different venue each day: a football stadium,
churches, museums all played host to the bus and
its passengers. Following the bus tour which
had decorated windows which the children could
add to and a storyteller on board, the afternoon
session was in two parts. Firstly, there
was an interactive storytrail of the building
and then a light inspired workshop. The
children (and adults!) got to use the lighting
desk to create different lighting techniques as
well as creating their own design which was projected
in a specially constructed tented environment.
At the end of the day, everyone piled onto the
bus with their art and sketchbooks and headed
home to Partick.
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North
Ayrshire Children’s Festival (2002-2004)
For
three years, Giant programmed a week of holiday
events for children in partnership with the Harbour
Arts Centre, Irvine as part of the Children’s
Festival. Each a year a loose theme was
chosen for the week of workshops and live performances
which included everything from jokes and games
to Chinese drumming, story-telling and magic.
In 2004
the programme travelled around four different
towns in North Ayrshire bringing Big Arts for
Wee People right to their doorstep.
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Colour
and Movement (April 2004)
To celebrate
the JD Ferguson exhibition at the Lillie Art Gallery,
Milngavie, Giant created a day of colour and movement
for children and their families.
Inspired
by the work of Ferguson and his partner, Margaret
Morris, over seventy children and adults took
part in the day which was made up of a morning
and an afternoon session. The group was
introduced to the exhibition and then split into
two smaller groups. One group took part
in the silk painting and then swapped over to
learn the Margaret Morris dance moves.
The
silks that were created then formed the backdrop
to the performance of ‘Underwater Adventures’
a fantasy inspired by the music of Scottish composer
Erik Chisholm and the choreography of Margaret
Morris.
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Family
Festival Days (2003/2004)
The
Family Festival Days were programmed to celebrate
a series of cultural events including Ramadan,
Channukah, Christmas and Mardi Gras. For
the different events, Giant took over the CCA,
Glasgow with workshops in all sorts of places
including a treasure trail round the building.
The events were designed for children and their
families to come together and take part in a variety
of workshops in a festival atmosphere. Families
could come and spend the day doing lots of different
things or just come and try out one activity.
Activities
included Mehendi Hand Painting, Sweetie Decorating,
Stories of Channukah, Carnival Foods, Wiggle and
Giggle dancing and Carnival Costumes.
Lots
of fun was had by all and the events were a sell
out success!
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Art
on the Bus (2003)
A 10
day extravaganza of mystery tours and workshops
around Glasgow on a fully accessible bus!
Families
met in Partick and each person was given a camera
to take photographs of their grand day out!
The photos were then used to form the exhibition
Art from the Bus. Each day, the bus travelled
with its passengers and storyteller on a different
route to a different location. The passengers
toured across Glasgow to the Mosque, the Synagogue,
Hampden, the GFT, the Citizens Theatre, Tramway,
House for an Art Lover, Pollock House, Holmwood
House and the Tall Ship. At every venue
there was a workshop from dance and music to self-portraits
and puppets. All in all it was a busy ten
days and we have the photos to prove it –
all 4320 of them!
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Hallowe’en
(2002)
Hallowe’en
has long been a favourite of the Giant team.
Lots of fun to be had with costumes and spiders,
witches and ghosts! In 2002, we held a day
of spooky goings on at Partick Burgh Hall.
During the day schools and nurseries made masks
and puppets and took part in a performance of
Room on the Broom with the author herself, Julia
Donaldson.
In the
evening, Magic Bob hosted a Hallowe’en party
full of trickery for all the kids. A magical
way to finish of a splendid day for the artists
and participants alike!
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Costa
Del Clyde (2000)
Tickets.
Money. Passport.
In October
2000, the company transformed The Arches Theatre
in Glasgow into a giant indoor beach complete
with sand, deckchairs and sunshine with activities
for all the family throughout the school holiday
week. Samba music, sand sculptures, face painting,
magic shows and puppets on the beach meant an
action packed programme.
With
a Flight Check-in desk, Passport Control, the
Cave Cafe and Desert Island Theatre, Costa
Del Clyde offered families from across
the city the opportunity to bask in the continuous
delight of children having fun.
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Giant,
Centre for Inclusive Arts,
100 Beith
Street, Glasgow, G11 6DQ, Scotland, UK
Booking/Enquires:
0141 357 5000 Tel: 0141 334 2000 Fax:
0141 357 4100 Email:info@giantproductions.org
Web: www.giantproductions.org
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