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Giant uses multi-sensory techniques to develop
inclusive arts programmes for all children.
Like
our theatre arts we strive to create environments
for children and their families to engage in.
We also use scent, music and light to add to the
experience.
The
work can be set in lots of different places from
galleries and arts centres to buses and football
stadiums! Sometimes the work created by
the children is curated to form an exhibition.
Projects
Imagination
Stations (November 2007)
Wee
Devil - Glasgow Radiance Festival (October
- November 2007)
Illuminating
Links (September - October 2007)
Creative
Sensations (April 2007)
It's
a Shore Thing! (January - May 2007)
Saturday
Express (January - February 2007)
World
Beneath My Feet (October 2006 - January 2007)
Burp!
(January - February 2006)
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Imagination
Stations (November 2007)
As part
of Glasgow City Council's Inspiration Festival
Giant transformed The Giant Workshop Space into
a specially created environment inspired by famous
artists and the imaginations of children.
Nursery
aged children explored a playful world of artworks,
colour and ideas stopping at activity stations
along the way to take part in music, movement,
drama and visual art activities.
Children were
encouraged to play in the colourful painted world
of a Paul Klee painting, using music and symbols,
shapes, lines, splashes and sloshes to describe
the world around.
They
also interacted with the movement, reflections
and sound of a Calder mobile, suspended with moving
structures using manmade and natural material.
A series of Picasso mystery sculpted heads
were explored
as children were encouraged
to add to, build and take them to pieces.
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Wee
Devil - Radiance Festival (October -
November 2007)
Over the October week Giant ran a
series of animation, visual arts, music and puppetry
sessions at The Giant Workshop Space.
Working from a story specially commissioned
by Giant, participants
produced associated art work which was
then used to create, influence and inspire a short
animated film called Wee Devil.
Wee
Devil was showcased at the 2007 Glasgow Radiance
Festival.
The
animation was projected onto the back of the Provands
Lordship building from the St. Nicolas Garden
throughout the Radiance Festival weekend.
Each
evening there were three live elements with narration
and performances from children who were involved
in the project.
You can see the Wee Devil animation
by clicking on the link below.
YouTube
- Wee Devil
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Links (September - October 2007)
As part
of a community project at Firhill Basin to celebrate
the redevelopment of the Forth and Clyde Canal
by British Waterways, Giant was commissioned by
UZ Events to work with pupils from five local
schools on a visual arts project.
The
project involved creating lanterns which would
be displayed on barges forming a procession at
the canal to compliment six larger scale sculptures
of local buildings created by lead artist Graeme
Gilmour.
Over
six weeks the Giant team worked with pupils from
St Teresa's/Broomlea, St Gregory's, Our Lady of
the Assumption, Sighthill and Ruchill / Ruchill
Communication Disorder Unit. The pupils looked
at the design of local buildings through sketching
and photography and then created lantern sculptures
from willow inventing their own design for the
panels of the lanterns.
The
project culminated in a procession of barges displaying
the lanterns and a firework extravaganza lighting
up the floating sculptures of local buildings
which the children had chosen to be represented.
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Sensations (April 2007)
This
was the first ever project to take place at The
Giant Workshop Space!
Kids aged 9 - 11 years joined our artists for
a week of exciting workshops giving them the opportunity
to focus their time on one specific art medium
and develop their knowledge and skill over 5 sessions.
Through
the week participants had the chance to explore
either painting, sculpture, printmaking or papermaking
and experiment
with a range of materials and different sensory
approaches to creating their own art work.
Inspiration was gained not only by experiencing
the creative processes involved but also through
visits to a Glasgow gallery and to see inside
an artist's studio.
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It's
a Shore Thing! (January
- June 2007)
This
collaborative project between Giant and the Harbour
Arts Centre (HAC) in Irvine brought together arts
groups and tutors from the centre, pupils from
Stanecastle School and the Giant' team of artists
in a programme of writing, drama, music and visual
arts workshops based on the themes of the sea.
These
workshops resulted in It's a Shore Thing!
an interactive installation created for children
by children.
The
installation was showcased at the HAC for seven
weeks and open to the public throughout this time
with additional live performances from the children
involved across two weekends.
There
were also a series of complimentary schools workshops
provided to ensure as many local children as possible
got the chance to explore the installation.
With
animations, stories, sounds and surprises as well
as an opportunity to create your own 'message
in a bottle' to be added to the bottle installation
(see top picture) this multi-sensory installation
was a huge success.
‘So
good to see young children enjoying working together
to
create such an amazing installation'
Visitor
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Saturday
Express (January - February 2007)
At the
request of Glasgow City Council, Giant was commissioned
to run the already established
Saturday Express parent and child group for four
weeks at the Tramway.
Each
week participants worked with the Giant visual
artists on a variety of garden themed arts activities
including making drawings with water sprays, creating
colourful flower beds and vegetable gardens with
an array of sensory arts materials and working
with collage.
On the
last week the groups took part in a 'Grand Designs'
family event
where
participants became a landscape gardener for the
afternoon, creating your their very own miniature
garden inspired by the colours, smells and textures
of the Hidden Gardens.
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World
Beneath My Feet (October 2006 - January
2007)
Towards
the end of 2006 pupils from three different geographically
placed Scottish schools: one coastal (Drummore
Primary, Dumfries and Galloway ) one rural (Forth
Primary, South Lanarkshire ) and one urban (Ruchill
Primary and Communication Disorder Unit, Glasgow)
worked with the Giant visual arts team observing,
exploring, and creating within their different
environments.
Working
with skilled environmental and video artists the
children had the opportunity to experience a variety
of art processes including drawing, sculpture,
projection and animation using both manmade and
natural materials to investigate their surroundings
and produce associated artworks.
Communicating
with their fellow schools by postcards, e- mail
s, photographs and a specially created blog site
they were able to share responses to the project
as it developed and to understand more about their
own environment and learn about the other environments
too.
The
culmination of the project and all the hard work
by the pupils who took part was an exhibition
in the Tramway in Glasgow showcasing the animations,
sculptures and drawings created by the three schools.
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Burp!
(January - March 2006)
This
food themed animation project saw Giant's visual
arts director and a media expert from Fast Forward
Play working with pupils from primary schools
Broomlea, St Teresa's and Saracen of the new Keppoch
Campus in Glasgow.
The
children had a great time talking and experimenting
with food, learning how animation works and being
involved in the animation process from the initial
designing to the filming of animation characters
and settings.
Everyone
created their own foodie characters through drawing,
plasticine modelling and using food stuffs and
then went on to develop stories for these characters.
Working
alongside a musician the children then created
sound effects and music for their characters and
stories.
The
final result of all this hard work is a series
of short animations together creating Burp! a
10 minute animation which was premiered for the
participants and other pupils at a sharing day
at the campus.
This
animation is now available on DVD which also contains
A Little Burp! the shorter version and The Making
of Burp!
View
some of the animation here soon!
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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
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