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ID: a number of young school children are jumping between silver curved lines painted directly onto a concrete rooftop. In the background there are a number of colour artworks installed on the rooftop.

CREATIVE LEARNING

Creative Learning is a year-round programme of free and accessible initiatives that foster space for local groups and individuals to imagine, create, appreciate the arts, and exercise the right to joy.

We work closely with groups and organisations in Peckham, Southwark and beyond, including schools and families, community centres, youth clubs, health and social services.

Designed in direct response to local needs and interests, we aim to maximise the degree to which groups and individuals access, inform and participate in our work, centring everyday creativity and community wellbeing.

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2024 CREATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMME

Our 2024 COMMUNION programme will feature four Ask the Artist sessions with commissioned visual artists Olu Ogunnaike, Saelia Aparicio, Adam Farah-Saad and Martin Parr.

Backstage Pass sessions with National Youth Dance Company, Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, Julia Bullock and Bretton Brown will provide one-of-kind experiences with contemporary artists working across the disciplines of live performance.

We invite audiences to a large-scale performance by The Philharmonia Orchestra in a relaxed atmosphere and informal performance setting of a Public Rehearsal. With fully subsidised Community Tickets allocated for all live events for local community partners in Southwark.

Come and Sing sessions for local residents and community groups will culminate in participation in The Bold Chorus performance with Festival Voices.

Echoes of Baldwin, a series of activations that centre and amplify the voices of the next generation, will reflect on James Baldwin’s 100 year legacy.

We kick off our Artist Placements with alumni artist Harold Offeh at Elim House, exploring the practice of puppet making as a tool for story telling. And our Creative Partnership with The Nest continues for a second summer-long season of creative collaboration and programming for local young people.

Creative Workshops and Artwork Tours take place throughout the season, and this year are joined by two Community Coffee Mornings on:

Wednesday 5 June, 11am – 1pm
Wednesday 28 August, 11am – 1pm

For more information on our activities, please scroll down.

To get involved with our programme, please fill out the above form.

ACTIVITIES

Creative Workshops: bookable workshops for all ages that bring our site and artworks to life.

Ask the Artist: in person and online conversations with leading visual artists.

Artist Placements: multi-session programmes led by contemporary artists in partner organisations.

Creative Partnerships: co-designed, summer-long creative programmes with Bold Tendencies.

Backstage Pass: one-of-a-kind creative sessions with live performers.

Public Rehearsals: behind-the-scenes access to world-class live performance.

I learnt that art comes in all different shapes and sizes and that there isn’t such a thing as good or bad art. Art doesn’t have to be something you can see clearly. It can be the way you interpret it.

— Workshop Participant from Coin Street, 2023

Bold Tendencies were so kind, informative, and adaptable throughout the whole process. It was great to meet on Zoom initially to chat over the programme, our group and general expectations. It set a really positive tone and we knew that partnering with Bold Tendencies would be a great moment for Weekend Arts.

— Weekend Arts, 2023

CREATIVE WORKSHOPS

Creative Workshops are available on and off site, and provide opportunities to explore Bold Tendencies through hands-on, site-specific creative activities.

We adapt each workshop, planning it according to the needs and interests of the participating group. Examples include:

Skyline Stories is a workshop rooted in imagination, comprising creative writing and observational drawing.

All Around Agora centres play: a series of trust and guidance exercises leads into participants coming up with their own games.

Making Miniatures is based in the Derek Jarman Garden at Bold Tendencies. It focuses on nature, habitat vs. made-homes, and botany.

ASK THE ARTIST

Ask the Artist sessions mobilise the wide ranging and inspiring artists Bold Tendencies commission as part of their summer programme.

The sessions give local groups and individuals a chance to tour the site and engage in an informal and generative conversation with a visual artist.

Creating a space for critical thinking and exchange, the sessions are suited to a variety of audiences.

Photography by Jed Welland

ARTIST PLACEMENTS

Artist Placements partner leading contemporary artists with local community organisations and schools.

These multi-session programmes explore a particular subject relevant to the partner organisation and are designed to foster a space for collaboration and skills development.

For example, in 2023 Year 10 GCSE students at Harris Boys Academy East Dulwich were partnered with artist Jeremy Deller, exploring what art might look and feel like beyond the curriculum.

Workshops included household artistic interventions, debates, presentations and off-site visits to alternative art spaces.

Photography by Deniz Guzel

Rarely do students and teachers have the privilege of collaborating with artists of Jeremy Deller’s calibre. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Bold Tendencies and the invaluable contributions of Misty in her role as the Creative Learning Producer, the Art students I teach were granted an extraordinary opportunity. The impact of this project, though executed within a brief timeframe, has been profound and enduring. The students’ encounters with Jeremy Deller and the resulting discussions have ignited a newfound passion for the visual arts, a career path previously foreign to them. We are immensely grateful for the transformative experience of working with Bold Tendencies.

— Joseph Murrary, Head of Art, Harris Boys Academy East Dulwich

Creative Partnerships

Creative Partnerships expand and build upon our relationships with local organisations and community members.

In collaboration with the partner organisation, we work together to co-design summer-long programme of creative activity, incorporating workshops, activities and talks.

Creative Partnerships allow new connections to be built through multiple intersectional strands and cross-sector collaboration.

For 2023 we partnered with The Nest – a wellbeing hub in Peckham for young people and families in Southwark.

Over 5 weeks, we ran weekly workshops with 13 young people between the ages of 13 – 16 years, from local Southwark schools.

Photography by Erez Molinas

ID: a full classroom of young children are stood in a circle inside a concrete room with rubber flooring, making an active pose. They are led by an adult workshop leader.

BACKSTAGE PASS

Backstage Pass sessions offer the chance to gain behind the scenes access to world-class performing artists, working across a variety of disciplines.

Sessions are a unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding and insight into the journey, ideas and lived experience of performers.

Each Backstage Pass consists of an element of live performance, followed by a facilitated Q&A and/or participatory workshop.

Usually, I am very apprehensive about attending events like this due to the fact I never feel they engage with both parents and young people equally. I was pleasantly surprised, as i found that both parents and young people including myself and my daughter were actively involved in the conversation and able to ask questions and take part in activities throughout.

— Parent, Backstage Pass with Caleb Femi, 2023

PUBLIC REHEARSALS

Public Rehearsals are open invitations to see live performers in action.

Breaking down the barrier between audience and artist, community members are invited to witness the rehearsal process of world-renowned artists in a relaxed setting.

During rehearsals, audience members are free to move around as they need, allowing those with access requirements or those who may feel less at ease in traditional performance settings to experience and enjoy the arts in a comfortable space.

Photography by Dan John Lloyd

OUR 2024 CREATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMME IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY

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