EASTER HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS ARE HERE!

I am a bit behind in posting this weekend due to the bustle of classes and marketing preparation ...here are the dates for the Holiday Workshops! I will be updating the website, venues + hopefully you'll see flyers in a school near you through this week!

It is with great excitement that we release the dates for the WEAVE+WONDER Easter Holiday art+craft+books workshops!

These holiday workshops have been extremely popular and we have so enjoyed meeting and working with your children.
At WEAVE+WONDER, our goal is to nurture and inspire creativity in each child through the work of Great Artists, outstanding literature and innovative art projects!
We offer two wonderful venues who fully support our creative endeavours and enjoy hosting you for coffee+cake or to browse for that perfect book while your children are creating!

Over the two weeks of Queensland state school holidays, we are offering 6 workshops.
In the first week, the classes offered at Riverbend Books + Teahouse and the Gallery Cafe, Carindale are the same two classes.

Mon 2nd April: Gallery Cafe - Egg painting+clay - all about Easter!
Wed 4th April: Gallery Cafe - nest weaving + more clay - partner class with Mon 2nd.

Tues 3rd April: Riverbend Books+Teahouse - Egg painting+clay - all about Easter!
Thurs 5th April: Riverbend Books+Teahouse - nest weaving + more clay - partner class with Tues 3rd.

Thurs 12th April: Riverbend Books + Teahouse - Circles in Nature theme - acrylic on canvas!
Fri 13th April: Riverbend Books + Teahouse - Circles in Nature theme - paint+stitching mixed media work!


For more creative inspiration + class preparation, please take a look at our website www.weaveandwonder.blogspot.com or like us on Facebook to follow our journey!

We'd love to have you join us for these classes and bring a friend!
They always book fast, please email melissa@guyatt.net for bookings.

texture

These textures are inspiring me very much as the days get a little shorter and cooler. My girls can't get enough of fingerknitting, making anyone who show's interrest (a mama-inspired) necklace or two! This beautiful black one has just been completed by my 7yr old!
Last year it was knitting, this year it is crochet! Resisting 'digs' from family and friends who think I am 'just getting old!' I am contentedly carting my growing scarf-roll to every event!
I just can't resist the feel and beauty of natural wool between my fingers and the slow, comforting work with my hands.
These sweet garlands hang elegantly from a willow branch in my home - inspiration for the recent Easter Art Workshops. Their beautiful balance of colour and texture please me.

inspired! a success story

'Your classes were great fun and very inspiring!
I loved the nests the most, I do a lot of painting at home so it was good to do something new and different. I hope you like my leaf creation I made today too! I was inspired by the garlands, I made them out of leaves which I rolled up + twigs + bark + I threaded them on a piece of plant stem. It all came from my garden, nothing from inside at all!' Cerys.

'I liked the sewing and all the painting. I also liked the stories and how they gave ideas of what you can do!' Abbie
'I liked painting the eggs and making the nests. I like the books that she read too!' Samuel

the WEAVE+WONDER platform

What a delightful ride! I thoroughly enjoyed teaching a beautiful group of children this week at our first WEAVE+WONDER classes in the Gallery Cafe! They are all so creative and unique!
The cafe was a 'theatre setting' of sorts for the classes with great interest from passers by! The children and I, however, were lost in our creativity, each one engaged thoughtfully and purposefully!

I am hopeful that the children were encouraged and inspired to express themselves throughout our making time together and have come away with a sense of pride in their work and delight in all they have achieved. It is my hope that these classes will be a platform from which, children will continue to search, discover and create with materials in nature and around the home.
The natural world is bursting with inspiration and collectable matierials for mixed media artwork - stamping with leaves and paint, mobiles with driftwood, seeds, almost anything! Good quality materials always satisfy a budding artist - a natural colour palette, good paint, quality pencils and textural collage such as wool and fabric...etc.
I am hopeful our story time GATHERED, our images of great art INSPIRED, and above all our making time NURTURED the artist in each of the children!
I have been so pleased and humbled by the interest in and support of WEAVE+WONDER and trust parents will see great value in encouraging creativity in their children. We believe that children who are encouraged to dream and create become great visionaries and leaders as they grow, having confidence in their own self expression. At WEAVE+WONDER we are passionate about children and creativity!
I am looking forward to posting some feedback from parents and children about our holiday workshops in the comming days!

an egg-straordinary event indeed!

from the nervous anticipation wrapped up in all of this....

to the sweet delight of this.....

is what has made this first launch of WEAVE+WONDER so completely satisfying.

Easter Workshops

Preparation for the Easter Workshops is almost complete!
We have been overwhelmed by the response and enthusiastic support of the classes - the school holiday week commencing Tues 19th April is fully booked and Gallery Cafe have graciously allowed us to run a second workshop, backing on to the Tuesday and Thursday classes from 11.00am - 12.00noon.
Our first series next week is almost full and we excitedly look forward to working with your children!
The children will EXPERIMENT with a range of media and techniques to complete their projects and I am looking forward to encouraging their creativity. I am passionate about the nurture of creative process in young children, believing that it provides an amazing framework for confident self expression as they grow.
Most of all, I am looking forward to HAVING A GREAT DEAL OF FUN!!

Easter Holiday Workshop Outline 2011

Lesson 1 'an eggs-traordinary event'

Using beautiful natural wood, wool + clay to create an array of contempory eggs + egg designs. Focusing on sculpture, composition + colour theory, the children will explore new techniques as they paint + create! And of course, we will weave some Easter tales through our making time...

Lesson 2 'woven wonders'

Talk about how birds make their nests, gathering, weaving. Introduction to weaving techniques, share stories of communities who weave for a living. Using wool, string, feathers and basic weaving techniques we will make a nest fit for our 'tiny egg treasures'!

EXCITING NEW VENUE FOR EASTER WORKSHOPS + AUTUMN SERIES

WEAVE+WONDER
Are proud to announce a partnership with the

Shop 1042G Westfield Shopping Centre -
Carindale Cnr Old Cleveland and Creek Rd
Carindale 4152

BOOK NOW
for our
EASTER HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS
and
AUTUMN SERIES CLASSES - MAY 2011
follow links above for class outline and refer blog margin for dates + times

Limited Places Available
Contact Melissa 0407 778 907
email melissa@guyatt.net
or book in store