Children have been creating fantastic city-scapes from recycled materials at the SCAPE Kids build a recyclable city workshops.
Children aged between six and twelve attended a workshop on 5 November at Creative Junk in Disraeli Street and created everything from tower cranes to circus-cities at the hour and a half workshop. Read More
Can you rebuild your future city out of recyclable materials?
Kids’ Workshops ‘Rebuild a Recyclable City’ will be held on Saturday 5 November at 10.30- 12.00 & 1.30- 3.00 and Saturday 19 November 10.30- 12.00 & 1.30- 3.00 at Creative Junk, 25 Disraeli St, Addington.
Drawing inspiration from SCAPE Artist Joanna Langford’s The High Country, kids will have an opportunity to rebuild a favourite part of their city out of recyclable materials. We provide the materials, kids bring their imagination!
Price: $5
Bookings essential, limited to 12 per workshop. Suitable for 6–12 year olds.
Phone: Creative Junk 03 379 4040
Email:Christine@creativejunk.org.nz
OR children can use their imaginations to build a Rebuild a Recyclable City from found and recycled materials at home. We’ve put some ideas below about how you might go about it. Watch the video below for inspiration!
South Island artist Joanna Langford uses recyclable materials to build her fantastical cities. The work that Joanna envisioned for 6th SCAPE, The High Country, is a whimsical, futuristic city floating in the sky. The “clouds” are made from recycled sileage plastic wrap, and buildings from plastic bottles lit with LED lights.
To build your city you will need:
- Scissors, glue stick or PVA glue, tape, a newspaper covered work surface.
- Recycled and found materials which might include cardboard, newspaper, old magazines, fabric, plastic bags, plastic containers…
- You may also want to use: paint, felt pens, crayons or coloured pencils.
To make your future city:
- Brainstorm the favourite parts of your city (don’t forget the natural features e.g. parks, rivers, beach)
- Look at the recycled materials you have available – what parts of your city could they be made into? Think about how you can attach these to a base. You may like to use stiff cardboard to make a solid base for your city-scape.
- What is your vision for the future of your city – will the city have a theme – futuristic? historic? fantastical? garden city?
- If you wish, you can take a look at the video we’ve made to see what some other children created.
- In our video we used PVA glue to attach blue plastic paper for the sky and plastic bags for clouds were pushed through holes in the sky. Are you going to create a sky?
- Think about what you could use to make a river, paving, roads, paths, trees, parks, street furniture etc
- Create and decorate your buildings or fragments of city and fix them to the base.
- If you would like to share what you have made, email a picture of your artwork to christine@scapebiennial.org.nz with a short sentence telling us about your creation and we’ll load it to our facebook page www.facebook.com/SCAPEpublicart. Then ask your friends and family if they’d like to go and look at your art between the 21st and 25th November and “like” the creation that they think is best. You could win a $50 Voucher from The Drawing Room if you get the most votes!
Kids Rebuild a Recyclable City Facebook Competition Conditions
Children can enter as many times as they wish, however each entry must represent a completely new creation. We encourage group collaboration, however entries will only be valid if created by a maximum of two children. Children must be aged 13 and under.
Entries must be received prior to midday 20 November 2011. Voting will commence 21 November at 9am and close on 25 November at 5pm.
There is one prize which will be given to the child who receives the most “likes” in the online voting. The prize is a $50 voucher to The Drawing Room. If there is a draw in the voting result, the winners will each receive a voucher which represents an equal percentage of the total $50 prize.
We hope that you have fun building your recyclable cities!
If your children can’t attend the Rebuild a Recyclable City – Kids’ Workshop in November, you can pick up free art packs from any Christchurch City Library and have an arts and craft session over the school holidays!
SCAPE have put together a limited number of special packs for children to help them to rebuild a city-scape from their own imaginations out of recycled materials.
Packs are free and contain flat-packed recycled materials and an instruction sheet.
You can pick up the free art packs from the following Christchurch City Libraries that are open:
- Akaroa
- Bishopdale
- Central South City Library
- Diamond Harbour
- Fendalton Mini
- Halswell
- Hornby — extended hours
- Little River
- Linwood Mini
- Lyttelton Library
- Mobile — check the mobile library page for our daily schedule
- New Brighton
- Papanui
- Parklands
- Redwood
- Shirley Library
- South Library and South Learning Centre
- Spreydon Library
If you would like to share what you have made, email a picture of your artwork to christine@scapebiennial.org.nz with a short sentence telling us about your creation and we’ll load it to our Facebook page. We will accept entries until 20 November 2011
Then ask your friends and family if they’d like to go and look at your art between the 21st and 25th November and “like” the creation that they think is best.
You could win a $50 Voucher from The Drawing Room if you get the most ‘likes’!
As part of 6th SCAPE Christchurch Biennial, we have organised fun and creative workshops for children in Christchurch:
Rebuild a Recyclable City – Kids’ Workshop
Dates: Sat, 5 and 19 November 2011
Times: For both dates, you have two options: 10.30am – 12.00pm and 1.30pm – 3.00pm
Venue: Creative Junk, 25 Disraeli Street, Addington, Christchurch.
Drawing inspiration from SCAPE Artist Joanna Langford’s The High Country, kids will have an opportunity to rebuild a favourite part of their city out of recyclable materials. We provide the materials, kids bring their imagination!
Price: $5
Bookings essential. Limited to 12 per workshop. Suitable for 6–12 year olds.
Phone: Creative Junk 03 379 4040, Email: Christine@creativejunk.org.nz
In partnership with Creative Junk and with support from the Sustainable Initiatives Fund Trust (SIFT).
For further information: SCAPE for Kids
SCAPE invites both young and old to engage with our exciting Education Programme!
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Exploring public art is a great way for students to engage with ideas around story telling, symbols and understanding issues of civic identity, town planning, urban design, site specific art and the purposes of public art.
SCAPE has provided several options to engage with students – why not take a walk and look at the artworks in situ in August- October and November, or view the artworks and artists online?
'Passing Time' by Anton Parsons. The work was installed just days before the 6.3 Christchurch earthquake
Inviting aspiring artists, architects, urban designers and sustainability gurus!
SCAPE is offering senior art students the unique opportunity to meet SCAPE Artists in our Artist Lounge during SCAPE. This exciting event will be a rare opportunity for students to hear each selected SCAPE Artist talk about their practice under one roof.
The afternoon will include a preview of SCAPE presented by Blair French, SCAPE Curatorial Group Convener, followed by presentations by exhibiting New Zealand and International artists including: Darryn George (NZ, Ngapuhi), Ash Keating (Australia), Joanna Langford (NZ), Ahmet Öğüt (Turkey/The Netherlands), Ruth Watson (NZ), and Richard Maloy (NZ). The nominated students will be able to ask questions of each of the artists.
SCAPE Artist Lounge
Thursday 3 March 2011, 1 – 3pm
Philip Carter Auditorium, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Limited to four students (and one teacher) per school
We would like to invite one teacher from each school to please nominate four senior students that have exhibited exemplary creative drive and ambition. We are thrilled to provide these nominated students with the opportunity to meet and engage with successful artists. Please register by emailing Sally Airey, SCAPE Education Programme Coordinator: sally@scapebiennial.org.nz by 5pm, Tuesday 22 February 2011 with the names of the four students (and one teacher), and the name of the school. Please indicate whether you have more students who would be interested in attending the Artist Lounge. More places may become available after 22 February.
With support from Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
The Art of Heritage Tours will Explore Christchurch Heritage sites
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Cathedral Square, 1931, Market Square (later Victoria Square) looking northeast. Photo courtesy of Christchurch City Libraries.
Book a place in a guided tour lead by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust during SCAPE. The Art of Heritage Tours will explore Christchurch’s significant cultural sites and heritage buildings along the SCAPE Public Art Walkway.
Dates: 9, 10, 16 and 17 March 2011
Times: 11am and 1pm
Meet at the SCAPE Visitor Information and Education Hub, Cathedral Square
Bookings essential: sally@scapebiennial.org.nz
With support from New Zealand Historic Places Trust
Overlayed Image: Joanna Langford, The Beautiful and the Damned, 2008, Michael Hirschfeld Gallery, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington (Photo: Mark Marriet)
Congratulations again to Cobham Intermediate School for winning the 2010 Recyclable City Competition!
We are thrilled to announce that we will be running the SCAPE Recyclable city competition again in 2011 during SCAPE (4 March – 17 April 2011).
Drawing inspiration from SCAPE Artist Joanna Langford, have your class build a city out of recyclable materials.
Langford uses recyclable materials to build her fantasy-like sculptural works. Her artwork for SCAPE, The High Country, will see an aerial futuristic city installation that appears to float above inner city Christchurch streets. This major work will be under construction during the late summer 2011 and will remain in place in the High Street pedestrian mall from 4 March to 17 April for the duration of SCAPE. Using Joanna Langford’s work inspire your class to create their own city out of recyclable material!
Submit a completed SCAPE_Recyclable City_Entry Form and a photograph of your class artwork by 15 April 2011 to go into the prize draw.
Entry forms and photos to:
Sally Airey
Education Coordinator
SCAPE Christchurch Biennial
PO Box 763
Christchurch 8140
or via email: sally@scapebiennial.org.nz
With support from the Sustainable Initiatives Fund Trust.
Announcing the winner of the 2010 Recyclable City Art competition
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Congratulations to Cobham Intermediate for their Year 8 extension group entry Eco City! Cobham Intermediate have won $250 worth of art supplies.
'Eco City', 2010, Cobham Intermediate School
Thanks to all our entrants and congratulations to the students at Cobham Intermediate.
With support from the Sustainable Initiatives Fund Trust.
SCAPE Public Art Walkway
During the six weeks of SCAPE (4 March – 17 April 2011) take a guided tour from the SCAPE Visitor Information and Education Hub. You can meet at the Hub (in Cathedral Square) and take a free 45 minute guided tour of the SCAPE Public Art Walkway.
Visitor Hosts will be available to take guided tours on weekdays at 11am and 1pm. On a guided tour you will have an opportunity to interact with two SCAPE Artists, Richard Maloy and Ash Keating. Richard Maloy will be working live in the central city between 11am – 2pm as a part of his mobile sculpture project 45 Attempts at Making Sculptureand Ash Keating will be working from Gardensity, located in Cathedral Square.
The SCAPE Education Hub classroom will provide space for students to congregate and learn about SCAPE. Our Visitor Hosts will be prepared to give students an introductory talk about SCAPE, provide audiovisual presentations about the SCAPE Artists and answer questions.
Bookings for the SCAPE Education Hub classroom and guided tours are essential. Please contact SCAPE Education & Public Programmes Coordinator Sally Airey: sally@scapebiennial.org.nz
With support from Solid Energy
