October Half Term - Farmyard Studio at Hackney City Farm (7 - 16yrs)
HFA Farmyard Studio
PLEASE NOTE WE HAVE 2 SEPARATE STUDIOS AT HACKNEY CITY FARM - MAIN BUILDING AND FARMYARD. PLEASE ENSURE TO AGREE WITH FRIENDS WHICH STUDIO YOU ARE BOOKING, WE CAN'T TRANSFER CHILDREN ON THE DATE OR AMEND THE STUDIO BOOKING. SEND BOOKINGS AT MAIN BUILDING STUDIO AFTERNOON SESSIONS ONLY Fine A …morert traditional drawing and painting techniques holiday classes for children aged 7 - 16 who love art. We harness our students' skill development, encourage, and support each child on their own artistic journeys to fulfil their unique artistic potential. The results will leave you amazed! Our core values are to teach traditional techniques in a simplified way for children to follow and to encourage our students to appreciate that great works of art take time, hard work, focus and determination to overcome difficulties. Our students greatly appreciate this as the rewards of their outcomes always surpass their expectations. Please do explain to your children before attending that works take several sessions to complete and they are only taken home once completed to help prevent them from getting smudged/ damaged/ worked on without our guidance. • Should you be in receipt of benefits please email hackneyyoungarts@gmail.com for a discount code of %20 off all sessions. • Children attending full day sessions need to be collected by their parents/carers at 13 hrs until afternoon session start at 14:30. We do not look after children during this time. less
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| Week 1 | Mon 26th October 2026 - Fri 30th October 2026 |
October Half Term - Main Building Studio at Hackney City Farm. (7 - 16yrs)
HFA Main Building Studio
PLEASE NOTE WE HAVE 2 SEPARATE STUDIOS AT HACKNEY CITY FARM - MAIN BUILDING AND FARMYARD. PLEASE ENSURE TO AGREE WITH FRIENDS WHICH STUDIO YOU ARE BOOKING, WE CAN'T TRANSFER CHILDREN ON THE DATE OR AMEND THE STUDIO BOOKING. Fine Art traditional drawing and painting techniques holiday classes for …morechildren aged 7 - 16 who love art. We harness our students' skill development, encourage, and support each child on their own artistic journeys to fulfil their unique artistic potential. The results will leave you amazed! Our core values are to teach traditional techniques in a simplified way for children to follow and to encourage our students to appreciate that great works of art take time, hard work, focus and determination to overcome difficulties. Our students greatly appreciate this as the rewards of their outcomes always surpass their expectations. Please do explain to your children before attending that works take several sessions to complete and they are only taken home once completed to help prevent them from getting smudged/ damaged/ worked on without our guidance. • We welcome 3 SEND students per session at afternoon classes at Main Building Studio only. Dyslexic students don't need SEND support at our class and parents can book through general admission. • Should you be in receipt of benefits please email hackneyyoungarts@gmail.com for a discount code of %20 off all sessions. • Children attending full day sessions need to be collected by their parents/carers at 13 hrs until afternoon session start at 14:30. We do not look after children during this time. less
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| Week 1 | Mon 26th October 2026 - Fri 30th October 2026 |
Mini metal sculptures/fidgets - Workshops for SEND kids + teens at Farmyard Studio. (10 - 16yrs)
HFA Farmyard Studio
Led by artist and metal worker Izzy Lombardo. Design and make your own fidget toys from scrap metal. Mini sculptures with optional kinetic and ASMR components! Izzy Lombardo trained as an industrial designer and works around the world at art events and fabrication. Her workshop's vision is to e …morempower to create what participants see in their mind's eye and develop agency to alter their world through play. Getting kids to use tools to work with metal to create what they imagine. The results are brilliant kinetic and AMSR creations with a steampunk flair. less
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| Week 1 | Sun 1st November 2026 - Sun 1st November 2026 |
Hapa Zome, natural fabric printing. Workshops for SEND kids + teens at St. Mary's Secret Garden (8 - 16yrs)
St. Mary's Secret Garden
Led by artist Claudiu Oprea. Forage and make your own botanically printed t-shirts or tea towels. Japanese technique to transfer raw plant pigments into beautiful, bespoke patterns. Crafting a gorgeous botanical tea towel or an upcycled recycled t-shirt into a wearable work of art. Claudiu Oprea …more is a bioartist, permaculture educator, chef and bodyworker who has spent over a decade working across cultures and creative environments. Worked at Glastonbury Festival, kitchen gardens in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, outdoor edible classrooms in the jungles of Goa, and living ferments prepared for top end French restaurants. He founded The Edible Classroom project in Goa, India, and has since consulted on alternative education and outdoor learning projects across Asia, North America and Europe, Central to his practice is a belief that outdoor learning through connection to other bodies of nature and play can be as much if not more rich than classroom based learning. Foraging, gardening and cooking are inherently sensory and tactile, full of texture, smell, taste and touch. His workshop will involve foraging, natural dye printmaking and learning about plants, food and art. less
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| Week 1 | Sun 1st November 2026 - Sun 1st November 2026 |
Botanical Cyanotype Art - Workshops for SEND kids + teens at St. Mary's Secret Garden. Hoxton. (8 - 16yrs)
St. Mary's Secret Garden
Led by artist Kate Goodrich. Sensory based, forage and make beautiful botanical printmaking art. Outdoor activity – come rain or shine. Kate Goodrich is a multi-disciplinary artist working across abstracted mixed media paintings and collage. Goodrich uniquely grows the materials for her prac …moretice, which draws from a broad knowledge base of permaculture principles and sustainable methods of growing and preserving plant matter. She will be leading a Cyanotype printing workshop. Kids and teens will get a chance to connect with nature and create a cyanotype work in the grounds of Mary’s secret Gardens. They will forage natural materials to use to create unique and beautiful pieces. It’ll be a sensory based, botanical art practice and outdoor activity – come rain or shine. Children will be encouraged to experiment and play. There’ll be no right or wrong with this process. less
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| Week 1 | Sun 1st November 2026 - Sun 1st November 2026 |
