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FREE CREATIVE COURSES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 13 – 19 (25 WITH DISABILITY)
The project starts on Saturday 14th March with an introductory day with weekly sessions following from March – June 2009

Through participating in this project, you’ll also be able to complete a Bronze Level Arts Award and also get involved with an exciting event to mark the end of the whole project, happening on Newington Green in June.

Remember… anyone can take part. It doesn’t matter where you live or whether you’ve been involved with the Autumn courses.
They are all slightly different to last time so we’d love to have you back!
Booking can be done online through www.newingtongreen-nowandthen.org.uk
If you require any further details please do not hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to seeing you on the course

1 comment February 23, 2009

Magazine ProdUction

Visit to the women’s library The Women’s Library is a cultural centre housing the most extensive collection of women’s history in the UK. One thing that I found very interesting about the museum was that people that visited the museum were females and males. I thought only women would be allowed in a ‘Women’s library’. When we visited the women’s library there was a exhibition of the history of magazines published by women/aimed at women. The taste of women throughout the years changed and thus the contents and designs of the magazines also changed.

By Nila Said

Add comment January 28, 2009

Magazine ProDuction

Our Trip To:

Islington Museum

And

Local History Centre

On the 27 of November, the 5^th week into the course, our group “Magazine Design and production” went to Islington local history museum and then finally the Local History museum.

The Islington Museum is a really nice small museum it hade a lot of useful and interesting information about how times have chanced in Islington, which I found short and to the point as our tour guide told us they also wonted to make interesting for the youth of today. The museum including a tour guide which I talked about above, she was very helpful as she shorten a lot of things down to keep us interested.

One thing I really like about the museum is that it was interactive. They hade old fashion cloths and real life kitchens of the olden days which was open to us the public, so we got a really fill into the life’s of our assisters who lived in Islington and walked the streets of Islington in what was the latest threads.

We also heard about amazing stories of the people who lived in Islington for example a man draw on the back pages of the library books for almost to years.

The Islington museum hade another section to it, which hade back dates of early poster design which was mainly plain but yet they where detailed and simple design, to today current mad and explosive poster design. I found this part of the museum to be the most interesting for me because it really shows how technologic has changed through the design world from man made canvases to produce posters to the same amount of work load through the simple click of a mouse.

After this we went to the Local History Museum which was not as delightful as the Islington Museum which was below it. It was just like an ordinary library for me but they hade just persevered a substantial amount of things to call themselves a museum e.g. Some old quilts (writing materials) and really old newspapers.

By Obinna Uzoukwu

Add comment January 27, 2009