- THE OTHER SCHOOL OF IDEAS ART MAKING
- THE OTHER SCHOOL OF IDEAS ART MAKING
The Other School of I.A.M provides short courses, events and talks and seeks to provide space to think, learn and become. To create no matter what level of experience you have. To build confidence and skills through making and experimentation, training and resources. Connecting the dots and creating connections between multi-disciplinary art forms, fashion and design, thought and ethics.
The Other School of I.A.M is a queer and trans lead organisation that prioritises inclusion, knowledge expansion and creative approaches to alternative education, training and thinking.
Inclusion means that everyone (all gender expressions, sex, sexuality, race, class and people marginalised by society) who shares the same beliefs and values is welcome and access is a priority to the organisation.
To participate as an educator, facilitator, student or user it is essential that you hold the shared beliefs of challenging, interrogating and working towards ending
Homophobia - Transphobia - Systemic Racism and Racism - Ableism - Agism
WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP
Enter + Approach a Creative Project.
About the workshop:
This workshop takes you through some simple steps to begin approaching a project, building on your existing thoughts and ideas, using relationships between words and meanings. Experiment with mind maps, symbols and collage as a way to quickly stimulate the ideas process to produce valuable material for your ideas and projects further along the process. Whether you are beginning, entering, or stuck on an idea, this workshop helps you with approaching your project.
Duration: 1.5 hours (one and a half hours)
Date: Monday October 9th
Venue: The Margate School
Time: 7pm - 8.30pm
Cost: Free or pay what you can
What you will need: 10 sheets of paper or sketch book, masking or sellotape.
Accessibility and useful information:
Workshop is upstairs on the 1st floor
Unfortunately there is no wheelchair access to upstairs.
Disabled toilet facilities
Gender neutral toilet facilities
Workshops will be delivered in person
There is no BSL interpreter for this short course
Most of the workshop will be seated but standing is optional and moving around is welcomed.
There is no food supplied but there is a basic cafe at The Margate School for hot drinks.
The Margate School will be cooling down by these dates, there are heaters but wear extra layers.
WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP
The Exquisite Queer at WALLOP
About the workshop:
This workshop is for the LGBTQIA+ community.
In this workshop we will use the surrealist parlour game The Exquisite Corpse, also known as Consequences as a framework to celebrate and affirm the diverse identities of queer people as a social practice.
Thinking and talking about gender, sexuality, style, coding, protest, friendship and care.
Participants will collectively create drawings of imagined Exquisite Queer characters, to become designs for t-shirts which will raise money for a LGBTQIA+ charity. The charity will be chosen collectively by participants at the workshop.
Duration: 1.5 hours (one and a half hours)
Date: Monday December 11th
Venue: Wallop Pop Up at 231 Northdown Rd
Time: 6pm - 7.30pm
Cost: Free or pay what you can (money raised will go towards printing costs of t-shirts)
What you will need: Materials supplied
Accessibility and useful information:
Workshop is upstairs on the ground floor
No disabled toilet facilities
Gender neutral toilet facilities
Workshops will be delivered in person
There is no BSL interpreter for this workshop
Most of the workshop will be seated but standing is optional and moving around is welcomed.
The space might be cold so please bring enough clothes to stay warm.
Food and drink can be bought into the space.
- SHORT COURSE
- SHORT COURSE
Course Information
Duration: 4 Workshops over 5 weeks. Please note that workshops must be paid for and fully attended in order from one to four. Even though you have to buy the tickets separately.
Size: Ten places
Tutor: Lo Lo No
Dates + venues: Postponed until February - watch this space!
Monday 7.00-9.00pm @ The Margate School
Monday 7.00-9.00pm @ The Margate School
Monday 7.00-9.00pm @ The Margate School
Monday 7.00-9.00pm @ The Tom Thumb Theatre
Accessibility and useful information:
Workshop is on the ground floor
Wheelchair access and disabled toilet facilIties
Workshops will be delivered in person
There is no BSL interpreter for this short course
Most of the workshop will be seated but standing is optional and moving around is welcomed.
There is no food supplied but there is a basic cafe at The Margate School for hot drinks.
The Margate School will be cooling down by these dates, there are heaters but wear extra layers.
Cost: £200 which includes some of the materials needed for the workshops.
Schedule:
Workshop 1: Monday 9th October, 7.00-9.00pm @ The Margate School
Introduction to the brief
Working with text and collage
Life drawing
Workshop 2: Monday 16th October, 7.00-9.00pm @ The Margate School
Collage + composition
Self portraits
3.D illustrations with wire
Workshop 3: Monday 20th October, 7.00-9.00pm @ The Margate School
Buckram workshop
Creating 3d wearable art
Workshop 4: Monday 6th November, 7.00-9.00pm @ The Tom Thumb Theatre
Photo shoot
About the course:
Brain to Frame has been designed as a portfolio project with a research brief that will invite you to think about and challenge ideas of beauty and investigate the concept of ‘the artist's gaze’ as you develop or build on your own lens and point of view as a creative person.
You will be mentored over four two hour long workshops, working through the process of conceptulising ideas, experimenting with research and development methods within a sketch book, exploring using text, collage, life drawing and wire sculpture to inform the creation of a wearable piece of art by learning and using traditional hat making methods.
Through these processes you will learn about research techniques, composition, design, visual language and practical skills to develop your ideas from Brain to Frame as you build towards storyboarding and creating a photographic portrait, modelling the wearable piece of art in a setting and composition informed by your research and experimentation.
By the end of the course you will have begun a sketchbook, a scultpure/wearable art object and a photographic portrait.