MATARIKI POI
Age Range: NE +
Time: 3 hours (including a 20-minute break)
Capacity: Min 23 - Max 60 students 
$9.50 plus GST per student

Looking into tikanga (customs) and whakapapa (genealogy), students will take inspiration from a star in the Matariki cluster and create a design, using foam board to print onto fabric and cover their poi ball. Assembling their poi they will plait their taura (cord) and create the hukahuka (tassel) to attach to the end. To finish, everyone will learn some basic poi movements and have a go at Maori Poi together. 


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Age Range:  YNE+
Time: 3 hours (including 20 min break )
Capacity: Min. 23 - Max. 60 students
Fee: $10.50 plus GST per student
A Matariki workshop focusing on the birds and berries of Tupuārangi. The workshop will include a Matariki storytelling experience, large pastel drawing of a chosen manu (bird)  and its berry source, and whenua paint for the night sky.
In this workshop students will learn about the Matariki constellation, focusing on Tupuārangi – the star that is associated with food that comes from the sky, primarily fruits and berries and the birds that feed upon them.  They will each create a vibrant caran-d'ache pastel drawing of a manu sitting amongst its native berry food source. They will finish by learning about whenua paint (natural clay pigments) and will use it to reveal the Matariki night sky around their manu.



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AN ECLIPSE OF FELTED MOTHS
Age Range: YNE -Y6
Time: 3 hours (including 20 min break ) 
Capacity: Min. 23 - Max. 60 students
Fee: $9.50 plus GST per student

Create a class collection of felted moth specimens. Inspired by the aesthetic and scientific observation of insect collection and teaching practical sustainable hand-making techniques from the past for the future. In this hands-on workshop, each child will create a unique felted moth through close observation of our native moth and butterfly species.
Students will get their hands to work on woollen fibres to experience the age-old technique of wet felting. Embellishments will be added through stitching, keeping the whole process sustainable and adding to the practical skills acquired. This workshop is inspired and informed by the beautiful 3D moth installation work of New Zealand artist Elizabeth Thomson.
Together students can create a class collection of moth and butterfly specimens, ‘an eclipse of felted moths’ to be displayed on the classroom wall.



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Bamboo Landscapes and the art of Stanley Palmer

Age Range: Y4-Y8
Time: 3 hours (including 20 min break ) 
Capacity: Min. 23 - Max. 60 students
Fee: $9.50 plus GST per student

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How Trees Talk
Age Range:  YNE +
Time: 3 hours (including 20 min break )
Capacity: Min. 23 - Max. 60 students
Fee: $9.50 plus GST per student
Explore the complex systems of trees, how they breathe,  eat and drink, and communicate. Discover what lives in and on them and what other plants and microorganisms they live in balance and cooperation with. Choosing from the giant natives of our ngahere students will each create a large-scale A1 artwork. Working on the floor we will work through a variety of processes, including applying ink and dye, creating a leaf stamp as well as collage and painting with natural whenua paints and watercolour. All combining to create a wonderous large tree ecosystem with a little bit of magic thrown in.



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CERAMIC STUDIO - Monsterous Tiles
Age Range: YNE-Y2
Time: 2.5 hours
Capacity: Min. 23 students - Max. 60 Students
Fee: $15.50 plus GST per student
Monsters are the theme of this clay session. What weird and wacky monsters can students imagine and then shape their clay into? Students will explore a variety of clay techniques to decorate and add 3D relief. This lesson is designed to give younger students the chance to create a structurally successful piece while still offering them a wide range of clay skills to practice. Most of the lesson is about using your hands to shape the clay and offers a very tactile and grounding experience for children.

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CERAMIC STUDIO - CLAY MONSTER CREW
Age Range: Y3-8
Time: 3 hours
Capacity: Min. 23 students - Max. 60 Students
Fee: $15.50 plus GST per student
What would happen if you combined the ears of a horse with the scales of a fish? Maybe add a spotty tongue and bloodshot eyes? Students will be inspired to create the most original clay monster that their imaginations can conceive. Beginning with a classic clay technique of pinch pot construction, then through exploration of various shaping and decorating techniques they will turn their clay pot into something scarily special. A great introduction to clay, teaching the full process from soft clay to a fired and glazed artwork.


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CREATIVE KETE 
Corban Estate Arts Centre’s Education team offers a creative solution to support the use of arts practice in learning. Creative Kete is a video series developed to provide the delivery of art workshops to schools and home learning environments,  We can provide all materials to run a workshop in your own classroom and for home-based students. Pre-session support with our tutors is available.
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Creative Kete retains the fundamentals of our Schools Education kaupapa, which is to help guide students through a process that allows them the freedom to make their own creative decisions while introducing new learning pathways into the process of artmaking. 
Te Ao Maori is regularly acknowledged at the centre of our workshop development, which often incorporates indigenous technologies and craft techniques, atua, and other storytelling elements to explore aspects of NZ national and local history, culture and identity, in line with the New Zealand Education curriculum. 

FEEDBACK for the Creative Kete #1 Re-imagining the Landscape: 
"I just LOVE what you have done with your Creative Kete! My over-arching topic for this term is Turangawaewae, so this landscape painting will fit in beautifully.
 What do I love?
I love that you incorporate moving images/song/te reo.
The introduction to three contemporary artists.
Vocabulary used - close up and far away/ drips of globby paint/ looking far away into the hills.
Your titles for each section - Colour Map/ Mark Activation/ Finding Your Imaginary Landscape.
You made me laugh out loud as you lay in different positions looking at your artwork - tamariki will love this!
The sharing of the different art educator's pieces - like every one in our class will be different.
 This video will certainly inspire those not so comfortable in the teaching of painting, but also inspire those with an imbedded love in this medium! (Like me!!) "
MORE FEEDBACK: 
What did you find most successful about this method of teaching?

"Teacher professional development means I can take this lesson again with confidence. The step by step approach for the children Video lessons showing the process gave clear examples for the children."
Were there any challenges for you with this method of teaching?

"None at all- highly successful. I would love to do it again with the same children as I think they would make some significant changes the second time around"
more about Creative Kete

Contact megan@ceac.org.nz 
 

MOLLY TIMMINS
Arts Educator
Whaea Molly is a practising artist specialising in painting and embroidery. She loves all types of art and is especially passionate about bringing creativity to the community.