STORIES

We have always lived amidst stories whether they are told to us, we read them or we watch a performance of them.We have our own stories and we are intricately connected and part of other people's stories.
In the workshops we use stories as a starting point, something to respond to on a personal and poetic level. We are not trying to illustrate them or even retell them (though this might happen as a bonus) but more trying to get inside the story. We will use all sorts of types of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Greek plays, fairy tales, myths, and more contemporary and perhaps even true stories.
In my own work I have made art using 'Who Killed Cock Robin?', 'Baba Yaga' and 'Little Red Riding Hood'.

(image from 'who killed cock robin?')

METAMORPHOSES February 14th

SATURDAY 14TH FEBRUARY, PHOENIX ARTS CENTRE, BRIGHTON 10.30am-5.30pm
Led by Tony Gammidge (Artist, Filmmaker and Art Therapist)

A workshop for Arts Therapists to make work in response to an extract from Ovid’s Metamorphoses using a multi media approach including video, animation, puppets, drawings, sound, music, light projections, installation, artist books etc. in a studio setting.

You do not need any prior experience or knowledge of digital or multi media techniques. It is a day of experimentation, stories, invention, collaboration and inspiration to explore how the use of stories and multi media art making can impact on our clinical work.

£45 self funded, £80 employer funded, £40 trainee/unemployed.
CPD certificate provided, book early as strictly limited to 12 places. Send deposit of £15 to Tony Gammidge, 22 Compton Avenue, Brighton, BN1 3PN . If employer funded send your deposit which will then be reimbursed when funding comes through.
Enquiries email tonygammidge@talktalk.net

WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN

This is a showreel of extracts of animated video done by children (!0-14 year olds) on the Pupil Enrichment Program West Sussex County Council. Among the stories we worked on were Hansel and Gretel, Harry Potter and Little Red Riding Hood.