I Am ME is an exciting arts project for children in Goole. Funded by a Project Grant from Arts Council England This project runs from July - December 2025 and provides children with the opportunity to express themselves through creative writing and portraits.

In this exciting FREE workshop, we will be showing children how to be experimental and expressive in creating their own self portraits to show their identity. They will be shown lots of examples and guided in the selection and application of a wide range of art and design media. They will also particpate in short creative wiritng activities to help them explore their identify and personality through words. All work created will be featured in an art exhibition at Goole Art Gallery and Museum in December 2025!

This session is aimed at ages 5+ years. *This is an age guide for suitability purposes and older chidren are welcome.

We will be running several other FREE arts portrait workshops in the Goole area across the summer holidays and autumn half term, as well as some sessions in selected schools. Work will be collected by us at the end of each session, but we can take postal adrress details to return original artwork to you (at no cost to you) in January 2026. We know how much chidren love to show their work to friends and family, so all chidren will be given a mini photo of their work, printed and mounted in a display card to share and show.

Work will be exhibited at Goole gallery and museum in December 2025, we will also be holding a preview evening open to all participants and their friends/family - details to be provided at or after the event.

WE PROVIDE EVERYTHING YOU NEED

We provide a wide range of art materials to use for the session including equipment and paper. All you need to bring is yourselves! You might like to bring a light snack and a drink (strictly no nuts please). We also provide aprons/PPE as appropriate. The sessions will be led by Holly Capstick (Qualified Teacher and Artist) and Dr Rebecca Drake (Creative Wriitng Practitioner), and they will be guide children through all stages of creating their work.

DO PARENTS NEED TO STAY WITH THEIR CHILD?

Our organisation, Thread and Press CIC, has plentiful experience of running workshops for children. We are fully insured and ERMOS registered with Safeguarding policies and Risk Assessments in place. We ask that children under the age of 7 are supervised at all times be a responsible adult. Children older than 7 years can be dropped off and collected, providing you complete one of our emergency contact forms whilst booking. We asked that children are collected promptly. If they are making their own way home, please indicate this at the time of booking or let us know on the day.

CAN CHILDREN UNDER AGE 5 ATTEND?

This project is aimed at children aged 5 - 16 years. We understand that parents may need to bring younger siblings, but please notify us beforehand if you need to do this, as some spaces have strict limits to the number of people that can be accommodated. You can reach us at threadandpress@gmail.com

CAN CHILDREN ATTEND MORE THAN ONE SESSION AS PART OF THIS PROJECT?

As places are limited and session can be repeated, we suggest that you only book one session for your child. However, we may contact previous attendees if we have spaces available on other workshops.

CANCELLATION

These sessions are gratefully funded through Arts Council England. We can therefore oofer places for free, and we iften hold waiting lists. We kindly ask that if you book a session, but find yourself no longer able to attebd, wherever reasonably possible we ask that you contact us to cancel your pkace or let us know so that we can offer it to another child. Thans you for your support in makng htis project successful.

Registrations are closed

Art and Creative Writing Portrait Workshop - Ages 5+ years*