30 places available

Event description

PLAY Live sessions have been developed in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as a way to take the Whitworth’s Early Years programme online and into people’s homes.

Using Zoom we invited children under 5 and their grown ups to come together to play, be curious and be creative with simple, everyday things that surround them in their homes.

Join the PLAY Live team (Lucy Turner, Early Years Producer & Annabel Newfield, Creative Practitioner) to experience a virtual play session first hand, hear what they have learnt from their experience so far and have your chance to ask questions.

Details of the Event hosts

Lucy Turner has worked at the Whitworth since 2012 and in that time has built up an award winning programme of activity for under 5s and their parents/ carers.

Annabel Newfield is an early years developmental movement play practitioner and has worked as a freelance creative practitioner on the early years programme at the Whitworth for 10 years.

Engage Spring Training Programme

Engage is delighted to announce a programme of workshops and short courses which will run throughout February and March to provide training and skills development for those working in the gallery and visual arts education sector across the UK.

The programme will support colleagues in the sector to develop their understanding and skills in relation to issues which have become more urgent because of recent challenges, particularly since the pandemic, including mental health and wellbeing, the climate emergency, and supporting creative practitioners. Additionally a range of sessions will support colleagues to work in the online environment through the development of skills in digital facilitation, facilitating play online, and digital drawing, amongst other topics.

Engage has received generous support through the Cultural Recovery Fund administered by Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation for core costs and sector support. As a result, we are able to offer funded places on our workshops and courses to those in England, supported through the Cultural Recovery Fund. We are able to offer free places to those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Sessions are suitable for colleagues who are employees, freelance, currently furloughed and unemployed. Engage members can take advantage of priority booking. Remaining places will be opened to bookings for others working in the sector.