Portraits & Creative Writing Workshop - Ages 5+

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 using words and art. Children will be shown how to create a self portrait drawing using pencils, pens and pastels. They will also have the opportunity to explore their 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. Target age group is 5 - 10 years.

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.

IMPORTANT - these sessios are free, but places are limited, Please book if you have every intention of atteding. If you book and accnot attend, please let us know and we can offer the place to another child on the waiting list (email us at threadandpressgmail.com)

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. Children aged 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. Chidren aged under 7 years should be supervised by an accompanying adult.

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 as part of this projecr. However, we may contact previous attendees if we have spaces available on other workshops.​ Yo can register your interest for an addtional session by emailing us at threadandpress@gmail.com

CANCELLATION

These sessions are gratefully funded through Arts Council England. We can therefore offer 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.