Teacher CPD: Here is a Gale Warning
Tuesday 3 June, 5-7.30pm (doors at 4.45pm)
Join us at Kettle’s Yard for our next Teacher CPD where artist Anna Brownsted will explore our current exhibition and display, Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival and Mari Mahr: Lili Brik.
Kettle’s Yard teacher CPDs are suitable for teachers, teaching assistants and student teachers supporting students of all ages.
There will be light refreshments served during the evening.
Please note, we have a maximum of 4 attendees per school.
At this Teacher CPD, we will discover how artists in the exhibition have used a variety of materials and techniques to convey powerful statements through their artworks. Celebrating individual voice and empowerment, Anna will introduce ideas of how global political themes can be personal. Anna will explore how this can be relayed in your classroom, encouraging students to generate their own ideas and platform their voice through their artwork.
Anna will inspire you with starter activities to generate creativity and making amongst your students. This might include challenging conventions such as; do we have to use a pencil? What rules can we challenge through play?
We will use a variety of materials, such as paper, plastics, marker pens and more, to explore common stumbling-blocks for young people with layering, working through a process and finding potential outcomes.
Anna would like you to bring an A4 print out of a personal photograph that, for you, represents a ‘sense of power’. How can you encourage someone? What do you feel needs to change? How does this photo celebrate your voice?
Access
The Clore Learning Studio is fully accessible. It can be reached by stairs or by lift, select -1 in the lift. There is an accessible toilet in the basement beside the Learning Studio. There are more toilets and facilities on the ground and first floors.
During the event we will enter the gallery spaces. These spaces are fully accessible. Please let us know in advance if you have any specific access requirements and we can tailor the session to suit these.
What Teachers Are Saying
Hear from previous attendees of our Teacher CPD:
I love how practical these teacher CPD’s are – very inspiring and helps get the creative juices flowing.
Thank you – I have so many new ideas to take back to the school. I’ll be looking to increase ‘ways in’ to creativity and ‘soften’ the pressure students feel to perform to certain standards.
About the exhibition
Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival
This exhibition presents eight contemporary artists whose works offer vantage points on a world in perpetual crisis. Rather than representing specific political events, or taking singular positions, each artist in this exhibition explores broader conditions of domination and conflict, as well as horizons for survival.
About Mari Mahr: Lili Brik
Mari Mahr: Lili Brik
This display in the Research Space brings together photographic works made in 1982 by Kettle’s Yard collection artist Mari Mahr (b. 1941, Chile, lives and works in London) from her Lili Brik series. The series focuses on the Russian artist and author Lili Brik (1891-1978) who was part of the literary and artistic avant-garde in Russia from 1914, and to whom the revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky dedicated many of his works.
