Seasons Workshops

Hello! Myself and a friend will be doing a series of children's animation workshops here in Milton Keynes during the February half term. There will be four sessions each themed as one of the seasons and the kids task will be to make up stories to depict that season in groups. The clips they produce will be edited together into a final, looped film and viewable at the themed exhibition due to run in March - April. If you'd be interested in booking some places, send me an email at suzeekent@googlemail.com and I'll send you the details.

This is looking to be a great project, spaces are limited though so be swift if you want a place and choice of season
xx

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I read a bit about Robert Seidel in a book on animating but never got round to watching the film til now, go find more here http://robertseidel.com/ or wander through the Experimental Animation website for other lovelies. I would love to try my hand at abstract animating but my head naturally wants to project a narrative onto what I create then analyze the heck out of the structure. Makes fluidity and spontaneity a little elusive.

Newslings

Winter Arts Fairs

The second Handmade and Vintage fair is coming up this November! I had a great time selling in the first one run in May. Milton Keynes is a little lacking of buzzing whimsical events and this was the first I went to in a while that had me genuinely excited to dig through fellow stall holders wears. Come see, it was heaving last time and this ones spreading to three floors worth of handmade and preloved ownables. Great for Christmas pre-planners and people with an itchy wallet.

Little Canary will also be setting up at the AGS Art and Craft Show in Aylesbury on the 20th of November. This is an annually run event, held in the Main Hall of Aylesbury Grammar School showcasing artworks and crafts from Buckinghamshire and beyond. It's a new one for us but tales of previous years have us eager to participate. Feather crossed. 

Spring Animation Workshops
I'm also really excited to say that a friend and I have recently secured funding to run animation workshops in Spring 2011. We've been searching for the means to do a project together for a while now and to finally have the support to collaborate is fantastic. We're planning it to be a variant of Pixilation -brilliantly exemplified through this lovely music vid

 

My co-conspirator Tara's experiences stem from self-directed dance and encouraging participants in her group sessions to explore their own choreography in a very free and fluid environment. Her film "Surface" is for me, a lovely demonstration of her exploritory means of expression.

Mixing our two minds together to animate other peoples energy has my toes tingling in excitement. Will have to see what our test films reap...