Schools Animation Project 2016
In June and July, five schools in Thanet started a journey…and created animation!
In 2016, Gulbenkian received funding from Artswork, the South East Bridge to work with cultural partners to deliver a series of storytelling, visual art/craft and animation workshops across all five schools in the Great Expectations Learning Alliance (GELA). This included St Mildred’s Infants School, Bromstone Primary, Garlinge Primary, Palm Bay Primary and Laleham Gap Primary.
Each Year 2 class worked with artists Vicki Oliver (Wide Eyed Theatre), Rob Turner (Animate Arts) and animator Elena Vitagliano to create stories around the theme of explorers and bring them to life through stop-motion animation.
Arts Award was also embedded into the programme, and ensured that all the children completed their Discover level qualification. There was also a twilight CPD session for teachers, senior management and cultural practitioners to have a go at creating their own animation! The finished films were screened at a special event at Gulbenkian cinema on Wednesday 20th July. The short animation films are now being used by Gulbenkian as trailers for ongoing screenings in the cinema! They’re also available on Gulbenkian’s YouTube channel, in a playlist.