Facilitating workshops
You can click on one of the links below to go to information on a specific workshop or scroll through the page to see the whole workshop list.
Create Your Own World
For this workshop participants create their own analogue photo collage of a particular ‘world’ using magazines, printed images
and coloured paper. This world could be a cityscape, landscape or beachscape or indeed a mixture of the three.
It could either be a totally imagined world or based on an actual location.
As part of this workshop I will give the participants a photo shop demonstration.
Which will include tips they can use when creating their photo collages.
For example how to create illusion of depth in their photo collages.
I facilitated this workshop at the following event:
Outside In Ambassadors Event
The ambassadors’ events are run as social events as well as participants taking part in the workshop.
Outside In works with artists who encounter significant barriers to the art world due to health, disability,
social circumstance, or isolation.
This workshop was run on line via Zoom.
To learn more about Outside In you can click here
‘A Sense of Place’ Photo Collage
This workshop naturally falls into 2 sections.
The first section of this mainly consists of the participants coming up with their idea for their photo collage
and sketching this down.
In the second section I give the participants a photo shop demonstration. Participants then create their photo collage.
This can either be created by cutting out and sticking down images or by using photo shop.
I facilitated this workshop at the following event :
Step Up Leading Workshops course
I ran this workshop as part of Step Up Leading Workshops course which I took part in and where I learned more about facilitating workshops.
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I also gained more experience in running workshops and creating workshops, especially making sure that everyone can fully take part in the workshop.
This workshop took place online via Zoom.
To learn more about step up leading workshops you can click here
Exploring visual language
In this workshop participants create their own visual sign in a similar style to road signs, using black and 2 other colours.
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I facilitated this workshop at the following event :
Step Up Leading Workshops course
I ran this workshop as part of Step Up Leading Workshops course which I took part in and where I learned more about facilitating workshops.
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I also gained more experience in running workshops and creating workshops, especially making sure that everyone can fully take part in the workshop.
This workshop took place online via Zoom.
To learn more about step up leading workshops you can click here
The Big Artistic Jigsaw
In this workshop the group create their own photo collage together.
After the photo collage is completed the group are encouraged to discuss the finished artwork.
I have facilitated this workshop at the following events :
Get Connected events
Get Connected events are lively networking events for people with disabilities and their families. Get Connected events are organised and run by Culture Shift.
This workshop was run in-person.
To learn more about Get Connected events you can click here
The Big Gig
The Big Gig was a drop-in event to celebrate the achievements of people with learning disabilities
and people working with them. And the event had a range of information stands as well as activities and performances. Attending the event were people with learning disabilities and their supporters.
This workshop was run in-person.
Photo Collage card
At the beginning of this workshop participants are given a PhotoShop demonstration focusing on how I create my artworks. Participants are then encouraged to create their own postcard sized photo collage. I encourage them to consider how they could layer up the images on their photo collage to help create their artwork.
I have facilitated this workshop at the following events :
Creative Café event
Creative Cafes are events where students are given the opportunity to talk to people from a range of different professions to find out what their jobs involve. Creative Cafes are organised and run by Culture Shift.
This Creative Café event took place at Saxon Mount School which caters for students with Special Educational Needs in particular students with autism and moderate learning difficulties.
This workshop was run in-person.
To learn more about Creative Cafe events you can click here
If you have any questions about any of my workshops or wish to ask about me facilitating a workshop then please feel free to contact me on joelrapps@gmail.com
I live and work near Hastings in East Sussex in the UK.
I am more than willing to consider facilitating on online workshops especially on Zoom as well as face-to-face workshops.