CALLING 18 - 25 year olds!
Do you want to join our team of creative young people to work on animation projects and attend our workshops in Folkestone?
These workshops are designed to support young adults with social communication difficulties, anxiety conditions and difficulties with social engagement, such as those with ASC and related conditions.
Six-session course Venue: The Glassworks, Mill Bay, Folkestone CT20 1JG Course Dates: Wednesday 18th Sept Wednesday 2nd Oct Wednesday 16th Oct Wednesday 6th Nov Wednesday 20th Nov Wednesday 4th Dec Time: 10 am - 12 pm We provide all the equipment and resources to work on animation projects with support from animators, creative practitioners and learning support assistants. We invite a professional animator, filmmaker, sound artist, illustrator, model maker or artist to each session, and they will advise you on your work and chat about opportunities in the creative industries. This is a free course and has very limited spaces. If you'd like to apply, please register your interest below, and we will get back to you with more details. If you have difficulties with forms or would like to talk about the course with a member of our team, you can call, text or WhatsApp Lydia on: 07930357546.Read More
Autumn 2024 Saturday Club Dates:
14th September
28th September
12th October
26th October
9th November
23rd November
SATURDAY CLUBS
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SATURDAY MORNING CLUB
Group A: Ages 8 - 11 10am -11:30am
Group B: Ages 12+ 11:45am - 1:15pm
SATURDAY AFTERNOON CLUB
We run the same six-session course in the afternoon. This club is designed specifically for children and young people with social communication difficulties, anxiety conditions and difficulties with social engagement such as those with ASC and related conditions.
The Trial Of Jack Frost
Films by our Saturday Club animators: Autumn Term 2024. A collaboration with the wonderful young performers at NEON after school club.
Pigeon Problem!
A film by our Saturday Club animators: Summer term 2023.
Folkestone Living Advent Calendar
Stop motion films created for our project 'CHAOS!'screened at Chaos Cards
The Plimsol Line
We have loads of amazing films in post production and nearly ready to present later this year as part of our celebration of incredible Folkestonians!
Your Mind's Eye
Schools workshops inspired by the amazing books by Folkestone Book Festival's guest author Katherine Rundell.
Watch our award winning animation 'Talking About Alopecia', made in 2020 as part of a wonderful collaboration with Alopecia UK.
Wanted: Ruthless rascals with cunning minds and strong stomachs.
Come and explore the gruesome worlds of the Brothers Grimm and bring your stories to life in our spectacular animation celebration of all things Grimm.
Canterbury Library
Book Beasts
Folkestone Artworks
Kent Bee Campaign
Block 67 Saturday Club
Watch your BIG DRAW films from our free Young Animators Club Workshops
Enter our competitions and win some amazing prizes
Folkestone Harbour Arm Plastic Pollution Animation
https://www.facebook.com/events/295157297748992/ #plasticfreecommunity Animation by children from the #folkestonefringe #harbourarm Harbour Screen Film Festival #animationmatters Young Animators Club
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Folkestone Harbour Arm: Harbour Screen Film Festival
ANIMATION MATTERS
Eurotunnel Commission
This film was made by out Saturday Club members at Block 67.
They were given a real commission by Eurotunnel, the film was screened at Silver Screen Cinema in Folkestone and has been used by Eurotunnel as part of their marketing and education campaign which is celebrating 25 years since the opening of the tunnel.
The Town Hall, 1-2 Guildhall Street, Folkestone, CT20 1DY
Time: 9am - 3pm
Bring a packed lunch
Snacks provided
SUMMER HOLIDAY CLUB 2018: METAMORPHOSIS
This Summer Young Animators Club are at Folkestone Museum again and we are will be creating Monstrous Morphs, Enchanting Evolutions, Transfixing Transmutations and Animated Alterations. Suitable for ages 8+
6th August: Illustration, Character Design & Book-making
Join our Illustrator Emily Martin and create Mythical books and Metamorphosing creatures.
13th August: 2D Animation
Mutate and morph with Lydia and take your drawings on shape-shifting journeys.
14th August: 3D Stop Motion
Get stuck-in to some animated, evolving 3D models and sculptures.
£24 per session
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Our Stour teamed up with Young Animators and The Riverside Centre in Ashford for this really special free family activity...
We are now taking Saturday Morning Club bookings for a new six-session course starting in September 2018
The course funded by the Creative Foundation and held at Block 67. Suitable for ages 8+
FREE
We also run a Saturday Afternoon club specifically for children and young people social communication difficulties, anxiety conditions and difficulties with social engagement such as those with ASD and related conditions.
To book a place on the Saturday Afternoon course, contact Lydia: lydia@younganimatorsclub.com (01303 680248)
Course Dates:
15th September
29th September
13th October
27th October
10th November
1st December
TIME
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Seaglass Animation Family Drop-in Workshop 11th April 2018
Plastic Pollution Family Drop-in Workshop 25th March 2018
SAFETY IN ACTION: Shepway Event 2018
Young Animators Club spent the week at the Three Hills Sports Park in Folkestone working with over 569 year-6 children as part of the SALUS 'Safety In Action' event.
The children worked in teams on this project for 'Children's Mental Health Week'.
Through designing characters in groups, we celebrated all the things which make us individual and unique. The children's characters needed to adopt characteristics and personality traits from all the members of their team. We talked about skills, likes, dislikes, beliefs favourite subject and hobbies, passions, anxieties and friendships.
Children's Mental Health Week 2018 is an initiative from Place2Be www.place2be.org.uk and this year the theme is #BeingOurselves There are some great school resources here: https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/schools-and-youth-groups/
... and some for parents and carers too: https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/parents-and-carers/
Thanks to the SALUS 'Safety In Action' event in Shepway, we were able to work with all these fantastic children in one week.
Thank you to all the Schools, staff, pupils and volunteers involved in this fantastic project.
ABOUT US
Young Animators Club is a non-profit, Community Interest Company working with children and young people throughout Kent.
We deliver Animation Workshops in Schools, Youth Clubs, Community Groups, Art Festivals and Children's Parties.
Our engaging, interactive sessions are tailored to any setting, age, interests and ambitions. As a Community Interest Company ALL profits made from delivering privately funded workshops and parties goes back into our community projects.
We are proud to be associated with Folkestone's Creative Foundation, Shepway Autism Support Group, Kent Libraries and numerous schools, children's centres and colleges around Kent.
WE DO...
- Stop-motion Animation
- Puppet & set building
- Large-scale group cut-out animation
- Character Design
- Storyboarding
- Hand-drawn Animation
- Script writing
- Sound design
WE WORK WITH...
- Primary and Secondary Schools
- FE colleges
- Youth Organisations
- Festivals
- Children's Centres
- Arts Centres and Community Groups
- After School Clubs
- Holiday Clubs
- Children's Parties
Animation in Schools
Young Animators offer enrichment workshops, themed projects and PPA cover for schools in Kent. We promote cross-curricular, creative, collaborative idea development and encourage pupils to problem solve and learn through trial and error. We work closely with teaching staff to design projects which enhance existing topics, subjects and themes.
We can animate scientific diagrams or mathematical patterns, recreate scenes from history or respond to a piece of music or text. The finished animations, along with supporting resources, will be accessible on your school’s own page on the Young Animators website.
Why Teach Children to Animate?
We don't. We help them figure it out for themselves. Making animated films is about problem solving, logic, communication and learning through play.
Our aim is to build confidence through experimenting and collaborating in challenging projects which require young people to apply existing knowledge and skills and encourage creative thinking.
