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Summer 2024 Saturday Club Dates:

20th April
4th May
18th May
8th June
22nd June
13th July

SATURDAY MORNING CLUB

6-Session Course held fortnightly at Block 67 Tontine Street.

Group A: Ages 8 - 10 10am -11:30am

Group B: Ages 11+ 11:45am - 1:15pm

We work on different project each term including professional commissions from local companies. We have a guest professional artist, animator, illustrator, graphic designer, filmmaker or musician at every session.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON CLUB

We are also 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 ASD and related conditions.

PLEASE NOTE NEW TIMES:

Group C: Ages 8 - 11 2:15pm - 3:15pm

Group D: Ages 12+ 3:30pm - 5:00

These sessions are heavily subsidised to allow for us to work with very small groups of children and young people. The content will be the same as the larger groups but we can work closely with children and parents or carers to provide an environment where our members can feel relaxed and confident to try new things. We believe that this club has the potential to improve social engagement, self-esteem as well as providing fun projects and activities with professional artists and filmmakers.

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For more information on other Block 67 events contact:

taniamccormack@creativefolkestone.org.uk

Session 1

Watch some of our films as they progress. More will be uploaded soon, plus our final edit.

Session 1

Watch our 3D puppet animation exercises...

SUMMER 2019

Session 1

Inspired by Cristina Iglesias' intervention in Martello 4 'Towards the Sound of Wilderness, 2011'

This artwork explores the idea of an entrance into another world. Iglesias has created a corridor, leading into the overgrown Martello tower, inaccessible for many years, the tower feels like a forgotten, secret world.

Our Young Animators created their own worlds with paints, pens, cut-outs and paper and then photographed them using a 360º camera. To complete the immersive experience, they stepped inside their worlds using a Virtual Reality headset.

You can view their incredible worlds either in your browser or on a VR headset. 

SPRING 2019

One dark night five years ago
when the Harbour Arm was covered in snow
Countess Cora was stolen away
missed by her sister every day.

So Duchess Delilah built a fine boat
of junk, scrap and clockwork in hope it would float
and so she set sail on the good KF-Sea
to bring back her sister wherever she be.

The day was cold but the sea was calm
as the ship sailed from Folkestone’s arm
Duchess Delilah and her faithful friend Waddles
knew nothing yet of the voyage’s troubles

“Wait! Wait!” Cried a voice, a voice from sea
said the Lobster Loberto “Is there room for me?”
“Please let me aboard the good KF-Sea.”
Now Delilah’s crew amounted to three.

They sailed through day and came upon night
Cried Captain Deliah “This ship needs a light”
Just then a star shot through the dark sky
She said “I’ll be the light that you can steer by”

Captain Delilah cried “Follow that star!
I must find you sister wherever you are”
Loberto’s quest was to find the treasure
they hoped that both were safe together

As the ship sailed on, the unknown ahead
monstrous waves rose from a coloured sea bed
a giant hand from the bubbling sea
dragged down the crew and the poor KF-Sea

Down in the depths on the dark ocean floor
Star shone a light to reveal a door
it was guarded by beasts who lurked in the sand
and played catchy tunes in the Octopus band.

As the band danced and played
the crew snuck away
with Waddle’s magic key
through the door they were free.

Into a world of metal and rust,
poisonous trees and bright plastic dust,
robotic creatures hungry for junk
our crew needed to do a quick bunk

The KF-sea sailed full speed ahead
“Where now Delilah?” Loberto said
but their Captain was watching a small dancing dot
it was growing and growing and growing a lot!

“Feed it or it will eat us!
Feed it or it will defeat us!”
“It is eating everything we throw
but the more it eats the bigger it will grow!”

“Look at that! How fantastic”
“feed the black hole plants not plastic”
“It's shrinking, shrinking, now it’s disappeared”
“but this plastic ocean should be feared”

They sped past the island of evil hounds
hands over ears to to shut out the sounds
Loberto’s mind on treasure; the precious stone,
he stoked the engines full speed away from home

Suddenly they spotted the truly welcome sight
of Turtle Island, green and bright.
But the seas grew stormy
and prospects were gory

“Answer my riddle” an eyeball cried
“for Cora, the stone and your light inside.
The human torch shows the way
to find all that has gone astray”

And with that eyeball splashed away
into the stormy seas of Turtle Bay
“SOS the ship is wrecked
cried Delilah from the deck”

Suddenly, there on the turtle’s shell
Jack Copper waves his arms an yells
“This seed will help you on your quest
from here follow the Turtle west”

Our heroes watched as a giant grew
from the seed that Cooper threw
Inseedious the giant, despite his scale
gently fixed the vessel’s sail.

His thorny limbs took crew and boat
and kindly set them back afloat.
Then west they headed towards dark skies
questioning if it was really wise.

The sea was rough, the crew grew afraid
sighed the star “Alas, my powers fade”
and then came sight that everyone feared
The roaring Skull Crusher fleet appeared.

Armed with grappling hooks and spikes
this army were truly here to fight.
The KF-Sea, she then took flight,
flung by waves and out of sight.

The storm, it tossed the ship and crew
out of danger to somewhere new.
A place where the horizon meets the sky,
a house in the clouds way up high.

Out of the house appeared a figure,
his face was bright, it’s beam grew bigger.
As foretold by the eyeball’s rhyme,
the human torch was just in time.

Our trusty crew followed the beam
to the Harbour Arm where, like a dream
stood Countess Cora, back at home,
holding the treasure, the precious Folke-stone.

AUTUMN - WINTER 2018

The team grill Cllr Martin Whybrow for campaigning tips.

KM Folkestone & Hythe Express, Wednesday October 31 2018

Kent Pollinator Campaign

We are launching our new campaign project this month with our members in Folkestone; campaigning to reverse the decline of pollinators along the Kent coastline. Young people ages 8 to 18 will be voicing this campaign through animated films created at free workshops funded by the Creative Foundation. This term we will be producing animated films to help spread the word to communities, businesses and councils to protect and create pollinator-friendly habitats, managing council-owned land and land belonging to local businesses to benefit bees and other pollinators.

The animation workshops will educate and empower the participants to increase support for the 'Pollinator Action Plan' and the films will be delivered through social media and at a campaign event at the Quarterhouse in Folkestone. 

Logo Design Workshop

SPRING - SUMMER 2018

The club is suitable for children ages 8+ and is held fortnightly on Saturdays from 10am – 12pm. This workshop is free but booking is essential due to limited capacity. Maximum of 6 children per booking.

Eurotunnel Commission

We were very excited to be working with Eurotunnel in the Spring term of 2018 on a real commission. For this Live Brief our members worked for the Marketing Department who, as their client, had provided a brief for a promotional animation. The children and young people enrolled on our Saturday Club course worked on the film over six sessions with the help of some talented professionals.

We also have some filmmakers from The Edge filming a documentary about the project.