On 14 October 1066 the path of English and European history was irrevocably changed. Two cultures collided - Anglo-Saxon and Norman - with a legacy that echoes through to the present day. To mark the 950th Anniversary of the most famous date in English history cultural organisations in Hastings and Rother are gearing up with some new and exciting offers. For an overview of all the events on offer please see the 1066Country website which includes listings of celebratory events happening at Battle Abbey. "Join us in commemorating the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings – the most famous battle in English history. Throughout 2016 we’re putting on events across England where you can find out what life was like in 1066, and learn to fight like a Norman or Saxon." English Heritage.
Hastings Borough Council has commissioned the ROOT 1066 International Festival; a contemporary, multi art form festival, that will take place in September/October 2016. Alongside the curated programme, HRAEN has funded artists to produce work that will act as an inspirational starting point for schools across Hastings and Rother to respond to the celebration. These downloadable toolkits have been additionally supported by Rother District Council and the East Sussex Arts Partnership.
Thanks to everyone who responded and to those artists thank you for your time and interest in the project and we hope we will be able to work with you in the future.
Hastings Borough Council has commissioned the ROOT 1066 International Festival; a contemporary, multi art form festival, that will take place in September/October 2016. Alongside the curated programme, HRAEN has funded artists to produce work that will act as an inspirational starting point for schools across Hastings and Rother to respond to the celebration. These downloadable toolkits have been additionally supported by Rother District Council and the East Sussex Arts Partnership.
Thanks to everyone who responded and to those artists thank you for your time and interest in the project and we hope we will be able to work with you in the future.
PROJECT: BAYEUX TAPESTRY BOOKWORK
BY LEE SHEARMAN An original 50 foot long accordion folded collaged bookwork inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry by Lee Shearman. To stimulate new artistic response to the imagery, themes and history of the Bayeux tapestry.
Pupils will be able to create their own individual accordion-fold collaged books, collaborate as a class by joining their pages together into a longer bookwork- or even an entire school. Using the Bayeux Tapestry as source material children can interpret the artwork in their own way using collage and abstract art technique. FILM ONE: MAKING AN ACCORDION BOOK
The 3 minute film below shows the processes involved in making the collaged pages of the accordion bookwork inspired by The Bayeux Tapestry. FILM TWO: PROJECT IN ACTION / MAKING AN ACCORDION BOOK
The 3 minute film below shows pupils from Salehurst School working on their accordion book pages. Each pupil worked on a single section of folded paper using a photocopy of the Bayeaux Tapestry as inspiration. The pages were then joined together to form a single book. LEE SHEARMAN
Lee Shearman is an arts educator, freelance illustrator and designer based in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. He is co-founder and partner of the art collective Borbonesa and runs the small-press publishing platform Micro Library Books.
He has run a number of art education workshops focussing on the art of bookmaking, animation and design He is artist-in-residence for ROOT 1066 International Festival. His Bayeux Tapestry Bookwork celebrates the ROOT 1066 International Festival by making promoting bookmaking, and art encouraging pupils to interpret the visual elements in their own personal bookworks, and collaborate as a class or school to make long accordion-folded bookworks for exhibition. |
PROJECT : CHANNELLING WORDS
BY STEVE TASANE The Channelling Words celebrates Root 1066 by making poetry easy and fun. Using the toolkit as a springboard, pupils will be invited to make a live performance of their poems, backdropped by their visual displays, with the additional choice of a poetry competition known as a Poetry Slam or Rap Battle.
Ten poems in ten poetic styles for schools, inspired by the 1066 Battle of Hastings by Steve Tasane. To stimulate discussion, poetry and performance from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 3 Schools will be able to create visual displays using these or their own sourced images (or pupils’ own drawings) accompanied by their sequence of pupils’ poems. Using this guide as a springboard, pupils will be invited to make a live performance of their poems, backdropped by their visual displays, with the additional choice of a poetry competition known as a Poetry Slam or Rap Battle. You can also hear the poems on YouTube. The ten poems are split into these two separate films:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVqbucJijIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPiOZObZraM FILM PART ONE
FILM PART TWO
STEVE TASANE
Steve Tasane’s first novel, Blood Donors, (2013), was included in the Diverse Voices list of the 50 best children’s books for cultural diversity from 1950 to the present; it was in Joseph Coelho’s Top 10 in Time Out’s 100 Best Children’s Books List. His second novel, Nobody Saw No One (2015), was in The Guardian’s Best Children’s Books of 2015 and the Daily Express’s Best New Children’s Books For Summer 2015.
He was Writer-in-Residence for the Dickens Bicentennial Celebrations, for Battersea Dogs’ Home for the Poetry Society’s Poetry Places scheme, for Lambeth Walk through Spread The Word and the Heritage Lottery Fund, for Maidstone United Football Club. He has run courses for the Arvon Foundation, events and workshops for Poetry By Heart, and many schools workshops for the Poetry Society’s SLAMbassadors project. His Channelling Words celebrates Root 1066 by making poetry easy and fun. Using the toolkit as a springboard, pupils will be invited to make a live performance of their poems, backdropped by their visual displays, with the additional choice of a poetry competition known as a Poetry Slam or Rap Battle. |