Art in the Park
Part of the Yorkshire Media Consortium Collection
Funded by The National Lottery; Wakefield MDC; Joe Feiweles Memorial Trust
Released October 1999
Released October 1999
A Festival of Arts in Education was run at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1999 to celebrate 10 years of the Joe Feiweles Memorial Bursary Joe Feiweles Memorial Bursary
Running time: 23:40 minsOriginal Format: DVCPro
Tags:
Bretton Hall College Yorkshire Sculpture Park Joe Feiweles Memorial Bursary Wakefield
Themes:
Community Arts Projects
Environment
Education and Citizenship
Children and Young People
Festivals and Galas
The Festival was to celebrate the Joe Feiweles Memorial Trusts 10th anniversary of supporting artists in their work within their artistic discipline and with children and young people. Five of the bursary holders from previous years returned to work on the project with schools from the Wakefield area. Bursary holders were assisted by other artists and students from Bretton Hall College.
The film looks at why the arts and creativity are important in people's lives capturing views on this from artists, students, children and teachers.
Art in the Park is a film made as part of a collection of films made accross the Yorkshire Region to document life around the Millenium.
Production Team
Camera - Chris Watson
Sound - Ben Harris
Graphics - Neal Addy
Off-line edit - Steve Richards
Online edit - Tam Carr
Produced & directed by Judi Alston
Sound track - students from Kettlethorpe High School
This film is dedicated to Emily Alston (March 1997-October 1999)
Documentation of a major arts edication bursary scheme in its tenth year at the Yokshire Sculpture Park.
Title-Art in the Park
The film opens with groups of children beside words made out of cloth; the words read `Art in the Park’.
Title-The Joe Feiweles Memorial Bursary was set up ten years ago to help young artists gain experience of working in the community and within education.
Title-In July 1999 five former bursary holders came together in a week-long celebration of arts in education.
Title-Over a thousand school children visited the park to work with the bursary holders and were assisted by students from Bretton Hall College and other artists.
Shots of children getting out of coaches; some of them are primary school age and some are older teenagers.
There is a brief shot of a man blowing fire onto a torch.
Title-Alex Krysinski, poet, bursary holder 1992
She talks about why the Park is so special to her and how the open space is great for the imagination. There are shots of her interacting with the children as she gets them to make up poetry about their surroundings.
Title-Rob McIntosh, sculptor, bursary holder 1993.
He is outside with the children gathering wood; he tells them that they are going to use objects to decorate sculptures.
Title-Judith, teacher, West Hill Special School
She describes how wonderful it is to see the children learning without her having to teach them.
Brief shot of children playing pieces of piping.
Title-Judi Alston, Film Maker, bursary holder 1991.
She talks about how important it was for her to receive the bursary and how it has helped her as a film maker.
Some of the children talk about how much they are enjoying the experience of learning in this park environment.
A girl is in a music room playing a piano and beside her a boy plays a violin.
Title-Nick Meredith, musician, bursary holder 1996/1998
He says that when he was a child he had to play several instruments but now he wouldn’t do anything else. In the next shot he is in the music room giving lessons to a group of teenagers.
Title-Rachel Liggitt, dancer
She is in a hall with lots of children; she gets them to dance and move around the room.
She says how good it is to teach these children to move freely.
Title-Martin Crick, Bretton Hall College
He talks about the great opportunities that are available to the children that take part in this programme.
Title-Larraine Harrisson, Drama worker
She uses drama as a way of teaching children about issues; she gets them to pretend to be on a train.
There are more short interviews with Alex, Judi, Rod, a student and Martin.
Some children are working with Rod and are given a lump of plaster to clasp in their hands; they are asked to describe the final piece.
Older children are sitting on the grass talking about how much more they are learning by seeing the material first-hand rather than hearing about it in a classroom.
Title-Funded by the National Lottery, Wakefield MDC, Joe Feiweles Memorial Trust.
Alex says a final piece about what a wonderful project it is and then the film ends with shots of the coaches leaving the park.
Title-Production Team
Alex Krysinski-Support
Chris Watson-Camera
Ben Harris-Sound
Title-Production and direction, Judi Alston
Shot of Judi sitting beside a large sculpture of a man; she yells `cut’.
Title-Made as part of the A4E Contemporary Video Collection, One to One Production October 1999.
The film looks at why the arts and creativity are important in people's lives capturing views on this from artists, students, children and teachers.
Art in the Park is a film made as part of a collection of films made accross the Yorkshire Region to document life around the Millenium.
Production Team
Camera - Chris Watson
Sound - Ben Harris
Graphics - Neal Addy
Off-line edit - Steve Richards
Online edit - Tam Carr
Produced & directed by Judi Alston
Sound track - students from Kettlethorpe High School
This film is dedicated to Emily Alston (March 1997-October 1999)
Documentation of a major arts edication bursary scheme in its tenth year at the Yokshire Sculpture Park.
Title-Art in the Park
The film opens with groups of children beside words made out of cloth; the words read `Art in the Park’.
Title-The Joe Feiweles Memorial Bursary was set up ten years ago to help young artists gain experience of working in the community and within education.
Title-In July 1999 five former bursary holders came together in a week-long celebration of arts in education.
Title-Over a thousand school children visited the park to work with the bursary holders and were assisted by students from Bretton Hall College and other artists.
Shots of children getting out of coaches; some of them are primary school age and some are older teenagers.
There is a brief shot of a man blowing fire onto a torch.
Title-Alex Krysinski, poet, bursary holder 1992
She talks about why the Park is so special to her and how the open space is great for the imagination. There are shots of her interacting with the children as she gets them to make up poetry about their surroundings.
Title-Rob McIntosh, sculptor, bursary holder 1993.
He is outside with the children gathering wood; he tells them that they are going to use objects to decorate sculptures.
Title-Judith, teacher, West Hill Special School
She describes how wonderful it is to see the children learning without her having to teach them.
Brief shot of children playing pieces of piping.
Title-Judi Alston, Film Maker, bursary holder 1991.
She talks about how important it was for her to receive the bursary and how it has helped her as a film maker.
Some of the children talk about how much they are enjoying the experience of learning in this park environment.
A girl is in a music room playing a piano and beside her a boy plays a violin.
Title-Nick Meredith, musician, bursary holder 1996/1998
He says that when he was a child he had to play several instruments but now he wouldn’t do anything else. In the next shot he is in the music room giving lessons to a group of teenagers.
Title-Rachel Liggitt, dancer
She is in a hall with lots of children; she gets them to dance and move around the room.
She says how good it is to teach these children to move freely.
Title-Martin Crick, Bretton Hall College
He talks about the great opportunities that are available to the children that take part in this programme.
Title-Larraine Harrisson, Drama worker
She uses drama as a way of teaching children about issues; she gets them to pretend to be on a train.
There are more short interviews with Alex, Judi, Rod, a student and Martin.
Some children are working with Rod and are given a lump of plaster to clasp in their hands; they are asked to describe the final piece.
Older children are sitting on the grass talking about how much more they are learning by seeing the material first-hand rather than hearing about it in a classroom.
Title-Funded by the National Lottery, Wakefield MDC, Joe Feiweles Memorial Trust.
Alex says a final piece about what a wonderful project it is and then the film ends with shots of the coaches leaving the park.
Title-Production Team
Alex Krysinski-Support
Chris Watson-Camera
Ben Harris-Sound
Title-Production and direction, Judi Alston
Shot of Judi sitting beside a large sculpture of a man; she yells `cut’.
Title-Made as part of the A4E Contemporary Video Collection, One to One Production October 1999.
