On this page you can find details of the schools, family and community learning projects produced as part of Muybridge in Kingston.
Also available is a brand new Teacher’s Pack around Eadweard Muybridge’s work, filled with a wide variety of discussion points and activities.
Click here
to download the special Muybridge in Kingston Teacher’s Pack.
Teachers:
Teacher’s Preview Evening
Wednesday 22 Sept 5-6pm
Kingston Museum Art Gallery
Kingston Museum and the Stanley Picker Gallery would like to invite you to join us for a glass of wine and a special introduction to the Muybridge in Kingston exhibitions. You will have an opportunity to view the ground-breaking Muybridge Revolutions exhibition, find out more about the exciting Learning Programme we have in place and see the brand new Muybridge Resource Pack.
Learning staff from both venues will be on hand to provide more information and answer questions.
Please RSVP to Caroline Burt at caroline.burt@rbk.kingston.gov.uk or on 020 8547 5006 before Monday 20 Sept.
Schools:
All sessions last 2 hours and can accommodate up to 30 pupils
Primary Schools Education Programme: Key Stages 1 & 2
27 Sept – 4 Feb
Kingston Museum and the Stanley Picker Gallery
Kingston Museum and the Stanley Picker Gallery will be working in coordination, giving local schools the exciting opportunity to interact, explore and create across both sites. Pupils will be introduced to Muybridge and consider the significant impact of his practice upon modern culture, investigate the photographic and film techniques he inspired, and create artworks in response to their experiences. We are very lucky to have both original Muybridge artifacts and unique contemporary interpretations as inspiration.
We are offering both stand alone workshops and a unit of three* workshops per school group.
*the number and times of workshops will be organized to fit in with your school’s requirements.
Booking essential - For this and further information, please contact Natalie Kay at n.kay@kingston.ac.uk or 020 8417 4074, or Caroline Burt at caroline.burt@rbk.kingston.gov.uk or on 020 8547 5006
Secondary Schools Education: Key Stage 3, Eadweard Muybridge: Space, Time and the 19th Century
27 Sept – 4 Feb
Kingston Museum
Pupils will be taken on a guided tour of the Muybridge Revolutions exhibition, introducing them to some of the most important shifts and changes in nineteenth century society and understanding which were documented, and sometimes even pioneered by Eadweard Muybridge. After the tour, pupils will split up into groups, and have the chance to get involved in some creative and interactive games testing what they have learnt, before a final prize ceremony!
Booking essential - For this and further information, please contact Caroline Burt at caroline.burt@rbk.kingston.gov.uk or on 020 8547 5006
Family Learning:
Saturday Art Club
25 Sept, 9 & 23 Oct, 11 & 27 Nov, 11 Dec, 15 & 19 Jan, 1.30 – 3pm
Kingston Museum & Stanley Picker Gallery
For children age 5 -11 – parents and carers are welcome
Children will be introduced to Muybridge and examine original artefacts and contemporary artworks. Children will consider the significant impact of the artists practice upon modern culture, investigate photographic and film techniques inspired by the artist and create artworks in response their experiences.
£5.00, booking essential - to reserve a place please call 020 8417 4074
Drop in Family Learning Event: Phenakistoscope Making
26 Oct 1.30-4.30pm
Kingston Museum
Come along and make your own magical moving image machine!
All welcome, under 11s accompanied
Booking essential - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8547 5006
Drop in Family Learning Event: Thaumatrope Making
13 Nov 1.30-4.30pm
Kingston Museum
Make a fantastic spinning optical illusion toy to amaze your friends and family.
All welcome, under 11s accompanied
Booking essential - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8547 5006
Drop in Christmas Zoetrope Making with Arts Express
18 Dec 2-5pm
Kingston Museum
Join the artists from Arts Express to make your own mini-movie using one of the oldest forms of animation.
For children age 7 up
Booking essential - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8547 5006
Community Projects:
Muybridge in Translation
Muybridge in Translation is a community outreach project working with Kingston residents who speak English as a second language. Fifteen participants are working with Museum staff and an ESOL tutor to produce a multi-lingual guide to Muybridge Revolutions. Over the course of five sessions, the participants will learn more about Muybridge and his innovative photographic work, have access to the collection and develop their English skills. The resulting Muybridge in Translation guide reflects the opinions, views and reactions of the participants to the objects in the exhibition.
Click here to download the Muybridge in Translation booklet or pick up at copy at Kingston Museum.
Muybridge, Movement and Me: Our lives in Kingston’s localities
Working with NHS Kingston & Royal Borough of Kingston Community Development department, and professional photographer Crispin Hughes, Kingston Museum will be hosting an innovative photography project for people who have been unemployed for longer than six months. With Muybridge’s motion studies as inspiration, participants will produce highly innovative self portraits. In particular they will take inspiration from his Zoopraxiscope disks which are the core of the Muybridge Revolutions show. The work will be a modern response to the show which will be relevant to the lives of the participants. An exhibition of the work produced Muybridge, Movement and Me, will be at Kingston Museum from 5-26 Mar 2011. Find out more.
Visual Showcase at Barkman Computers, the childhood home of Muybridge
18 Sept – 11 Feb
Barkman Computers, 30 High Street, Kingston KT1 1HL
A rolling programme of artwork made by school pupils and local groups involved in Muybridge in Kingston will be showcased on a screen in the shop window. This unique space is open to public bookings for 2-week slots (limit of 2 bookings per organisation).
For further information, please contact Natalie Kay at n.kay@kingston.ac.uk or 020 8417 4074
Project Archive
Here you will find images and examples of past Muybridge in Kingston learning projects, many of which were first showcased in a visual display at the childhood home of Muybridge: Barkmans Computers on Kingston’ s High Street.
Please check back in a couple of weeks for details from our first project!