Insect Hotel, Saturday the 19th of October.

Insect Hotel is an art project for children, collecting natural material and building hotels for insects. This week in Insect Hotel the children started off by thinking about where insects like to live in other words what cosy places and spaces they might like to sleep in. As a group

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Yeast, Yeats and Yoga: Creative Camp is over. We asked Laura McGowan what went down

‘We’ve had a fantastic few days here at The Model. There have been warrior poses, sticky dough and cats dancing to the radio. We’ve stretched and kneaded dough, making rectangle oval and square shapes. We made yummy bread and scrumptious pizza. We stretched and strengthened our muscles with the Swan

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Unidentified Flying Artists REPORT

A group of intrepid space explorers are meeting at The Model this week to build magical spacecraft, find new planets and explore new worlds. ‘‘Day 1.Going into space, we explored the vast cosmos, imagining the planets, solar systems and stars up in space. Then we picked our own, special planet

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Bored pre-teens at home?

The Model’s vibrant and original education programme runs into August with a slightly off the wall and dynamic workshop for pre-teens. Introducing: Yeast, Yeats and Yoga : Creative Camp The creative camp merges clever and cool activities such as baking bread and meditation with a bit of Yeats history and

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The Model Talk Series: Tilo Schulz

Weds Jul. 24 at 2pm The Space Between- Art, Audience, Poetry and Metaphor ‘Monthly talks at The Model where artists in residence, writers, curators or individuals of varied backgrounds collaborating with The Model deliver engaged and informal discussions.’ Tilo Schulz discusses the multiple strategies he uses, to create a context

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