Come to Pitzhanger for a special Teachers’ CPD session in partnership with the University of West London.

Overview

This special free Continuing Professional Development (CPD) session for teachers and educators in all key stages explores how to use local cultural hubs, like Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, as teaching resources across the curriculum.

Co-presented with the University of West London, teachers will take part in a creative workshop with an artist practitioner from Pitzhanger and two practical workshops with academics from UWL.

First, artist and educator Cai Jia Eng will lead a creative workshop based on a sample lesson plan interacting with Pitzhanger’s current gallery exhibition, Chinwag by Alice Irwin. This lesson plan will be available to all participants after the session.

Then, University of West London academics Ben Dunning and Isil Onol will lead a talk and workshop designed to examine the importance of detail in graphic design practice and process. Participants will be supported in exploring, evaluating and generating concepts based on the theme of detail, and how these techniques can be incorporated into their own teaching activities.

Finally, voice practitioner and lecturer Serena Braid will lead a practical vocal workshop, aiming to equip teachers at all levels with foundational principles around healthy vocal embodiment for effective communication. Through exercises and dialogue, participants will be able to reflect on their own vocal habits, exchange ideas and practically explore breath, sound and language.

This session is open to teachers in any key stage and subject, though with a particular focus on art teachers. Educators working in out-of-school settings are also welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be provided in this session.

Schedule

About the presenters

Cai Jia Eng (@thisismisseng, www.thisismisseng.com) is a London-based artist and educator. Her practice spans illustration, design and painting, and currently focuses on portraiture and familial relationships. Over the last 12 years she has worked with every age group in schools from 3 to 18, and currently teaches both adults and children in West London in a range of disciplines.

Ben Dunning is a designer, educator and author specialising in graphic, digital and interactive design.

Isil Onol is a creative consultant, curator and a design studies lecturer in higher education. Taking a critical stance to colonialist and ableist approaches in existing design and museum practices, she is interested in generating links between design justice and higher education curriculum.

Serena Braida works in voice, text and performance, with a focus on the materiality of language and on reading aloud as editorial and generative practice.

Enquires

Please contact learning@pitzhanger.org.uk for more information.