Educational projects linked to the primary and secondary school curriculum continue to play a significant role in the Place in Time project. Place in Time exhibitions, books and content drawn from the archive have been used as starting points for students to develop their own work, both within the classroom and surrounding communities.
Introduction
The success of Place in Time's educational programmes lie in enabling schools to involve their students with projects that take them outside the classroom and into the community.
In developing packages to sit alongside Place in Time events and curated content, we have worked with a number of organizations and schools in Christchurch and nationwide:
Christchurch Arts Festival
University of Canterbury Platform Arts Festival
Christchurch City Council Learning Centres
IHC and CCS Disability Action
The Press
Centre of Contemporary Art Gallery (COCA)
Red Bus Company Christchurch
Our City O-Tautahi
Contact
Schools wishing to be notified of upcoming workshops please contact
bridgit.anderson@canterbury.ac.nz
Programmes
Red Bus Diary
Visual Art/Technology/English Y 7 – 8, 90 mins
In response to Tim Veling's Red Bus Diary exhibition and facilitated by the Place in Time project, school pupils from Discovery 1, Cashmere Primary School, Beckenham Primary School and St Andrew’s College Preparatory School spent two weeks travelling by Red Bus on three different routes with digital cameras and notebooks recording their experiences.
An exhibition of their work was then held at the Centre of Contemporary Art Gallery (COCA) .
In the Neighbourhood
Visual Art/Technology/English Y 7 – 8, 90 mins
An exhibition of student work in response to James Voller’s exhibition, On My Way Home. Students were asked to document, in both image and text, some aspect of their own neighbourhood or a part of their route home from school.
As with all the Place in Time educational projects, the work was later exhibited in a public space.
Our Stories
Visual Art/Technology/English Y 7 – 8, 90 mins
Following the success of the My Name Is... exhibition and the publication of the book, The Man With No Arms & Other Stories, IHC and CCS disability action commissioned Place in Time’s Bridgit Anderson to devise and implement a countrywide education programme. Since 2007 the workshops have been a key component of the Our Stories project as it tours the country.