Welcome to
Nene Art School
C.I.C.
Nene Art School C.I.C is a non-profit organisation providing new weekly after-school/out-of-school sessions for young people 8-18 years to come along and promote health and wellbeing whilst enjoying various arts and crafts.
Sessions are led by professional and experienced volunteers.
Here we provide a safe space for young people to meet, make friends and to enjoy arts including professional tutoring. While choosing from different activities during the session, young people can express themselves, make new friends, and enjoy some games together.
Our sessions at Nene Art School C.I.C are designed to help students develop their health, wellbeing, and artistic skills together with some professional tips in a supportive, holistic and inspiring environment.
The volunteers naturally embody a kind and caring approach, with a deep understanding of how to support children from diverse abilities, backgrounds, religions, and more. We work closely with migrant communities too.
Also, we support our special needs' students. The team ensures that everyone’s needs are met here, by providing individual support to everyone who needs it. Nene Art School C.I.C. is welcoming everyone no matter their visible/invisible disabilities. We are an inclusive community interest company!
Here, at Nene Art School C.I.C., we focus on:
Health and Wellbeing
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Noticing and supporting
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Making friends
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Empowering self-esteem
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Empowering confidence
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Mindfulness activities
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Individual support when needed
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Refreshments on session
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Half term sessions
Painting
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Basics, Perspective, Proportion & Composition
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Realism: Anatomy, Architectural Sketching, Portraits, Nature
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Fantasy world, Symbolism
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Therapeutic painting etc
Observing Life and Nature
We are having sessions outdoor time after time to observe both nature, people and urban life. Our students focuses on three observation's keys:
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Notice with all your senses.
This can be of great benefit to your creative practice because it can help you shift perspective regularly, refresh your perception, as well as see and experience the world from many different angles.
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Dissociate forms and words. And look with an intuition.
Reality is more than meets the eye, something much more complex and profound.
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Receive, analyse, compare, and make connections.
Drawing
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Realism: Anatomy, Architectural Sketching, Portraits, Nature
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Fantasy graphics, Symbolism
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Creative drawing
Mixed Media
Collage, experiments with mixed media (paint, print, 3D, relief, found objects etc) and make use of unexpected materials and techniques
Eco Friendly
Art
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Our efforts to use ecologic supplies and materials as well as recyclable objects highlight a new way of making art that both takes the planet into consideration and expresses creativity.
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This also promotes sustainability and environmental consciousness in our growing young generation.
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We create pieces that narrate the impacts of climate change as well about the Earth’s vulnerability and our collective responsibility to protect it.
Our News & Updates
NEWSLETTER!
Please read our newsletter holding our news and updates below.
Survey Results
We invited parents of our students to take part in an anonymous survey with their children.
As we are a new non profit organisation, we sought their voice in shaping our future sessions.
We are pleased to report that the feedback has been positive, helping us identify areas to focus on moving forward.
Thank you to everyone who took a few minutes to complete this important survey.
You can see the survey results in the images below.
WE START ON 17th Jan 2025
at NEW ADDRESS
We are starting on 13th January 2025 as usual on Mondays and Tuesdays 4.30pm to 6.30pm (except half terms and holidays).
!!! Our new location is at Room 6, Alexandra House, 33 Alexandra rd, Wisbech PE13 1HQ.
We are adapting our policies relevant to this building. Children will be supervised at all times, including leading to the public toilets and back.
Recent workshops of making gifts for older people
Clay Christmas Tree Candle Light and Christmas Crad Workshop (two weeks)
This week we had clay workshop! Our young artists created heartfelt gifts for local elderly people using non-bake air-drying clay.
We were excited to have Jack Van Avison from How Are You Fenland on Monday session,- the one who kindly invited us to take part in the inspirational Golden Age Christmas Appeal for older people. Materials' costs were partially covered by Head to Toe Charity, - thank you so much!
We owe a huge thanks to our dedicated volunteers Martynas, Rita, Justina, Lucie, and Jurgita for their invaluable support.
Our young participants enjoyed engaging in conversations with our guest and volunteers while savoring hot drinks and delicious food generously provided by #ComunityChampion Julie Bushby from Tesco Wisbech Community Room And Events.
Continuous thank you goes to Cambridgeshire County Council who have partially funded our project!
Christmas Party!
It was a kickstart to a magical season as we gathered together to celebrate Christmas this Tuesday!
We treasured the time spent together by enjoying games, delicious food and crafts,- all wrapped in supportive environment.
Our children made special cards to show appreciation to our supporters and funders. They filled it with such a true goodwill and enthusiasm! Each of them have put something in it. Bless their hearts.
Being grateful is one of the ways to wellbeing isn't it.
A huge thank you to @EdiLli for generously donating a delicious fingerlicking cake!
We're grateful to #TescoCommunityChampion Julie for providing delightful party food, and to everyone who contributed treats to share.
We extend our thanks to Wisbech Town Council and Cambridgeshire County Council for their funding and support.
A heartfelt thank you to The Mayor Of Wisbech for taking the time to visit us during such a busy season; your presence was so special to our children! They want to become a mayor even if only for a day now!
We are also immensely grateful to the parents of our students for bringing their young talents in to our sessions to promote their health and wellbeing through various arty/crafty activities.
Our volunteers are truly amazing, and we can't thank them enough for their invaluable dedication.
Thank you to everyone who made our #YoungWisbechArtists' #ChristmasParty a wonderful and memorable event!
You can view moments from our event here:
Gallery
Photos from our Open Days' events
9th and 10th Sep '24