what we do
eastside makes art happen!
educational trust has more than 200 ready-made
creative workshops available that
schools, local authorities and community groups can choose from, covering a
wide range of art forms and creative disciplines. Our projects engage and educate children through direct
participation in the arts. Not only do we offer unique and exciting opportunities
to experience the arts, culture and heritage in a myriad of interesting
ways, we also use them to make subjects such as English, science, history, maths, citizenship and modern foreign languages seem more
relevant, appealing and... fun!
We run a year-round programme of arts activities for young people in a range of venues across London. Our projects include a network of youth theatre groups and youth dance companies, live literature and spoken word events, poetry slams and play readings, book clubs, rap and song writing workshops, visual arts and crafts, film-making projects, music courses and much more besides. We also run a programme of free activities at our base in Shoreditch for local children and their families, including a dad's club (for fathers & their children), an under 5's book club, a teenage reading group, the Hackney Cultural Ambassadors and regular creative play days.
Every project that we run is unique and
workshops can vary in length from one-hour creative taster sessions to week-long
workshops or even year-long programmes. Workshops can be delivered intensively
or spread out throughout a school term. Each
of our creative workshops is available in a range of different and flexible
formats, we also provide a free consultation service to help schools select the most appropriate workshop from our extensive workshop portfolio.
Eastside can also be commissioned to conduct youth consultations, arts
related research and independent evaluations or to produce public
events, festival activities
and youth performances. We also provide training for arts
practitioners, teachers and volunteers.
