Saturday Club - Art & Design - Years 7, 8 and 9

This is a 4 week Art & Design Saturday Club for students in Years 7, 8 and 9, running from 1 Nov - 22 Nov, 10:00-14:00.

Event details

  • 1 November 2025 - 22 November 2025

    10:00-14:00 (GMT)

    UCA Farnham

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This 4 week program is full of large scale messy making and doing! Designed to expand your understanding of type, shape & colour by exploring emotion-lead abstract mark making. Then supporting you to develop your work into a unique creative point of view on visual story telling that all comes together in a final zine, which will make a valuable addition to any creative portfolio!

Ideal for anyone with an interest in design, illustration or art looking to expand their understanding & develop their portfolio!

Workshop – Week 1 - 1 Nov:
Calligraphy and Expressive Mark Making - In this session, you’ll experiment with drawing ink and unusual brushes to explore how movement, texture & contrast can capture ideas. You’ll learn techniques from both brush & nib calligraphy then use them to create bold, expressive marks full of personality and feeling.

Workshop – Week 2 - 8 Nov:
Colour, Shape and Emotion - This week you’ll play with colours in exciting new ways, using screen-printing methods (but without the screens!) to mix and move colour across the page. You’ll discover how colours can connect us to different emotions and how shapes can bring energy and feeling into your work. You’ll build on ideas from last week, learning about colour blending (gradation), flow, and movement along with our primal connection to this powerful communicator!

Workshop – Weeks 3 & 4 - 15 and 22 Nov: 
Creating Narrative & Zine Binding - Over these final two weeks, you will develop simple but meaningful visual stories full of feeling! By working on top of, around & into your earlier work from week 1 & 2 with a range of multimedia approaches (such as drawing, printing or collage), you’ll explore visual storytelling techniques to show growth, change, or decline and, with tutor support, you will develop your own clear creative point of view. Finally, you’ll bring everything that you have learned together into your own zine, learning binding and folding techniques to give your work a finished look.

Lunches will be provided for participants each week.

Applications close 23:55 on Monday 20 October. If you have any questions, please email outreach@uca.ac.uk.

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This activity is suitable for students who are studying or have an interest in creative subjects and would like to develop their skills and portfolio. 

The aim of the course is to provide an opportunity for young people to access free art and design tuition from a higher education institution to support them in the development of their portfolio of work. It's also designed for students who may not otherwise have the chance to access such an opportunity. This work is funded through the UCA's Access and Participation Plan's commitment as approved by the Office for Students (OfS). The programme is aimed at supporting students who are under-represented in Higher education. For further information and a list of the under-represented groups, please refer to the OfS approach to access and participation

Priority will be given to applicants who meet one or more of the following criteria:

  • are the first generation in their family to study at higher education level (e.g. Degree, HND, HNC)
  • are currently eligible for Free School Meals
  • come from a neighbourhood with low overall progression rates to higher education (determined by postcode using POLAR 4 data)
  • are from a black or minority ethnic (BAME) background
  • are in, or have lived under local authority care
  • have caring responsibilities for a family member
  • have a disability
  • are studying without the support of family 
  • are an unaccompanied asylum seeker/refugee
  • are from a military family
  • are from a Gypsy, Roma or Traversal community
  • attend a KaMCOP, KMPF or HEON partnered school (a list of eligible schools is included below)
  • live in HEON or KaMCOP target postcode area

This information will be gathered via the application form and will be assessed by the University’s Outreach Manager and Outreach Officer.

Once the application deadline has passed, we will consider all applications against the priority criteria listed above to determine who will be offered a place. A decision will be sent in writing to confirm whether a place on the programme has been secured, and successful applicants will be asked to confirm their place in writing. Where the programmes are oversubscribed, unplaced applicants who meet the criteria outlined above will be kept on a waiting list and allocated spaces should they become available.

If an applicant decides not to accept their offer, they must inform UCA staff via email as soon as possible so spaces can be reallocated where possible: outreach@uca.ac.uk.