THE CREATIVE DIMENSION
The Creative Dimension Trust: COVID-19 Update
FREE: Online and Interactive Live Workshops
The Creative Dimension Trust has been busy organising an exciting range of online workshops for students in the UK, including Puppet Making, Mask Making and Architectural Paper Folding, that will start from Friday 3rd April 2020.
TCDT won’t let COVID-19 stop your creative development, learning, and fun. We all need to stay positive, engaged, and motivated.
You’ll be able to keep learning while at home from the best craft specialists and artists in the UK. The workshops will help you create work – using ordinary materials you’ll find at home – to build your portfolio.
To find out more about the online workshops and to register your interest, visit the Online Workshops page now!
Workshops
The Creative Dimension Trust (TCDT) offers fully funded workshops and work experience placements to young people who show potential in forging a career pathway where precise hand-eye co-ordination, and the ability to understand and construct 3-dimensional shapes are prerequisite. We are pleased to announce that our workshops are now open to 14-19 year olds.
TCDT offers a wide range of workshops from stone letter carving to sign writing on skateboards and architectural model making. The Trust is determined to show our talented young attendees the vast range of potential employment opportunities related to the transferable skills which students develop through our diverse programme.
View the 2020 Spring & Summer Workshop Programme here.
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- Find more about The Creative Dimension here.
- Aged 14-19? See and apply for upcoming Workshops here.
- See our Online Tutorials here.
- See photos of previous Workshops here.
- If you would like to help us, contact us.
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It was the best experience of my life so far. I was able to work in an office doing my dream job, that I have longed for since I was 15. I learnt a lot about life in the office and how projects in the real world work.
It was phenomenal...the workshop is fantastic. Top equipment...and an amazing, very skilled tutor. Looking at the wider picture of my experience with TCDT all the workshops have taught me very valuable skills I wouldn't have learnt elsewhere.
Students are to be congratulated for their sophisticated realisations and diverse use of media. The wonderful sculptures, puppets, and etchings created by students at TCDT workshops made a significant contribution to the assessment process. I can’t thank you enough for organising such a wonderful experience for our students.
For me, TCDT has not only made me appreciate craft, but made the person I am today. It has honestly been an experience of a lifetime, and something that has made my life a lot better.
If you are good at sport there are lots of ways to meet others like you, to train and improve. The same is true for music or dance. But if you want to work with your hands, and learn bench work skills, there aren’t enough opportunities to develop your career. We’re fixing that.
The experiences my son had will be life-changing. He has been absolutely energised and is beginning to recognise that he has something really special.
The Creative Dimension Trust is an admirable and hugely worthwhile initiative. All crafts - and indeed, aspects of art such as drawing - need to be handed on from generation to generation. Unless this happens, these skills will dwindle away. So the courses organised by TCDT are as valuable to the rest of us as to the young students who take part.
The breadth of activities and techniques learned has inspired our students and filled staff with envy! (I wish I had the opportunity to learn Silversmithing, Marquetry, stone masonry etc at their age). We have also noticed those involved in the process have been far more willing to take creative risks within their sketchbooks which significantly contributes to the higher grading boundaries when assessing work.
Working with Penny, The Creative Dimension and the students has been a real pleasure. Penny’s passion and enthusiasm and the ethos of what the Creative Dimension stands for is truly inspiring and I was glad to be part of it and to be able to offer my skills to such an exceptional group of young adults.