Infusion workshop at the Phoenix cafe, Bristol December 2015

A successful workshop at the Phoenix cafe,  All Saints’ St, Bristol, United Kingdom lead by Michael Phillips and Louise Morgan and supported by AIM.

 Louise working with a group of participants

 Michael explaining how to draw a character

Some of the workshop participants

Michael with some of his drawings

Louise with some of her drawings

Infusion Art Cafe Poster for Infusion art cafe at the Phoenix cafe

Poster made by Louise for Infusion event at the Phoenix Cafe, Bristol.

Last chance to visit Infusion Art Cafe in Merchants Quay

The exhibition in the Infusion Art Cafe closes tomorrow 17:00. Many visitors came today - see you tomorrow

Activity sheets in response the the Generation Exhibition at art Cafe in Merchants Quay

AIM Bristol Art Cafe activities

In June 2015 Louise first visited the Phoenix cafe in Bristol to think about planning an art workshop.

                            

Louise made several character drawings and a workshop planning sheet.

Artist Pat usually paints, but today becomes a poet responding to John Whelans painting

Flowers scent, summer day

Mix of jolly, sad, busy

Swimming in metallic blue.

Visitors to the infusion art cafe enjoy the texture and touching their favourite colours on paintings by David Connolly.

Gillian's lovely doodles at the table in the infusion art cafe.

Pop up art cafe with exhibition and interactive activities at Merchants Quay

 Infusion Art Cafe in Merchant's Quay Shopping Centre, from the 7th -17th of July. 

Infusion Art Cafe project brings GASP exhibition  exhibition Generation to the public 

at Merchants Quay 

You are invited to make and share drawings, creative writing  and stop motion animations.

A fun, sociable space for people to get creative: ideal for friends and families to get involved together.

Everyone is welcome to come join in the creativity! 

Opening Times:

Ground Floor, Merchant's Quay Shopping Centre, Cork city 

Week 1

Tues 7^th       1pm-6pm

Weds 8^th   1pm-6pm

Thurs 9^th   1pm-6pm

Friday 10^th 1pm-9pm

Sat 11^th      1pm-6pm

Week 2

Mon 13^th      1pm-6pm

Tues 14^th   1pm-6pm

Weds 15^th  1pm-6pm

Thurs 16^th  1pm-6pm

Friday 17^th  1pm-5pm

Drop-in Stop Motion Workshops

Friday 10th @ 6pm-8pm

Saturday 11th @ 1pm-5pm

Friday 17th @ 1pm-5pm

EXPLORE, CREATE & DISCUSS with Infusion Art Cafés.

Pop up exhibition and discussion in Educate Together National School Cork, Involving students, teachers, parents and people working in cultural sector.

The event explored the potential of social, creative spaces to connect people with their creativity and with others.

Playing with masking tape with the kids who visited the art cafe.

Lots of people stop by to draw on the caravan.... Beautiful bursts of colour

Jason as cameraman while Helen does an animation at the infusion caravan project, midsummer festival.

Yvonne's makes portraits of people passing by the infusion caravan at mid summer festival

Photo crew and model for Italian Elle spots Infusion Art Cafe caravan with Yvonnes beautiful drawings and stop for a photoshoot.

The Village get ready to facilitate the Public in Stop-motion activities at Midsummer Festival this weekend

The Infusion Art Aafe  project are inviting the public to get creative with them at Midsummer Festival this weekend

They have been trying out stop-motion animation techniques to invite the public at the weekend to get involved. Aoife, Jason and Sarah invite you to call over to Cornmarket, Friday and Saturday and at Picnic in the Park, Fitzgerald park on Sunday.

GASP artists will be inviting you to get involved in a range of other creative actions!

Fri 12th: Cornmarket Street 12-5

Sat 13th: Cornmarket Street 12-5
Sun 14th: Fitzgerald Park 12-5

GASP's Infusion Art Cafe, takes to the streets during Cork Mid Summer festival

Aiofe wants to stand up against bullying and shares her message in the infusion caravan project

GASP Artists working long side 'The Village' are featured in this yearsMidsummer Festival in Cork City. They will be part of the Infusion Caravan Project.

It is a free event that invites people to participate in getting creative with a chalkboard caravan and make stop motion video clips.

Come along and get involved!

Fri 12th: Cornmarket Street 12-5
Sat 13th: Cornmarket Street 12-5
Sun 14th: Fitzgerald Park 12-5

For more information and other events in the festival check out
www.corkmidsummer.com

This project is supported by Leargas Erasmus +

Developing ideas at Spike Studios

We had a meeting at the Studio at Spike Island developing ideas through games and looking at drawing styles. Today we developed further ideas for our first workshop which will be based on creating characters and how to draw them.

The photographs show Michael and Louise hard at work and some examples of our drawings.

Visitors from far and wide came to the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh to get there portrait by Yvonne Condon during a pop-up Saturday afternoon Art Cafe

EXPLORE, CREATE & DISCUSS with Infusion Art Cafés. St Mary's Cobh visit the Sirius Arts centre

An exploration about the Infusion art Cafes and exploration about how schools, Cultural organisations and artists can collaborate and use cafes/pop up cafes and public spaces to connect people with their creativity and with each other.

I think Johns art work is amazing the technique he uses is brilliant I enjoy looking at his work it is very cool how he does i would never think of uses the technic he uses It is amazing how you can create picture by using plastic and a tool. Ava Meaney 

John's style was amazing of how he carved the outline of figures onto plastic. It is so creative how John came up with such an amazing technic. I really enjoyed watching how he created this art work. Rebecca Sheehan

Johns art i think is brilliant. He's good at what he does and i like the way it is in black and white. I also think that it is amazing the way he can do it for hours on end. Abby Gill

I think johns art is very good I do enjoy it a lot i think that it is very good how he came up with such a good idea and i think that he will become very famous one day. by Nellie-ann O Donoghue

I think johns art is inspiring and amazing.It looks really hard to do but when he does art he makes it look simple.I really enjoyed watching him do art.I think his work will become known to everyone in the world in the near future.Ciara O'Sullivan

I think Johns work s amazing i find it really interesting and the way he makes them is a really good good idea i am really gonna bring my family to see the paintings and describe how there made they will really enjoy it and everyone will know his paintings and i obviously enjoy everybody else's paintings  and i met lots of people and looked at there work and it looks really hard to do I LOVE IT !!!!!.Caitilin Stromsoe xxx

i think all the art is AMAZING I love the art,Johns art is really nice i'd really like to see more of his paintings -Viktoria Talockaite ;)

I think that all the pictures was amazing and the people can draw very good like they because we can draw Pilar Castrillo Mas 

I think that johns art is very cool by Ella Foster :3

I think that Johns work is amazing and really good and i would like to look at more of his work it is really cool Cliona Moynihan :) 

I think that Johns work is so amazing and i like it so much by katie blake :)

I think that Johns work is very good i lot it. it is amazing i love it i would like to see more of it. i would like to be like him when if older. i want to buy some of his work it is so good by valerie daly 

Students explore and respond to the art work of Yvonne Condon while exploring Infusion Art Cafes.

Residence and Staff of St Lukes Nursing home join the ENGAGE-CREATE- DISCUSS Event at the Sirius Art centre.

Starting off with a cuppa and a chat

Coffee and cookies