GemArts has over 17 years experience working with schools and community groups across the North East, providing educational and enjoyable learning experiences. Our participatory programme aims to promote creative learning and a greater understanding of people and their respective cultures. Our projects have featured in The Chronicle's Excellence in Education supplement, and we recently received an Excellence in Equality and Diversity award for our We Stand Together anti hate crime secondary school project.

Each year GemArts works with schools across the North East giving thousands of pupils the opportunity to take part in; visual arts, Chinese dance, African drumming, storytelling, singing, lyric writing and much more. We have a successful track record of collaborative work with schools, colleges and in alternative educational settings, programming arts projects as part of cultural diversity weeks, to enrich curriculum activity around internationalism and citizenship, and offering pupils and teachers the opportunity to learn something new and raise cultural awareness.
 

"We have worked in partnership with GemArts for 12 years to enhance our creative curriculum. Our recent Outstanding Ofsted, inspectors said that we provide an exciting, stimulating and relevant creative environment where children can develop basic skills and become increasingly responsible citizens. Without the help of GemArts, our children would not receive the wealth and breadth of the experiences they need to enrich their learning. We have been able to put children forward for Arts Award, be involved in an acclaimed Jazz Festival and Masala Festival and work with a wide range of artists from different cultures. They have helped us to achieve our Green Flag International Award and Gold Arts Mark status"

Miss Smith, Deputy Headteacher, Roman Road Primary

Workshops can be adapted for different year groups, curriculums and SEND needs. 
Get in touch to book a specific workshop or take a look at our Festival Day workshops below

Festival day workshops

Explore workshops for:

• Diwali and Holi
• Chinese Lunar New Year
• Ramadan and Nowruz
• Black History Month
• Carnival
• and Inclusion Days

Diwali, Holi and Vaisaki 

Bring colour, music and light to life with creative workshops for all ages and abilities- these workshops can link to celebration days, inclusion projects or the sylabus, take a look and get in touch to book your workshop!

Chinese New Year

In 2025 Chinese New Year will fall on the 19th of January- celebrate in style with a creative workshop or enrich another project with brilliant artists.

"Gem Arts is a fantastic company. Their knowledge of various artists and artforms has enabled us to offer our children at Roman Road Primary time to work with an outstanding range of experts. These enjoyable experiences have developed their creativity and learning across the curriculum, as well as giving them an understanding of many world cultures…..and they have enabled us to achieve our Gold Artsmark Award and our second International Green Flag Award for Eco".
Teacher feedback, Roman Road 

Workshop costs depend on the activity chosen, number of participants and materials required for the art form. Please contact info@gemarts.org for a full quote. Please note GemArts is based in the North East, while we do work with artists based in different regions, most of our participatory work takes place in the North East region.

Click here to download our Learning information.

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