Tag Archives: saturday workshops

Art in Japan Workshop

Posted on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

This weekend we held our last saturday workshop of the season. Ten students from the LAB Middle school had the opportunity to discover Japanese arts and culture. In the morning, we visited the Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints exhibition at the Japan Society in Manhattan. Then, students took part of a workshop

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Instrument making workshop

Posted on Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

This past Saturday 10 students from the New York City LAB School took part in an instrument-making workshop led by musicians Bashiri Johnson and Eleanor Dubinski. In the morning Bashiri demonstrated percussion technics and invited students and adults alike to follow him in a musical journey, discovering instruments and rhythms. Everyone got to play a

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School Visit to MoMI

Posted on Thursday, January 24th, 2013

This past Saturday, eleven students from the Lab School in Chelsea spent the day at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria. Throughout the winter we’ve been learning the different elements of creating a film in our after-school program, and then testing them out by creating our own short films. Taking the class to

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Stop motion animation

Posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Clinton Middle School students realized a short films with two experts from the field. Saturday March 17th and March 24th, in a beautiful space located in Chelsea, The Pure Space, kindly offered by Rida Chin, seventeen kids focused and enthusiastically learned the basic rules of stop-motion animation. The title of the film was “Another Day

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