This free, full-day event invites all six artists on the project to deliver creative sessions focused on their ongoing and emerging practice with their classes across two years. This spans meditation, non-traditional forms of drawing, outdoor learning and play, working with wax and clay, animation and collaborative processes through a range of materials.

Part of Spaces to Explore: Prioritising Process in Creative Learning, a two-year schools’ project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, this CPD Day session is open to anyone working in educational settings and aims to support educators in developing creative practices, fostering collaborative exploration, and prioritising process-led approaches to teaching and learning.

📍 Venue: Sadler’s Wells East, 101 Carpenters Rd, Stratford Cross, London E20 2AR
🕙 Time: 11am to 4pm

What to Expect

Welcome talk and presentation | 11am – 11.30am

Workshop one | 11.45am – 12.30pm

Yoga Nidra Meditation with Davinia-Ann Robinson and Amelia Wornell

A reflective workshop exploring breath, meditation and process-led creative learning. Building on practices developed with students at Vicarage Primary School, the session draws from Yoga Nidra, sensory walks and collective meditation-making activities. Participants will be guided through a visualisation breath practice inspired by elements of nature, followed by a gentle creative exercise focused on embodied awareness and mark-making. Designed for educators, artists and creative practitioners, the workshop offers practical approaches to mindfulness and creativity for classroom and community settings.

Refreshments and break | 12.30pm – 1.10pm

Light refreshments will be provided, and you are encouraged to bring a packed lunch with you or use the nearby food facilities in Westfield Stratford and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Workshop two | 1.15pm – 2pm

Sound Textures with Nisha Duggal and Folasade Lawal

An energetic session exploring collaborative sound-scaping using looping equipment, voice, and poetry. Recreating one of the key processes integral to their work with Star Lane Primary students, this session shares how experimentation, energy and even boisterousness can be held within artistic practice, and how true collaboration can be honoured through group making. The session reflects on how these methods support teamwork, shared authorship and increasingly conceptual responses from children.

Workshop three | 2.15pm – 3pm

Intuitive Mapping with Halima Akhtar and Molly Burrows

This workshop builds on previous sessions at Harris Chobham Academy Primary where artists and students explored ideas of mapping led by intuive processes, collective imagining and story-telling. This session will focus on co-creating tools to guide explorations of imagination and surrounding space, using a simple paper fortune-teller/chatterbox game. In the school session’s this method was used as a compass following collaborative map making, considering ongoing paths and journeys when delving into imaginative play. Together we will consider prompts that reflect on how we might rest, play or way-find within nature and city spaces whilst following curiosity and connecting with others. The workshop also expands outdoor practice, developing ways of working beyond the classroom environment through collaborative movement-based exercises that explore connection, coordination and shared creative thinking.

Guided exhibition tour and networking | 3pm – 4pm

Participants will also have the opportunity to view the exhibition show at UCL Marshgate and to network with other participants.

About the artists

Find out more about Spaces to Explore’s brilliant artists here

✨ This CPD day is free to attend and open to up to 20 participants.

✨ Places are limited – early booking is essential. Light refreshments will be provided, and you are encouraged to bring a packed lunch with you or use the nearby food facilities in Westfield Stratford and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

✨ If you have any questions or access requirements, please contact Juma@the-line.org

Who is it for?

Anyone who works in educational settings. This could be:

• Teachers and Teaching Assistants

• Workshop facilitators and artists

• Engagement and community teams

• Educational practitioners, researchers and psychologists

Benefits for participants:

Working directly with all six artists from the Spaces to Explore programme, participants have the opportunity to gain insights into new models of creative, socially engaged pedagogy that emphasises process, collaboration, reflection, and non-prescriptive learning.

Participants will discover how The Line’s public art and heritage sites can be leveraged for community-driven creativity and education.

The day will foster participation in new and reflective practices that center on play, curiosity and support wellbeing in education.

Participants will experiment with a range of materials, imagery and sound, and explore innovative ways to collaborate with participants, embedding co-design and interaction into workshops and lessons for deeper engagement.

About Spaces to Explore

Spaces to Explore: Prioritising Process in Creative Learning is a two-year collaborative project that integrates process-driven art, experiential learning, and meaningful play, helping students engage more deeply with their education.

The Line is East London’s public art trail. Its outdoor exhibition programme offers a journey through a dynamic urban landscape where everyone can explore art, nature, and heritage for free. The route runs between Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and The O2, following the waterways and the line of the Greenwich Meridian.

The Line has received funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, who work collaboratively with organisations and individuals who are working to build a just society. The grant we have been awarded is part of the foundation’s Arts-Based Learning programme and has supported us to deliver two years of sustained collaborative learning programming with three primary schools in Newham.

As Spaces to Explore emphasises process and experimentation in arts-based learning, we have not established specific learning outcomes for students. Our outcomes focus on the process of co-designing with teachers, and the unique contribution offered by The Line for arts-based learning.

With thanks to

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Artists and co-facilitators: Amelia Wornell, Davinia-Ann Robinson, Folasade Lawal, Halima Akhtar, Molly Burrows, Nisha Duggal and Tasha Brune-Goodey (year one)

Harris Chobham Academy Primary: Alice Hodgson, Joshua Hopper, Julia Derring, Sadia Saghir, Samra Rafique and year three and four students.

Star Lane Primary School: Steven Carbutt, Lisle Von Buchenroder, Kathryn Bryce-Lennon and the year three and four students.

Vicarage Primary School: Jay Bull-Mannan, Shelly Ann Watson, Zenab Bhuta and selected students for the programme.

The Line team