Workshops for colleges and universities
Dedicated professionals with experience
Diversity days
From inspirational public speakers to workshop sessions on a fixed and a rolling basis.
Master Class
Let us know your learning objectives and we will find the best practitioner to meet your needs.
Induction Week
Our workshops are hugely popular with corporates due to their team building and unifying properties. We are happy to use these skills during your induction week to offer session with mixed ability groups which will get everyone talking.
Mixed Ability Classes
We will run masterclass sessions in a morning which will take your students out of their comfort zone and push them to excellence at every turn. What’s more we would be delighted to do the same thing with your pathways students in the afternoon.
African Activities for your workshops
Painting
Working with Kwame who was the artist in residence at Ghana’s Centre For National Culture. Learn his unique style and recreate paintings with your own twist.
Pottery
Explore African traditional pottery artefacts and then set about making your own. Learn a simple coil technique and then use Adinkra to decorate your pots.
Recycling!
Learn about the world largest e-waste dump and turn milk bottles into useful objects, masks, elephants or birds.
Disrupting Gender Sterotypes
Did you know that there are Matrilineal societies in West Africa where property descends through the female line? Did you know there is a strong history of female warriors in West Africa and the Caribbean? A rediscovery through discussion and debate.
Poverty Of Aspiration
An inspirational workshop based on drama, story and the drum. Whilst poverty of circumstance is higher in Africa poverty of aspiration is relatively unheard of. An exploration of the fear of succeeding in Britain and issues surrounding poor motivation.
Topic based
We have covered many issues and are happy to work with you. Previous topics include: Slavery, the creation of ‘Africa’, racism, Black people in Britain, The Windrush, South African emancipation and much more.
Adinkra
Explore a wide variety of cloths from Ghana. Learn about Adinkra symbols and the proverbs the represent and make your own cloth to take home or to form a large installation within school.
Kente
Explore a wide variety of cloths from West Africa including Kente, one of the most famous and expensive. Looms mean there is a 15 student limit for this workshop.
Trade Beads
Learn about the history of West Africas trade beads, explore some artefacts and make your own colourful beads from magazine and newspapers.
Drumming!
An engaging and fun way to get everyone working in rhythm. Everyone gets a drum to play on.
Dance!
High energy but easy to follow moves. A really fun way to get a full body workout!.
Storytelling/drama!
Learn about Anasi the cheeky West African Spider. Question and answer sessions facilitate student led learning, bring Africa right into your classroom.
The details
How do we timetable?
Our team will work with you to get the best outcome to reach your objectives.
A session can be from 7 separate classes a day or we can work intensively with one class.
How Many Students?
This really depends on your students needs. We often work with small groups on activities, if you have space and would like more students to be able to enjoy a assembly we can work with many more students in your hall or larger room.
How Long is a Class?
Can We Mix Activities?
Absolutely, depending on the practitioner available you may mix in as many activities as you have time for. We may reserve the right to change and adapt the activities to respond to your students.
What Do You Need?
Very Little! We will bring all of the materials with us for your workshop. The exception to this is recycling. We can bring materials but we feel the collection is a valuable part of the process for the children
How Much is it?
Options run from £2 – £16 per student. Please fill out our quick quote form and we will get right back to you with a proposal.