Where Will We Learn: A film by Nia Fekri and children from Holland Park School
We’re excited to share a powerful collaboration between children at Holland Park School and lead artist Nia Fekri who was in residency at the school. To celebrate Nia’s residency, we invite you to an online film screening of Where Will We Learn – a collaborative film created through this four-month project.
Between March and July 2024, Nia collaborated with children in years 9 and 12, with the support of Olivia Tukacevska, Assistant Principal and Head of Art at the school, and their class art teachers.
The residency included a dedicated workspace for Nia at the school and regular workshops with children at an after school art club and during lesson time. Together the group decided to explore themes such as dream spaces for education, slowness, inspiration and restriction, and of course play. Steered by Nia, the children also used Direct Animation techniques to layer sentiment and movement onto analogue film footage of themselves and their school.
The hard copy of the material and playfulness of games such as “paper plane poetry” set alongside one another to create an open-ended and remarkable project. Children were free to say “no”, to choose what they wanted to work on in each session, and to find out about the realities of being a professional artist through talking to Nia.
We continue to aim to support artists and children to work together to question the structures around them, using art as a tool for empathy and play. We can’t wait for more!
We invite you to choose a moment when you have the space to enjoy this film. Take a deep breath and press play. The film is three minutes long.
And of course let us know what you think. Email learning@mosaicrooms.org and to check out our other creative learning projects, head to our page.
Where Will We Learn