For the second year, we partnered with the Stoke Newington Literary Festival to produce a printed map, featuring some of their fabulous Pink Plaques - temporary plaques installed for the duration of the festival, celebrating some of the area's most inspiring people.

Thank you to Festival  Director Liz Vater, and to the Stoke Newington Literary Festival's brilliant team of sponsors, partners, volunteers, advisors and speakers!

The 8th Stoke Newington Literary Festival, 2-4th June 2017

We partnered with Southwark Council and London College of Communication to produce a range of family outreach activities for their exhibition Elephant Atlas, including a set of colouring in postcards and a 12 page kids’ guide.

Elephant Atlas is an exhibition of newly commissioned artworks, writing, performance and workshops, inspired by the London Borough of Southwark’s Cuming Museum Collection.

Link for more information about Elephant Atlas.

In Summer 2018 we were commissioned to produce a Kids’ Guide to the Floating Cinema.

The Floating Cinema is a real cinema on a working barge, that takes up residence in three locations along the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes all summer. A film programme of on-board and bankside screenings explores the importance and meaning of home.  

White Wall Yellow Door was asked to produce a 12 page activity guide to the barge as well as a stand alone A4 activity sheet.

The writing, drawing and talking prompts we devised invite kids and their families/ carers to think about many of the themes raised by this unique project - from the design and construction of the barge itself, to the theme of home.

The Floating Cinema is an award-winning structure that was originally conceived and commissioned by UP Projects and designed by Duggan Morris Architects. For more information click here

We partnered with The Artists' Agency, and artist Stephen Turner, to produce a 12 page illustrated guide to co-incide with a UK tour of The Exbury Egg. The guide features drawing and writing activities designed to help children and families engage with some of the ideas behind the Exbury Egg.

The first leg of the tour was at Trinity Buoy Wharf in January 2017. As further incentive for families to visit the exhibition, we partnered with local eateries Fat Boy's Diner and Bow Creek Cafe to offer visitors to the exhibition a free food or drink voucher.

For more information on The Exbury Egg please follow this link.

Symbolism was an important feature of Ancient Egyptian culture. This stand alone A4 activity, acknowledges the cultural specificity of it as a form of representation.

It’s available free for visitors to pick up and take away, or work on during their visit to the museum.

We invited visitors to use #PetrieKids - so we can include them in our online gallery.

Introducing some of the postcards we produced as part of the kids activities for Elephant Atlas, in Spring 2018.

This one was inspired by Adam Dant's fantastic drawing, Taxonomical Man, which was commissioned specially for the exhibition.

Many thanks to Adam for permission to use his work in this way.

We partnered with The Stoke Newington Literary Festival to produce an Illustrated Guide to the Literary and Social History of Stoke Newington.

To fund the guide, we made a successful bid to the Arts Council, and combined those funds with sponsorship from local businesses.

The guide was distributed freely during the Stoke Newington Literary Festival, and spare copies were given away to local schools after the event, enabling a younger generation to enjoy learning more about the fascinating history of their local area.

We co-ordinated a marketing campaign, which resulted in the festival being featured in many media outlets including The Primary Times, The Hackney Gazette and The Londonist.

We worked with The Stoke Newington Heritage Mural Project on the family engagement side of the project.

The postcard invited children to produce their own creative responses to the ideas they had explored during this expansive project.

It was distributed for free to every child at William Patten School as well as to the local community at the launch event on 6th June 2016.

THE STOKE NEWINGTON HERITAGE MURAL PROJECT is a community arts and heritage project that explores the radical and literary histories of Stoke Newington through poetry, heritage and art. 

The project began in Autumn 2015 and will culminate in the production of a mural, on a large wall that over-looks the William Patten Primary School playground.  

The finished mural will be typographic in form, and will draw inspiration from 'Ghostsigns', the faded traces of late Victorian advertising signage painted onto the brickwork of buildings that are a characteristic feature of the local area.  

As part of the project’s ongoing engagement activity program, White Wall Yellow Door produced a Ghostsign Trail that includes an A3 sized map of the local area, a drawing activity, and a series of written prompts that provide some historical and technical context to the signs featured on the trail.  

A further engagement activity associated with this exciting project is currently in production and will be announced in February 2016

Funded by The Arts Council England and The Heritage Lottery Fund.

TRINITY BUOY WHARF IS A THRIVING CENTRE FOR THE ARTS AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IN THE HEART OF LONDON'S DOCKLANDS. 

It is home to artists' studios in reclaimed shipping containers, the iconic Artangel installation Longplayer by Jem Finer, Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse, and one of London's smallest museums documenting the life and work of Michael Faraday.

We worked alongside Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, which manages and adminsters the site, to create a unique Kids' Guide to help young people explore the wharf and all it has to offer. 

Our 12-page illustrated booklet is available at the entrance to the site and proved to be a popular activity over the summer half-term break.  Not only did our free booklet bring a significant increase in visitor attentence over the summer, but it will also be available on an ongoing basis. 

The interactive nature of the booklet design allows space for children to document their personal experiences of visiting Trinity Buoy Wharf.  Our aim was to open up a view that fosters imaginative learning, giving young people an interesting way to delve a bit deeper into the meanings of their surroundings. 

‘Make a note of anything..’, is a site-specific installation, in the form of a photographic frieze, by artist Bettina von Zwehl.  

White Wall Yellow Door devised and produced a range of activities to help children engage with this permanent installation, which drew its inspiration from the life and work of Anna Freud.

Alongside an activity sheet that engages with some of the themes von Zwehl explores in her work, is a more practical task, designed to gain momentum in the months to come.  This task asks young visitors, in accordance with Anna Freud’s methodological approach to her practice, to record their own observations during their visit to the museum.

The cards will be kept in a special filing drawer in the Anna Freud room, and once enough observations have been collated, will form the basis of a new installation.

DISCOVERIES: Art, Science & Exploration from the University of Cambridge Museums

31st January-27th April 2014

DISCOVERIES at Two Temple Place in London brings together a selection of objects, artefacts, and other amazing treasures from the University of Cambridge Museums.

We produced a series of kids' activity sheets as well as a Young Explorers Time Traveller Trail, both of which employed different strategies to inspire children to engage creatively with the works on display.

Album 31 is an exhibition featuring new work by Sophy Rickett and Bettina von Zwehl.  The artists were commissioned by GRAIN to respond to the Library’s photographic archives, specifically those of Victorian photographer and parliamentarian Sir Benjamin Stone.  

White Wall Yellow Door produced a series of notes and teaching prompts for the education team at the Library of Birmingham to use when devising image and text based workshops for children and young people from KS1 through to undergraduate level.

Info about grain

http://grainphotographyhub.co.uk/

Info about the project

http://grainphotographyhub.co.uk/portfolio-type/album-31/