Free School Holiday Workshops – open to all 15 – 19 year olds

Do you have a young person at home who’s keen to learn new skills these school holidays?

Our UPC team offers a range of workshops for 15 – 19 year old’s, at our Unitec Mt Albert Campus.

Book now to secure a place.

They’ll learn from experts, and even go home with a certificate of participation. Best of all, they’re FREE. Instead of payment, please bring a koha of canned food. All proceeds go to people in need (including our own Unitec students).

Intro to Early Childhood Education (21 April, 9.30am – 2.30pm)

Let’s introduce you to the world of ECE. You’ll gain perspective for teaching children at the early developmental stages while exploring play through sensory, interactive and creative activities. Our lecturers will also take you through what you need to know to enter the Bachelor teaching ECE.

Screen Bites (21 April, 10am – 3.30pm)

Learn about jobs in film and television industry. Combine creative and technical skills in this hands-on workshop where you’ll work in collaboration to write, produce, shoot and edit a short project.

Drawing Intensive (27 – 28 April, 10am – 2pm)

This dynamic two-day drawing workshop covers gesture, texture, tone, line and form, in wet and dry media. You will be instructed in traditional and experimental procedures to create rich and expressive drawings at medium and large scale.

Drawing for Character (28 – 30 April, 9.30am – 3pm)

This course will focus on exploring figure drawing for illustration, animation, and graphic novels. Learning to draw the human figure and develop characters based on the human figure. This will enable you to construct your own characters and place these in action poses for animation static images.

Risography printing & binding workshop (27 – 28 April, 9am – 3pm)

This two-day workshop will introduce you to the world of Risograph printing through the production and binding of your own vision for the perfect notebook or visual diary. We’ll cover publication design and planning, outputting master templates, high volume printing, collation, cutting and bookbinding. Come learn how you can be the next Kikki-K.

Design Beautiful User Interfaces for Mobile Apps (27 – 28 April, 9am – 3pm)

Beautiful User Interfaces are not only seductive and stylish – but more usable too. This two-day workshop will teach you the professional software tools & design principles required to make drop-dead gorgeous User Interfaces. By the end of two days you’ll have created an impressive prototype app that you can test and share.

Business for Creatives: How to turn Art & Design ideas into a venture (29 April, 9am – 3pm)

Making a living from your creativity isn’t easy, but it’s definitely possible if you can switch between a creative and a business perspective. This one-day workshop will take you through the core techniques that help transform ideas into cashflow.

3D Visualization for Gaming Environments (29 April, 9am – 3pm)

In this one day intensive you’ll work with established assets to construct a 3D gaming environment in Cinema 4D. You’ll explore the importance and relationships of lighting and camera composition in creating artwork for the gaming industry, producing industry-standard renderings that will be printed on our photo-quality Epson printers.