We’re a traveling animation workshop set up for the children to run.   Although animation is famously labor-intensive, it is also great fun.   The basics of stop motion are simple, the camera is not complicated, the computer programs are easy to use.  

In the second session of our current workshop the children, 7-11 years old, quickly took over every aspect of production, excitedly pursuing their many ideas.  Their creativity has been pouring out in drawing books, notebook pages, watercolors, cut paper and foam, recycled objects, a lot of talk.  They are ready to do some amazing things, as they learn to work together.  

Critical thinking and  collaborative problem solving skills will be crucial to a generation that faces an immense array of global problems .  Teamwork, improvisation and increased communication are natural products of the workshop.  Children become helpers and teachers to each other, their skills and confidence increasing session by session.  

 In addition to producing entertaining, animated inventions (done the old fashioned way, by hand), the program fosters cooperation, self-confidence, student-directed inquiry and the emergence of an organic learning culture.

Wehearyou.net is ready to expand and seeks operating funds for basic capital expenses (new workstations and camera set-ups so the program can expand to other schools and venues), to hire teaching artists, a development team, web gurus, etc. and to keep the workshop stocked with inexpensive and largely reusable art supplies.

 Our mission is to create a productive play setting where we can hear what children have to say, help them show what they can do, listen to their concerns.  They are right to have a few concerns– and to want a place for safe, serious play.  

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