page_title: Magic Lantern (charity)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Magic Lantern (charity) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Pupils from Rosary RC Primary School, LEA Camden, pose as the Discus Thrower during its Magic Lantern workshop, October 2017. Reported in First News, 15 December 2017.
context_page_description: Magic Lantern is an educational charity in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Diana Schomberg in 1994. The charity delivers interactive art history workshops in schools throughout England.
  The charity's remit is to introduce children to art and make art accessible to anyone. Alongside its work in schools, Magic Lantern also works with adult groups in centres including prisons, hospices and homeless centres.
context_section_description: Retired school teacher Diana Schomberg set up the charity in 1994 with a grant from Marks and Spencer. Subsequent sponsors of the charity have included The Arts Society (formerly NADFAS), the Aldgate and Allhallows Foundation, Newcomen Collett Foundation, The Woodward Charitable Trust, The Garfield Weston Foundation, and The Gillian Dickinson Trust.
  One of Magic Lantern's former workshop leaders was curator, author, editor, and educationist Ingrid Beazley.
  
  In 2010 Matthew Sanders became Magic Lantern's director.
  On 16 June 2013 Magic Lantern ran pop-up family workshops in London's Trafalgar Square as part of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year.
  In 2016 Magic Lantern ran a series of sessions for children in the paediatric ward of the Harley Street Clinic on the subject of "Feelings."
  In 2018 Magic Lantern's workshop leaders Pippa Bell and Margaret Bodley Edwards ran a series of workshops for refugees and asylum seekers in Westgate Baptist Church in Newcastle.
  HENI Talks selected Magic Lantern to feature in its 2018 Christmas film which was filmed in Holmleigh Primary School in Hackney, north London.
  As of June 2020 the charity has ten workshop leaders and six trustees and operates in Greater London, Devon, Kent, Essex, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne and County Durham.
caption: Children from Rosary RC Primary School, LEA Camden, pose as the Discobolus during a Magic Lantern workshop on Ancient Greece. Reported in First News 15–21 December 2017.[22]
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