Grand Union Orchestra
Grand Union Orchestra is a unique company of instrumentalists and singers from all parts of the world. It has a range of options available for education work, including interactive presentations where 4 performers introduce their fascinating instruments to children and teachers. Quote: Excellent alternative orchestra. Good dynamic established. Super involvement. |
| Cost per day: |
Per Concert £500 for one concert with 4 instrumentalists |
| Additional Costs: |
Travel - negotiable |
| Materials: |
None |
| Age Range: |
Primary & Secondary |
| Contact: |
Jane Worsell |
| Address: |
Grand Union Orchestra, 76 Wentworth Street, London E1 7SA |
| Telephone: | 0208 7375 1122 |
| Fax: | 020 7426 0268 |
| Email: | mail@grandunion.org.uk |
| Web: | www.grandunion.org.uk
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| Art Forms: |
Music
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Heritage Ceramics
Heritage Ceramics are a collective of African artists working with traditional techniques across many art forms and offering workshops in ceramics, textiles, storytelling, drama, dance, music and mask making. Quote: 'Worked hard throughout the day and produced excellent results'.
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| Cost per day: |
£200; more than 2 days £180 per day |
| Additional Costs: |
Travel |
| Materials: |
None |
| Age Range: |
Primary & Secondary |
| Contact: |
Tony Agogo - Director |
| Address: |
Heritage Ceramics, A5 Aladdin Business Centre, 426 Long Drive, Greenford, Middlesex UB6 8UH |
| Telephone: |
020 8575 0500 |
| Email: |
info@heritageceramics.org
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| Web: | www.heritageceramics.org
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| Art Forms: |
Crafts, Dance, Drama, Literature, Music, Textiles, Sculpture
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Inspireworks
We offer quality Balinese and African workshops by experienced practitioners in schools and youth communities, that provide rich and stimulating experiences across 'the arts' involving music, dance, art, craft and design. We intend to help schools enrich and extend their teaching of the National Curriculum, as well as tailor making our Workshops to the broader spectrum of youth communities, by providing our specialist knowledge and experience in a range of artistic and cultural contexts. In our workshops, the participants are actively involved, take a full part in the creative process and experience a sense of pride and achievement. |
| Cost per day: |
From £200 for most workshops, £270 for Balinese Gamelan mmusic, including van hire. All workshops allow for 30 participants per workshp leader. |
| Additional Costs: |
£1.50 per mask for Balinese Masked Dance-Drama Workshop, £2.50 per puppet for Shadow Puppet Making. Travel within a 15 mile radius of Eton Wick is free. All other mileage is charged at 30p per mile. |
| Materials: |
Require a large hall plus other work spaces if more than one workshop leader is required. All other resources are provided by Inspireworks. |
| Age Range: |
Infant (4-6), Junior (7-11), KS3 (11-14), KS4 (14-16), 'A' Level (16-18) |
| Contact: |
Jacqui Simpson |
| Address: |
Inspire-Works, 1 Common Road, Eton Wick, Eton, Berkshire SL4 6JE |
| Telephone: |
01753 859480 / 07798 603180 |
| Email: | info@inspire-works.co.uk
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| Web: | www.inspire-works.co.uk
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| Art Forms: |
Crafts, Dance, Design, Music, Painting, Textiles
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Phillip Jackson
Basic didgeridoo presentation: if the presentation is for a full school assembly (100+), I will need some sort of amplification (two microphones would be ideal.) A C.D. player and a map of Australia (both not absolutely essential, but would be nice). Didgeridoo playing workshops: A quiet room, with mats or cushions in a circle on the floor., twelve cups and a large jug of water. |
| Cost per day: | Basic didgeridoo presentation: £100 - half day concluding approx. 12:30 £75. didgeridoo playing workshops: £200, half day concluding approx. 12.30 £100 |
| Additional Costs: |
Travel |
| Materials: | Basic didgeridoo presentation: if the presentation is for a full school assembly (100+). I will need some sort of amplification (two microphones would be ideal.) A C.D. player and a map of Australia (both not absolutely essential, but would be nice). Didgeridoo playing workshops: A quiet room, with mats or cushions in a circle on the floor, twelve cups and a large jug of water. |
| Age Range: | Junior (7-11),KS3 (11-14)KS4 (14-16)A Level (16-18) |
| Contact: |
Phillip Jackson |
| Address: | c/o Dunnet Wright Music, 75 Crest Way, Benfield Heights, Portslade, East Sussex BN41 2EY |
| Telephone: |
01273 235417 |
| Fax: |
01273 241395 |
| Email: | office@didgemusic.com
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| Web: | www.didgemusic.com
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| Art Forms: |
Music Art
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| EARTHSONG
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| 'When you love to learn you learn to love' |
| Earthsong brings multicultural music workshops to schools and the wider community, drawing people together through music, learning and laughter. |
We aim to:
- - promote learning and the love of music
- - Use creativity as an instrument of education
- - inspire confidence and self-expression
- - impart knowledge of musical instruments, countries and cultures
- - provide "hands-on" experience
- - bring people together in happy, trusting environments
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| Cost per day: | Call for details or visit our website |
| Telephone: |
020 8941 2526 |
| Email: | info@earthsong.co.uk
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| Web: | www.earthsong.co.uk
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| Art Forms: |
Music
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Just Trombones
Just Trombones comprise three trombonists who have 25 years experience of playing with professional orchestras in London and the provinces. As a trombone section, they work together with Glyndebourne Touring Opera Orchestra. They also perform with the London Mozart Players, and are involved with extensive education and recital work with that orchestra. All pieces of music played are short and cover a wide range of styles, including demonstrations on a hosepipe and sackbut. The pieces are very entertaining, educational and a lot of fun for the children. Children's participation is encouraged. Performances are adapted slightly in both duration and content to suit age. |
| Cost per day: |
£144 - 45 minute concert (KS2 upwards)- Junior School £184. |
| Additional Costs: |
Travel |
| Materials: |
3 chairs |
| Age Range: |
Infants to Secondary |
| Contact: |
Roger Willey |
| Address: | Just Trombones, 21 The Crescent, Belmont, Sutton, Surrey SM2 6BP |
| Telephone: |
020 8661 5604 |
| Fax: |
020 8661 5604 |
| Email: | - |
| Web: | - |
| Art Forms: |
Music
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Kala Arts
Kala the Arts workshops and performances of Indian dance, music and visual arts. Kala the Arts works mainly with primary and middle schools in south and south western regions. The work is mainly workshops and residencies, which raise an awareness and understanding of Asian Culture and Arts. The schools are offered workshops leading to performances where the pupils dress up in costumes brought by the company members. There are currently Sushmita Patel, the artistic director, Gudrun Martins and Gitanjali Praharaj leading the dance sessions. Ashok Patel works on the visual arts section making back-drops and sculptures with pupils. Surjit Singh brings a whole range of Indian musical instruments, which he teaches the children to play and perform. The company also offers performances by tutors where the pupils get to see professional dancers and musicians. |
| Cost per day: |
£158 -£660 per week |
| Additional Costs: |
Travel from Basingstoke |
| Materials: |
Hall space for the dance workshop, a CD player, flip chart for the visual arts workshops; an art room with sink, poster paint and old newspapers. |
| Age Range: |
Infants (5-7)Junior (7-11),KS3 (11-14) |
| Contact: |
Kala the Arts |
| Address: |
45 St. Thomas' Close, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 5NW |
| Telephone: |
01256 346699 |
| Fax: |
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| Email: | admin@kalathearts.co.uk
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| Web: |
www.kalathearts.dial.pipex.com
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| Art Forms: |
Dance, Music, Painting
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Morag McLaren
Presentation/performance of songs. Workshop/game activities in drama/movement, character/voice-spoken and sung. Improvisation of music/drama/scenes/story. Coaching on vocal styles and presentation of repertoire (applicable to older students - e.g. A Level). Can work with either small groups, individually or groups of 20/25. |
| Cost per day: |
Negotiable |
| Additional Costs: |
Travel to and from London |
| Materials: |
A large room/hall - a clear space where children can move around freely. A piano and, if working on specific repertoire, a PIANIST |
| Age Range: |
Junior (7-11), KS3 (11-14), KS4 (14-16), A Level (16-18) |
| Contact: |
Morag McLaren
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| Address: |
26 Alleyn Road, Dulwich, London SE21 8AL |
| Telephone: |
0207 787 9791 |
| Fax: |
- |
| Email: | morag@moragmclaren.com
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| Web: | - |
| Art Forms: |
Drama Music
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Miso'shi
Assembly: an informal introduction of Ghana and Africa in general, celebrating the differences and drawing strength in the similarities and diversity of cultures in the UK and contributions interspersed with rhythm clapping and music and hand jive. Storytelling: encouraging listening, participation, recall, discussion, retelling, either through drama, dance or performance of the story. Opening doors into another culture, exploring the hidden meaning of the morals of the story, drawing out citizenship, PSHE. Dance: improvised using space, gestures, facial expression and music from Africa generally. Retell stories. Music: texture, pitch, tempo, duration, composing, listening to African rhythms and drumming. Fabric Arts: Ghanaian traditional printing using Adinkra printing motifs on blocks, tie and dye, safe batik. The background of each art-form is explained. The children are allowed to have ownership and encouraged to fully participate actively as well as listening. |
| Cost per day: |
£250 |
| Additional Costs: |
B & B and travel costs. |
| Materials: |
Fabric arts materials: fabrics, paint, dyes. Music: sticks, objects to hand. Drums if possible. Miso'shi has drums - these would be difficult and more expensive to transport. |
| Age Range: |
Age 4 yrs., Infants (5-7yrs.), Junior (7-11yrs.), KS3 |
| Contact: |
Miso'shi |
| Address: |
The Farthings, Astley Village, Chorley, Lancashire PR7 1SH |
| Telephone: |
01257 278745 |
| Fax: |
01257 241766 |
| Email: | misoshi@aol.com
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| Web: | - |
| Art Forms: |
Music, Literature, Drama, Dance, Textiles
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Brian Moses
Brian writes and edits poetry and picture books for children and resource books for teachers. Brian gives a mixture of workshops with individual classes and performances either with the whole school or separate key stages. Performances include chorus poems and a variety of percussion instruments to emphasize rhythms of poems. He can set up a trail around the school grounds so that children may be taken out to points along the trail and write on location. He also holds evenings for parents and children writers. |
| Cost per day: | £375, £200 half day, £1,650 per week |
| Additional Costs: |
Travel @£35 per visit |
| Materials: |
Table, chair and music stand for hall sessions. Children should also be familiar with some of his poems prior to the visit. |
| Age Range: |
Nursery to KS3 (11-14yrs) |
| Contact: |
Brian Moses |
| Address: |
2 Sandrock Crescent, Crowhurst, Battle, East Sussex TN33 9AS |
| Telephone: |
01424 830169 or 01424 830086 |
| Email: | redsea@freezone.co.uk
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| Web: | - |
| Art Forms: |
Literature Music
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Note-A-Riot-Y
Note-A-Riot-Y is a professional female duo who wants to bring to schools an opportunity for the children to enjoy vocal music to its fullest extent. They offer a programme designed to cover material in all the major musical styles - Opera, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Pop with fully orchestrated, professionally recorded backing tracks and a complete sound system. Audience participation during the more modern numbers, and if time permits, quiz sheets and hand outs.
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| Cost: |
£150 for one single session of 45 minutes, £100 per session if more than one. |
| Additional Costs: |
None |
| Materials: |
OHP |
| Age Range: |
Infants to KS3 (11-14yrs) |
| Contact: |
Note-A-Riot-Y |
| Address: | Note-A-Riot-Y, 25 Collins Cross, Bishop Stortford, Herts. CM23 2DD |
| Telephone: |
07973 114986 |
| Fax: |
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| Email: | notearioty@lineone.net
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| Web: | www.notearioty.co.uk
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| Art Forms: |
Music
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Ed Oxley
Ed offers workshops in didjeridoo playing. Groups of up to 30 children can participate, making and decorating their own didjeridoos and then learning to play them. Short performances can be arranged for the whole school. For longer residencies, Ed sometimes works with a choregrapher. Quote: 'Excellent, this is one of the best days we have ever had'.
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| Cost per day: |
£200 per day, (£350 with choreographer) |
| Additional Costs: |
Travel (c£100, @27p per mile) |
| Materials: |
c£50 for a group of 30 |
| Age Range: | Year 4+ |
| Contact: |
Ed Oxley |
| Address: |
2 Lower Smithy, Colden, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 7HP |
| Telephone: |
01422 844515 |
| Fax: |
- |
| Email: | -
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| Web: | www.knockonwood.co.uk
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| Art Forms: |
Craft Dance Design Music
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June Peters
June offers interactive storytelling performances ranging in content from mesopatanian myth, arthurian legend and siberian epic to fairy tales and finger rhymes. Progammes include music and song as apporpriate the age group (harp, fiddle, mbira and voice) and can be themed to suit curriculum work, or formed spontaneously to suit the mood and age of a class group. June also provides language workshops, and specialises in 'storyfair' where older children retell to younger ones. |
| Cost per day: |
£275, £175 per half day, residencies, block bookings negotiable. |
| Additional Costs: |
None |
| Materials: |
None |
| Age Range: |
Nursery (age 4), Infants (5-7yrs), Junior (7-11yrs). |
| Contact: |
June Peters |
| Address: |
30 Dahomey Road, London SW16 6ND |
| Telephone: |
020 8677 3803 |
| Fax: |
- |
| Email: | june.pet@virgin.net
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| Web: | - |
| Art Forms: |
Drama, Literature, Music
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Pied Piper Theatre Company
Pied Piper, the outreach company for the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, is funded by Arts Council England and supported by Surrey County Arts and Sure Start and offers performances in both schools and theatres. "The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse" is the next tour, running from October 2007 to February 2008. We offer original plays or adaptations of books. Performances have a duration of 50 minutes, with one hour setup and 20 mins. to strike. |
| Cost per day: | £340+VAT - The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre may be able to subsidize schools that can not afford the full cost. |
| Additional Costs: |
None |
| Materials: |
Pied Piper provide a teachers' pack prior to performance for introductory and follow-up work |
| Age Range: | 3 - 7 years |
| Contact: |
Tina Williams |
| Address: |
1 Lilian Place, Coxcombe Lane, Chiddingfold, Surrey GU8 4QA |
| Telephone: | 01428 684022 |
| Fax: | 01428 684022 |
| Email: | twpiedpiper@aol.com
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| Web: | www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk/taking_part.asp |
| Art Forms: |
Drama Music
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Nicky Plumbley
Nicky is a local artist, who offers indoor and outdoor murals in Primary Schools. She involves the children right through the design process and also in painting the final result on the wall. Nicky has many years experience in teaching art clubs to KS1 and KS2 children in many different media. She can offer INSET for teachers, which could be part of a residency. This can cover topic work, creative paper skills, drawing skills, crafts and collage. |
| Cost per day: |
£150, £80 per half day |
| Additional Costs: |
None |
| Materials: |
Paint (artist will specify the type and colours), permanent markers, brushes for children's use, dust sheets to protect flooring |
| Age Range: |
KS1, KS2 |
| Contact: |
Nicky Plumbley |
| Address: |
45 Bishop's Grove, Hampton, Middlesex TW12 1A |
| Telephone: |
0208 9411 1916
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| Fax: |
- |
| Email: | nickynina@madasafish.com
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| Web: | -
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| Art Forms: |
Drama Music
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The Story Tent
The Story Tent came out of Alistair Daniel's use of storytelling (as contrasted with story reading) as a taching strategy with young people with profound emotional and behavioural difficulties. The approach is participative, combining teaching and theatre skills, with tales whose telling is tailored to the age and ability range of the students. Students take roles themselves and puppets, masks, songs, actions, games and artefacts feature regularly. From the stories of 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' to traditional folk and faitytails, each telling is supprted by printed mateirals for classroom use. Students ae also offred participarty workshops explaining storytelling, descriptive language story structure and Shakespeare's language.
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| Cost per day: |
£260, £180 half day. |
| Additional Costs: |
None |
| Materials: |
A space 3x3x3m and audience space |
| Age Range: |
Infants to KS4 (14-16 yrs) |
| Contact: |
Alastair Daniel |
| Address: |
The Story Tent, 57 Glenbuck Court, Glenbuck Rd, Surbiton, Surrey KT6 6BZ |
| Telephone: |
0870 241 5857 |
| Fax: |
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| Email: | enquiry@storytent.co.uk
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| Web: | www.storytent.co.uk
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| Art Forms: |
Drama, Literature, Music
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