Blatchington Mill School Community Arts - Summer Term

BLATCHINGTON MILL SCHOOL COMMUNITY ARTS

WEEKLY PERFORMING ARTS CLASSES

* BIG MOUTH SINGERS * A fun and friendly adults’ community choir which is open to all: beginners welcome! A great way to learn modern and traditional songs from around the world, vocal techniques and warm-ups, directed by Siggi Mwasote and Cicely Taylor, plus visits from guest tutors. Over the year, choir members are offered the chance to perform in the Windmill Theatre, Brighton Dome & more! Participants say: “It’s all been fabulous! Have learnt some new songs & met some lovely people.”

Time: Mondays 4.30pm – 5.45pm

Venue: Blatchington Mill School Drama Studio C1

Term dates: 16/04/12 - 09/07/12 (no sessions during Half Term)

Fee: First session FREE, thereafter £40.00 or £25.00 concessions per term (this may be paid in instalments if you wish)
Directions to Room C1: Use the Nevill Avenue entrance to the school. You can park in the first car park you come to, then walk up the ramp through the double red doors into the entrance to the Performing Arts block. For Room C1, go immediately right through a set of double doors and C1 is first on your left.


* LITTLE MOUTH CHOIR * A fantastically fun children’s choir! Come and sing along to your favourite songs with our friendly tutors Gemma Routledge and Sarah Gardner. Over the year, choir members get the chance to perform in the Wind-mill Theatre, Brighton Dome, and more! Past performances include performing at the ‘Choir of the Year’ finals at the Royal Festival Hall. The choir runs at the same time as the adults’ choir, Big Mouth, so parents and carers can take part too, if they wish. Participants say: “Little Mouth is the best choir I’ve ever been to!”

Minimum age: 7 years

Time: Mondays 4.30pm – 5.45pm

Venue: Blatchington Mill School Music Room C17

Term dates: 16/04/12 - 09/07/12 (no sessions during Half Term)
Fee: First session FREE, thereafter £40.00 or £25.00 concessions per term (this may be paid in instalments if you wish)
Directions to Room C17: Use the Nevill Avenue entrance to the school. You can park in the first car park you come to, then walk up the ramp through the double red doors into the entrance to the Performing Arts block. For Room C17, go immediately up the stairs on the left, then turn left, got through a set of double doors and C17 is on your right.

* STEEL PAN DRUMMING * A fantastic opportunity to join a Steel band, playing traditional Caribbean drums with Helen Longton-Howarth from ‘Sounds of Steel’. Learning traditional melodies and modern pop songs, the group will perform at events in the Windmill Theatre, Brighton Dome and more! Participants say: “I’m really enjoying it! I love the music, I’m making new friends and it’s exciting.”

Minimum age: 7 years

Time: Wednesdays 5.00pm – 6.00pm

Venue: Somerhill Junior School, Somerhill Road, Hove BN3 1RP

Term dates: 18/04/12 - 11/07/12 (no sessions during Half Term)

Fee: First session FREE, thereafter £40.00 or £25.00 concessions per term (this may be paid in instalments if you wish)

Link to map of Somerhill School: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

* ACTING CLUB: WINDMILL YOUNG ACTORS * Discover Drama in a fun and exciting way at the Blatchington Mill School Saturday Acting Club ‘Windmill Young Actors’. Discover the world of creative drama with performing arts professionals Tanushka Marah and Ben Murray-Watson to discover different characters from a range of plays, working with costume, mime and mask. Explore techniques of improvisation, physical theatre, stage fighting and clowning, working together to develop a piece to perform at the end of term. Previous performances have been at The Windmill Theatre, Brighton Dome and as part of Brighton Festival. Participants say: “It is phenomenal!”

Minimum age: 7 years

Day: Saturdays 9.45am – 11.45am OR 12.00pm – 2.00pm

Venue: Blatchington Mill School Dance Studio M32

Term dates: 21/04/12 – 14/07/12 (no sessions either side of Half Term)
Fee: First session FREE, thereafter £90.00 or £60.00 concessions per term (this may be paid in instalments if you wish)

Directions: From the Nevill Avenue entrance, you can park in the first car park you come to, then walk up the ramp through the double red doors into the entrance to the Performing Arts block. Walk across the Foyer, and go outside via the white sliding doors. Look diagonally to your left and the Dance Studio M32 is the first brick building on the left, next to two green teaching huts.



* ROCK BAND SESSIONS * Band sessions designed for young people who already have experience of playing an instrument: singers welcome! Learn to play in a band, develop musicianship, record a demo CD, and work towards live performances. The sessions are run in conjunction with the ‘Teenspirit’ project. Participants say: “Fun and exciting!”… “I’ve enjoyed learning to play in a band.”

Minimum age: 9 years

Venue: Music Department at Blatchington Mill School

Time slots: Wednesdays 4.00pm – 5.00pm; 5.00pm – 6.00pm or 6.00pm – 7.00pm and Saturdays 9.00am – 10.00am; 10.15am – 11.15am or 11.30am – 12.30pm

Term dates: 21/04/12 – 14/07/12 or 18/04/12 - 11/07/12 (no sessions during Half Term)
Fee: First session FREE, thereafter £90.00 or £60.00 concessions per term (this may be paid in instalments if you wish)
Directions to BMS Music Department: Use the Nevill Avenue entrance to the school. You can park in the first car park you come to, then walk up the ramp through the double red doors into the entrance to the Performing Arts block. For C15 go up the stairs on the left, then turn right. For the Music Basement go down the stairs to your left.



For more information contact: Cicely Taylor, Community Arts, Blatchington Mill School, Nevill Ave, Hove, BN3 7BW

E: ctaylor@blatchingtonmill.org.uk ~ T: 01273 221229

The Summer Term - Windmill Young Actors - Special Offer

Dear All,

This offer only affects those who pay the full £90 per term and not the concession rate of £60.

If you book for next term before the end of this term then you'll receive a whopping £15 off. If you book this week before the end of Friday 30th March then it'll cost you £75 for the term and not £90.

So contact Cicely today on ctaylor@blatchingtonmill.org.uk and book your place.

The Summer Term

As you will have guessed, 'The Legacy of Fingerless Gloves' is still very much a piece in development. It's great to get any feedback on it so please do let me know. The plan is to continue to develop it next term into a 30 - 40 minute piece. It will be performed at our NEW SHOWCASE event that we're hoping to have at The Windmill Theatre in June or July. The first half of the showcase will be a performance of the script. The second half will be scenes and monologues from our young actors. I will be inviting INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS, including agents, as I believe that there is some fantastic talent in this group that deserves to be seen on a wider scale.

We also have our annual SUMMER FESTIVAL at THE BRIGHTON DOME. I'm not sure what we'll be doing for this but there's usually a theme of some kind that we need to follow.

WATCH THIS SPACE!

Saturday 17th March Of Moments

I apologise that I'm a little behind on this so just a very brief run-down of what we did.

At this stage of rehearsals, with a week to go, it's all hands to the blocking. It's usually the case that there is still a lot of the script to put together. The nature of only having 2 hours a week means that you only really get a good 90 minutes to work around breaks and warm ups per week.

The focus was much better this week and we pushed on into the creation of version 2 of 'The Legacy of Fingerless Gloves'.

These types of weeks are pretty exhausting for all concerned. Tanushka and I are working frantically to make sure that all the young actors know what they are doing and have a decent amount to do whilst at the same time managing the room and making sure everyone is healthy and looking happy.

I'll just dwell briefly on what I have previously called 'Moments'. These are the bits in a piece of theatre that raise it above the rest. If you can put moments of character connection or focsuing of the script into the performance it will always add to the enjoyment of the audience.

Moments

The little looks, the tiny gestures,
The hidden gems and the sly swoops into space.
Moments make the magic, a director's ally,
The reflected truth of a human soul trapped in a script.
Perhaps a head turn, a glance across the divide,
Between two hearts, a glow, fast, or slow
To behold, but there. Amongst the chaos,
Amongst the voices and the songs, amongst
The debris of bodies, arms and legs
That show a different side, a real side
And there, a piece of magic indescribable in the gloom,
In the dust and ashes that maybe, if you're lucky,
You'll see and it'll be
Your moment.

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