TAKE PART: SCHOOLS Read on for more details!

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1 Paul Harrison Norfolk & Norwich Festival present this exciting programme of unique artistic and cultural engagement opportunities for children and young people aged 0 25 with internationally renowned artists and makers.

2 Paul Harrison TAKE PART: SCHOOLS An invitation to all Norfolk colleges, schools and early years settings to take part in Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Each year, we take inspiration from the main Festival programme and create a bespoke line-up of engagement opportunities for children and young people across all art forms. Read on for more details!

3 Paul Harrison Paul Harrison It was a fun and creative way to learn about a new form of art Pupil comment from Visual Arts Workshop, 2016 It was a unique, exciting and unusual experience that helped to bring me out of my comfort zone Participant in Wild Life, 2016

4 Paul Harrison Paul Harrison Paul Harrison Information Music Dance Theatre Circus Literature Visual Arts Other Festival events

5 INFORMATION BOOKING DETAILS There are limited places available for workshops and performances. Places will be distributed on a first-come, firstserved basis, and payment in full is required to secure arrangements. TEACHERS & TUTORS The workshops have been tailored to make taking part as easy as possible. After booking, you will receive a pack from us including image consent forms, relevant travel details, activity resources (where specified) and other tools. Please do get in touch should you have any questions or concerns regarding scheduling and cost, as we try to be flexible when possible. ARTS AWARD We are thrilled to include the delivery and certification costs of Arts Award Discover for any of the workshops included in this booklet for FREE. If you re interested, please mention Arts Award when booking! CONTACT US To check availability, to make a booking or discuss any requirements you may have, please contact the Participation & Engagement team: takepart@nnfestival.org.uk Phone Supported by The Ellerdale Trust, The Goodman Trust, The John Jarrold Trust, Norwich Town Close Estate Charity 1

6 BEETHOVEN WORKSHOP WITH BRITTEN SINFONIA Ages 12 + Dates Available throughout April - May Duration 3 hours Cost 12 per pupil Location Your school Group Size 35 max. Available for SEND settings Pupils will be introduced to our Beethoven-focused 2017 Festival concert with Britten Sinfonia in a creative and interactive way, exploring new music collectively: improvising, analysing and performing. Pupils will have the opportunity to work alongside professional musicians to gain insight into the instruments, repertoire and concert setting. Optional Additional 7.50 per pupil to include a ticket to the Britten Sinfonia Beethoven with Thomas Adès concert on Friday, 26 May 2017, 7.30pm at St. Andrew s Hall SING SOME JAZZ WITH VIKTORIA JUGANZON Ages 11 + Dates Available throughout March - May Duration 1.5 hours Cost 7 per pupil Location Your school Group Size 30 max. Drawing inspiration from Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2017 performer and jazz legend Dee Dee Bridgewater, Viktoria will take you on a journey through jazz standards, fusing your voice and soul and building confidence in new styles along the way. 2 Optional Additional 7.50 per pupil to include a ticket to the Dee Dee Bridgewater concert on Saturday, 20 May 2017, 8pm at Norwich Theatre Royal

7 Sven Hagolani MAKING SENSE OF EACH OTHER WITH CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM & JESS CURTIS Ages 16 + (with dance experience) Date Monday 22 May Time 2pm - 5pm Duration 2 hours Cost 15 per person Location Limelight Dance Studios, Norwich Group Size 20 max. Internationally renowned choreographers Claire Cunningham and Jess Curtis will lead a workshop researching themes and ideas related to their work The Way You Look (at me) Tonight (part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2017) investigating movement, our perceptions of each other and of our environment. Taking inspiration from the work of their collaborator Dr. Alva Noë whose philosophy suggests that perception is an activity happening in our whole bodies and not just our brains we will investigate through movement, language, writing, watching, listening and feeling, how difference of physicality or lived experience- and diversity can both inform and shape our perception. Optional Additional 7.50 per pupil to include a ticket to The Way You Look (at me) Tonight, a Duet by Claire Cunningham and Jess Curtis, Tuesday 23 & Wednesday 24 May, 7.30pm at Norwich Playhouse 3

8 ON THE MOON WITH HELLO DRAMA Ages 5 12 Dates Available throughout March, April & May Duration 1.5 hours Cost 5 per pupil Location Your school Group Size 16 per session Drawing inspiration from Norfolk & Norwich Festival s 2017 free outdoor art installation Museum of the Moon by artist Luke Jerram, Hello Drama has created a journey to the moon and beyond. Explore space, time and the whole universe through drama and your own creativity. A new touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram, Museum of the Moon is a giant inflatable moon featuring detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface, and surround sound composition created by BAFTA and Ivor Novello award winning composer Dan Jones. It can be found at The Forum from Friday 12 - Sunday 21 May during the Festival. Check our website nnfestival.org.uk for more information. 4

9 IOU REAR VIEW BY IOU Ages 11 + Dates 25 & 26 May, limited availability Times 10am, 11.30am & 1pm Duration 1.5 hours Cost FREE Location Starts at the Great Hospital, Norwich Group Size 44 max. Rear View is a location specific, multi-platform mystery tour where audiences view live performance and engage in participatory installations using digital technology. The streets of Norwich become the stage as you take a tour aboard IOU s custom-made converted bus, fitted with backward-facing raked seating, enabling you to watch the journey play out. Beginning in a life-drawing class, Rear View quickly becomes a moving adventure about a woman s life led by performance poets Cecilia Knapp and Jemima Foxtrot making reflections, predictions and observations that blur the line between reality and fiction. 5

10 Katie Bennett CIRCUS WORKSHOPS WITH CASUS CIRCUS Ages 10 + Dates May Duration 1.5 hours Cost 7 per pupil Location Your school Group Size 30 max 2017 Norfolk & Norwich Festival Adnams Spiegeltent headline act Casus Circus will come to your school to deliver an active workshop filed with acrobatics, hula hoops and more! Casus are recognised as a leader in contemporary circus on the international stage. Acrobats fill the stage with momentum and stillness, with strength and fragility, and overwhelm audiences with breathless emotion. A truly unique opportunity for your pupils! Optional Additional 7.50 per pupil to include a ticket to Casus Circus show Driftwood, Wednesday 17 May or Monday 22 May 2017 at the Adnams Spiegeltent in Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich 6

11 Paul Harrison WITH SUPPORT FROM WRITERS CENTRE NORWICH CREATE YOUR OWN COMIC BOOK WITH STUART PATERSON Ages 10 + Dates Mondays 13 and 20 April, 24 March, 8 and 15 May, limited availability Duration 1 hour Cost 3 per pupil Location Your school Group Size 60 max Learn about the process of creating your own comic, from script to final artwork, in an exciting workshop lead by professional illustrator & comics artist Stuart Paterson. As an avowed comic, game and movie geek Stuart uses his considerable skills and limitless enthusiasm to help groups of virtually any age and ability create stories and artwork for their own original comic strips. 7

12 WITH SUPPORT FROM WRITERS CENTRE NORWICH GET YOUR ARTS AWARD DISCOVER WITH THE NORFOLK STORY BOOK BY ISABELLE KING Ages 5-10 Dates Available throughout March, April and May Duration 2 hours Cost 6 per pupil Location Your school Group Size 30 max Have you ever wondered what a snap dragon, a mammoth and mustard all have in common? The answer is Norfolk! Discover the magic of the Norwich Snap Dragon, adventure through pre-historic Norfolk with a mammoth, find out why the region s famous mustard doesn t mix with smelly feet. Join Isabelle on a Mammoth Journey, where you can meet lots of different animals and make some noise! The performance is followed by creative writing exercises and word games in which children create a character for their own dragon and finish with drawing pictures. Optional Add a signed copy of The Norfolk Story Book published by the History Press for just 7! 8

13 Dibs McCallum PORTRAITURE WORKSHOP WITH WEX PHOTOGRAPHIC Ages Dates Limited availability, please enquire for more information Duration 4 hours Cost 15 per pupil Location Your school Group Size 15 max Young and enthusiastic photographers will get to work with one of Wex Photographic s highly experienced and talented workshop facilitators. This workshop will offer the unique opportunity for students to develop their portraiture photography skills, with use of a professional model and lighting. Workshop participants must bring their own camera DSLR or Compact System or bridge camera with manual capabilities. Wex can support with supplementary equipment such as lenses where possible. 9

14 Jo Longhurst THE THRILL LABORATORY PRESENTS VR PLAYGROUND WITH BRENDAN WALKER Ages Dates 24 and 25 May Duration 1 hour Cost 7 per pupil Location TBC, Norwich City Centre Group Size 35 max Join BBC4 Presenter Brendan Walker at his newest science and art mash up: VR Playground. Premiering at Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2017, this virtual reality swing set will be even more unique and outrageous with Brendan at the helm, leading you on his fantastic, wild ride. About Brendan Brendan Walker is a technology-inspired performance artist described by The Times as "the world's only Thrill Engineer". Brendan's unique brand of live entertainment, contraption building, and scientific experimentation has gained him international notoriety in both the arts and sciences. Brendan has featured on national and international TV and radio, and in the press. Brendan is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, a tutor at Central Saint Martin s College of Art, a consultant for the government's Arts and Humanities Research Council, a government champion for the sciences, and an experienced public speaker. 10

15 Silke Meyer MASK CREATION WORKSHOP WITH KATE MUNRO Ages 5-10 Dates Thursdays & Fridays throughout March, April and May Duration 2 hours Cost 6 per pupil Location Your school Group Size 35 max Available for SEND settings Inspired by Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2017 free outdoor event, We meet in paradise by TheatreFragile, take a journey through the world of masks! Build, decorate and step into the new character you create in this interactive and hands-on workshop. We meet in paradise, by TheatreFragile WEDNESDAY 17 AND THURSDAY 18 MAY, OUTSIDE THE FORUM, 8.30pm A theatrical collage of escape and exile. For this mask theatre piece, TheatreFragile met with local refugees and support workers to gather their stories and experiences. They bring these unheard voices to the centre of an interactive performance that poetically presents the complex issues of exile. 11

16 RANA BEGUM SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS Ages Workshops are adapted to suit any age group Dates 12 May 1 October Duration 90 minute workshops (guided tours also available) Cost 180 per workshop (up to 30 students) 2 per pupil exhibition entry (pre-booked groups, including guided tour) Location Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA Group Size 30 max. Booking Please contact the Sainsbury Centre directly, by ing scvagroupvisits@uea.ac.uk, or calling Explore the Sainsbury Centre s immersive exhibition of works by artist Rana Begum and see how her playful use of space, colour and form transforms the gallery. Book a workshop led by one of SCVA s artist educators to: Create an immersive installation of your own. Work with Kaitlin Ferguson to fill the entire space with geometric shape and colour, playing with light, shadow and reflection, or, try sculpting with new and unusual materials and learn about their properties. Construct 3D abstract artwork with artist Georgie Manly. Collaborate with others to build something on a large scale, or try creating a colourful, wearable sculpture with an interesting form. 12

17 Richard Haughton Friday 12 - Sunday 28 May Alongside our tailored schools offer, there is plenty happening in the main Festival programme for all ages. Below are some suggestions of events that we think are perfect for families, young people and school groups U26 tickets are available for all of these shows. To book tickets please visit nnfestival.org.uk or call Norwich Theatre Royal box office on Akram Kahn Company CHOTTO DESH THURSDAY 18 MAY, 7.30pm NORWICH THEATRE ROYAL Influential choreographer Akram Khan s Olivier Award-winning autobiographical dance show DESH has been adapted to create a show that can be enjoyed by families. Recommended for ages 7+ Juliet Kelly FAMILY JAZZ ALL-STARS SATURDAY 13 MAY, 11.30am & 2pm NORWICH PLAYHOUSE Join singer Juliet Kelly and some of the UK s finest jazz musicians in a fun-filled family show, leading you through a tribute to jazz singers past and present. Including songs from Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and Astrud Gilberto, this show is a wonderful introduction to the best-loved jazz classics from down the years. Recommended for all ages 13

18 Peter Hellman Lords of Strut THE FAMILY SHOW SATURDAY 20 & SUNDAY 21 MAY, 11am THE ADNAMS SPIEGELTENT, TICKETS 6 Ireland s most lovable idiots bring their mischief and mayhem on tour. Satire, surrealism and silly comedy with flashes of surprising acrobatic skill and dance routines make Lords of Strut, bright, tight and incredibly funny live entertainment. Get ready for some side splitting because everyone leaves this show laughing. Race Horse Company SUPER SUNDAY MONDAY 15 & TUESDAY 16 MAY, 8pm NORWICH THEATRE ROYAL The newest super-fun show from this acclaimed Finnish circus troupe containing enough fear inducing circus stunts that you cannot look away for a second. Recommended for ages 12+ THE TARMAC OUTDOOR PROGRAMME VARIOUS TIMES AND LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL Full of exciting free events suitable for all ages; be wowed by a giant inflatable moon outside The Forum and come along to two packed days of fun at our always popular Garden Party. Please see Norfolk & Norwich Festival website for more details: nnfestival.org.uk 14

19 Paul Harrison Paul Harrison 100% of teachers would recommend a Norfolk & Norwich Festival workshop to another teacher Based on teacher evaluations % of young people that participated said they liked or loved our workshops Based on participant evaluations 2016

20 Becky Demmen We can t wait to see you! CONTACT US Call takepart@nnfestival.org.uk Principal Funders Supported by The Ellerdale Trust, The Goodman Trust, The John Jarrold Trust, Norwich Town Close Estate Charity