Spring 2015
birmingham hippodrome’s creative learning programme continues to provide our young audiences with the best possible theatre experience. Through our imaginative and innovative in-school and theatre based activities, participants of all ages and abilities are able to discover new skills, designed to enrich and enhance the experience and excitement of live theatre.
The Main Attraction Offers formal education provision to enhance the main stage productions through: • Workshops: specially designed one-off with show related themes • Teaching Resources: including workpacks, video footage and links with actors • Cast related opportunities: Q & A sessions with members of the company; open rehearsals with the company; workshops led by members of the company Shows include: Aladdin; Mary Poppins; Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo; WNO productions
Supporting Roles Primary: Working with schools to develop and deliver bespoke cross arts activities to support schools’ schemes of work and enhance their creative curriculum using and/or adapting dedicated curriculum sources eg Cornerstone. Our workshops will be designed to allow young learners to ‘engage; develop; innovate and express’ their ideas through all the core areas including literacy, numeracy, science and technology and computing skills. Secondary/Tertiary: Working with subject leaders of Dance, Music, English and Drama to aid teachers to reach their target results. Our experienced practitioners will assist students to attain their true potential by working alongside teachers and lecturers to develop new skills and techniques.
Special Schools We offer a range of workshops for young people with varying disabilities by working in partnership with many experienced practitioners, all experts in their field. For example: Open Theatre Company - trail blazers in their work with young people with learning disabilities - using a unique methodology of non verbal, physically-based and imitative play.
Hippodrome Heritage – Can you help? This year - we have been lucky enough to be granted Heritage Lottery Funding to research into the incredible history of the Hippodrome and to uncover all our wonderful stories spanning over 116 years - covering 2 world wars; 5 monarchs; 4 face lifts and a million memories. We would like to work with primary, secondary and special schools to develop a heritage project covering KS1, KS2 and KS3 that would be a way at studying in depth the social, national and international history from 1899 to the present day using the timeline of Birmingham Hippodrome itself as the stimulus - looking at ways in which theatre reflects the social history of the time. We need History teachers to help us shape this very exciting work to fit into your school’s curriculum and help us create some very exciting interactive Heritage resources. In return we will offer you free backstage tours for your school and a special seat plaque.
To all dance TeacherS: PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ON TO YOUR STUDENTS. DanceXchange’s Centre for Advanced Dance Training programme is designed to nurture and support young dancers aged between 11 and 18 with exceptional talent in dance. Funded by the Department for Education’s Music and Dance Scheme, the programme allows talented young people (regardless of their financial background) the opportunity to develop their potential and pursue a career in dance, whilst still attending mainstream education.
artists. More information and details about auditions can be found at: www.dancexchange.org.uk/cadt There are two options to the training programme: Dance Generation, focusing on contemporary dance, which is open to residents within the West Midlands. Yuva Gati, focusing on Bharatanatyam or Kathak, which is recruited nationally.
Students will get the opportunity to explore and develop as a dance artist with the support of some of the UK’s most inspiring Dance Professionals as well as collaboration with international
"The children learnt a lot from the day and haven't stopped talking about how much they enjoyed it."
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CROCKETTS PRIMARY SCHOOL
WE HAVE REVISITED OUR TEACHERS’ FORUM AND DECIDED TO GIVE IT A MAKEOVER! SO FOR EACH SESSION - WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT A SPECIFIC AREA OF INTEREST AND BRING IN GUEST SPEAKERS TO TALK ABOUT THAT TOPIC. WE WILL STILL INCLUDE TIME TO SWAP IDEAS, SHARE CONCERNS AND GET CREATIVE! WED 8 JUL: Pick a Practitioner – get to know what our practitioners can offer you!
All sessions start at 4.30pm and finish at 6pm.
WED 7 OCT: Dance - with DX and BRB for all ages and abilities WED 13 JAN 16: Aladdin with backstage tours - Linking workshops to the curriculum WED 15 JUN 16: Tips for the new school year - planning ideas that are cross curricular and bringing a topic to life with the arts?
To find out more - please call Liz Leck on 0121 689 3064 (please note it is not possible to book tickets through this number) or email creativelearning@birminghamhippodrome.com
“It was amazing to see how these pupils have achieved something so professional through their hard work and everybody’s encouragement has been so helpful. Well done Queensbury!” QUEENSBURY SPECIAL SCHOOL
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• DECIDE ON DATE AND APPROX NUMBER OF TICKETS REQUIRED Current education group offer and availability can be found at birminghamhippodrome.com/education check our website for availability. • EMAIL TO RESERVE TICKETS Full payment is required 90 days from confirmation or 30 days prior to the event, whichever is sooner. We regret that unpaid reservations may be released after these dates without prior notice.
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GREAT DISCOUNTS... • SEND PAYMENT Tickets paid for by cheque will be held for 10 working days before posting out, to allow time for the cheque to clear. One cheque to be presented for payment - no more than two cheques to be accepted on one booking. Payments made less than 10 working days prior to performance date can only be accepted by cash or credit card. NB School cheques can sometimes be accepted less than 10 working days at our discretion and by prior arrangement.
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conTacT uS DEDICATED SCHOOL’S HOTLINE: 0844 338 7000 (CALLS COST FROM 5P PER MIN) groupsales@birminghamhippodrome.com MON-FRI 10AM-5PM Please note our dedicated school’s hotline is strictly for schools and education bookings only. For workshops, backstage tours and education projects call 0121 689 3064/3192 or email creativelearning@birminghamhippodrome.com BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME THEATRE TRUST LIMITED, REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER 510842.