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P7 pupils from Strandtown Primary School joined with tenants from Dean Crooks Fold to create a performance of music and song inspired by the Window on the World display at the Ulster Museum.
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he project entitled ‘Let’s Make An Opera’ is a joint venture with Arts Care, National Museums Northern Ireland and the Public Health Agency. It is part of the ‘Here and Now’ festival which celebrates the Arts of Ageing Well. Live & Learn teams at the Ulster Museum, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum and Ulster American Folk Park are working with groups of older adults in creative workshops using music, movement and song inspired by the collections of each museum. The Ulster Museum performance by the children and older people was inspired by some of the Museum’s collection including
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a Celtic high cross, a Native American totem pole and a Sri Lankan dance mask. The project also included creative sessions facilitated by composer Elaine Agnew and drama practitioner Charmaine McBride from Arts Care’s team of professional artists. Ruth Osborne from the Live and Learn team at National Museums Northern Ireland said, “There is enormous value in projects like this one. As well as sharing many laughs and exchanging stories as we explore some of the museum’s collection, we also found this to be a very stimulating time for the group. We are involved in numerous projects like this one
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and participants find it most beneficial. ” Arts Care CEO and Artistic Director, Dr Jenny Elliott said, “The ‘Let’s Make An Opera’ project offers young children and the older people the opportunity to visit the museum together, some perhaps for the first time. The festival is really about enhancing older people’s well-being through quality arts engagement and Arts Care is delighted to be partnering the Ulster Museum in this life enhancing project. It is an ambitious project but having skilled facilitators Elaine and Charmaine on board with the largest Irish Wolfhound and the Totem Pole will make this an ‘opera’ not to be missed!” The project culminated in a performance devised by pupils and tenants using music, song and movement inspired by the folklore and legends represented by the Museum’s Collections. P7 pupil Jonathan Robinson from Strandtown Primary School said “It has been so much fun to learn about objects at the Ulster Museum and then use what we have been taught to create a special performance. It has also been good to work on a project with people who are much older than us.” Monica Simpson, who is a tenant at Dean Crooks Fold on the Upper Newtownards Road, said, “This has been such a lovely project to be involved in. The Strandtown P7s have been absolutely delightful – so engaging and entertaining.”
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