intune
summer 2012
ISSUE 10
a chance for you to get involved!
Photo: Eddie Rolmanis
GAMES IN THE PARK
To celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the annual Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival in 2012, there was a free day of songs and musical games for all the family at Toll Gavel United Church in Beverley on Saturday 26 May. The sun shone as local people enjoyed taking part and watching the array of different activities. Starting on the streets, flash mob dancers from Hull City Council’s Youth Centres joined community musician Donna Smith for a highenergy body percussion piece, which led the crowds into the Church. Young children gathered to sing songs and play clapping and skipping games with musicians Sam Dunkley and Donna Smith. Onlookers were joined by Vivien Ellis and violinist Giles Lewin of the early music group Alva, who taught the youngsters ‘An Acre of Land’, an old traditional song from Beverley collected by the Yorkshire Garland Group which gathers local songs from around Yorkshire. Back in the streets the participants of the recorder workshop, which took place at the Guildhall with Piers Adams, followed their leader in a ‘Pied Piper style’ procession through the streets of Beverley to entice shoppers to their mini-concert. Even the Cuban street band buskers stopped playing for the recorder players and clapped enthusiastically! The musicians gave a highly polished performance of dance and contemporary music. The group included a five-year old boy and his grandmother who are learning to play the recorder together and a student who travelled from Dundee especially for this event!
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Next to perform was Castaway Goole Accessible Music Theatre’s Dance Group. This organisation provides performing, leisure and training opportunities for adults and young people with learning and physical disabilities. Under the direction of Anna Webb, they performed their own piece called ‘Meeting Place’ inspired by the choreographer Pina Bausch. The final performance of the day was by the East Riding Youth Dance County Company, featuring six of the region's most talented young dancers, working in a range of contemporary and street dance styles. Director, Delma Tomlin, said it had been a fantastic event and a wonderful way to celebrate such an important cultural Festival. She added: “It was great to see so many people turn up, from babies to grandparents, enjoying their music-making together. “This event not only celebrated the Festival’s Jubilee but also the forthcoming excitement of the Cultural Olympics. The Games we have all played and loved share remarkable connections with cultures around the world and, like music, have a unifying effect on us all.” This event was part of Games in the Park, a New World event and part of imove, a Cultural Olympiad Programme in Yorkshire. New Worlds is a partnership between the NCEM; Alchemy;
Bradford’s Department of Culture, Tourism and Sport; Harewood House; National Media Museum, Bradford and the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. It was also supported by Music4U – the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone.
BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL DAY! Join us as we bring the excitement of the Brazilian Carnival to York on Sunday 17 June from 10.30am to 3.30pm at the NCEM. Heralding the South American theme of the 2012 York Early Music Festival and celebrating with the University of York's Festival of Ideas, we will be joined by the fantastic percussionist Claudio Kron from Brazil who will transport us to Latin America through a series of workshops exploring Brazilian arts and culture. There will be percussion music, samba dance and capoeira with live performances from Claudio and his band and the University of York St John Samba Band. This workshop costs £10 and is suitable for 9 – 14 year olds and booking forms can be downloaded from www.ncem.co.uk/carnival2012