Book your workshops…

https://manchestertheatreacademy.co.uk/childrens-drama-groups/

https://manchestertheatreacademy.co.uk/youth-drama-groups/

A few years ago, I did a teacher training workshop with ‘Frantic Assembly’ and found it so liberating. I’d seen the results of this method, when I watched ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night’ and was hooked.

This to me is physical theatre on a completely new level and I came out of the Dancehouse theatre in Manchester, feeling like I’d had a full body workout-I’d used muscles I didn’t even know I had-I was inspired and fell in love with theatre all over again. This felt new and edgy and I wanted to get stuck in with my group and pass this feeling on.

Since then we’ve done duets together, we’ve used the physical warm ups, we’ve increased our use of lifts an d always try and incorporate stylised moves, where they work, within our shows.

Frantic Assembly have some amazing stuff on their website at the moment and will be covering one of their shows as a theme each week. This week was A ‘Beautiful Burnout’ and I would really recommend checking this out. It gets you moving, creating and gives you a challenge to work on during these times. It’s important to stay active and keep your spark going, so do your drama challenges…do some physical theatre.

https://www.franticassembly.co.uk/frantic-digital

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Exciting times ahead- I have just booked the Arts Award Advisor course, the next step is to order our log books and we’ll be set to go with Arts Award. Thank you so much to ‘Forever Manchester‘ for funding this project. This will be such a valuable experience for our students and future members who wish to take part in Arts Award in Manchester.

Why Arts Award?

Taking part in Arts Award, can have a truly positive impact on the lives of our young people. Many students become more confident communicators, better equipped to; engage in debate, public speaking and sharing opinions. It opens doors to career possibilities they may never have considered before and many students have gone on to find a career in the arts.

According to a study carried out by London South Bank University, many believe Arts Award ‘validates young people’s artistic activity’ and for some people this is their first and only qualification. https://www.artsaward.org.uk/site/?id=2647

The Arts Award qualification is widely recognised and is accredited by Trinity college London. It is aimed at students up to 25 years of age and follows levels through from Discover and Explore, at entry level to Gold, which works at A level standard and can be used as UCAS points for a place at university.

For Arts Award Discover, Explore and Bronze you’ll…

• take part in different arts activities
• find out about artists and arts organisations
• experience arts events
• share your arts skills with others
• put together a portfolio or log in your own choice of format

And for Silver and Gold you’ll also get to…

• set yourself arts challenges
• organise your own projects
• research arts careers and the arts sector

If you would like to be a part of Arts Award in Manchester, take the next step and book our Saturday drama classes, where Arts Award will be arriving soon – Book our Youth Drama Group here, and our Children’s Drama Group here

Arts Award in Isolation

Covid 19 may have entered our world but the ‘Arts’ will always find a way. We will continue to deliver Arts Award in Manchester, as we need exciting and fun projects even more than ever now. It keeps us positive, gives us focus and is a real outlet for our young people.

Get Involved

There are many ways to complete your Arts Award Journey;

-Perform a monologue and video it.

-Make a Papier Mache mask and use it to do a solo or duo on Zoom

-Visit a virtual Art Gallery or Theatre ‘Google Arts and Culture’ is a good one or some theatres are doing virtual backstage tours.

-Research an artist. It can be anyone from an actor to a theatre artist, painter or singer. The list goes on…if you can see if you can try and explore their work in your own way eg- build a shoe box set.

Check out Arts Award Voice to find out useful information and record your work

https://www.voicemag.uk/artsaward

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Well done to our seniors on Tuesday for their performance of Burn at Partington Players Theatre. They received great feedback from Carmel Bird- the GMDF guest adjudicator-for their performances. As a drama teacher I was so please to hear comments like- ‘Clear voice, good projection and the expression was written all over your face…’ It really shows how our students have taken advice and have grown as a group.

They all pulled together as a team and embraced the experience of the festival. Some of them made their debut appearances at the festivals this year, so well done to those students. The cast put their hearts and souls into the show and did us proud.

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