Everything set for our 9th annual summer school!
It feels good to be planning a full live public performance again, after two years of producing films and broadcasts. Starting on Monday 1st August, we will be at Buxton Community School four days a week for two weeks, where the young people will form bands, devise dance and drama, write songs and scripts and shoot pre-filmed sections. We have Leo & Hyde with us once again, bringing some VR art into the mix, joining our regular artist team of Andrea, Benn, Gareth, Lucy, Lydia, Mark and Trixi. We have record numbers of young people signed up from Glossop, New Mills, Whaley Bridge and Buxton (and Ukraine), and young workers and volunteers from previous summer schools coming to help, so it promises to be a melting pot of creativity!
At Easter we began with a theme of ‘My Orbit’, and carried on working in Gamesley and Fairfield in tea time sessions from May to July. Ideas from our participants so far have led us to a framework story about the lengths we will go to care for our nearest and dearest, how to look further afield and extend a welcome to those who enter ‘our orbit’.
By the end of the two weeks we will be ready (?!) to present ‘Aunty’s Antidote’ on Monday 15th August, at St Anne’s Parish Centre, Hardwick Square West in Buxton. There will be two shows (6.30 & 7.30), and tickets (£5 and £3 concessions) are available from ourselves, or Eventbrite.
The record numbers of participants and extra-long summer school is thanks to government Holiday Activity Fund income which joins our grant from The National Foundation for Youth Music and contributions from The Bingham Trust, Derbyshire Music Education Hub and Waitrose.
