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Hello – and welcome to our schools and colleges
programme for the Autumn Term 2015.
Our programme of exhibitions, live performances and film
screenings and all the enrichment activities that surround them
are offered to young people as a key part of our overall
creative learning programme. Through this programme we aim
to:-
Spark imagination
Stimulate creativity
Broaden horizons
Deepen knowledge
Develop understanding
Enrich appreciation
Enhance enjoyment The needs of children and young people are the central focus
of our creative learning programme. We ensure that we create
many opportunities for them to experience the richness of the
arts with a wide range of accessible, enjoyable, challenging
and stimulating arts learning opportunities.
I hope that you’ll find much in our Autumn programme to
interest you and your students, no matter what their age.
Brian Bishop
Education Director
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Table of Contents
Artistic Programme for Primary Schools 4
Making It: Sculpture in Britain: 1977 – 1986 5
The Children’s Bookshow 6
Into Film Festival 7
The Gruffalo’s Child 8
The Lost Gift 9
Artistic Programme for Secondary Schools & Colleges 11
Mead Gallery: Exhibition, Events and Activities 12
Complicite: The Encounter 13
Sue Maclaine Company: Can I Start Again Please 14
Kneehigh: Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) 15
Into Film Festival 16
Headlong: The Glass Menagerie 17
Tim Crouch: An Oak Tree 18
Regent’s Park Theatre: Lord of the Flies 19
Booking Information / Planning Your Visit 20
Get More Out of Your Visit 21
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Artistic Programme for
Primary Schools
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Mead Gallery
Making It: Sculpture in Britain: 1977 – 1986 An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition
Thu 8 Oct – Sun 29 Nov
Open Mon – Sat 12 noon – 9pm
Ages: All
FREE entry
Making It takes a broad look at an exciting time in British art – particularly
sculpture. British sculptors were taking inspiration from all over the world
and from other types of artists. Their work was fresh, exciting and unusual;
made from many different materials and extremely varied in size. This wide
range of work is represented here – with works from such artists as Antony
Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Richard Deacon. It will inspire children (and
you) as they make their own work with you in school – whether it be 3D or
2D.
A comprehensive Education Pack has been created both to give teachers a
chance to see some of the works before a visit and to offer a wide range of
suggestions for follow-up activities after the visit. Access the pack here;
http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/education/teachers/teachers-
resources/.
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Jessica Souhami
The Children’s Bookshow Tue 3 Nov 11am All tickets £4.50 (teachers FREE) and FREE Workshops Age: Years 3 & 4
The Children’s Bookshow is an annual tour of children’s authors and
illustrators from the UK and abroad. Their aim is to delight and inspire
children with great poems, beautiful illustrations and gripping storytelling,
helping teachers provide their students with a rich and exciting experience
of literature and create the readers and writers of tomorrow.
Picture book creator Jessica Souhami has always been fascinated by
traditional tales handed down from storyteller to storyteller. Stories that
were told before printing was invented. Jessica will take the children
through the process of creating a picture book from early research to
preparing a rough layout, from choosing the colour palette to tips on
creating suspense and excitement. She will also share some of her own
favourite stories.
Tickets for this event are NOT on sale through the Warwick Arts Centre Box
Office. For tickets and a chance to claim one of four FREE school
workshops with Jessica Souhami, please contact Liz Neville at The
Children’s Bookshow on 07866 311486 or [email protected]
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Into Film Festival
Mon 9 – Thu 12 Nov All screenings and events are FREE
The Into Film Festival is a national event run by Into Film – a charity
created from the amalgamation of two leading film education
charities, FILMCLUB and First Light. The festival aims to put film at the
heart of children and young people’s learning, contributing to their cultural,
creative and personal development. It will help educators bring learning to
life for 5-19 year olds across the UK by inspiring young people to watch,
make and understand film in new and creative ways.
Warwick Arts Centre is a keen supporter of the Festival and builds a
programme of screenings and events for a wide age range of young people
across a number of curriculum subjects.
We are currently discussing with Into Film what our full programme will be
this year and more details will come soon. But we can promise an event
with the British Board of Film Classification where children will see a full
length film and discuss with a member of the BBFC staff why the film was
given the certification it received and what the purpose of the BBFC is.
For more information on the Festival as a whole visit Into Film Festival.
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The Gruffalo’s Child
From the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Thu 26 & Fri 27 Nov 10.30am & 1.30pm Tue 1 – Fri 4 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm Tue 8 – Fri 11 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm Tue 15 – Thu 17 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm 55 mins Age 3+ Theatre All tickets £9.20 (every 16th ticket FREE) One wild and windy night the Gruffalo’s child ignores her father’s warning
and tiptoes out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn’t really
exist…does he?
Tall Stories Theatre Company are back! After last year’s run of The
Gruffalo (sold out to schools), they are bringing magical, musical life
to Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s captivating sequel.
All illustrations copyright © Axel Scheffler 2004, published by Macmillan Children’s Books.
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Warwick Arts Centre in association with Highly Sprung and Vortex Creates
The Lost Gift
Mon 14 Dec – Fri 18 Dec, performances every 10mins from 10am –
11.30am and12pm – 1.30pm.
45mins per group (approx)
Schools’ Ticket Price: £9
One FREE teacher ticket for every 10 tickets purchased
The Lost Gift is an ideal alternative to panto – an interactive, immersive
Christmas experience where the children shape the story, solve clues and
learn to help characters along the way. Ideal for Key Stage 2 pupils but
also suitable for Key Stage 1 as performances can be tailored to the age
range.
Step into our magical Christmas adventure and discover a story waiting to
be told.
Tiptoe into the wintery woods to seek the key.
The key that unlocks an undiscovered journey.
The journey that uncovers secrets that will take you deep underground, up
into the sky and to a land of snow.
The land of snow where the mystery of The Lost Gift lies …
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The Lost Gift that is waiting to be found. So grab your hat, scarf and
gloves*. Be part of a Christmas tale that can’t start without you.
(*Knitwear will be provided!)
The Lost Gift is an indoor interactive performance that you walk through in
groups. We have transformed our gallery to create this magical world.
Performance start times are between 10.30am and 1.30pm on Mon 14
Dec – Fri 18 Dec and will be allocated depending on your total school
group size. Each school visit will be unique and tailored to the total number
of school children and adults you wish to attend. The performance takes
around 45 minutes.
To register your interest in attending, please follow the instructions on
the enquiry form. Our Box Office team will then be in touch to arrange your
visit personally. Alternatively, you can call our dedicated schools booking
contacts Helen and Amanda in the Box Office on 024 7615 0930
Visit www.thelostgift.com for more information.
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Artistic Programme for
Secondary Schools
and Colleges
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Mead Gallery: Exhibition, Events and Activities
Making It: Sculpture in Britain: 1977 – 1986
An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition
Thu 8 Oct – Sun 29 Nov
FREE entry
Making It charts the emergence of a younger generation of artists practising
in the UK with works of over 40 artists including Tony Cragg, Richard
Deacon, Antony Gormley,Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker and Alison
Wilding.
Now That’s What I Call Sculpture
The 1980s in retrospect
Thu 19 Nov, 2pm – 6pm
Schools/Colleges £6 (limited availability)
This event brings together artists, curators and academics to discuss
developments in British sculpture in the late 1970s and ‘80s. It will also
involve a gallery discussion with contributions from a number of the
exhibiting artists.
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Complicite
The Encounter
Thu 8 – Sat 10 Oct 7.45pm, Sat 10 & Sun 11 Oct 2pm
2hrs (no interval)
Age 12+ (some nudity)
Theatre
Schools/colleges £13
Twenty years ago Simon McBurney was given a book. Amazon
Beaming tells the story of photographer Loren McIntyre, who, in 1969,
found himself lost amongst the remote people of the Javari Valley, on the
border between Brazil and Peru. It was an encounter that changed his life:
bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus.
Complicite’s new production takes McIntyre’s journey as its compass and
uses cutting-edge binaural technology. The audience will experience a new
level of intimate storytelling as the show explores and makes perceptible
the inexplicable telepathic communication between an individual and a
tribe.
Audiences will wear headphones throughout the performance, which will be
supplied.
Meet Simon McBurney, Fri 9 Oct FREE. See website for full details.
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Sue MacLaine Company with Nadia Nadarajah
Can I Start Again Please
Tue 20 & Wed 21 Oct 7.45pm
55mins (no interval)
Age 16+
Studio
Schools/colleges £8
Can I Start Again Please will challenge students’ perception of theatrical
form and how stories are told to an audience.
“Honed with great dignity and presence, the story within the performance
unravels slowly through inference rather than straightforward narrative.”
Disability Arts Online
Through a poetic script delivered in English and British Sign Language, Can
I Start Again Please unravels its story slowly, heartbreakingly, through
inference rather than straightforward narrative. Coffin-dark humour, bell
ringing and the words of Wittgenstein combine to reflect on the capacity of
language to articulate traumatic experience.
“An extraordinarily eloquent piece about silence … bruning with
anger, yet beautifully choreographed and powerfully controlled.”
***** The Stage.
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Kneehigh
Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love
songs)
A New Beggar’s Opera
Written by Carl Grose
Music by Charles Hazlewood
Directed by Mike Shepherd
Tue 27 Oct – Sat 31 Oct 7.30pm
Sat matinee 2pm
2hr 15mins
Age 14+ (very strong language and sexual references)
Theatre £13
The ever inventive Kneehigh return with their blazing new show. Fasten
your seat belts; it’s going to be one hell of a night! Based on the Beggar’s
Opera, John Gay’s classic musical satire, Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and
other love songs) is busting with wit, wonder and weirdness. An
extraordinary Kneehigh cast of actor-musicians shoot, hoot and shimmy
their way through this twisted morality tale of our times.
NOTE: If your students are on half term, they may book individually or with
a group of friends for £13 per ticket.
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Into Film Festival
Mon 9 – Thu 12 Nov All screenings and events are FREE
The Into Film Festival is a national event run by Into Film – a charity
created from the amalgamation of two leading film education
charities, FILMCLUB and First Light. The festival aims to put film at the
heart of children and young people’s learning, contributing to their cultural,
creative and personal development. It will help educators bring learning to
life for 5-19 year olds across the UK by inspiring young people to watch,
make and understand film in new and creative ways.
Warwick Arts Centre is a keen supporter of the Festival and builds a
programme of screenings and events for a wide age range of young people
across a number of curriculum subjects.
We are currently discussing with Into Film what our full programme will be
this year and more details will come soon. But we can promise an event
with the British Board of Film Classification where children will see a full
length film and discuss with a member of the BBFC staff why the film was
given the certification it received and what the purpose of the BBFC is.
For more information on the Festival as a whole visit Into Film Festival.
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Headlong in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
Tue 10 – Sun 14 Nov 2015
2 hours 30 mins
Age tbc
Theatre
Schools/colleges £10
A frustrated mother, a daughter lost in her imagination, and a son intent on
rebellion. By night, Tom lives the life of an assassin, an outlaw, a czar of the
underworld, via his trips to the movies. By day, he works in a factory. In the
apartment he shares with mother Amanda and sister Laura, the air hangs
thick with the scent of sickly sweet flowers and his mother’s oppressive
nostalgia. Laura barely survives it, a shadow of herself, clinging desperately
to her only solace, a beloved glass menagerie.
When Amanda insists Tom brings home a gentleman caller for Laura, the
fragile dreams of all three are shattered with consequences they may never
escape. Pioneering director Ellen McDougall creates this new production
from Headlong, producers of The Absence of War, 1984 and The Seagull,
in a co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Liverpool
Everyman and Playhouse. One of the UK’s brightest young directing
talents, her previous work includes critically acclaimed productions of Henry
the Fifth, Anna Karenina, The Rolling Stone and Idomeneus.
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An Oak Tree
by Tim Crouch
Tue 17 – Thu 19 Nov 7.45pm 75mins (no interval) Age 16+ Studio Schools/colleges £8
This is a must-see for students of theatre/drama – to open their eyes to
innovative, ground-breaking theatre performed by a master of his craft.
A man loses his daughter to a car. Nothing now is what it is. It’s like he’s in
a play – but he doesn’t know the words or the moves. The driver is a stage
hypnotist. Since the accident, he’s lost the power of suggestion. For him,
everything now is exactly what it is. They meet when the Father volunteers
for the Hypnotist’s act. And, this time, he really doesn’t know the words or
the moves… An Oak Tree is a two-hander, with The Hypnotist played by
Tim Crouch and The Father played by a different guest actor at each
performance. These different actors walk on stage having neither seen nor
read a word of the play – until they’re in it! This multi award–winning play,
on its 10th anniversary tour contains a dazzling balance of gripping story,
rich theatricality and shocking humour.
Meet Tim Crouch, Tue 7 Nov FREE. See website for full details.
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COMING SOON
Regent’s Park Theatre
Lord of the Flies
from the book by William Golding
adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams
Mon 22 – Sat 27 Feb 7.30pm Matinee Thu 25 11am 2hrs Age: 11+ Butterworth Hall Schools/colleges £13 (limited availability for evening performances)
After a group of schoolboys survive a massive plane crash, what starts as a
classic desert island adventure quickly becomes a struggle for survival as
superstition and immorality sees the community slide into a darkly sinister
world.
“This is a riveting stage version of William Golding’s still shattering
novel … and it unfolds with a dreadful, compelling inevitability.” ****
Sunday Express
Image: Original production shot – 2011. Johan Persson
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Booking Information
To book ticket*, contact Helen and Amanda, our dedicated schools’ booking
team:
Telephone: 024 7615 0930
Email: [email protected]
Please note: the schools’ booking team work Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays 10am – 4pm
*Excluding The Childrens Bookshow and the Into Film Festival
Risk Assessment
You can download a copy of our risk assessment form from our website:
http://bit.ly/WAC_Risk.
Planning Your Visit
All of the information you require to plan your visit to Warwick Arts
Centre can be found on our website in the ‘Your Visit’ section:
www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/your-visit.
We regularly update the website with information on parking,
accessibility, facilities, and opening hours. If you are unable to find
the information you require, please contact Helen or Amanda in the
schools’ booking team (details above).
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Get More Out Of Your Visit…
Sculpture and Colour Trail
The University of Warwick has an important collection of 800 pieces of
modern and contemporary art that is spread right across campus. We have
developed a Sculpture Trail and a Colour Trail to give individuals, family
groups and school parties access to parts of that collection.
Anyone can follow the Trails independently with the support of Trail leaflets
that are available FREE OF CHARGE from Box Office.
Schools can opt to take either Trail with the support of trained leaders who
can stimulate reaction through observation, drawing and discussion.
Sculpture Trail
Trained leaders take pupils on a journey around campus looking at 5 or 6
works of abstract sculpture. These vary in size, shape, material, colour and
making technique – from the carved marble of Dark at Heart by Peter
Randall-Page to the bird-like painted aluminium of Op Mobile no. 10 by
Nechemia Azaz.
Colour Trail
Children are taken on an indoor trail of abstract art works focusing
particularly on the use of colour, thinking and talking about the spectrum,
how colours are made, the feelings they evoke and the techniques the
artists have used. Works include Orange with Lemon and White by Patrick
Heron and the huge wall painting Everything by Ian Davenport.
Schools can book either Trail by contacting the Education Team on
024 7657 4786 / 024 7615 1793 or [email protected].
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Talks and Workshops
Warwick Arts Centre holds a range of talks and workshops each season,
suitable for all ages, to support the programme of events. Simply visit the
performance event pages and look for the ‘Get more out of you visit’
section.