Holiday Workshops

MakeBelieve Arts offers 3 exciting Half-Term Holiday Programmes for children in Years 5 and 6 (ages 10 and 11) who are interested in drama

Participants will:

Work with professional artists and experienced workshop leaders
Spend a week exploring a text, using drama, music, movement and theatre games
Understand themes and develop characters
Devise and write scripts for their own scenes
Present a performance on the final afternoon of the course
Receive a certificate of achievement via their school

All courses will take place at
MakeBelieve Arts Space
Deptford Mission
1 Creek Road
London SE8 3BT
Courses run from 10am to 3.30pm including lunchtime supervision
Participants should bring a packed lunch and wear loose comfortable clothing

Prices:

Autumn and Spring Terms £95 per course
Summer Term £85

Payable in advance. Discounts available if booking more than one place or more than one course
(Courses will run subject to minimum numbers)

Autumn Half Term 2008

Monday 27th - Friday 31st October (5 days)

The Little Prince - A Musical

Using drama, music and storytelling to explore The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery

Spring Half Term 2009

Monday 16th - Friday 20th February (5 days)

The Red Shoes

Using drama, dance, movement and storytelling to explore Hans Christian Andersen's story The Red Shoes

Summer Half Term 2009

Tuesday 26th - Friday 29th May (4 days)

Goodnight Mr Tom

Using a variety of drama exercises and techniques, devising scenes and writing scripts arising from this classic story about World War 2 evacuees

Past Projects

Brockley Cemetery

Children were taken to Brockley Cemetery as a stimulus for their creative writing. Inscriptions were a good source of material and each child wrote part of a story based on their discoveries. They created imaginary lives from names and dates written on the gravestones and and an eerie time was had by all. The performance at the end of the week took the audience around the cemetery, with children appearing from nooks and crannies and sharing their stories of the lives that had gone before.

Creekside Environment Centre

After struggling into waders at the Creekside Environmental Centre, children and workshop leaders squelched their way through an exciting and unusual tour of the Creek. The group then spent the next few days bringing the Creek to life through performance poetry, storytelling and improvisation.

The children choreographed their movements to percussion played on pipes and scrap metal found lying around the site, and building towards a promenade show jam packed with individual and group performances that was presented to an audience of friends and family on the final morning.

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