February’s feeling creative!
Date: Saturday 4th February 2012 Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London SE1 75 minutes of arts and crafts with music that would make your toes tap. Create once again hosted a multi sensory experience for our group of younger Daytrippers who all left after dancing their hearts out to the Bad Ass Brass Band, accompanied by talented pianist Derek Paravicini (who is blind and has severe learning difficulties). The bright orange trombone seemed to be a big hit at this concert, testing the children’s levels of puff. Smiles all around in our photo...
read moreXmas Panto 2011 – Aladdin
Date: Tuesday 6th December 2011 Venue: The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith Wow what a day! We have just come back from the best ever Xmas Panto event with 500 of you cheering on Aladdin and his faithful friend Wishy Washy the Funky Monkey. The Lyric Theatre once again welcomed us all to a fantastic traditional panto with a few modern twists. The audience were singing and dancing along to their favourite songs, whilst booing passionately at the evil baddie! Widow Twanky kept everyone laughing throughout the performance but one Daytripper Riah...
read moreDaytrippers Pan-Disability Football Tournament / October 2011
Date: Sunday 16th October 2011 Venue: The London Soccer Dome, Greenwich This is our sixth annual football tournament and each year we add something different to make the day extra special. With 28 teams arriving early ready for a day full on back to back tournaments the atmosphere was truly electric. Travelling from all over the UK, our eager footballers got into the spirit and competed in two tournaments each for the under 12s or under 16s. Inspired by seeing the skills of the footballers in past years we ran a special skills challenge...
read moreDaytrippers at Colourscape / September 2011
Date: Thursday 22nd September 2011 Venue: Clapham Common, London In September 2011, Daytrippers had our very own private day at Europe’s most unusual music festival, that has run annually for over 20 years on Clapham Common. Throughout the day, we were able to welcome 130 children with special needs to join us in this walk-in scultpure of intense colour. Arranging a variety of music and colour workshops the children each got to experience all that this magical world of colour and light can offer. There really is no better way to learn...
read moreLondon Zoo’s Special Childrens Day / September 2011
Date: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th Sept 2011 Venue: London Zoo Daytrippers co-sponsored London Zoo’s Special Childrens Day this September with Barclays Bank, helping make it bigger and better than ever before. Running over an entire weekend, with increased specialist facilities and helpers, as well as free talks thoroughout the day with British Sign Language interpreters and unique ‘Touch Tours’, this event is perfect for children with special needs and their families. This year we had a live band, a unique discovery zone...
read moreDaytrippers Creative:Space Concert / July 2011
Date: Sunday 17th July 2011 Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London SE1 Teaming up once again with the wonderful team at Create, Daytrippers offered tickets to an exclusive 75 minute interactive morning concert. Ideal for our younger Daytrippers this event gives children a safe space to dance and join in with the music making. There were also tables laiden with plenty of craft making materials so every child could create their own hand puppet. This concert was performed by the talented Derek Paravicini (who is blind and has severe learning...
read moreColourscape Festival at Mandeville Special School / May 2011
Date: Monday 23rd May – Friday 27th May 2011 Venue: Mandeville Special School, Greenford This May, working in partnership with Colourscape, Daytrippers had the rare opportunity to help organise a week long festival at Mandeville Special School. All of the 90 students had the opportunity to explore the Colourscape structure learning about colour palettes and mixing. In addition they were able to take part in interactive music making workshops with the talented David Stevens who uses adapted sensors and computer software to create music...
read moreDaytrippers Film Premiere at Watermans Theatre / May 2011
Date: Friday 13th May 2011 Venue: The Watermans Theatre, Brentford For the second year in a row Daytrippers hosted our Oscar Themed Film Premiere at The Waterman’s Theatre in Brentford. Films were submitted by Belvue and John Chilton School, and the audience was bumped up to full capacity with both Spring Hallow School and Woodfield Sports College coming along to watch. With facepainting, glitter tattoos, and free popcorn for all the 152 children that attended the atmosphere was buzzing even before the show started. As a build up to the...
read moreDaytrippers Creative:Space Concert / March 2011
Date: Sunday 13th March 2011 Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London SE1 Daytrippers & the Create team joined forces again to welcome eighty people to this popular interactive 75-minute concert. The children all started by making their own felt hand puppets decorated with the jewels and stickers of their choice. This was soon followed by dancing and music making with the talented Derek Paravicini (who is blind and has severe learning difficulties) & the Metropolitan Brass Ensemble. Learning how brass instruments work, the children were given an...
read moreDaytrippers helps TOURETTESHERO!
Date: Saturday 18th December 2010 Venue: Secret London Location Braving the snow vast numbers of Superheros gathered at a secret location in South London, all to help Touretteshero save the world from the Dull and Boring Bureaucrat in response to her plee via Touretteshero’s emergency broadcast. Utilizing everyone’s creativity at this end of year party, the children designed their own superhero identities building up their stories and super powers over the morning. Stopping only for a Superhero feast the day climaxed in completing...
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