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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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