Welcome to the tent that moves and grooves!
Check out BBoy, Nathan's scientific exploration of break-dancing and Shanelle'S introduction to Voguing and Waacking.
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Meet your Virtual School's Arts Champion
We asked Claire Pennycooke from Dudley Performing Arts - arts lead for Dudley Virtual School - about her arts interests:
Q: What was the first live music gig/concert you went to?
Claire: Erasure
Q: If you were in a film or story, which character would you like to be?
Claire: Someone who lived in The Magic Faraway Tree
Q: Quick fire questions: choose one option for each quick fire question. Would you prefer to…
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Dance or watch TV? Dance
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Art gallery or cinema? Cinema
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Be in a performance or be in the audience ? Performing
What is your favourite arts activity to do ?
Claire: Reading
Here's a sample of some of the arts organisations in Dudley....
Dudley Libraries
Library to visit, events
Dudley Performing Arts
Events, music lessons
Black Country Touring
Bring theatre, dance & cinema to the heart of communities in the Black Country
Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust
Events, places of interest to visit
Creative Black Country
Project and support for groups to develop creative activities etc.
Click here to read more about arts & culture in Dudley.
Dudley
What does your Virtual School believe that ARTS (music, dance, drama, art, literature, digital, etc) and CULTURE (museums, libraries, historic places of interest etc) offer your young people?
Opportunities to take part in a range of creative activities and experiences with the potential to unlock new skills and talents you never knew you had. A time to let go of the stresses of the day and take some time for yourself to explore different art forms and get creative.
Describe / list your Virtual School’s local arts and cultural offer
Fully funded instrumental tuition in Year 4. Opportunities to make music away from school by joining an ensemble or a choir with children from other schools. Opportunities to take part in projects such as Band in a Day, Come & Play, Layers of Legacy (Black history project) as well as starting an Arts Award and looking at the Artslink Connect & Create offers.
Please describe any particularly effective or successful partnerships and projects that you currently have/previously have had.
We have worked with a Graffiti artist, a ceramicist from Red House Glass Cone, a glass fusion artist from Dudley Museum and a word poet. In one of our residential homes we have Ed Davies, a singer /songwriter working with a group of children.
What local arts events or venues are you personally looking forward to visiting once they open after the latest lockdown?
Dudley Zoo, Red House Glass Cone, Black Country Living Museum, Canal & Tunnel Trust, our local library, music venues around our area and our local drama groups.