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The Arrival • Transitions • Oaklands Lighting Course • Scriptworks • Careers In Theatre • Tower Hamlets Drama Teachers Forum • Previous Projects
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For more information on any aspect of our Secondary School work please call 020 7709 8908 or email the Projects Manager
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The Arrival - Spring Term
The Arrival is a two phase project between Half Moon, Thomas Buxton Junior School and Swanlea Secondary School. The project consists of individual workshops in each school using practical drama and theatre work to develop the young people's skills, knowledge and creativity.
Working with Year 5's from Thomas Buxton school and Years 7 - 9 from Swanlea school, all of the students will use as, the stimulus of the work The Arrival, a graphic novel that explores migration and settlement by Shaun Tan. The groups are responding to this material through a combination of drama sessions, as well as working with a musician and choreographer to create a music track and movement piece.
The work concludes with an opportunity for the young people from the two schools to come together at Half Moon to share what they have done and create a new piece of work together.
A joint Thomas Buxton / Swanlea school performance in the spring term 2009 is one of the objectives of this drama process.
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Transitions Project
Transitions is a four-phased programme of activity working directly with four Year 6 classes in two primary schools and a selected group of Year 7 ambassadors from St Pauls Way School. The project aims to offer the young people an opportunity to be involved in an active consultation on how they like to learn, the environment they like to learn in and the transition from Primary to Secondary school.
Each phase is beingrecorded by a documentary film-maker, eyeline productions. The final DVD will include footage of the process and will also include young people's feedback from each phase of the programme as direct address to camera.
The programme will consist of a series of drama workshops in the school environment, along with a forum theatre session at Half Moon's base and a visit for the Year 6 students to St Pauls Way School.
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Oaklands Lighting Course
A six week course providing an opportunity for the young people at Oaklands School to gain hands on skills, knowledge and experience in designing and operating theatre lighting for performances.
The course covers topics such as Health & Safety, electrical testing, rigging, designing and operating the lights. Every student will finish the course with their own lighting design. The course is being taught by a professional stage manager and Half Moon's Production Manager and a professional Lighting Designer, whose recent credits include We Are Shadows and Icicle Bicycle.
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Scriptworks
This is a performance project for Years 9, 10, & 11, focusing on basic drama and theatre skills and creative approaches, developing a new script to be performed at Half Moon. The project allows the young people to work with a writer, director and designer to develop their own authentic theatre voice and follows the following structure:
1st Stage
8 after-school sessions lasting for a minimum of 1 hour and a maximum of 2 hours. Most sessions last an average of an hour and a half.
- These sessions focus on basic dramatic skills and approaches to writing. Skills include improvisation, dialogue, understanding text, staging, physical theatre and character work.
- During these sessions participants begin to develop a performance piece with the assistance of the writer and director who are present throughout the sessions.
- There is an element of set design integrated into the sessions, encouraging participants to approach ideas from an artistic angle and look at theatre as a multi faceted medium.
- By week 6 a script is produced and the final 2 weeks are spent rehearsing and developing the piece in readiness for the two day intensive.
2nd Stage
Rehearsal and performance
A two-day intensive at Half Moon YPT
- The first day is spent rehearsing the script. A team of participants work with a set designer; there is also be a lighting designer present and an element of sound design. A stage manager is present throughout, to ensure that participants gain a deeper understanding of the professional theatre process.
- The second day consists of a technical and dress rehearsal culminating in a performance open to friends and family.
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Careers in Theatre
Careers in Theatre gives students who may be in the process of making curriculum choices, or considering employment in theatre a practical insight into the business, technical and artistic aspects of professional theatre practice.
Lighting designers from Bethnal Green Technology College
and George Green's Secondary School designed spectacular effects
Phase One: Taster Programme
October 2008
Each day for up to two weeks a group of up to 50 students per day will work collaboratively with a range of professional arts practitioners to create a contemporary theatre production.
They:
- Use negotiating and planning skills within the process of theatre making.
- Made artistic and technical decisions throughout the process.
- Work collaboratively with students from other schools & colleges.
The students use as a stimulus extracts from new plays which are currently in development as part of the Half Moon's commitment to supporting new writing for young people.
The acting group, supported by a stage management, lighting, sound and design crew made up of their peers, will bring these pieces to life. By developing this work directly alongside young people, the script is enriched with an authentic language, portraying diverse cross cultural inner-city life.
Each group focuses on their own particular specialism separately throughout the day, supported by a Stage Management team from Rose Bruford College. The groups come together at the end of the day and combine each element to create a short piece of theatre in response.
Set design students from Central Foundation Girls' School
created an intricate set complete with moving cage
Phase Two: Careers in Theatre Conference
March 2009
We will be offering a one-day conference for students who have already shown a strong interest and enthusiasm for a career in the arts. This phase of the project is a progression from Phase One, where students have the opportunity to take part in two practical workshops and meet professionals from many aspects of the arts, including actors, writers and tutors from colleges and universities. At the end of the day students will create their own action plan for a career in theatre.
Career Conference Schedule
Reception
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Lunch
Panel discussion
Development Workshop
For the workshops students can choose 2 options from:
Writing for Theatre
Acting and Auditioning for Theatre
Technical Theatre
Design for Theatre
Arts Marketing and Administration
Stage Managers from Langdon Park Secondary School
prepare for the Production Meeting
Phase Three: Work Experience at Half Moon
Students who have participated in the earlier phases spend one or two weeks at Half Moon on a work experience placement in order to gain knowledge and experience of the range of jobs and opportunities (creative, administrative and technical) that contribute to producing a piece of theatre.
An actor from Stepney Green Secondary School waits to begin the final performance
If you want to find out more about a career in theatre the following websites contain some useful information:
The Council of Drama Schools www.drama.ac.uk
National Council for Drama Training www.ncdt.co.uk
The Association of British Theatre Technicians www.abtt.org.uk
Society of British Theatre Designers www.theatredesign.org.uk
Professional Lighting and Sound Association www.plasa.org
Get Into Theatre www.getintotheatre.org
Creative Choices www.creative-choices.co.uk
or check our Half Moon work experience
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Tower Hamlets Drama Teachers Forum
In collaboration with local secondary schools, Half Moon organises Tower Hamlets Drama Teachers Forum. The sessions provide an opportunity to meet other drama teachers in the borough and to discuss curriculum and other relevant issues. This forum is teacher led.
The next meeting of the Forum will be scheduled shortly. In the next session the forum will be looking at Ed Excel Paper 2 preparation and the session will include a practical element exploring Commedia as well as directing.
Julia Williams, Drama Teacher and Chair of the Forum, is keen to welcome new members and to hear your ideas for practical sessions or topics for debate. To register interest in the next forum or add any items to the agenda please call the Projects Manager on 020 7709 8908 or email the Project Manager
Half Moon also offers INSET sessions for Secondary and Primary schools at various times of the year.
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