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Reimagining theatre to include all young audiences.
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Exploring alter-egos in #Jamboree rehearsals 🤩
This year #SquidzClub has… DJs, live music, open mic, a making market, live radio, a chill out room and LOADS MORE! Party on Friday 28 June at Heart n Soul inclusive club night for young people with learning disabilities aged 10-25🦑🦑🦑
📅 Friday 28 June 🕖 7pm - 🕚 11pm... 📍 The Albany, Douglas Way, London, SE8 4AG 💰 £5, pay-what-you-can for parents and carers 💻 https://bit.ly/squidz19 ☎️ 020 8694 1632
https://bit.ly/squidz19
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🎺🎶It's time to make some noise! Day 1 of Jamboree rehearsals...
🎵🎭🎨✏️From poetry to puppetry, and music to art, All Young Stories Symposium explores how we make sure all young stories are heard, taken seriously & represented in literature and performance.
Our Artistic Director Ellie will be one of an exciting itinerary of contributors: theatre makers, academics, writers, filmmakers, parents, performers, teachers and more!
🎟️Book a free space at the link.
... https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-young- stories-tickets-62…
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Splish Splash was our first pool show in a decade, our first show to put the musician and all the instruments in the water (!), and one of our very first shows with a version created for young audiences who are deafblind/multi-sensory impaired.
We received some really lovely audience feedback, and learnt so much along the way that we're excited to share.
Take a read of our latest evaluation report, compiled by an external academic using audience and cast feedback.
... http://www.oilycart.org.uk/impact/complex _disabilities/
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"Childhood is not a waiting room where you exist before you become an adult and can claim a cultural life for yourself... Children need access to high-quality theatre at all stages of their development."
This piece is filled with innovative, boundary-breaking artists, companies, and venues all staking "a claim for the very young's entitlement to have the very best theatre available to them right from the very start of their lives": Sarah Argent, Starcatchers, Anna Newell Theatre Adventures, Theatre Hullabaloo, Replay Theatre Company, Scottish Opera, Theatre-Rites, Phelim McDermott and Tom Morris. We're thrilled to be included alongside them.
https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/…/ly n-gardner-on-theatre…
What's it like letting Oily Cart take over your school pool?
Hear from teachers about Splish Splash, our water-based wonderland for children and young people with complex needs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUGEK0UCh Wc
Could you be Spare Tyre's new Executive Director? The company are looking to recruit someone with a strong commitment to participatory, community or socially engaged theatre.
https://www.sparetyre.org/…/spare-tyre- seek-new-executive-d…
"Brilliant, inspiring experience. So much to reflect on and explore in my own practice." Participant, 2018
✏️ Last chance to apply for Creating with the Cart!
Our annual summer school supported by Rose Bruford College is an introduction to making sensory performance work for and with young people with complex needs. Over the years, the course has led to inspiring international collaborations, embedded sensory practice, and new work.
... Deadline: Friday June 7th, 5pm.
http://www.oilycart.org.uk/…/creating_w ith_the_cart_2019_…/…
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✏️✏️✏️There's still time to apply for Creating with the Cart, our annual summer school supported by Rose Bruford College✏️✏️✏️
If you're interested in making sensory theatre for and with young people with complex needs, you've now got until Friday June 7th to apply.
"Brilliant, inspiring experience. So much to reflect on and explore in my own practice." Participant, 2018
... "I didn't want it to end and would love to come and complete the course again." Participant, 2017
http://www.oilycart.org.uk/…/creating_w ith_the_cart_2019_t…/
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"As beautifully conceived in its visual and tactile dimensions as in its music and sound, Sound Symphony is a brilliantly crafted, wonderfully benign, deeply moving piece of theatre."
Congratulations to Ellie Griffiths on the fantastic response to Sound Symphony, her interactive show for young audiences with profound autism and their families.
Sound Symphony is touring Scotland this month, then in June rehearsals begin for Jamboree, Ellie's first show with Oily Cart as Artist...ic Director🎶
https://www.heraldscotland.com/…/176341 81.mark-browns-dan…/…
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📣Call out!📣We’re looking for a Stage Manager for Jamboree, a vibrant gig-performance for teenagers with complex needs and their friends and families. Deadline: Monday 20th May 2019 at 5pm
http://www.oilycart.org.uk/about_us/recru itment/
Today, Oily Cart has been transformed into a tactile wonderland for Wandsworth Arts Fringe! We had a sensational, sensory morning welcoming families to our Inclusive Play Space, and can't wait for our Inclusive Hang Out sessions this afternoon #WAF10
Time to make some noise! We're so excited to be back at Boing International Family Festival this year 🎶
There are still a few FREE spaces left for our Inclusive Play Space and Inclusive Hang Out taking place this Saturday!
Play, discover or just relax in our tactile, sensory wonderland for young people with complex needs and their friends and families.
Photo: Drum (2011-13). Credit Patrick Baldwin
... https://www.wandsworthfringe.com/whats-on -2019
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We were delighted to welcome Ian Barclay from Riverside Radio to Oily Cart to talk about our Wandsworth Arts Fringe events Inclusive Play Space and Inclusive Hang Out. Here's a link to take a listen! #WAF10
https://soundcloud.com/this…/inclusive- hangout-at-oily-cart…
This time next week, the doors to our Inclusive Play Space and Inclusive Hang Out will be open!
We chatted to Riverside Radio's Ian Barclay about the sensory wonderland we're creating for young people with complex needs and their friends and families as part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe. Tune in to Barclay's Brunch (11am - 1pm) this Sunday to listen!📻
http://www.riversideradio.com