Join in our Season Kick-Off via YouTube Live this March 13th at 11am (GMT-3).
Launching our NEW pedagogical tool for teachers of English all around the World: GO PROJECT!
Join us for our exclusive presentation of this Project Based Learning Tool which designs a weekly plan for you and your students. Yes! It does it FOR you and helps you work through projects, in the classroom or virtually, online and offline. How does it work? Register NOW and learn how!
PLUS! A scoop on our first semester of professional training options: courses and workshops in the third year of our Drama Teacher Training School.
Upon attendance FREE courses will be raffled among the participants.
16th March 2021 23rd March 2021 30th March 2021 6th April 2021 Time (GMT) 6.30pm - 7.30pm
Location: Zoom. Link will be provided when ticket is bought Price: £40 - £56 - Super Early Bird £40 - Early Bird £48 - Standard £56 Artists: Les Bubb Welcome to the world of mime! We're launching our inaugural weekly mime course with a spring in our step - over the next four Tuesdays we'll be looking at how to make the invisible world visible and dig deeper into ways of using you computer screen as a virtual stage. We'll be going over some of the fundamentals of mime and you'll get weekly practices to try at home between classes. Les Bubb has taught courses around the world and consulted on top West End productions (we also like to call him Mime to the Stars after he worked on-set with the Harry Potter celebs). He's had a long, varied and accomplished career performing in theatre, TV and Hollywood (Detective Pikachu anyone?). He's now eager to raise the next generation of mime fans outside the institutions and wants you to be one of them. Expect music and silliness - it's going to be a ball.
18th March 15th April 20th May 17th June Time (GMT 7.30pm - 8.30pm
Location: Zoom. Link will be provided when ticket is bought Price: £12 Artists: Les Bubb You can't get slanty at the pub right now so come do it with us! Mime is a fun, social activity that will get you off your sofa and meeting new people. This is a relaxed, no-pressure class on zoom with tunes and friends. No experience necessary, just a desire to try something a bit different. Make your own mimosa - and we'll see you there! Every 3rd Thursday
The Screen, the Classroom, the Stage - All the world is a Screen - A 3-level-course
Starting March 20th, 11am (GMT-3)
Third consecutive year of On the Road’s Drama Teacher Training School Online Professional Training, available as of March 20th, 2021.
The object of this training is to provide technical and creative tools for ESL lessons as well as any event – online or at school – involving students on screen or on stage (Open Class, Book Fair event, School Concert) All levels are theoretical & practical.Engage your students! Turn the SCREEN in your favour in your ESL class or any class!
EARLY BIRD! Enrol in our course “The Screen, the Classroom, the Stage” before MARCH 7th and enjoy up to 20% off!
Starting March 20th, 11am (GMT-3), On the Road launches the third consecutive year of its Professional Development Programme.
3 levels 12 meetings 24 hours training
The object of this training is to provide technical and creative tools for ESL lessons as well as any event – online or at school – involving students on screen or on stage (Open Class, Book Fair event, School Concert) All levels are theoretical & practical.
Price: Free Artists: Les Bubb To celebrate World Mime Day, Less Bubb: - Mime To The Stars, will be heading to the park and getting up to his usual antics and he wants you to join him live on facebook. Roll on up and find out what mime's all about... Access: https://www.facebook.com/events/1324928481222018
Flashdance The Musical - 'What A Feeling' FREE DANCE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 23rd March at 7:30pm
Join us for a FREE DANCE WORKSHOP on Tuesday 23rd March at 7:30pm with Jessica, our Choreographer for our upcoming production of Flashdance The Musical. We’ll be moving to ‘What A Feeling’ to get us energised and excited. This is an open session and all abilities are welcome. E-mail secretary@zaos.org.uk to book your place. See you there!
Posted 13/03/2021
From Page to Stage Designers
UK VIRTUAL
Virtual Stage Management Workshop
28th March 2021
Come and learn about the different roles of the stage management crew, and how their roles change throughout a theatre production.
This free workshop includes:
- Digital Stage Management resource pack
- Presentation learning all the secrets of teh Stage Crew
- Certificate of completion
This workshop is for creative teens, who love theatre, film and the arts
What's not to love about this? A fabulous opportunity for 5-18 year olds to join @stagecoachhudds for an Easter Workshop Stagecoach is back with a BANG! Join us for some Easter fun, fun, FUN! Working in small, Covid safe groups, kids can learn new skills, safely socialise AND sing, dance and act based on favourite musicals, TV programmes and pop songs. Our workshop will run in covid secure bubbles of 15, with each age group working towards their own themes. At the end of the workshop, all students will be involved in a recording of their original which will be sent out to parents. THEMES 4-7 years: "Explorers" of all different kinds! Think jungle, space etc... 8-11 years: "Descendants" Loads of fun based on the hit Disney series. 12 +: "Historical Hits" Hamilton, Six, &Juliet etc... It's going to be a fun filled week and a welcome to return to getting out of the house. Places are strictly limited so get your child enrolled now. Discounts are availble for students attending both weeks.
Posted 17/03/2021
February 2021
St Peter's College, Oxford
UK VIRTUAL - YouTube Live
Ken Loach in Conversation with Professor Judith Buchanan
Monday 8th February 2021 at 6pm (GMT)
In this joint event between St Peter's College and TORCH, distinguished and multi-award-winning British filmmaker, social campaigner and St Peter’s College alumnus, Ken Loach (Jurisprudence, 1957), will discuss his filmmaking career with Professor Judith Buchanan, Master of St Peter’s College Oxford.
Their conversation will concentrate on three remarkable films: Land and Freedom (1995), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016).
You can join the live event here on 8th February.
Register on Eventbrite to receive updates and reminders.
For more information on upcoming events at St Peter's College, go to www.spc.ox.ac.uk/events
Posted 04/02/2021
Matthew Collins
VIRTUAL
Valentines Voice Workshop - Romeo & Juliet
Sunday 14th Feb morning or afternoon session (10.00am-1.00pm or 2.30-5.30pm)
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
Everyone’s invited to this Valentine’s Day Zoom workshop where you’ll spend three hours exploring your voice as you explore Romeo and Juliet – by speaking them. The session will start with a vocal warm-up, go through a guided, summarised read-through, and then explore the play’s most famous speeches using vocal exercises that help professional actors explore text. The idea is that speakers don’t focus on the challenges of Shakespeare’s language but allow his words to speak them. And on Valentine’s Day what better words could anyone allow to speak them than these words of love?
At the end of the session you’ll have a greater understanding of your own voice, and of the language of Romeo and Juliet. You’ll also be a more lyrical lover.
Participate on your own or with your loved one.
My name's Matthew Collins and for ten years I was a presenter on BBC2's The Travel Show. I then brought up two boys alone. But when my kids became teenagers I began a new career - teaching Shakespeare in prison. I did this for ten years until the pandemic - in men's and women's prisons. My approach was to get participants speaking Shakespeare's words - and feeling their effects on their breath, their heartbeat, their posture.... After the usual, initial reservations ("**** this guv"), most participants would love it. And men would sometimes even beg me for sonnets - that they put in letters to girlfriends, passing off Shakespeare's lines as their own. ("My girl loved that eye of heaven bit...."). I taught in prison until the pandemic. And then started running workshops online. As well as prisoners, I run Speaking Shakespeare workshops in schools. And for the Women's Institute.
And now, I'm running a special Valentine's Day project called: Explore Romeo and Juliet - by speaking them. It's open to people who know Shakespeare very well or very little. It's open to people who love or loathe public speaking; and it's open to native as well as non-native speakers of English. It's for singles and couples (together or separated by Covid). More info on my website: www.matthewcollins.co.uk Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com
Posted 11/02/2021
Inverness Virtual Music Festival 2021
18th to the 28th February
This year's Music Festival will be running online from the 18th to the 28th February, with the Premier Competition on 13th March. We hope you can join us online sometime during the festival.
Why not register with eventbrite to book our free workshops, the links are listed below. You can find out about Step Dancing and Highland Dancing and even try a few steps at home. Join in playing along with Charlie McKerron, or just sit back, relax and listen in. Choose a poem, have it read out and chat about why you enjoy it with Shirley McGill’s Poetry Choice. Or listen to Alan Maclean discuss some of our advanced piano recital choices in our piano workshop - where you can hear some wonderful music including Chopin and Beethoven. See our Facebook page for booking updates. All ages are welcome at all of our workshops.
We would be extremely grateful if you could share this information with friends, family, colleagues and any organisations you feel may be interested.
So that you can see what a fantastic line-up we've got planned, I've listed a link to the programme below:
