Arts Education Booklet

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Arts Activities and Events for East Lothian Schools
The Arts Service offers a wide variety of arts activities, projects and performances for East Lothian Schools
that support many curricular areas and complement existing activities.
The arts have a positive impact on learning through raising self confidence and self esteem, playing a key role
in personal and social development.These activities and projects also support the aims of A Curriculum For
Excellence.
This brochure is divided into easy to reference sections to help you identify which projects best suit your age
group and curriculum requirements.
To book any activity please complete and return the booking form to: Arts Service Admin, East Lothian
Council, Brunton Hall, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh EH21 6AF or fax to 0131 653 5265.You can also request a
booking form by emailing artsservice@eastlothian.gov.uk.
For more information please contact the Arts Service on 0131 665 9900.

Useful contacts:
Contents
Principal Arts Officer
Lesley Smith Projects For Nursery Schools 3

Drama Teacher Projects For Primary Schools 4
Shonagh Davidson Term 1 4
Term 2 9
Drama Teacher Term 3 11
Marjory Sweeney
Creative Health Cover 12
Arts Education Officer (Creative Links)
Ruthanne Baxter Projects For Secondary Schools
Dance 15
Cultural Co-ordinator Drama 16
Helen Duncan Film 17
Cultural Co-ordinator CPD for teachers 19
Sharon May
Out Of School Activities 21
Dance Artist
Beth Noble Brunton Theatre Events 22

Brunton Theatre Box Office Managers Booking Form 23
Lyndsey Dougan & Sharon Forbes

2 For more information contact the Arts Service on 0131 665 9900 or artsservice@eastlothian.gov.uk

Nursery Schools

The Hare and The Tortoise The Sticky Kids Show
DRAMA WORKSHOP AND THEATRE VISIT Stage: Nursery
Date: Tuesday 6 October 10am
Curriculum theme: Citizenship Length: 60 mins
DRAMA WORKSHOP Venue: Brunton Theatre
Capacity: 296
Stage: Nursery Cost: £4.50 per person plus 1 teacher free per 20 pupils
Date: Monday 31 August – Thursday 3 September
Length: 30 minutes Fun sing along show for ages 2 plus.
Venue: In school The action songs are all taken from the hugely popular Sticky Kids
Cost: Free when booking range of CDs used in nursery and primary schools throughout the UK.
for the performance Anne Butler plays Molly Muddle – the human equivalent of a party
Teacher: Arts Service Drama popper and Alan Windram plays her good friend Old Macdonald.
Teachers When they get together the fun really begins! Live and loopy with lots
Using storytelling as a starting of audience participation.
point to explore this traditional
Aesop’s fable, the wisdom of the tale is considered.
Transition - Painting the
Playground
The Hare and The Tortoise ART AND DESIGN WORKSHOP
performance Curriculum theme: Expressive Arts, Talking and Listening, Health
Licketyspit in association with Brunton Theatre and Well Being and Enterprising skills

Stage: Nursery Stage: Nursery (plus supporting P6 buddies)
Dates: Wednesday 9 September 1.30pm Date: January – June
Thursday 10 September 10.30am & 1.30pm Length: 5 workshops, length determined by class size
Friday 11 September 10.30am Venue: In school Nursery and then Primary
Length: 1 hour school hall and playground
Venue: Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh Cost: £172
Capacity: 296 Tutor: Freelance Artist
Cost: £4.50 per person plus 1 teacher free per The nursery class teacher, their pupils and the nursery
20 pupils ‘buddies’ work with a professional artist to design and
Aesop’s fable is retold as a hugely popular, hilariously create panels for the P1playground to aid transition
interactive, highly energetic show, with irresistibly catchy and build familiarity of ‘big school’ staff, pupils and
songs. Brave Tortoise challenges the boastful Hare to a environment.
race, but who will win this famous contest? When the panels are complete and in place, nursery
pupils and their senior ‘buddies’ can host an unveiling
event in the playground.

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Primary Schools Term 1

Traditional Tales:The Three Mandras Magic
Little Pigs DANCE WORKSHOP
DRAMA WORKSHOP Curriculum theme: India
Curriculum theme: Citizenship and Literacy Stage: P1 - P7
Date: August – November 2009
Stage: P2
Length: 1 x 45 minutes (P1 - 3)
Date: Thursday 20 August – Thursday 27 August
1 x 1 hour 30 minutes (P4 - P7)
Length: 50 minutes
Venue: In school
Venue: In school
Cost: Free
Cost: Free
Tutor: Freelance Dancer
Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teachers
Led by a professional dancer pupils explore the
Using drama, elements of this traditional tale are
basic rhythms and movement of Indian dance
revealed to help the pupils face their fear of the wolf.
and the symbolic communication conveyed
through this art form.The workshop focuses on
teaching pupils how to incorporate some basic
mandras (hand gestures) into dance sequences.
Poetic Postcards
POETRY WORKSHOP
Curriculum theme: Scotland, My Street, Houses and Homes
Stage: P1 - P4
Date: Ongoing but requires 4 weeks notice
Length: 1 x 1.5 hours
Venue: In School
Cost: Free
Tutor: Freelance Poet
From Sunny Dunny to Delightful Dirleton – Wish you
were here?
Many classes learn about their street, their town, their
homes and houses and Scotland as a country. Working
with a published poet your class can create a Poetic
Postcard to be shared with others via GLOW, the
school website and/or a huge wall display postcard.



ID:me Gandhi (PG)
DANCE WORKSHOP AND FILM SCREENING
THEATRE VISIT
Curriculum theme: India
With Ludus Dance
Stage: P7
Curriculum theme: Citizenship, PE Date: Wednesday 23
September, 9.30am –
Stage: P5 – P7
12.30pm
Dates: Monday 14 or Tuesday 15
Venue: Brunton Theatre,
September
Musselburgh
Kappa Performance
Capacity: 296
Date: Wednesday 16 September
PLAY AND DRAMA Cost: £3.50 per person plus 1
Length: 1 hour
WORKSHOP teacher free per 20 pupils
Venue: Brunton Theatre,
with Catherine Wheels Theatre Musselburgh A sweeping account of the life and times of
Company in association with Capacity: 296 Mohanadas K.Gandhi, who became the
Brunton Theatre Cost: £4.50 per person plus 1 prime mover in India’s struggle for
teacher free per 20 pupils independence and yet, at the same
Curriculum theme: Citizenship
time, he was a spiritual leader whose
Free workshop in school, when you
Stage: P6 & P7 philosophy was to influence
book for the performance.
Date: Monday 7 – Friday millions.
11 September Extraordinary dance theatre for
The film raises questions such as:
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes inquisitive minds.
How do you feel Gandhi’s later
Venue: In school
Four different doorways, four different career might have been
Capacity: 35
lives. Behind their own front doors, each influenced by his early life?
Cost: £140
dancer moves to their unique rhythm, What problems can arise
Kappa is scared. His heart beats too each has a distinct identity and their own from making a film about
fast. His nerves are shot and he view of the world. someone who died within
hasn’t slept since…1924? He can’t living memory?
ID:me explores what it means to share
remember. Kappa looks at issues of
our world today. It will make you smile, The film could be a starting
peer pressure, the challenges of
spark your imagination and challenge point for pupils to explore
loyalty, expressing your individuality
your perceptions of community. what the traditional Hindu
and taking responsibility for your
beliefs and practices are
actions.
concerning diet or
The workshop with Catherine marriage, for example.
Wheels Theatre Company follows
directly after the performance and
explores themes related to the play.



John Muir Project What Change Can I Be?
Partnership project with Arts Service, John Muir’s DRAMA WORKSHOP
Birthplace, Countryside Ranger Service, John Muir
Curriculum theme: Global Citizenship and Equalities
Award
Stage: P7
Curriculum theme: Citizenship, Expressive Arts, Social
Date: Wednesday 30 September – Monday 12 October
Studies
Length: 1 x 1 hour 30 minutes
Stage: P5 Cost: Free Venue: In school
John Muir the Dunbar born explorer, Cost: Free
environmentalist and conservationist forms the basis Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teachers
for this project enabling pupils to explore John Muir's “The difference between what we do and what we are capable
legacy in a creative and imaginative way. of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
The project starts with drama and story workshops Mahatma Ghandi
led by the Arts Service Drama Teachers.The project Using active learning we consider moments of action and
includes a visit to John Muir's Birthplace, an exploring inaction within the drama.
activity in the local community with the Countryside
Ranger Service and a dance activity with the Arts
Service Dance Artist. Schools could use this project
as the basis for pupils gaining their John Muir Award.
Drawing On Movement
ART WORKSHOP
There will be a pre-project meeting for all teachers
on Thursday 3 September at 4pm in conference Curriculum theme: The Body
rooms 1 & 2, John Muir House Haddington. Booking
Stage: P5 - P7
for the Drama and Dance workshops can be made
Date: Ongoing (with 4 weeks notice)
now through using the booking form at the back of
Length: 1 x 2 hours
the brochure.
Venue: In school
Cost: Free
Drama Workshop Tutor: Freelance Artist
Dates: Monday 7 - Thursday 24 September or
Led by a professional artist, pupils take inspiration from the
Monday 2 - Thursday 12 November
work of figure drawing artists such as Keith Haring and
apply knowledge of the organs and skeletal frame to the
Venue: In School
sense of movement in art.
To further support this topic, the Royal Surgeon’s Museum
Dance Workshop in Edinburgh have teamed up with the Arts Service to offer
a visit to the museum to see the Sports and Sports Injuries
Dates: Throughout school year exhibition and gain greater insight into muscles, skeletal
Length: 1 x 1 hour 30 minutes frames and the senses. A variety of activity sheets and tasks
Venue: In School will be provided to engage with the exhibition.
Teacher: Arts Service Dance Artist



Stick Man
Scamp Theatre
THEATRE VISIT
Curriculum theme: Environmental Studies, Identity
Stage: P1 - 2
Dates: Tuesday 13 October & Wednesday 14 October
Length: 50 minutes
Venue: Brunton Theatre
Maximum
numbers: 296
Cost: £4.50 per person plus 1 teacher free per 20
pupils
Touching, funny and utterly original, from the book by Julia
Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler - creators of The
Gruffalo.
“Stick Man lives in the family tree
Young Film Makers Project With his Stick Lady Love
and their stick children three...”
The Arts Service with Edinburgh Filmhouse
But the world is a dangerous place for Stick Man.
Curriculum theme: Enterprise and Media
A dog wants to play with him. A swan builds a
Stage: P7 nest with him. He even ends up on a fire! Will he
Date: October – May ever get back to the family tree?
Venue: In school with premier at Edinburgh Filmhouse
Cost: Free
This project offers a P7 teacher and their class the
opportunity to work with drama teacher Marjory Sweeney
and film professional Brian English to devise, produce and
screen a film.
Last year the pupils from P7 at Gullane primary produced the
film The Journal that premiered at the Edinburgh Filmhouse.
This exciting project crosses many curricular areas and
supports both Curriculum for Excellence and Enterprise
Education planning with positive and far reaching effects on
the pupils and the school community.



Elphinstone Primary Witness
School Drama Workshop
DRAMA WORKSHOP
Curriculum theme: Global Citizenship and
Equalities
Stage: P6
Date: Monday 16 – Thursday 26 November
Venue: In school
Cost: Free
This drama project investigates our past
connections to the slave trade as well as
looking at present day issues of discrimination
and prejudice.

Scotland’s Past
The Highland Clearances: A Way of Life Changed Forever
DRAMA WORKSHOP
Curriculum theme: Scottish Culture
Stage: P5 - P6
Date: Monday 30 November – Thursday 17 December
Venue: In school
Cost: Free
Decisions made and actions taken in history will inevitably impact on the here and now.These drama workshops
give pupils the opportunity to make new discoveries and connect with Scotland’s rich and eventful past.



The Hungry Giant Sensational Mrs. A
DRAMA WORKSHOP INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING

Curriculum theme: Health Curriculum theme: The Senses / My Safety

Stage: P3 Stage: P1 - P3
Date: Monday 11 January – Thursday 21 January Date: January – April 2010
Length: 1 x 45 minutes Length: 1 x 2 hours
Venue: In school Venue: In school
Cost: Free Cost: Free
Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teachers Tutor: Freelance Drama Tutor

Although the villagers are small, together they teach A fun, interactive, problem solving workshop that encourages
the Hungry Giant a lesson. Within the drama the pupils to use all their senses at different times and to
pupils are the experts. It is through their knowledge understand how our senses can alert and protect us.
that a big problem is solved. Working cooperatively pupils make decisions for the safety
of Mrs Armitage and her bicycle!

The Big School Scotland’s Past
DRAMA WORKSHOP Mary Queen of Scots -
Curriculum theme: Transition Escape from Loch Leven
Stage: P7 DRAMA WORKSHOP
Date: Monday 25 January – Thursday 11 February
Curriculum theme: Scottish Culture
Venue: In school Stage: P4
Cost: Free Date: Monday 1 – Thursday 11 March
Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teachers Length: 2 x 1 hour
Venue: In school
Drama is used to explore this exciting time of change
Cost: Free
in a young person’s life.
There will be the opportunity for another workshop in
Why do people risk their lives for others?
term three after the transition visits. See page 11 for
Ready, Steady…! In the drama we uncover the impact on
individuals who were willing to risk their lives
for what they believed in.



Pobby and Dingan performance
Catherine Wheels Theatre Company
in association with Brunton Theatre
Stage: P4 – S3 One day,
Dates: Thursday 25 & Friday 26 February Pobby and
Length: 50 minutes Dingan
Venue: Brunton Theatre disappear. At
Capacity: 296 first Ashmol
Cost: £4.50 per person plus 1 teacher free per is delighted that he is rid of the attention seeking
20 pupils antics of his fruit-loop sister. But following the
disappearance of Pobby and Dingan Kellyanne
12 year old Ashmol lives in the Australian outback with
becomes ill, and the longer they are lost, the sicker
his mum, dad and his little sister, Kellyanne - and her
Kellyanne becomes. Finally Ashmol decides there is
two invisible friends, Pobby and Dingan.
only one thing to do; he must find Pobby and Dingan.

Pobby and Dingan
DRAMA WORKSHOP AND THEATRE
VISIT
Starlight Starbright
DRAMA WORKSHOP
DRAMA WORKSHOP
Curriculum theme: Expressive Arts
Stage: P5
Date: Monday 22 - Thursday 25 February Stage: P3
Length: 1hr 30 minutes Date: Monday 15 – Thursday 31 March
Venue: In school Length: 50 minutes
Cost: Free when booking to see the Venue: In school
performance Cost: Free
Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teachers Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teachers
Imaginary friends provide an avenue for self Starlight, starbright,
expression, emotional release, and exploration, First star I see tonight,
and in some cases they offer comfort and I wish I may,
counsel. I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
This workshop will explore the themes within the
play to develop an understanding of the Through the drama we journey from the inner child
characters and their struggles. to the outer world.



Powwow The Arrival
DRAMA, DANCE, ART DRAMA WORKSHOP

Curriculum theme: Expressive Arts Curriculum theme: Global Citizenship

Stage: P4 Stage: P6
Date: Monday 26 April – Date: Tuesday 18 – Thursday 27 May
Thursday 13 May Length: 2 x 1 hour 30 minutes
Length: Drama workshops 3 x Venue: In school
1 hour Cost: Free
Prestonpans and Elphinstone
Dance workshops 1 x 1 Primary Schools Powwow Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teachers
hour 30 minutes and 1 x 1 hour Shaun Tan’s graphic novel The Arrival acts as
Art: 1 day the starting point for pupils to consider
Sharing: 1 morning the impact on migrants of leaving their
Venue: In school and space for sharing homeland and the cost to those that are
Cost: Free left behind.
Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teachers, Dance Artist and Freelance Artist
Through the stories of the First People of America pupils take part in an
exciting programme of drama, dance and art culminating in their very own
Powwow. More information will follow at time of booking.

Ready steady………….! Story Making
DRAMA WORKSHOP, PART 2 DRAMA WORKSHOP

Curriculum theme: Transition Curriculum theme: Literacy

Stage: P7 Stage: P1
Date: Monday 14 – Thursday 24 June Date: Monday 7 – Thursday 17 June
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes Length: 1 x 45 minutes
Venue: In school Venue: In school
Cost: Free Cost: Free
Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teachers Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teachers

This workshop gives pupils the opportunity to reflect and Pupils discover the joy of their own ideas
acknowledge their feelings about leaving primary school. transformed into a shared story.This project
develops literacy skills.


Primary Schools - Creative Health Cover

The Arts Service supports the aims of Health Promoting Schools and Health and Well Being inclusion in
AC4E, by carrying the Creative Health Cover into its third year. Last year the Creative Health Cover
programme was requested by and delivered in all East Lothian Primary schools and impacted on over
2,000 pupils.

Every school can select and request two projects from the Creative Health Cover programme free of
charge. Additional projects can be requested but will be delivered at the appropriate cost.
The majority of projects are facilitated by freelance artists, therefore it is essential that bookings are made
a minimum of 4 weeks prior to start.

Notes On A Story The Hungry Giant
MUSIC DRAMA
Curriculum theme: Health Curriculum theme: Health
Stage: P1 - P3 Stage: P3
Length: 3 x 1 hour Length: 45 minutes
Tutor: Freelance Musician Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teachers
Using children’s stories with a healthy living theme as a Although the villagers are small, together they
stimulus, pupils will explore the wide timbres and tones teach the Hungry Giant a lesson. Within the drama
of various instruments to create short pieces of the pupils are the experts. It is through their
programme music to interpret the mood and feelings knowledge that a big problem is solved.
provoked by the story.
New Story for 2009-2010, The Tickle Tree

Giraffes Can’t Dance
DANCE
Curriculum theme: Expressive Arts, Health and Well Being, Language, PE
Stage: P1 - P3
Length: 2 x 50 minutes
Tutor: Arts Service Dance Artist
Based on the book Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andrea and Guy Parker-Rees, this workshop takes story telling to
a physical level. Following the tale of Gerald the Giraffe, pupils will explore animal movements, emotional wellbeing,
world music and narrative dance.



Packed Out Drawing on
DANCE Movement
Curriculum theme: Environmental studies, Enterprise, Expressive Arts, Health ART WORKSHOP
Education, PE, PSD.
Curriculum theme: The Body
Stage: P4 - P7
Stage: P5 - P7
Length: 1 x 1 hour
Dates: Ongoing (with 4
weeks notice)
Pupils explore how areas of our lives, both biologically and environmentally, Length: 1 x 2 hours
can become overcrowded.They then work collaboratively to choreograph Venue: In School
dance pieces that communicate an understanding of how we can balance Cost: Free
our state of wellbeing.This project addresses emotional health Tutor: Freelance Artist
(overcrowding our heads with worry), physical health (overcrowding our
Led by a professional artist,
stomachs and systems with toxins), and environmental health (overcrowding
pupils take inspiration from the
our playgrounds with litter).
work of figure drawing artists
such as Keith Haring and apply
knowledge of the organs and
Strolling On A Song skeletal frame to the sense of
MUSIC movement in art.
Curriculum theme: English, To further support this topic, the
Environmental Studies, Royal Surgeon’s Museum in
Enterprise, Health and Edinburgh have teamed up with
Wellbeing, Music, Art, PSD, the Arts Service to offer a visit
Mathematics to the museum to see the
Sports and Sports Injuries
Stage: P4 - P7
exhibition and gain greater
Length: 3 x 2 hours
insight into muscles, skeletal
Tutor: Freelance Musician
frames and the senses. A variety
Pupils will work with their teacher to identify and research a topic relating of activity sheets and tasks will
to Health and Wellbeing, such as the environment, healthy eating or positive be provided to engage with the
relationships.Then working collaboratively with a professional exhibition.
musician/songwriter the class will create a new song or piece of
programme music to interpret and express their findings and feelings on
the matter.
The class will notate, graphic score and/or record their work and if
appropriate this can be used by the whole school for assemblies or a
performance event.



See-It And Be-It
ANIMATION
Curriculum theme: Art, English, Environmental Studies, Health and Wellbeing, ICT, PSD and RME
Stage: P4 - P7
Length: 3 x 2 hours
Tutor: Freelance Animator
Reflecting on their own lifestyles and environment pupils work with a professional animation artist to create a
storyboard and short animation expressing their own views of healthy living.
The creative challenge is for the young people to devise a storyline and plot to make the process of change
entertaining and educational.

Helping Hands
DANCE
Curriculum theme: Expressive Arts, Health
Education, Health and Well Being, PE
Stage: P6 - P7
Length: 1 x 1 hour
Through dance, pupils will explore the topic of
friendship and helping hands. Using team
building exercises, weight sharing, trust and
choreographic devices they will look at ways of
working together and helping one another to
achieve their goals.


Secondary Schools - Dance

ID:me
Ludus Dance Company
With Ludus Dance
DANCE WORKSHOP AND THEATRE VISIT
Curriculum theme: Citizenship and PE
Stage: S1 – S2
Workshop
Date: Monday 14 or
Tuesday 15 September
Performance
Date: Wednesday 16 September
Length: 1 hour
Venue: Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
Capacity: 296
Cost: £4.50 per person plus 1 teacher free per 20 pupils
Free workshop when you book for the performance.
Four different doorways, four different lives. Each dancer has a distinct identity and their own view of the world. ID:me
will make you smile, spark your imagination and challenge your perceptions of community.

Relative Danger & Antipode
Retina Dance Company
DANCE WORKSHOP AND THEATRE VISIT
Curriculum theme: Citizenship and PE
Stage: S1 – S2
Workshop
Date: Week commencing 26 October
Performance
Date: Friday 30 October 7.30pm
Venue: Workshop in school, performance at Brunton Theatre
Free workshop when you book for the performance.
Retina is an ambitious contemporary dance company, whose work is theatrical and physically vibrant, led by Artistic
Director Filip Van Huffel.


Secondary Schools - Drama

Othello:The Moor of Venice Theatre in Education
By William Shakespeare DRAMA WORKSHOPS AND
PERFORMANCE
DRAMA WORKSHOP AND THEATRE VISIT
Curriculum theme: Citizenship and Transition
Curriculum theme: Drama, Literature, English
Stage: S2
WORKSHOP Date: January - March
Stage: S3 – S6 Venue: In school and on Friday afternoons plus
Date: Monday 26 – Thursday 29 October performance
September Cost: Free
Length: 1 x 1 hour 30 minutes Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teacher
Venue: In school
Cost: Free when booking for the play Drama teacher Shonagh Davidson will work with a
Teacher: Arts Service Drama Teacher group of S2 pupils to devise and develop a piece
of theatre highlighting the effect of transition form
“Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh I have lost my P7 to S1.
reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and
what remains is bestial.” Othello Act 2 Scene 3. This peer led theatre piece mirrors the lives of
young people and the hopes, myths and fears that
This drama workshop will give students the surround this important time in their lives.The final
opportunity to explore the key characters in piece will be presented to all P7 pupils in their
Shakspeare’s Othello and what motivates them. cluster.

Othello Othello: Icarus
Icarus Theatre Collective Theatre Collective
PERFORMANCE
Stage: Secondary
Dates: Wednesday 28 October 7.30pm,
Thursday 29 October 9.30am
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
Venue: Brunton Theatre
Capacity: 296
Cost: £4.50 per person plus teacher free per
20 pupils
Shakespeare’s tempestuous journey from scandal
and intrigue to lust and vengeance.


Secondary School Films and Post Screening Talks

Films at Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
The films selected are relevant and resourceful to a cross subject audience and are supported with
a post screening talk and Q&A session. Please note that foreign language films will have subtitles.

Film: The Class Entre les Murs, 12A (French with subtitles)
Subject: Students of French, Drama, English, RME, Media Studies.
Date: Monday 24 August 9.30am – 12.30pm
Capacity: 296
Docu-fiction packed with rapid fire, slangy dialogue, chronicling life in a Paris
classroom.The pupils are all different races, with different backgrounds.
Winner of 2008 Palme d’Or.

Film: Goodbye Lenin, 15 Film: Schindler’s List (15)
(German with subtitles) Talk/Q&A: Sophie Leedham, Aegis Trust
Subject: Students of German, English, Drama, Subject: Students of History, English, Drama,
Media Studies, History, Modern Studies. RME
Date: Tuesday 25 August 9.30am – 12.30pm Date: Tuesday 22 September
Capacity: 296 9.30am – 12.30pm
Cost: £3.50 per person plus 1 teacher free Capacity: 296
per 20 pupils Cost: £3.50 per person plus 1 teacher free
per 20 pupils
Set in East Germany around the time of the collapse of
the Berlin Wall, the film provides a fleeting glimpse into Based on the true story of Nazi Czech
one of the major events in modern European history, businessman Oskar Schindler, who used Jewish
touching many important political and social issues. labour to start a factory in occupied Poland. As
World War II progressed, Schindler’s motivations
Best European Film, 2003 Berlin Film Festival.
switched from profit to human sympathy as he
This film provokes questions such as: What do you think witnessed the horror of the Holocaust and
life would have been like living in East Berlin? How does it saved over 1,100 Jews from death in the gas
differ to your life in the twenty-first century? What does chambers.
the film highlight about the differences between life under
a communist government as opposed to a capitalist
government?


Secondary School Films and Post Screening Talks

Film: Gandhi (PG) Film: Poniente, 15
Subject: Students of History, RME, Modern (Spanish with subtitles)
Studies, Media Studies. Subject: Students of Spanish, Drama, Media
Date: Wednesday 23 September Studies, Modern Studies, RME.
9.30am – 12.30pm Date: Wednesday 7 October
Capacity: 296 9.30am – 12.30pm
Cost: £3.50 per person plus 1 teacher free Capacity: 296
per 20 pupils Cost: £3.50 per person plus 1 teacher
free per 20 pupils
A sweeping account of the life and times of
Mohanadas K.Gandhi, who became the prime When her father dies, Lucia interrupts a long
mover in India’s struggle for independence and yet, spell as a schoolteacher in Madrid to attend his
at the same time, he was a spiritual leader whose funeral in her small hometown, on the
philosophy was to influence millions. Anadalucian coast, with her young daughter. But
she has been away too long to fit into this
The film raises questions such as: How do you feel
place of old fashioned ways of doing and
Gandhi’s later career might have been influenced
thinking.
by his early life? What problems can arise from
making a film about someone who died within This film explores the subject of prejudice
living memory? toward immigrant labourers in Europe.
The film could be a starting point for pupils to
explore what the traditional Hindu beliefs and
practices are concerning diet, marriage, etc.

Film: The Wave (15) Die Welle
(German with subtitles)
Subject: Students of German, English, Drama, History, Modern Studies, RME
Date: Tuesday 27 October 9.30am – 12.30pm
Maximum
numbers: 296
A teacher’s attempt to get his class to understand fascism as part of a school project quickly spirals out of
control in a way he never thought possible. Based on a true story of a teaching experiment in California, the film
relocates events to Germany which adds resonance and power to the moral question – could a fascist state ever
happen again?


Continuing Professional Development For Teachers

Show Time
Courses to support teachers who lead or share responsibility for a school production. Sessions can be taken as
stand alone modules, as a whole or shared amongst different teachers from the same school.

Funding a school production Introduction To Directing
Date: Wednesday 16 September 4 - 5pm Date: Wednesday 30 September 4pm - 6pm
Venue: Brunton Hall Venue: Brunton Theatre, Rehearsal Studio
Tutor: Ruthanne Baxter, Arts Education Officer Tutor: Helen-Marie Tuiwaiwai, experienced Director
Where can schools find funding to support a performance? You have a play, you have a class, but how do you take it
What types of financial and/or in-kind support can be from page to stage? An interactive workshop with tips and
explored? techniques on how to get the best out of a play with your
pupils.
Props For Stage
Date: Tuesday 22 September 4.30 - 5.30pm Directing #2
Venue: Brunton Hall Date: Wednesday 7 October 4pm - 6pm
Tutor: Nicola Milazzo, Brunton Theatre Technician Venue: TBC
Tutor: Helen-Marie Tuiwaiwai, experienced Director
How to source props and how to make basic props with
the minimum of budget and time. This session is suitable for those who have some prior
experience of directing young people or have already
Selecting Productions For Schools attended the Introduction session.
Date: Wednesday 23 September 4pm - 5.30pm
Venue: Venue: tbc Accent Training
Tutor: Helen-Marie Tuiwaiwai, experienced Director Date: Friday 9 October 2pm - 4pm
Venue: Musselburgh Grammar School
Want to put on a production but not sure where to start
Tutor: Ros Steen from the Centre For Voice
looking? Come along to this workshop for some ideas of
In Performance at the RSAMD
where to begin and some suggestions to get you going.
Explore the basic techniques of delivering a
Stage Makeup variety of accents and gain an understanding
Date: Friday 25 September 2pm - 4pm of how our physical environment can influence
Venue: Musselburgh Burgh PS how we speak.
Tutor: Susan McClaymont, Metamorface, professional
stage makeup company
This session will be a mix of talk, demonstrations and hands
on practice. Susan will demonstrate generic themes but may
have time to present on a particular production.


Continuing Professional Development For Teachers

Costume Selection & Design CPD Session with Virginia Radcliffe, Artistic
Date: tbc Director of Licketyspit
Venue: Brunton Hall Date: Thursday 24 September 4pm – 6pm
Tutor: Christine Ross, costume maker for Venue: Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
Brunton Theatre pantomime
Virginia will introduce teachers to many of the
With tips on where best to source inspiration, games, songs and rhymes she regularly uses when
materials and accessories, this session considers the working practically with early years children.There
practical as well as artistic point of view when will be resource sheets to accompany the workshop.
deciding on the visual impact of your production.
Shadow Puppets for Early Years
Choreography Date: Wednesday 4th November 4 - 6pm
Date: Wednesday 11 November 4.30pm – Tutor: Alison Monaghan, professional puppeteer
6.30pm
Venue: Brunton Hall, Supper Room TAG Theatre - Dragonfly
Tutor: Beth Noble, Arts Service Dance Artist Date: Thursday 26th November 4 - 6pm
Discover the basic steps and methods of Tutor: Freelance Drama Tutor
choreography for a musical theatre production. A Storytelling through Drama for Early Years.
practical, physically active session so loose,
comfortable clothing should be worn.


Out of School Activities

DANCE DRAMA

Move It! Dance Classes Brunton Youth
Our dance development programme presents a wide variety of Theatre (BYT)
creative dance classes and courses for young people from
Brunton Youth Theatre meet weekly
Nursery to Secondary School, throughout East Lothian.
to take part in workshops and
Payment is made termly in advance at £2 per class. productions.They perform regularly
Look out for Move It! flyers or speak to our Dance Artist. at Brunton Theatre as well as
attending professional theatre
productions.

East Lothian Youth Dance BYT is divided into three age groups
8-12, 12-15 and 15-18. Entry is by
Company (ELYDC) audition, please contact our BYT co-
ordinator for more information.
Nurturing the talent of the future, ELYDC meet weekly to
rehearse and develop choreography for the numerous
performance opportunities available to them each year.The
company is open to both male and female participants aged 13- East Lothian Youth
21 years who have a real passion for movement and are keen to
develop their skills as dancers. Theatre Network
Entry is by audition only, please contact our Dance Artist for (ELYTN)
more information. Weekly drama workshops take place
across the region during school term
time. Groups for those aged 8 – 12
and 12 – 15 take place in Dunbar,
Haddington, Musselburgh, North
Berwick, Prestonpans and Tranent.
To find out if there are places
available please contact the Arts
Service.


Brunton Theatre Events

Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
Brunton Theatre regularly presents performances of interest to schools including drama, dance,
music and film.To find out what is on visit www.bruntontheatre.co.uk or look out for email bulletins
to your school.
Schools price for selected drama, dance and music: £4.50 per person with 1 teacher free per 20
students.To book call the Box Office 0131 665 2240.
A taste of things to come:

DRAMA DANCE

A Man For All Seasons Meet The Curve Foundation
Theatre Alba Dance Company
Friday 28 & Saturday 29 August 7.30pm
Wednesday 9 September 6.30pm
Robert Bolt’s gripping play about the events leading
Free event
to the execution of Sir Thomas More.
Excerpts from the forthcoming
production with question and
The Beauty Queen of answer session.
The Curve Foundation
Dance Company
Leenane
London Classic Theatre
The Curve Foundation
Friday 18 & Saturday 19 September 7.30pm Dance Company
A gripping blend of dark comedy, melodrama, horror
Friday 9 & Saturday 10 October 7.30pm
and tragedy.
A mixed bill of modern ballet from Brunton Theatre’s
resident dance company.
The Curse of the Demeter
Visible Fictions Relative Danger & Antipode
Saturday 3 October 7.30pm
Retina Dance Company
A spine tingling journey of suspense, suspicion and
Friday 30 October 7.30pm
spooky sightings.

Othello:The Moor of Venice La Fille Mal Gardée
Icarus Theatre Collective
The Ballet of The State
Wednesday 28 October 7.30pm & Thursday 29 Theatre, Cottbus
October 9.30am
A tempestuous journey from scandal and intrigue to Thursday 12 November 7.30pm
lust and vengeance. Comic, classical ballet transported to the 1960s.


Booking Form

Booking Form
Please copy, fill in and return for each project you wish to book.

Project: ____________________________________________________________________________________

School: ____________________________________________________________________________________

Class: ______________________________________________________________________________________

Contact name: _______________________________________________________________________________

Tel: ________________________________________________________________________________________

Fax: _______________________________________________________________________________________

1st choice days and dates: _____________________________________________________________________

2nd choice days and dates: _____________________________________________________________________

Preferred time: ______________________________________________________________________________

No of pupils: ________________________________________________________________________________

Please arrange for the school hall or appropriate space to be available on project dates.
Please advise in advance of project if any pupil has additional learning needs so that project material can be
prepared accordingly.

Dates and times will be confirmed prior to start of project
Please return form to
Arts Service,
Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way
Musselburgh, EH21 6AA
Fax: 0131 653 5265
artsservice@eastlothian.gov.uk
Tel: 0131 665 9900


For more information contact the Arts Service on 0131 665 9900
or artsservice@eastlothian.gov.uk

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