Can This Be Me?
A project to develop music in a sustainable way in Oakley primary and secondary schools, Tunbridge Wells, building on the Rusalka project of February 2013.
Workshops in both schools
Performance: Can This Be Me? 10 June 2014 at Oakley Senior School
Visit to Glyndebourne for rehearsal of Verdi’s La Traviata 1 October 2014
Funder: Paul Manweiler
Full Fathom Five
Workshops with Exeter House Special School and Woodford Valley Primary Academy Resource Base for Autism
Performance: Full Fathom Five 8 July 2014 at Salisbury Arts Centre
A music theatre performance by students from Exeter House School and Woodford Valley Primary Academy Resource Base, with the La Folia team.
“Howard is an absolute magician, he manages to take the slightest thing from the children, whether it’s words or a sound, and turns it into music, which immediately engages the children and they take ownership because they recognise it came from them; it becomes their production.” Teacher
Funders: Big Lottery Awards for All; Bloss Family Foundation; Countess of Chichester; ESG Robinson; Exeter House School; Frank Misselbrook Foundation; Fulmar Charitable Trust; Grey Court Trust; Helianthus Charitable Trust; Alison Mayne; Ivy Ricketts Charitable Trust; Mouth and Foot Painting Artists; Music Sales Charitable Trust; Overwood Trust; Roger Whitfield Charitable Trust; Tramman Trust; Verdon-Smith Charitable Trust; Woodford Valley School; Wiltshire Council; James and Lis Woods; individual donations from La Folia Friends and supporters