Metre by Metre

We're going down, down, down! Dr. Doctor has a new mission - travel down through the ocean layers to see what amazing sea creatures you can spot. Are you ready for the ride?

'Metre by Metre' is a fun and educational animated sing-along that follows Seekers Alph, Betty and Gammo on an adventure into the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean. Get on your feet and turn up the speakers - it's time for a boogie!

Illustrated and Animated by Grace Ellen Spalding

For more fun adventures, check out The Seekers Podcast and The Seekers Activity Book at www.thewardrobeensemble.com/theseekerspodcast

Twitter & Facebook - @TheSeekersTWE

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Tales from the Forest - Audio Tales - Episode 1 (inc BSL and Captioning)

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Episode One - The Great Oak
In which we learn how The Great Oak came to be…

Welcome to our new story series for all lovers of words, myths and mystical maps aged 7 to 107.

The story series – called - TALES FROM THE FOREST is the start of THE CHRONICLES OF ATOM & LUNA, an epic tale which brings to life the magical world of Atom and Luna across a range of live and digital forms. The story centres around 11 year old twins Atom & Luna - who are left home alone in the care of their magical child minder, Iffly Sney. But when Iffly falls terribly ill, only the twins can save him by seeking out the mysterious Old Mother Redbeard in the heart of a magical forest. It is a journey which will change their lives forever.

Chronicle One consists of six audio tales exploring the magical forest Atom and Luna must pass through in order to find Old Mother Redbeard.

The Chronicles of Atom and Luna - Chronicle One – TALES FROM THE FOREST

Episode One THE GREAT OAK – Monday 30 October
Episode Two FORTUNE AND THE TREE – Friday 4 December
Episode Three THE GLASS BALL – Monday 7 December
Episode Four THE FOOL – Friday 11 December
Episode Five THE LOVERS – Monday 14 December
Episode Six THE CHILDREN – Friday 18 December

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Anna and Arji's Broom Cupboard. The Story of How Ganesh Got His Elephant Head

A 5 minute TV show where Anna Bruder and Arji Manuelpillai from A Line Art https://www.alineart.co.uk share interactive playful art and craft activities, stories, poems and games for the whole family to make and play at home. This episode listen to the story of how Ganesh got his elephant head. BSL interpreted

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Beat Your Feet Dance Lesson | Explore a World of Arts | New Victory Arts Break

Learn to bop-boppity, bounce and three-step kick as New Victory Teaching Artist (and Washingtonian) Olney Edmonson teaches you the go-go-inspired, D.C. dance style known as Beat Your Feet! Can you keep up?

Then find the beat of a favorite tune and explore the origins and rhythms of stepping in the third part of New Victory Arts Break: North America: https://newvictory.org/stories/new-victory-arts-break-world-of-arts-north-america-play/

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New Victory Arts Break: Explore a World of Arts
With New Victory as your guide, travel to a new continent every month to visit the international artists who have appeared on our stage, and see what creativity, culture and community look like where they live. Designed for every kind of educator (parents included), New Victory Arts Break invites you to explore a world of arts wherever you are!

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How To... Body Percussion

Hikapee How To's
How To... Body Percussion

Hikapee
Circus Theatre Company. Taking stories into the air, into theatres and into the outdoors.
Hikapee create narrative driven work that tell stories of the world we live in for the small and tall.

Find & follow us on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter.
@hikapeetheatre
#HikapeeHowTo

www.hikapeetheatre.com

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Musical Theatre Dance with Lauren | LEAP Remote Tutorial | Chichester Festival Theatre

In our latest tutorial, our Deputy Director of LEAP Lauren is going to teach you a dance combination to a section of The Cover Is Not The Book from Mary Poppins Returns.

Our Learning, Education and Participation (LEAP) team have created a series of online tutorials from home to help your flex your creative muscles while the Theatre is closed. Visit cft.org.uk/take-part to learn more about the work of the LEAP department and our outreach projects. If you can, please help us by making a donation to our special emergency appeal to support some of the vital work we’re doing to keep people connected. Visit cft.org.uk/keep-CFT-connected to donate.

See more of our work here:
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/cftsubscribe
Website: http://bit.ly/cfthome
Facebook: http://bit.ly/cftfacebook
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ChichesterFT
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Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the UK’s flagship theatres, renowned for the exceptionally high standard of its productions as well as its work with the community and young people. Situated in a cathedral city in West Sussex between the South Downs and the sea, the Festival Theatre’s bold thrust stage design makes it one of England’s most striking playhouses; a studio theatre, the Minerva Theatre, sits nearby.

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The Sofa Dance

When the world is no longer your stage... 30 acrobats physicalise the shared exhaustion, frustration and complications of living within drastically limited space, creating absurdity and beauty while stuck on their sofas. A short film that gives a snapshot of the extraordinary spring of 2020 and how differently we all dealt with it, finishing with an invite to the viewers to share their own experiences from the comfort of their sofas...

We'd love to see your #MySofaDance!
There are instructions on our blog if you need some guidance on creating your own #MySofaDance and we're also leading a Sofa Dance workshop for families at The Spark Festival this Saturday, 13th February and Monday, 15th Fevruary 2021, organised by The Spark Arts for Children.
Our blog: https://mimbre.co.uk/create-your-own-choreography-inspired-by-the-sofa-dance/

About Filmed in Lockdown:
Filmed in Lockdown is a series of new works of literary, musical, visual, and performance arts, commissioned for Culture in Quarantine by Arts Council England and BBC Arts.
The Sofa Dance was made with support from The Space Arts and Sadler's Wells.

About Mimbre:
Mimbre is an acrobatic theatre company fusing acrobatics, dance and humour to create visual poetry in unconventional spaces.

A huge thank you to all our collaborators, without whom this would not have been possible:

CREDITS
Directed by Arthur Le Fol and Lina Johansson

Music
“Just a Place” by Underground System
Written by Peter Matson and Domenica Fossati

Cast
Alison Halstead
Anesta Mathurin
Arielle Lauzon
Charmaine Childs
Emily Nicholl
Farrell Cox
Fiona Thornhill
Freya Stokka
Jackie Le
Jessica Ladley
Joana Dias
Julia Cheng
Karin Melin
Lina Johansson
Lisa Whitmore
Lissy Lovett
Lucie Maisha N'Duhirahe
Lynn Scott
Maiya Leeke
Natasha Khamjani
Nikki Hill
Rachel Baird
Rebecca Solomon
Rebecca Rennison
Rebecka Nord
Reece Lyons
Rosy Roberts
Ruby Gaskell
Silvia Fratelli
Sophie Northmore

Edited by Arthur Le Fol
Choreographed by Lina Johansson and cast
Filmed by the cast at home locations

Featuring the young talent
Aélia Katsaiti Nord
Dylan Fratelli-Burch
Kalani Khamjani-Wilson
Lev Maggor
Eva Ruth Euba
Frida Fratelli-Burch
Marnie Power
Milian Nord Katsaitis
Raya Maggor
Ronja Talbot
Skyla Khamjani-Wilson
Suki Keighley
Tuva Talbot

Additional #MySofaDancers
Graciette Dias
Clement Stokes
Amani Talbot
Agneta Olsson
Cecilia Baird
Josie Saunders
John Ladley

Guest appearances, special thanks to
Our flatmates, families and partners

Project Manager
Zsofia Szendrei

Executive Producers
For Sadler’s Wells – Alistair Spalding and Bia Oliveira
For The Space – Fiona Morris

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People Behind the Puppets | Shaun Lati | Little Angel Theatre

In this new online series, Little Angel’s very own Little Angel puppet will meet and interview some of the talented puppet designers we work with, finding out more about their experiences of puppetry design and why they love working in the field. Each designer will also bring along an easy puppet make that children can follow along at home.

We have a very special guest this week: Angel meets puppet maker, puppeteer and former Little Angel Puppetry Trainee Shaun Lati, whose work for Little Angel includes Junk and Little Angel by the Sea.

Watch the trailer for Junk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilvCVIaBHTU

Watch the trailer for Little Angel by the Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7EpbkQxPBU&t=4s

Find out more about Shaun and his work here: https://shaunlati.wixsite.com/puppets

Have a go at making Shaun's sunflower puppet: https://littleangeltheatre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Shaun-Latis-sunflower-puppet-activity-sheet.pdf

We are offering these interviews and craft activities for free, but if you’re able to make a donation it would be much appreciated: https://littleangeltheatre.com/support-us/donate/

Credits:

Puppetry performed by Lori Hopkins
Film by Isaac Madge
Little Angel puppet designed and made by Lyndie Wright
Animation by Will Powers
Music composed by Dominic Sales
Series produced by Miranda Pitcher

For more activity ideas, visit: https://littleangeltheatre.com/online-shows-and-activities/make/

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The Little Prince | Free Performance for Children

The Little Prince, presented by Metta Theatre. Donate to Little Angel Theatre: https://bit.ly/3kyDgpD.

A WW2 pilot has crashed in the middle of the Sahara. If she doesn’t find water soon she’ll die. But instead of water she finds a mysterious child – the Little Prince whose imaginative adventures and tales of far off planets quench a deeper thirst.

Written and recorded entirely through lockdown Metta Theatre have created a 6 track EP of songs from their new British musical spun into a short film retelling Antoine De Saint Exupery’s much loved story through the medium of shadow puppetry.

Eventually the stage production of the musical will be a circus musical extravaganza in the same vein as Metta’s 2018 Little Mermaid.

Metta Theatre are an award-winning mid scale touring theatre company focusing on creating new cross-artform theatre. Founded in 2005 by writer/director P Burton-Morgan and designer William Reynolds they have collaborated with Little Angel Theatre on several projects over the years including a shadow puppet production of Benjamin Britten’s Canticles in 2010, a puppetry adaptation and 2014 UK tour of Alice in Wonderland, with acclaimed puppeteer Mandy Travis; and a circus/puppetry musical adaptation of Rob Biddulph’s Blown Away in 2017.

This film will be released for free on the Little Angel Theatre YouTube channel and will be available for one year.

Once you’ve watched the show, have a go at making your own shadow puppets. You can use our activity guide to help you: https://littleangeltheatre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/The-Little-Prince-shadow-puppet-activity-sheet.pdf

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Credits:

Writer & Director P Burton-Morgan
Composer & Musical Director Candida Caldicot
Film-maker Will Reynolds
Puppetry Designer Su Owens
Mixing & Mastering Simon Small

Keys Candida Caldicot
Violin Clare Taylor
Cello Maddie Cutter

The Pilot Rosalind Ford
The Prince Josh Barnett
The Snake/Fox/Rose Anne-Marie Piazza

The Hands of the Prince Noah (8) and Finn (6) Morgan-Reynolds

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All of our online activities are being made available for free. If you are able to consider making a donation - however small - to help us survive during this challenging time, it would be greatly appreciated: https://littleangeltheatre.com/suppor....

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Let's get moving with Little Bean! 唱唱跳跳廣東話 之 郁身郁勢

Let's get moving with Yan Yan and learn how to say body parts and movements in Cantonese.*
小豆釘嘅甄甄帶大家一齊郁身郁勢，學習身體部分同各種動作嘅廣東話點講。*

*Notes to parent: Oh no, Yan Yan messed up with left and right? Maybe it's a chance for you to teach your little one why is it not mirrored and which is left and which is right to them while watching.
*給家長的話﹕哎呀，甄甄將左右掉轉咗？呢個係好機會俾你同小朋友睇片段嘅時候互動一下，講解吓點解我嘅左右邊同你嘅左右邊會相反嘅呢？

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