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winter workshops and events

Workshops & performance dates:

Young People’s Band:

The Young People’s Band will continue  on Tuesdays between 4pm-6pm. From Tuesday 28th October guest tutor Leon Patel will be joining us to teach Brazilian percussion.

Brazilian Percussion:

Leon of BangDrum will also be teaching adults and teens various disciplines of Brazilian percussion course from 28st October concluding 16th December. This will be on Tuesdays between 6pm-8pm. 

Autumn/Winter Tour Dates: Global Grooves, Manchester: Sunday 16th November : Penrith Lights Switch On: Saturday 22nd November Dalton Christmas Lights Switch On Parade: Sunday 30th November:Barrow Christmas Parade: Sunday 14th December (2.30-4pm in the Town Centre) 

Carnival Band Rehearsals for everyone are on Thursdays, 6-8pm

 

Carnival Seminar

Julie has been invited to attend a Carnival Seminar in Liverpool on 19th March which is hosted by The Arts Council of England.  The seminar is ‘aiming for an informed and business-ready sector’ and states “The next five years offer once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for the carnival sector across England.”   

It will be a great chance to catch up with colleagues from other carnival organisations, and one of the speakers is Henrique da Silva, whom Julie met when in Rio in 2005. Henrique is now President of Paraiso School of Samba, winner of the Notting Hill Carnival ‘Band on the Road’ competition.

Artisancam Residency November 2007

           

 

During November we were joined by Paul McLaren of Shademakers of Bielefeld, Germany, who was in residence creating a costume for an education project organised by Artisancam.  Paul worked on a prototype of an angel costume he will be producing for the 2009 Celebrations in Detmold, Germany.  So for a month, our workshop and our guest were live online, and viewers could witness the painstaking process of carnival costume creation.  At the end of the month, we launched the costume in Barrow-in-Furness, with a performance in the town centre with our carnival band.

If you want to view more pictures of the Angel in Barrow visit the BBC website by clicking here.

Click here to watch a timelapse video of the creation of the Angel.