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</tr> <tr> <td class="spacercolumn"> </td>  <td width="710" valign="top" class="bodycopy1"> <p class="ahead1">Recent Projects</p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>The Movingsounds Eco Show: 'CONNECTED"</strong></font> <P>Movingsounds have just launched their new multi-media theatre performance 'CONNECTED'. <BR>For more details about show see<a href="e_teacher_training.php" target="_parent"> TheEco Show.</a> <P>Here is a short trailer for The Connected Show: <P><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/v/OenOWJmCxzg&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param" target="_top">http://www.youtube.com/v/OenOWJmCxzg&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param</A> name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OenOWJmCxzg&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></p> <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>ECOVISION and other shows</strong></font> <P>This short video is a tour through the Movingsounds ecoshows. <P><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/v/kGGuXEO6N6c?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param" target="_top">http://www.youtube.com/v/kGGuXEO6N6c?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param</A> name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kGGuXEO6N6c?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></p> <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>The Eco-Teams Convention in the Woods</strong></font> <P>Movingsounds hosted a day with 3 Eco Teams from locals schools in Vert Woods, Sussex. Check out the video below! <BR>We discussed challenges and visions, foraged for food, ate local organic food and played great music. <BR>Getting into nature was inspiring and brought the groups together to share their experiences. Hopefully the first of many days in the woods! <P> <BR><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zo268FPdVk8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param" target="_top">http://www.youtube.com/v/Zo268FPdVk8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param</A> name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zo268FPdVk8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong></strong></font> <P></p> <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p> </p> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>Video- activitism</strong></font> <P> We have been running video-activism workshops where participants can film and edit their own videos to raise awareness of environmental issues. In partnership with Transition Town Totnes local people made videos highlighting the importance of community in the face of Peak Oil and climate change. <BR>Watch this great video mixing song, dance and compost toilets: <BR><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/v/KG5Yt-h_poQ"></param><param" target="_top">http://www.youtube.com/v/KG5Yt-h_poQ"></param><param</A> name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KG5Yt-h_poQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong></strong></font> <P> </p> <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>Intergenerational Arts</strong></font> <P>Working with Magic Me video was used as part of a 12 week arts project with primary school children, university students and elders from a local day centre. A short film was used in the final performance to show the creative process of sculpture, song, movement and games- a part of creative projects which is often unseen. <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>The Backstory</strong></font> <P>The Backstory is a form or Forum Theatre: a way of working with groups to explore issues affecting them and how to make real changes. <BR>In this project drama students from Sackville Community College and Imberhorne School came together and created a character called '17'. They went into the characters life and explored events that shaped '17's life choices. <P>The process led to a performance workshop with 200 teachers at the Network Learning Conference. The young people actually facilitated the teachers in the process they had learned during the project. <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <p><font color="#000066"><strong>The 3 Rs recycling, music and drama project: "Reduce, Re-use, Recycle." (Summer 2005 autumn 2006)</strong></font> <P><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="photoleft"> <tr> <td><a href="movingsounds_photos/RP-3Rs-bg.jpg" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','470','353','no');return false"><img src="movingsounds_photos/RP-3Rs-sm.jpg" alt="Moving Sounds 3Rs in Lewes East Sussex" width="100" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> Funded by an environmental education grant from Veolia, the waste disposal company, the '3Rs' project worked with approximately 1500 children in 20 primary schools in Brighton and East Sussex. Each workshop involved an interactive performance using junk percussion, recycled instruments, rap, theatre and plenty of clowning around. We then lead a discussion about recycling and the wider environmental issues; this lead on to exciting drama activities culminating in a fantastic group music jam using our orchestra of recycled percussion. <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>Graffiti Wall</strong></font> <P><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="photoleft"> <tr> <td><a href="movingsounds_photos/graffiti-wall.jpg" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','667','500','no');return false"><img src="movingsounds_photos/graffiti-wall.jpg" alt="Moving Sounds graffiti wall in Lewes East Sussex" width="100" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> Working with top graffiti artist Alex Young and Movingsounds students from E.T.C. and Netherfield Primary School created a graffiti mural design about Maths. Alex then painted their designs on one of the school's walls. Students saw their ideas come alive on the walls of their school for all to see.  <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong></strong></font> <P></p> <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><strong><font color="#000066"></font></strong> <P> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="photoleft"> <tr> <td><a href="movingsounds_photos/RP-opera-bg.jpg" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','470','627','no');return false"><img src="movingsounds_photos/RP-opera-sm.jpg" alt="Moving Sounds Opera in Lewes East Sussex" width="100" height="110" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table>  <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><strong><font color="#000066">Innovation in Maths (ongoing spring and summer 2006)</font></strong> <P> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="photoleft"> <tr> <td><a href="movingsounds_photos/RP-maths-bg.jpg" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','470','353','no');return false"><img src="movingsounds_photos/RP-maths-sm.jpg" alt="Moving Sounds Maths in Lewes East Sussex" width="100" height="75" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> Together with Creative Partnerships, Movingsounds worked at Eastbourne Technology College (ETC) to explore creative ways of teaching maths through visual arts, graffiti, movement, and music. <P>We also managed a similar project with excluded young people . Working through creative arts activities such as photography, video, song writing, break-dance and basketball we formed an engaged core group. We then spent a day in the woods with Trackways Wilderness Skills learning through nature awareness activities. The students, using digital photography documented this and a DVD was produced and shown at the school to conclude the first phase of the project. <P><em><font color="#003399">"Movingsounds present a wide range of skills that enable them to meet with our project objectives in a flexible and responsive way. Of all the practitioners they have had the most insight into the context in which they are working and been the most perceptive in engaging with it"</font> <BR><font class="smalltext">Peter Thompson, Creative Partnerships Hastings and East Sussex</font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><strong><font color="#000066">Healthy Eating Campaign. (Jan/Feb 2006) </font></strong> <P> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="photoleft"> <tr> <td><a href="movingsounds_photos/RP-eating-bg.jpg" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','470','670','no');return false"><img src="movingsounds_photos/RP-eating-bg.jpg" alt="Moving Sounds Eating in Lewes East Sussex" width="100" height="143" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> A collaboration with Queen Marys, University of London Working with 15 students from Pheonix High School, White City in West London, and in collaboration with artists and dieticians to research and launch a healthy-eating campaign in the school using creative arts and action-research. <P>After only 9 hours contact time over 2 weeks the group had made a music video about healthy food, designed a poster-campaign and built sculptures from fruit. The group then lead workshops with younger students exploring food issues and action research. The music video "GOOD FOOD BAD FOOD" was shown in the lunch hall and used as valuable documentation and learning tool for other projects. <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><strong><font color="#000066">Margate Exodus; the plagues project (March 2006) </font></strong> <P> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="photoleft"> <tr> <td><a href="movingsounds_photos/RP-margate-bg.jpg" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','470','627','no');return false"><img src="movingsounds_photos/RP-margate-sm.jpg" alt="Moving Sounds Margate in Lewes East Sussex" width="100" height="110" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> As part of the Margate exodus project involving Art Angel and the Arts Council we worked with Creative Partnerships at Laleham School in Margate. Over 5 days we worked with young people from year nine with learning difficulties exploring the theme of 'plagues' and created a multimedia stage performance drawing on all their fantastic ideas. We wrote songs, poems and stories, created costumes and props, drew beautiful illustrations and used video clips to produce an extremely modern, inspired performance of drama, music and projected visuals. <P><em><font color="#003399">"What impressed me most was the interest and enthusiasm towards the childrens ideas and concepts."</font> <BR><font class="smalltext">Sam Parker, Laleham Gap School, Margate.</font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>Community Consultation on the Isle of Wight. (Oct 2005)</strong></font> <P> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="photoleft"> <tr> <td><a href="movingsounds_photos/RP-white-bg.jpg" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','470','353','no');return false"><img src="movingsounds_photos/RP-white-sm.jpg" alt="Moving Sounds Isle of White in Lewes East Sussex" width="100" height="75" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> Working with the Children's fund on the Isle of Wight, Movingsounds formed part of a team of creative practitioners to run a consultation project with young-people from disadvantaged backgrounds. We worked together using music, samba percussion, song-writing, drama activities including Legislative Theatre, art and sculpture. Through these art forms the young-people were able to express their feelings about life on the Island and how it could be improved. <P>After 3 days the group had become a team with a sense of their strengths and new friendships. The 4th and final day of the project was a public family event called The Big Day Out in which the young people performed a fantastic samba procession and made a giant labyrinth, the centre of which was a collection box in which members of the public were invited to write their views on services for young-people on the island and how they could be improved. The information was then used by the council to inform policy on youth services. The finale of the day was a performance of Forum Theatre by the young people and witnessed by council members and the public exploring important issues in their lives. <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong></strong></font> <P> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="photoleft"> <tr> <td><a href="movingsounds_photos/RP-ecoshow-bg.jpg" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','470','353','no');return false"><img src="movingsounds_photos/RP-ecoshow-sm.jpg" alt="Moving Sounds Eco Show in Lewes East Sussex" width="100" height="75" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table>  <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>Recycled Fashion Show (June 2005 and November 2005)</strong></font> <P> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="photoleft"> <tr> <td><a href="movingsounds_photos/RP-recycle-bg.jpg" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','470','345','no');return false"><img src="movingsounds_photos/RP-recycle-sm.jpg" alt="Moving Sounds Recycle in Lewes East Sussex" width="100" height="73" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> A collaboration with Spectral Arts and 5 secondary schools in Brighton, Hove and East Sussex to create a fashion show entirely made from recycled materials. Movingsounds worked with year 8 students to compose and perform a piece of music to open the whole event. We wrote songs and composed rhythms on junk percussion and home made instruments to create a piece that expressed the students' views and feeling about waste and our environment. <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>Sustainable Neighbourhood Design (summer 2005)</strong></font> <P> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="photoleft"> <tr> <td><a href="movingsounds_photos/RP-design-bg.jpg" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','470','658','no');return false"><img src="movingsounds_photos/RP-design-sm.jpg" alt="Moving Sounds Design in Lewes East Sussex" width="100" height="140" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> A collaboration with the Children's University in Brighton and Broadway Malyan architects working with approximately 120 students from year 6,7,8 and 9 from two schools in Brighton. Our brief was to facilitate the students in generating and communicating their ideas about the local neighbourhood. We looked at safety, community, play and leisure, green spaces and signage using group mind-mapping activities, poetry, drawing and discussion. <P>The project culminated in an installation of work and a presentation to the architects, planners, local residents and a French partner community viewing this project as a model for community consultation. Some of the students' ideas were used in the forthcoming improvement of the area. <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>Global Citizenship and fair Trade (Jan 2005)</strong></font> <P> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="photoleft"> <tr> <td><a href="movingsounds_photos/RP-trade-bg.jpg" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','470','353','no');return false"><img src="movingsounds_photos/RP-trade-sm.jpg" alt="Moving Sounds Trade in Lewes East Sussex" width="100" height="75" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> This was a one-day project at Wallands Primary School in Lewes looking at Fair Trade, Environmental Issues and 'Making a Difference' in three separate workshops. The day culminated in performances of music and drama devised by the students to the rest of the school. <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>Zambia - Lewes Video Link</strong></font> <P>This was a project exchanging video-interviews with students from the New School in Lewes, and a school near Lusaka in Zambia. We also made a similar link with a performing youth music and dance group in the Zambia as part of the same project. The students in both countries watched the interviews and videos of each other's school and neighbourhood. The students then created and performed music and dance pieces about activities in their lives (sports and fishing) to video and send to the students abroad. <P><em><font color="#003399"></font> <BR><font class="smalltext"></font></em> <p class="horizontalrule"></p> <P><font color="#000066"><strong>Tribal Peoples workshop</strong></font> <P>This workshop used resources from Survival International a charity campaigning for tribal peoples' rights- and drama and music activities to explore the contentious issues facing tribal peoples in Brazil today. 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