Six Ways to Wellbeing

Do you have young people wanting to do their Arts Award? We have this opportunity for young people to do their Bronze or Silver Award with Six Ways to Well-being in Swale.

Six Ways to Wellbeing with Wide Eyed Theatre

Your ideas, performed from scratch - Join our unique young persons performance group in which we create a story of people, place and events that make us happy and share them with the world.

All the ideas come from you...

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Timetable:

Project Launch - Tuesday 28th October - 10am till 4pm - Bluetown Heritage Centre
This session will launch the project and is open to anyone interested in joining the project. It will be a day of building our performance company and creating project ideas.
Lunch will be provided - if you need support with transport please email vicki@wide-eyed-theatre.co.uk

Weekly Evening sessions in November and December - Location and times TBC

Celebration Event - 6th December - Location and times TBC

This is part of the Six Ways To Wellbeing programme being managed by Ideas Test and Swale CVS and is funded jointly by Kent County Council, Artswork and The Royal Opera House Bridge. Find out more about the Six Ways to Wellbeing at www.sixwaystowellbeing.org.uk.

You can find Ideas Test, Swale CVS and Six Ways to Wellbeing on Twitter @IdeasTest @SwaleCVS and @liveitwelluk, all of whom will be tweeting about the project under #sixwaystowellbeing. Six Ways to Wellbeing is also on Facebook, please search for ‘liveitwellkent’.

You can find out more about Wide Eyed Theatre on www.wide-eyed-theatre.co.uk

FAQs

Is there an age limit/restriction to take part?
You must live in Swale (which includes Faversham, Sittingbourne, Sheppey and surrounding villages) and aged between 13 to 19 years.

What happens after I book?
We will email you to confirm the details and send you some forms for you and your parent/guardian to fill in.

What do I need to bring on the day?
You must send us signed consent from your parent/guardian in advance or bring it on the day. If we don't have it you won't be able to take part.

Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?
Yes, please get in touch if you have any questions. Call Cassy Fry Programme Coordinator on 07713 865955 or email cassy@creativepeopleplace.info.
Do you have questions about Drama Workshop with Wide Eyed Theatre? Contact Ideas Test

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Artsbox, Objects, Stories and Puppets

In March we had two forums so we also welcomed Peter Morton, from Knuckle and Joint Theatre, to the second session with his great Puppetry workshop. Peter demonstrated some fun and interesting tasks on how to transform an ordinary object into something creative and imaginative.

Rose, from Artwork, provided everyone with fliers and leaflets and a look into the new 'ArtsBox' concept. ArtsBox is an online dropbox service whereby you can link and collate any photos, videos or imagery to portfolio's, viewed by a Moderator.

Please see our earlier post on signing up to Artsbox here

Peter lead the creative activity...

Using Objects:

1. Pass around an object, eg; an umbrella, a book, a shoe
2. Each person had to respond with "This is not a ...","It is a ..." In which people were invited to think creatively of a different object instead, i.e; "This is not a shoe, this is a ship, sailing in the sea".
3. Change the object for new ideas.
4. Pass around again without repeating and of the previous objects already mentioned.

Secondly, Peter split the group in two to create our very own puppets, simply out of a mug and a dish cloth. The key was to:

1. Accentuate the body stance with detail to movement and breathing.
2. To establish a point of focus on the puppet from the puppeteer/puppeteers. This enables the audience to focus on the puppet.
3. Add an objective; a daily routine for the puppet to move to i.e. getting out of bed, getting dressed, etc.
4. Change the object and do the same.

The outcome of the sessions were great and we look forward to welcoming everyone to the future Forum sessions.

The Gift of Gold

Our last forum welcomed artist, musician and facilitator Peter Cook. Peter lead a thought provoking session stimulated by GOLD! We listened to music, viewed pictures and played games before launching into the main activity.






I always find other people's games really interesting and have 'borrowed' 3 of Peter's already.









One great game for warming up was 'Pass the Clap':

Group size: 5 or more players Group age: 5 up (may need to be adapted)

1) Ask the group to stand in a circle
2) Start off a clap that gets passed around the circle from player to player, you can slowly build up speed. Make sure it is passed consecutively and no one claps too soon!
3) Introduce the two clap rule. If someone claps twice on their go the clap gets sent the other way around the circle (Peter advised us to only let each person use this once or it tends to get stuck).
4) If the group get the hang of it introduce the 3 clap rule. If a player claps 3 times on their go the clap skips the person next to then and jumps to the next player!

A great simple and fast paced focus game.



We continued the session exploring poetry and comparing our feelings on Gold to the actual award.



We really got into discussing how gold is a precious gift, showing maximum effort and dedication. It is also a gift that is passed on the next person. This is exactly one of the aims of the Arts Award, in creating young creative leaders to pass on their gifts to the next generation.



We discussed how the progression of Bronze, Silver and Gold could be used in this way to pass on experiences between groups. If you were running them simultaneously, in schools for example, you could have the groups delivering to eachother i.e. the taking part of bronze could be a project run by silver or gold particiapants.

 

Thanks to Peter's diversity as an artist and facilitator, we were easily able to grasp sing cross art forms from poetry, to drama to music. This really relates to the challenge set in Gold Award in participants finding  new art form or challenging their existing one.