Henley Festival Trust news

April 2010
Summer Holiday Musical Theatre Workshop; glee - The class of 2010

Using songs from the hit TV phenomenon and working with leading industry professionals, this specially commissioned workshop piece will be performed to an invited audience at a theatre at the end of the intensive and exciting week (Henley venue to be announced.)

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February 2010
Easter Holiday Musical Theatre Workshop

Henley Festival brings you an Easter holiday musical theatre course with a difference. Working with a professional director, musical director and choreographer from London’s West End, you will go from script to stage in just five days. Free entry for family and friends to the final day performance on Friday afternoon.

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January 2010
An update with some great news about one of the young musicians supported by the Henley Festival Trust.

Huw Wiggin was chosen to be part of the Park Lane Group Young Artists New Year Series, one of only 30 young musicians chosen throughout the entire UK. As part of the series, Huw recently had a saxophone recital at the Purcell Room in London.

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September 2009
'Roots Up'

'Roots Up' is our spoken word project with young people from NOMAD this term with final gig at the Magoos Bar, Henley on Thames in late October, date tbc. NOMAD is the charity for young people on the fringe or at risk.

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July 2009
Very public display of Henley Festival supersize art

Henley Festival's spectacular supersize art project for schools, 'Rings Around the World', created a real stir down by the riverside when the fruits of several months' work got their public viewing during Festival time. The 10 giant murals provided a unique and colourful addition to this year's Festival

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May 2009
Summer Holiday Musical Theatre Workshop

Henley Festival brings you a Summer holiday musical theatre course with a difference. Working with a professional director, musical director and choreographer from London's West End, you will go from script to stage in just five days. Free entry for family and friends to the final day performance on Friday afternoon.

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April 2009
Henley Festival 'Rings Around the World' project for schools recognised by London 2012

The Henley Festival's spectacular supersize art project for schools, 'Rings Around the World', has been officially recognised by London 2012 through its Inspire programme - in recognition of its outstanding quality and innovative links to the London 2012 Games. 'Rings Around the World' is this year's SHOUT! outreach programme for schools, run and funded by the Henley Festival's charitable arm, the Henley Festival Trust.

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March 2009
The Henley Festival's music in schools event a great success

Two local primary and two local secondary schools got together recently to present a performance of the work designed to hone their music-making skills - and all thanks to The Henley Festival. The event was held at Christ Church, Henley-on-Thames on 20th March. In the run up to the performance, music workshops were led by Andy Baker (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra) and Joby Burgess (percussion specialist) and funded by The Henley Festival. The creative music project was designed to extend a Henley Festival outreach project that saw murals created in 10 schools at the end of last year. Schools who took part in Friday's performance were: Langtree School, Woodcote (yr 11 GCSE music students), Gillotts School Henley (yr 10 music students), Shiplake Primary, and Crazies Hill Primary, Wargrave.

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March 2009
Local Schools are Dancing Round the World

Thanks to The Henley Festival, 6 local primary schools have just completed a world-inspired dance project which culminated in a Dance presentation at Gillotts School, Henley-on-Thames on 11th March. Dance workshops took place earlier this term in the run up to these performances and were led by The Dance Movement, a community dance company based in Farnham, Surrey.

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February 2009
Music brings hope to brain injured - thanks to the Henley Festival

In the past few years there has been increasing excitement in the music world about the positive health benefits that music making can provide. So it is was with real interest that Henley Festival's Artistic Director, Stewart Collins, and Community Project Manager, Mandy Beard, proposed - in the teeth of the current economic recession - to renew the Festival's commitment to provide music therapy for clients at brain-injury charity Headway's Thames Valley centre.

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October 2008
Henley Festival Orchestra inspired to greater things

On Sunday 5th October, members of the Henley Festival Orchestra met together in Henley-on-Thames for the first of a series of 'Inspiration Days' planned for the year leading up to the Festival in July 2009. Led by Andy Baker, animateur with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Henley Festival Orchestra played together for the first time in this academic year and began discussing and sampling their musical direction for the run up to July 2009.

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September 2008
Henley Festival's SHOUT! project takes on the World

During the week of 29th September-3rd October, the Henley Festival Trust's schools' outreach project (SHOUT!) will once again offer young people a glorious way to become involved in the arts. Over this academic year (Sept '08 to July '09), the Trust will organise and pay for a spectacular mural-making project, 'Supersize Art', involving local schools. Ten murals will be created on canvases 20' x 6', one in each of the 10 participating schools.

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