Public Events

October

• Tuesday 21 October, 6pm
  OAE Fairy Queen: Three Wishes - Kings Lynn Corn Exchange

November

• Monday 17 November
  From Rail to Stage Concert with Orchestra of Opera North - Darlington Hippodrome

Project activity

We have a number of ongoing community and learning projects continuing:

September

• Darlo Creates From Rail to Stage Inspiration Day with the Orchestra of Opera North
• Create Yarmouth Year 4 schools concert tour with the BBC Concert Orchestra

October

• Create Yarmouth Year 4 schools concert tour with the BBC Concert Orchestra
• Darlo Creates From Rail to Stage sessions
• Our Music, Our Way Middlesbrough Town Hall schools performance workshop with Royal Northern Sinfonia

November

• Darlo Creates From Rail to Stage sessions
• Essex Vibrations sharing with Sinfonia Viva
• Our Music, Our Way Inspiration Day with Royal Northern Sinfonia
• Our Music, Our Way Middlesbrough schools composition and songwriting workshop with Royal Northern Sinfonia
• Aurora Orchestra concert and engagement

December

• New Connections Skills Programme with Leeds Conservatoire

Find out more about our projects

On-Demand

• Tea Break Episode Nineteen In this special 60th birthday episode, our Communications Officer, Faith Dias Neto, chats with Stuart Bruce, our former Senior Creative Producer, as he reflects on over three decades with the organisation. In 1990, Stuart was appointed as the Eastern Orchestral Board’s first Education Manager, a strategic role which evolved into his position as Senior Creative Producer. Over 35 years, he co-produced hundreds of projects with numerous orchestras, artists, production partners, audiences and community groups, particularly in culturally under-invested parts of the country. Watch the full episode on YouTube
• Musical Journeys: A Day at the Pond / Mausam This is a multi-part digital musical resource for early years children. Featuring an ensemble from Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and South Asian Arts-uk and narrated by Seetal Kaur, children can immerse themselves in music and dance through the world of the pond. Register for the resource
• Destinies Film"Destinies" is a co-created filmed theatre piece created with young people with care experience and unaccompanied asylum seekers across Derby and Derbyshire in partnership with Sinfonia Viva, Derbyshire Virtual School and Orchestra Live. Ava Hunt Theatre produced "Destinies" across a two year period 2019 to 2021 navigating the Covid restrictions. Young people worked with artists specialising in writing, character creation, performing, animation, musical composition and lyric writing exploring how to trust, make new friends and what is home - 'Better to be friends together than strangers alone'. Watch The Destinies film