What's On: Spring 2026
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Public Events
April
- Wednesday 29 April
Goole Creates concert: The Hallé, Goole Academy
May
- Wednesday 6 May
Manchester Collective Papillons Concert at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
- Tuesday 19 May
Britten Sinfonia at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3FD
June
- Thursday 4 June
Darlo Creates Royal Northern Sinfonia Concert at Darlington Hippodrome, DL1 1RR
- Thursday 18 June
Aurora Concert at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3FD
Project activity
We have a number of ongoing community and learning projects continuing:
April
- Goole Creates workshops with The Hallé
- Making Waves with Music schools tour and engagement in Peterborough
- Culture Sounds – training days and workshops with Derbyshire and Leicestershire Virtual Schools
May
- Manchester Collective Papillons sixth form workshops in Nottingham
- Our Music Our Way workshops with Royal Northern Sinfonia
June
- East Riding of Yorkshire Council Early Years tour
- Live music schools tour in Cambridgeshire
- Hear & Now workshops
- Thaxted Festival workshops
- Together Through Music Live – Mini Tour
- Darlo Creates workshop with Royal Northern Sinfonia
On-Demand
- Tea Break Episode Twenty-One In this episode of #OLTeaBreak, we chat with Aga Serugo Lugo, a vocalist, composer and workshop leader.
Aga discusses his journey into music leadership, the power of collaborative music making, and his recent work on Long Shop Sound Machine, a heritage project in East Suffolk bringing the Industrial Revolution to life through music with seven local schools.
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
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