Public Events

February

• Wednesday 4 February, 7pm
  Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Steven Isserlis – The Apex

March

• Thursday 5 March, 7.30pm
  Royal Northern Sinfonia - Prokofiev and Mendelssohn - Darlington Hippodrome

Project activity

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

January

• Our Music, Our Way workshops in Redcar & Cleveland
• Goole Creates workshops in Goole, East Riding
• Full of Surprises workshops for schools in and around the North Pennines
• New Connections: Hidden Histories schools workshops
• Playing Out youth workshops in Barrowcliff area
• Making Waves schools tour and engagement
• Bolsover mini concert tour
• The Robot and the Bluebird schools tour in Norfolk & Suffolk

February

• New Connections: Hidden Histories schools workshops
• Goole Creates workshops in Goole, East Riding
• Our Music Our Way workshops in Redcar & Cleveland, and workshops & concerts for schools in Middlesbrough
• Full of Surprises workshops and sharing for schools in and around the North Pennines
• Darlo Creates Royal Northern Sinfonia workshops for Sixth Form college students
• Playing Out youth workshops & community performance in Barrowcliff area
• Collective Skywith the Four Suns concert and A Level activity in Nottingham
• Making Waves schools tour and engagement in Peterborough
• The Robot and the Bluebird schools tour in Norfolk & Suffolk

March

• Darlo Creates Royal Northern Sinfonia workshops for Sixth Form college students
• New Connections: Hidden Histories schools workshops and culmination
• Our Music Our Way workshops in Redcar & Cleveland and Middlesbrough
• Musical Storyland with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra interactive schools tour in Yorkshire
• Making Waves schools tour and engagement in Peterborough
• A Day at the Pond schools tour in Lincoln and Gainsborough

Find out more about our projects

On-Demand (tbc for winter)

• 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