Arts activities for young people
Year 2011/2012 Norwich Puppet Theatre
When pupils from Queen's Hills school were taken to the Puppet Theatre for the day on July 11 they enjoyed a performance of Thumbelina in the morning and after lunch they learned how to make a 'rod' puppet. Some members of the committee went along to observe the afternoon workshop and what fun these children had!
Aged from 6-8 years, there were two separate classes. The puppet makers certainly know how to keep (most) of their audience attentive with the help of some teachers and assistants. Within 90 minutes, every child had assembled a puppet of their own to take home. There was a wonderful array of materials from which the children could choose and the adults were really only in charge of the all-important hot glue gun. The older girls took away their beautiful ladies with fantastical hair and dresses whilst many of the boys had more often concentrated on some type of alien. Some of the younger children produced animals. In general, they were all entertained and taught well by the dedicated team at the theatre.
Hilary Payne
Year 2010/2011 East Anglia's Children's Hospice at Quidenham
In line with one of the charitable aims of NADFAS, to give grants to young arts projects, in the Society's year 2010/2011 we donated £1500 to EACH (East Anglia's Children's Hospices) at Quidenham towards art material and equipment for musical therapy for the children.
EACH's Quidenham Hospice has a friendly environment and families are encouraged to treat the hospice as a home-from-home. They provide a range of art and craft and music therapy activities for children of all ages, including siblings. These include painting, collage, face painting, card making and modelling. All activities are pre-planned and offered to meet individual children's needs. In music therapy, children, young people and family members can experience music improvised uniquely for and with them. They have the opportunity to interact and communicate musically and to express themselves in whatever way they can – using their body, voice or percussion instruments. Most of all they form a creative and therapeutic relationship with their music therapist.
Our donation purchased a variety of art material and musical instruments for children of different ages, and was greatly appreciated by the staff at EACH.
To read more about the work of EACH at Quidenham to go http://www.each.org.uk/what-we-do/the_hospices/quidenham
Year 2007/2008 Knowland Grove primary school
We sponsored the artist Natasha Carsberg to work with children at Knowland Grove primary school, Norwich, to create this montage. She went to the school over seven days to tutor the children; each child made their own bug out of card, and these were attached to the jungle leaves and fixed to the classroom ceiling. The children enjoyed themselves enormously and were very proud of the finished art work.
