Black History

Support your Black History Month and International Week activities or celebrate the richness and diversity within different cultures at any time of year. See below for our wide range of workshops.

In Development: The Underground Railroad Quilt story telling character that explains the escape of so many slaves through the Underground Railroad system.

Mary Seacole, key black figure and pioneering nurse

Drama

Talking Heads or Interactive Story-telling tutors can can visit your school to explore the lives of the characters below. We look particularly at the challenges that have faced them, exploring different issues and experiences through drama games.

We currently offer:
Ellen Craft
Mary Seacole
Martin Luther King
Olaudah Equiano
Harriet Tubman

Living History workshops are also available for Barak Obama and Nelson Mandela. Or, given sufficient notice, we can create a workshop on any character of your choice.

Performing Arts and Dance

Dance to Freedom
This dual facilitated performance piece with follow on workshops uses dance and physical theatre to tell the story of the slaves taken from West Africa to the Caribbean and explores the connection between traditional African dance, the physical restrictions and suffering of slaves and Caribbean carnival.

Dance workshops
Our cultural dance workshops allow pupils to sample different dance styles, looking at black history through learning new dance steps and the significance that particular dances have within that specific culture. These workshops also provide opportunities for pupils to see how different cultural dances have influenced dance styles today. Popular styles of dance include:

African
Tribal
Carnival

Salsa
Flamenco
Bhangra

Bollywood
Belly dancing
Break dancing

Singing

These workshops give pupils a chance to sample music from another culture, learning about how black culture uses music, and the significance of particular songs within their cultures. Styles of singing include:

Gospel
African chanting

Folk songs
Rap

Alternatively pupils can have the opportunity of writing their own folk songs reflecting black history and compose music with our tutor and be involved in the whole experience.

Drumming/Percussion

Celebrating Black History by exploring different percussion instruments is both uplifting and fun! Pupils will look at both the origins of the instruments and how they are used. The workshops provide pupils with the opportunity to create their own piece of music, either using African drums or a variety of percussion instruments.

Art

These workshops are very hands on! They enable pupils to explore different art forms and techniques that originate from Black cultures. Their aim is to allow pupils to create their own piece of art, while learning about where that technique originated from and how and why it is used within the specific culture. Projects on offer include weaving, mask making, aboriginal dot painting, wall hangings, Chinese dragon puppets, clay modelling and many more.

All workshops for Black History can be offered as one-off full day, a half day or can be booked to run for a number of days. Discounts are given to schools who book workshops for 3 full days or more. Our costs include all materials used in the workshops.

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