Outreach

Toddler Dance with Victoria Taylor

St Thomas Church Hall, Earlham Road, Norwich
Mondays

14:00-15:00

Contact: City & Eaton Children’s Centre 01603 729808

Youth Dance companies in Norfolk
Working in partnership with DanceEast, One Dance UK and The University of Bedfordshire.

Flex Dance Company
Wednesdays
4.30-6pm (during term time)
Hethersett Village Hall
Open to new members. Please book an audition class in advance by emailing education@thegarage.org.uk.
£3.00 per session to members and once accepted into the company commitment is needed for the whole academic school year.

We are also running a company at Millfield Primary school in North Walsham.

Leeway Project
Working with a family refuge based in Norwich.
Not open for public booking.

Community Ambassador Programme for Clarion Housing
In the Thorpe St Andrew area.
Not open for public booking.

We are currently working with the following schools:

Magdalen Gates Primary School – After School Club

Jane Austen Academy – Arts Award

Eaton Hall Specialist Academy – After School Club

Robert Kett Primary School – After School Club

Hethersett Academy – Elective Dance Programme

West Earlham Junior School – Arts Award after School Clubs

For further information on our outreach activities please email – education@thegarage.org.uk

We work with Children’s Centres to provide a range of activities for families and young children. To access these free activities families must be registered with the relevant children’s centre. The workshops we are able to offer are as follows – 

Toddler Dance

A fun and creative class for toddlers to dance with their grown up. This is a great session for early development. As well as developing physical skills and spatial awareness it’s great for improving listening, responding to instructions and sharing with other children – many of the skills they will need at school. Expect movement, games, songs and storytelling to spark the imagination.

Suitable for 18months – 4 years (babies welcome too)

Toddler Music

Musical games, stories and fun for toddlers and their grown-ups. Sing well known songs together and explore a variety of instruments. This is a great session for early development. As well as developing physical skills and spatial awareness it’s great for improving listening, responding to instructions and sharing with other children – many of the skills they will need at school. Expect movement, games, songs and storytelling to spark the imagination.

Suitable for 18months – 4 years (babies welcome too)

Go Create

A fun introduction to the creative performing arts through dance and drama games, delivered by The Garage tutors.

Suitable for ages 5 – 8

Are you looking for a fun activity for your group or organisation?

We’ve worked with pretty much every kind of group you can think off, including Brownies, Cub Scouts, young carers, youth clubs, MAP, Assist Trust, Families House, Leeway women’s refuge and New Routes.

We currently have funding from North Norfolk District and Norwich City councils to offer subsidised (or in some cases free) outreach activities for groups in north Norfolk or disadvantaged areas of Norwich.

Examples of what we are offer (depending on tutor availability) are:

Ballet
Band Skills
Contemporary Dance
Choir
Drama
Musical Theatre
Percussion
Song Writing
Street Dance

Contact education@thegarage.org.uk to discuss your ideas.

YOUTH MUSIC REGIONAL WORK 

Innovate>Test>Embed ‘by, for & with Young People’

The Garage believes that music should be for all young people, who should be central to their own musical journeys. 

We are working closely with music deliverers and partner organisations across the region to push boundaries and break down barriers to participation, using an ‘innovate, test, embed’ approach which explores authentic ways of developing quality music provision ‘by for and with’ young people.

This is a strategic programme of work, which sees The Garage working nationally with the National Foundation for Youth Music and 12 national colleagues, all working towards a ‘musically inclusive’ England.

The Garage strives to keep music participation fresh, engaging and relevant, enabling young people to develop musically, personally and socially and helping music deliverers to develop their practice in new ways.

For more on regional shared practice, events & CPD offers, please go here:

http://network.youthmusic.org.uk/near-you/organisation-directory/garage-trust-ltd

For more information, please contact Jane  Music Inclusion Manager:  

Watch videos relating to the project here

Download The Garage press release here

Visit The Garage’s page on the National Foundation for Youth Music website here