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BBB is excited to present Bollywood Blast! - a brand new education project for which BBB has been awarded funding from the Mayor’s Fund for Young Musicians.
BBB will work in Partnership with four London Boroughs, Barnet, Ealing, Enfield and Harrow, to deliver a year long programme to inspire young people to take up brass instruments. The project will start in September 2012, when the partner music services will start free brass tuition in one secondary school per borough, to year 7 pupils who have experienced the Wider Opportunities first access programmes in their Primary schools. Progression will be supported by a weekly ensemble activity and by workshops provided by the BBB, who kick off the whole project with an exciting large scale performance in each school.
The project will be led by trumpeter Kay Charlton - a London brass teacher for more than 20 years and performer and workshop leader with the BBB since the band’s foundation. Kay will write a Bollywood Blast! tutor book specially for the project; the book will include a CD of Bollywood style backing tracks, background to the Bollywood genre and ideas for creative work on film music.
The year culminates in July 2013 with a Gala Concert which will include:
- Performances of Bollywood tunes by individual schools
- Performances by BBB
- Performance of creative work
- Finale performance by BBB and all participants – a Big Bollywood Brass Band (BBBB!)
Previous education projects led by Kay include the opening of WOMAD Festival 2011 and conducting a brass and dhol group at the Schools Prom at the Royal Albert Hall (see video below).
If you would like a Bollywood Brass style project in your school please contact us for more information.
EEA has been awarded a Transformers Grant, funded by National Lottery Funding through the Olympic Lottery Distributer and managed by ELBA, and LB Greenwich’s Community Arts Fund.
The project is designed to encourage young people to explore their relationship to their local built environment, particularly public spaces and the public within them. In light of the recent rioting and increasing levels of youth unemployment and disenfranchisement, Greenwich Games Space aims to explore and explode how the public view young people in public spaces, how young people would like to be viewed and how we can use street arts as a medium to redress the disparity between the two.
Under the umbrella of Greenwich’s Cultural Olympiad programme, Greenwich Games Space will reach up to 200 young people from across the borough wards in:
- A creative symposium featuring presentations and workshops from town planners, architects, street arts professionals, creative practitioners and community trusts. The event will enable young people to investigate their role in the local community.
- Street arts skills development workshops and master classes delivered by UK wide professionals
- Youth led devising sessions and rehearsals leading to a number of performances inspired by and taking place in their chosen public spaces.
The project will be guided by a group of 20 young people from 6 secondary schools in the borough, forming a Youth Forum to make key decisions regarding the aesthetic and operational details of the project. They will work closely with EEA’s creative practitioners to inspire and motivate other young people to contribute to the project, developing a portfolio of arts and cultural research in the process as part of their silver arts awards.
This high profile street arts project, which will culminate in performances within the Cultural Olympiad programme, will enable young people to take ownership of public spaces and make a positive statement in the midst of an influx of visitors from around the world. In effect this will transform their position as members of the community, positively representing young people and counteracting recent negative press about their interaction with public spaces.
Greenwich Games Space will be delivered in partnership with Corelli College/ Thomas Tallis School/ Plumstead Manor School/ The John Roan School/ Audiences London/ University of Greenwich/ LB Greenwich Arts and Culture Team/ Greenwich Volunteer Centre/ Charlton Athletic Community Trust
Look out for more information as the project develops...
Crocodile Style can make your Christmas event into a party – whatever the location!
Shopping centres, high streets, carnival parades… Turn on the Christmas Lights with a bang - this funky 7 piece band can accompany Santa’s sleigh, or lead your procession to the accompaniment of Christmas tunes with a twist Jingle Bells, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, I’m dreaming of a White Christmas and more, interspersed with songs from the band’s usual repertoire of samba, world beat and jive.
See us this Christmas:
17 November, SE London 4-7pm
Eltham Lights Up - Turning the Christmas Lights on
2 December, Chrisp Stmarket, Poplar
Turning the Christmas Lights on
8 December, NationalMaritime Museum, Greenwich 6-9pm
Christmas market
10 December,11-3pm
SidcupTownCentre
To book, call Mark Allan: 020 8853 7553
email: crocstyle@bollywoodbrassband.co.uk
Crocodile Style played on the first parade across London's famous wobbly bridge, and grooved so much they had to close the bridge!
Sister band to the BBB, Crocodile Style is a seven piece street band (sax, trumpet, trombone, sousaphone, drums), that plays music from all over the world – from Richard Strauss to Soul II Soul (click here for the Christmas Edition):
• Cumbia, samba, and mambos from Latin America
• Gospel and New Orleans funk from America
• Jive from South Africa
• Ska from Jamaica
• Spanish folk and British R’n’B from Europe
• Wedding songs from India
Creating a sense of carnival, with vibrant music, wild costumes, and nifty dance steps, Crocodile Style have been booked (and re-booked) throughout Europe. They’ve grooved at festivals of all descriptions from community events, to International Juggling Conventions, corporate functions, and world music festivals.
Playing Situations: On procession, wandering and in a set location; acoustic and amplified
Workshops: Members of Crocodile Style can offer workshops in various aspects of music and instrument making
The band also has festive repertoire - click here for the Christmas Edition
Call Mark Allan: 020 8853 7553
email: crocstyle@bollywoodbrassband.co.uk
EEA’s base at Rothbury Hall, SE London is a busy hub full of creative people with unique skills. EEA’s Creation Space could be the one-stop shop for your entire production.
Our team of artist associates are experts in many aspects of outdoor arts including directors, designers and engineers of large-scale mobile structures and puppets, theatre and carnival costume designers, musicians and composers, pyrotechnicians, lighting and sound designers, production and event managers.
See some of the extraordinary creations our associate artists have made for EEA and other companies at EEA’s Making Space.
EEA’s marvellous mechanical walkabouts designed and made by associate artists including Mike Pattison, Gordon Allum, Tony Mason, Emma Garofalo, Jamshid Mahamood, Stephen Stockbridge and Johnny White
EEA also hires its unique space to artists and companies for all of your creative needs. We can offer facilities for costume making, puppetry, metalwork, woodwork, electronics, temporary storage and rehearsal space at certain times of the year. Your work could be small and detailed, or a large-scale construction. We also have free Wi-Fi, kitchen facilities and disabled access to all ground floor spaces.
Rothbury Hall is ideally situated in North Greenwich – right next to the Blackwall Tunnel for escaping to the North and the A2 for Kent and the M25. We are well serviced by public transport – North Greenwich Jubilee, Cutty Sark DLR and Maze Hill Railway Station and plenty of buses – see Getting Here.
We are 10 minutes from the Olympic Site, 5 minutes from the O2 Arena (North Greenwich Olympic Arena) and a pleasant stroll along the river from Greenwich Town Centre.
If you want to make an enquiry about our design and fabrication facility and associate artists please contact our Production Manager, Ben Raine events@eea.org.uk 020 8853 4809
We work with several singers including Rafaqat Ali Khan and Sreejith Sridharan.
See some video here of us playing at the Guildford International Festival.
Sreejith Sreedharan is one of the UK’s leading singers of Bollywood songs.
Sreejith has sung with leading Hindi band Shama and Friends for 10 years, performing across the UK at Melas and other events, including the main stage at the Mayor of London’s Diwali celebration in Trafalgar Square. Born and trained in the home of Bollywood, Bombay (now called Mumbai), he is now based in the UK.
INSET
The band can offer various sessions for teachers:
Drumming – Bhangra
Dance – Bhangra/Bollywood
Bollywood in the Classroom - its context, history and practitcal application in a classroom setting.
(This workshop was originally devised and delivered by Kay Charlton for the Key Stage 2 Music CPD programme run by Trinity Guildhall and The Open University.)
"Just wanted to let you know what a brilliant 2 days I've had doing Bollywood! Everyone's exhausted, but it's been great! Thank you so much for inspiring the whole event with your workshop."
Bollywood in the Classroom participant, Somerset.
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