Over 700 children from local primary schools took part in a day of activities and talks in the wonderful Alexandra Palace, the home of television broadcasting. Dan and Ruth delivered a talk on Foley sound using lots of different objects to create sound effects. Ruth is a professional Foley artist and has worked on shows ranging from Downton Abbey to Peppa Pig! Here is her IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838324/ Dan also demonstrated a musical instrument called a Waterphone that creates spooky horror soon, and a metal slinky that can make laser gun sounds!
Strawberry Seeds Seeds Festival 2019 (China)
1-2 June 2019 we travelled to China to run family sound workshops at Modern Sky’s Strawberry Seeds festival.
Zabludowicz Collection
Family workshop at the Zabludowicz Collection art gallery in London.
“Thanks so much for running the workshop, it was as huge success; and we had a lot of people!” Antonia (Public Programmes Curator)
Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival 2019 (UAE)
We were delighted to be invited back to the United Arab Emirates to run workshops at their annual children’s festival in Sharjah.
Over the 11 day festival we delivered 22 school and family workshops.
2018 overview
2018 was the busiest year to date. It saw us take the School of Noise overseas for the first time to visit to Ireland, The Netherlands, United Arab Emirates and Oman. Thank you to all the festivals, schools, arts centres, museums and charities who invited us to take part in their activities. And thank you too to everyone who came to visit our workshops.
Noisy fruit and veg at design agency Purple Creative
Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman
In November 2018 we were invited to visit the Royal Opera House in Muscat to deliver a day of family sound workshops.
Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival 2018 (UAE)
We recently visited the United Arab Emirates to take part in the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival. During the 11 day expo we saw over 1000 children attend our workshops! Thank you to everyone who came along and to the organisers for inviting us.
New workshops announced – (Sold out)
BBC Radio 4 – Dan talks about School of Noise at WOMAD
Here is a link to the head of School of Noise, Dan Mayfield, talking about music education and the history of School of Noise which he gave at WOMAD Festival in August 2017 for BBC Radio 4’s Four Thought: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092fwxg
