Schools
Bringing theatre, dance, puppetry and music to children in schools is at the heart of each festival. On this page you will find links to events, training and other projects for schools.
At Your School
We are pleased to announce the 2012 'At Your School' programme, bringing the excitement of high quality theatre, dance, puppetry and music to children in their school hall.
This programme for 2012 will run from Monday 28th May to Thursday 31st May. For more information, or book for your school, please contact the Spark Festival on 0116 261 6893 or download the bulletin below.
2012 Programme
- Spark Schools Bulletin for 2012 (PDF, 713 Kb)
In Your Theatre
Spark your pupils' imagination with a trip to the theatre!
During the week of 28th May 2012 there will be school performances for all Primary Key Stages, presented at venues in Leicester.
The programme is still being finalised, but we are pleased to announce 2 productions at Curve- details below.
Transport Subsidy
We have a limited number of Transport Subsidies of £50 towards your coach travel for schools booking 30 students or more, and for nurseries booking 10 children or more. Please call the Spark Festival office on 0116 261 6893 to book your subsidy after you have reserved your tickets. Available on a first come, first served basis- one per school/performance.
Teacher's resources
Most of the schools performances are accompanied by Resource or Activity packs. Please click the link below.
Story writing competition - 2012
This year's story-writing competition is again supported by the Schools Development Support Agency as part of the "Whatever it Takes" Reading Scheme.
This year's theme "Arrival in an Unknown Land" is based on the new stage adaptation of "Gulliver's Travels". Click here for more information
Last year's winners:
Category 1 winners: Raeesah Burani, Conor Nugent, Senna Patel, Abbie Thornton, Grace Wilson
Category 2 winners: Charlie Bray, Daisy Connolly, Naseera Esat, Zayn Dubois Gafar, Susanna Kenney
Pop-Up Gallery project - 2011
The Pop-Up Gallery was an action research project, as part of The Mighty Creatives Creative Exchanges programme, which aimed to find answers to the question:
What is the best way to create and present a visual arts exhibition to children?
The project involved 3 teams of Young Curators from 3 schools who created an exhibition of their school‘s portraiture art works under the title “Portrait Palace".
Click here to find out more about the project.
Professional Development Programme
Each year during the festival The Spark brings many artists to Leicester who have long experience in creating live performance for children. Each year, we try to harnass some of that expertise to offer professional development opportunities for local arts practitioners.
We continued our “Lighting the Fire" early years courses with several one off events during January - July 2011. For more news please see our Early Years page
Images: tutti frutti "Hare and Tortoise", Peut-etre Theatre "This is a That", Yaaba Funk "Anansi the Spider", Moving Hands "Hip Hope Hero"
Pop-up gallery picture - Andy Baker
"Five" audience - Alan Fletcher for Arts Council England
