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The Glendaruel Rap: Dress Rehearsal!

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Date: [Afternoon] Wednesday 2nd of October 2013

Location: Kilmodan Primary School, Glendaruel

Workshop: The Glendaruel Rap: Dress Rehearsal!

Walking Youth Theatre Team: Rebecca Bloom, Sadie Dixon-Spain, Alana Mathers

This afternoons session focused on the performance of The Happening History of the Red River Glen rap! The pupils, still on a high from this mornings Mesolithic Forest School, had some great ideas for actions to be performed within the piece! It was great to hear how inspired the pupils were by the project, and to see them putting their Glen of the Red River knowledge into action when performing the Rap! Following some group work, preparing and rehearsing lines and actions, and a whole rap run-through, it was time to bring out the costumes – a much anticipated part of the dress rehearsal! With mighty Mesoliths, groovy Vikings, cool Jacobites, and a few hip modern day Glendaruel-ers, it was obvious not only were the pupils having fun, but they had also picked up on a number of historical fashion ideas throughout the sessions!!

It was time to begin staging our modern day Timeline Crew, and a lot of fun was had! The pupils were already beginning to show some great performance ideas, and many were already performing without script!

Our next workshop will include putting the final touches to the performance, and having the performance filmed to go on our website. We can’t wait!

Workshop: Creating Visuals

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Date: Thursday 25th of April 2013

Location: Kilmodan Primary School, Glendaruel

Workshop: Creating Visuals

Walking Youth Theatre Team: Rebecca Bloom and Alana Mathers

Today’s workshop focused on creating visuals for the website, to showcase the Kilmodan Primary Pupils artistic talents.

To start, we spoke about families and Clans, identifying family groups that currently reside in the Glen that the pupils are a part of, or aware of, and discussing iconic families and Clans from the Glen’s past – particularly the Campbells and the Lamonts. We then moved on to creating Family Shields – each pupil began creating a shield for their family group in the Glen. A variety of shields were created – some including representations of the houses, family members, work and employment, tartan, and of course, the Red River.

We then moved back to the timeline, and spoke about the way the people would have dressed throughout the years. The pupils had some great ideas on what fashion would have been like throughout the different time periods, thinking greatly about what resources, fabrics, and techniques would have been available at each point. From this, the pupils were then each given a period from the timeline, and set the task to create a character as an icon of their specific point in history. From Mesolithic Hunter Gatherers in animal skins, to kilted Jacobites, mysterious looking Monks, to trendy Victorian gents, the pupils captured the timeline characters perfectly! Look out for the characters on the website, and on the timeline!