SHORT BREAK GRANT SCHEME Woldgate College are now working in partnership with Accessible Arts & Media, iMATA (interactive Music Accessible To All) and East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Other support has been given by Elvington Air Museum, Apollo Creative, HETA (Humberside Engineering Training Association), Pocklington Youth Club – DofE students, Francis Scaife Sports Centre [...]
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Musical Monuments at Bolton Priory
What is Musical Monuments? Musical Monuments is an exciting project where young people can find out more about their local history through music. Each project is based around a North Yorkshire monument, and in March 2010 Musical Monuments will be coming to Bolton Priory. Workshops will take place on Thursday 11th, Friday 12th, Thursday 18th [...]
Musical Monuments at Ripon Museums – October 2008
Musical Monuments is an exciting inclusive music project where both mainstream and disabled young people can work together to create music. Want to know what it would have been like in a workhouse or prison? Then come and find out through Music Technology, Singing & Signing 31st October 2008, 9am – 4.30pm at Ripon Museums, [...]
Pupils sing sign of the times
YOUNGSTERS from two York schools put on a special show as part of the city’s Festival Of Rivers. Pupils from Fishergate Primary and Appleflelds School delivered the performance at Joseph Rowntree Park. Twelve children from each school worked in the project. They were split into two groups, one working with technology and the other working [...]
Amicus York Summer Project
The Amicus Interactive Music Project is a charitable organisation which brings children together in an environment of fun and friendship to create music. This Summer, Amicus York is joining forces with Cube Media and Accessible Arts to run a project with children from Fishergate Primary and Applefields Schools. The project will be run in conjunction [...]
Changes
Run in association with SightSonic Festival 2004 Year-Round Programme Accessible Arts, Cube Media, AMICUS York and the City of York Arts Service, York College and the Manor School Community Programme have joined forces to bring you a unique, devised and interactive piece, which explores Greek stories of human transformation or ‘change’. Four ancient Greek myths [...]
‘Rainbow Fish gets swept away’
Haxby Road Primary School – Spring 2004 In Spring 2004, we ran the first Amicus York project with children in the Foundation Stage and KS1. Amicus York aims to create musical friendship groups between children in mainstream settings and those with special educational needs. The projects provide children with the opportunity to participate in music [...]
Pupils join space race
A MUSICAL journey through space has helped unite mainstream and special needs schools in York. Pupils from Galtres, Lidgett Grove, Tang Hall and Poppleton Ousebank schools performed Journey Through Space at the National Centre for Early Music in Walmgate, York, yesterday, during the launch of the city’s Sightsonic festival. The show, organised by Amicus York, [...]
One woman’s bid to help musical children
Fundraising events to buy special equipment A MUSICAL production by children with special needs has moved a Pocklington woman to launch her own fundraising campaign. Jackie Dealtry was so impressed by the AMICUS Interactive Music Project that she has organised a series of events to help buy special equipment. “I saw a production from the [...]