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YOUNG ARTS PROJECTS

Update on our 2024 project:

Members of the Committee were invited to the Freefalling summer show which took place on 23 August and came away feeling very moved and uplifted by what they had experienced.  To quote from one member

 ‘It was wonderful to see a group of 15 children acting out a production that they put together themselves over the last 4 days. The Freefalling Foundation Summer School is in its 17th year and few of these children had met each other before Monday. Each in turn was able to stand up and with spoken words, singing and dancing, say who they were, where they came from, what was special about them, show the design they had made for their family Coat of Arms and what was their family motto…all personal to them.  While they were speaking several of the other children would be acting out what they were saying. They were all so supportive, sympathetic and understanding of each other and without a doubt these children will have come away from this experience with life enhancing skills…….. Our funds could not have gone to a better place.’

 One of the children was Ukrainian and she captured the audience with a beautiful performance of a Ukrainian folk song with traditional instrument.   Her own instrument had been destroyed in the war and the replacement instrument had only arrived 2 days before the show.

 The project continues in the autumn term following the children as they move up into secondary school.

Current Project:
Our Young Arts project for 2024 links up with the Polka Theatre’s education programme. A combined grant from The Arts Society plus a donation from our own Society is providing the funds for the Polka Theatre to create ‘Freefalling Keeping-in Touch’ days for young people (10-13 years old) who are growing up in difficult circumstances and experiencing social/emotional challenges. 

The project is specifically created to support them throughout their first term at a new school and consists of a series of drama workshops at the Polka Theatre providing a safe place to build confidence, develop social skills and have fun, relieving some of the stress inherent in the transition from Primary to Secondary school, and helping these young people to thrive. 

Past Projects:

One of the aims of the national charity is to encourage its local societies to support local arts and heritage. The Arts Society Wimbledon over the past few years has chosen to help and support children and young people develop an interest in the arts and through that to support their well-being.

In 2017 the Arts Society Wimbledon Committee created a  partnership with Merton Music Foundation and Sonoro (Wimbledon’s professional choir) in order to develop a young arts programme.  Over the past six years we have supported a unique programme of in-school music and art workshops in nine Merton state primary schools reaching 1,600 children.  Many of the schools that have participated have no music or art teachers therefore the mixed-art project has been particularly appealing due to the stimulation and skills that the children experienced as well as their obvious enjoyment.

YOUNG ARTS PROJECTS

Update on our 2024 project:

Members of the Committee were invited to the Freefalling summer show which took place on 23 August and came away feeling very moved and uplifted by what they had experienced.  To quote from one member

 ‘It was wonderful to see a group of 15 children acting out a production that they put together themselves over the last 4 days. The Freefalling Foundation Summer School is in its 17th year and few of these children had met each other before Monday. Each in turn was able to stand up and with spoken words, singing and dancing, say who they were, where they came from, what was special about them, show the design they had made for their family Coat of Arms and what was their family motto…all personal to them.  While they were speaking several of the other children would be acting out what they were saying. They were all so supportive, sympathetic and understanding of each other and without a doubt these children will have come away from this experience with life enhancing skills…….. Our funds could not have gone to a better place.’

 One of the children was Ukrainian and she captured the audience with a beautiful performance of a Ukrainian folk song with traditional instrument.   Her own instrument had been destroyed in the war and the replacement instrument had only arrived 2 days before the show.

 The project continues in the autumn term following the children as they move up into secondary school.

Current Project:
Our Young Arts project for 2024 links up with the Polka Theatre’s education programme. A combined grant from The Arts Society plus a donation from our own Society is providing the funds for the Polka Theatre to create ‘Freefalling Keeping-in Touch’ days for young people (10-13 years old) who are growing up in difficult circumstances and experiencing social/emotional challenges. 

The project is specifically created to support them throughout their first term at a new school and consists of a series of drama workshops at the Polka Theatre providing a safe place to build confidence, develop social skills and have fun, relieving some of the stress inherent in the transition from Primary to Secondary school, and helping these young people to thrive. 

Past Projects:

One of the aims of the national charity is to encourage its local societies to support local arts and heritage. The Arts Society Wimbledon over the past few years has chosen to help and support children and young people develop an interest in the arts and through that to support their well-being.

In 2017 the Arts Society Wimbledon Committee created a  partnership with Merton Music Foundation and Sonoro (Wimbledon’s professional choir) in order to develop a young arts programme.  Over the past six years we have supported a unique programme of in-school music and art workshops in nine Merton state primary schools reaching 1,600 children.  Many of the schools that have participated have no music or art teachers therefore the mixed-art project has been particularly appealing due to the stimulation and skills that the children experienced as well as their obvious enjoyment.