Open Sesame Project

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osadmin posted on February 5, 2011

Open Sesame! is a project to develop creative practice in early years in West Sussex and has been developed with a range of local and regional partners: Creative Partnerships Sussex and Surrey, Chichester Festival Theatre, South East Dance, The Hawth Theatre, University of Chichester and the Early Childhood Service and Arts Service at West Sussex [...]

Masterclass 1

osadmin posted on April 12, 2011

Overview of Open Sesame! Master class 1 Monday 29th November 2010 Hawth Theatre, Crawley Workshop with Sarah Clifford from Inroads CREATIVE LEARNING We were given a practical exercise making paper dolls. We were instructed to hand them to the person next to us at various stages of development, meaning nobody had total control over the [...]

Masterclass 2

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Overview of Open Sesame! Master class 2 Monday 10th December 2010 Chichester Festival Theatre Workshop with Tim Webb and ‘Claire de loon’ (Amanda) from Oily Cart Production Company The session began with several warm up exercises, and led on to a few videos showing some of the early years work the Oily Cart do. Oily [...]

Masterclass 3

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Overview of Open Sesame! Master class 3 Friday 14th January 2011 Hawth Theatre, Crawley Workshop with Sarah Argent from Theatr Iolo Ice breaking We began the session with a number of warm up exercises. These exercises were quite challenging, as they pushed us out of our comfort zones, making us invade each others personal space [...]

Master class 4

osadmin posted on April 20, 2011

Overview of Open Sesame! Master class 4 Friday 4th February 2011 Chichester Festival Theatre Workshop with Patrick Lynch, from Lyngo Theatre Company. He has also worked with Oily Cart, and was in a great deal of the films we saw of their work! Team Work Patrick did a series of simple exercises with us which [...]

Master class 5

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Overview of Open Sesame! Master class 5 Friday 4th March 2011 Chichester Festival Theatre Workshop with Patrick Lynch from the Lyngo Theatre company. We had already met Patrick, as he had led our last Master class. Having been so excited by all the exciting props they used in their performances, we had asked Patrick if [...]