Pick up your maracas for a school visit to Eureka! this spring term.
This spring term Eureka! The Museum for Children in Halifax, West Yorkshire is celebrating the theme of carnival with a variety of exciting activities for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 school groups. The new sessions will be delivered by a professional artist and musician-in-residence from the innovative organisation and children’s charity Grumpy.Carnival at Eureka! will give children the chance to design and make their own fabulous costumes and noisy percussion instruments and will culminate in a parade around Eureka!’s Town Square in the Living & Working Together gallery.
Teachers will also have the opportunity to gather new ideas and skills for making colourful, recycled costumes and effective musical instruments for other projects back at school. Carnival is a festive season celebrated all around the world before the Christian period of fasting known as Lent. One of the most famous carnivals is in Rio de Janeiro where, every year, local Samba dance schools parade in bright and colourful costumes in a purpose-built ‘Sambadrome’.
Based in the North West with centres in Manchester, Blackpool and Salford, Grumpy is a registered Children’s Charity established to improve the quality and range of play opportunities available to children and young people.The carnival sessions at Eureka! cost £6.50 per child and are available to book at 10.00am or 12.30pm every week day from 19 January to 13 February 2009 for a maximum of 35 children. Groups will also have time to explore Eureka!’s galleries before or after the session. To book a visit for your group call the Bookings Hotline during office hours on 01422 330012.
