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Good Vibrations in Birmingham.
As part of the Music for Youth’s summer
festival in Birmingham, students from the BRIT
school performed “One Vision/New Version”
in Centenary Square on the 9th July 2009. The
show was a celebration of how music can be re-interpreted
and re-discovered by new audiences. The school
brought a selection of
its Music and Musical Theatre students (a cast
of over 60!) to perform a vibrant and innovative
concert based on some of the country’s
best known pop songs of the last 18 years. Typically
imaginative, Music students re-arranged all
the songs with their own new interpretations
of them. They perform ed their “new”
version alongside the original. The show featured
a huge ensemble finale with a specially arranged
version of the Beach Boys’ classic, “Good
Vibrations” featuring young people from
across the West Midlands who also performed
in the gig. The BRIT School went to Birmingham
because it is proud to be associated with a
brand new academy with a planned opening in
the city’s Eastside in 2011. The new academy
will provide state of the art education with
a specialist focus on digital media, the creative
and performing arts. The academy will be modelled
on many aspects of the BRIT School. This concert
aims to show how the partnership between the
two schools will continue to flourish in the
future, proving that the BRIT School vision
can be re-worked, giving the West Midlands its
very own new version of something very special!
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 Lady:
A stunning collaboration of Technical Theatre
Arts, Dance and Film & Digital Arts produced
this visually splendid re-imagining of Shakespeare's
MacBeth.
Watch the latest BRIT School Video by clicking
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BRITKIDS
Summer Art School. 27th - 31st July
for ages 10-12 and 13-15. There are two courses
to choose from one for each age category and
the courses take place at the South Norwood
CALAT Centre. To see examples of previous work
and to download an application form click
here
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 The
Circus of Disbelief: The Circus of
Disbelief is a special place, the performers
are not who you expect, the
mysterious Mrs Hope is an unusual ring mistress,
and you are invited to see the show.
BLOOMSBURY THEATRE, LONDON. TUESDAY 30 JUNE.
7.30PM. TICKETS £6.00 each.
Please contact The BRIT School Box Office on
020 8665 5242 for ticket information and reservations.
See the poster
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 Imaginary
Forces Summer School.
This is a five day course which will develop
your skills in acting and making theatre. There
are two workshops available depending on age.
(10-13 and 14-18).
For full details and contact information, click
here
or on the small poster on the right
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School
Expansion. We
are inviting consultation on our proposed expansion
plans by way of an advertisement in the local press.
Parents and others who want to read what is going
on with an offer to submit their views, please read
the attached document here
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Exam Results 2008.
The release of GCSE results today (Aug' 21) is another
day of celebration for the BRIT School. In all categories
the results improved upon the already high levels
of 2007. In many cases the results were simply magnificent
and we congratulate all our students in this wonderful
success story. The key statistics have been released
to the press today and you can read this press release
here.
Well done to you all.
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Film
and Digital Arts. The
department have just released their website where
a range of videos made in the school are on display.
It is possible to see streamed videos in your web
browser with an option to play them at HD quality
if you think your internet connection is good enough.
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 Imaginary
Forces present "The Iron Eyelashes"
touring at the Warehouse Theatre in May. (Box office
number 0208 680 4060 and website)
Written by Theatre department Director Imogen Brodie
and features Theatre staff Simon Stephens and Sarah
Niven performing. 2009 is the 20th anniversary of
the fall of the Berlin Wall. This play explores the
story of Pieter and Anna, a brother and sister who
are separated the night the Berlin Wall goes up. Pieter
is a drag artiste who works in the West; the day after
the wall goes up Pieter must make a choice; either
return home and face the restrictions of the East,
or find freedom in the West. Alone. The play sees
past and present existing together on stage, as events
either side of the wall conspire to dominate the rest
of Pieter and Anna's lives.
Full details
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 Imaginary
Forces. EASTER DRAMA SCHOOL ‘A Play in Four
Days’ Monday 6th April to Thursday 9th April. You are
invited to this 4 day Easter Drama School Course that will
develop your skills in acting and making theatre whilst creating
a brand new play which will be performed at the end of the
4th day. There are two workshop groups depending on age. 11-14
and 15-18. 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. at £80 per person.
Contact Imogen Brodie on 07967709321 or email here
Poster
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Glastonbury 2008. For the
second year the Glastonbury festival witnessed a unique
South London partnership between The BRIT School in Croydon,
Britain’s prolific performing arts school and The
Workers’ Beer Company, who for many years have made
their mark nationally and internationally supporting campaigns
for social justice with its involvement in the nation’s
leading live music festivals.The BRIT School were in attendance
again this year. See the photo's here
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The Golden Obies. The BDC Department
is host it's very first evening show, celebrating the achievements
of all its students over the past year. The show will look
back at students work and awards will be given to winners
from various categories, including Best A-Level Production,
Best Original Idea and Best Use of Camera. The show is on
the 16th October. Poster
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"Theatre department Common Ground Season
starts Monday 12 January 2009. Click
here for details on all the plays and performances"
(Poster)
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 A-Block
is the annual cross-departmental showcase of the work of
the Visual Arts and Design department across Years 10 to
13. The OBIE theatre will be transformed into a gallery
of traditional and experimental art work across sculpture,
painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, graphic design,
photography.
Wednesday 19th November 2008 5.30 – 9pm
alTURNERtive Painting Prize winner announced at 7.30pm
Tickets £3/£1.50 concs
OBIE Theatre, The BRIT School, 60 The Crescent, Croydon,
CR02HN
0208 665 5242 Contact box office for tickets
More details
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BRIT
launches adult classes in September 2008. The School
is offering classes for adults. All classes will run from
7 – 8.30pm on Tuesday evenings, commencing September
2008. The courses will be run by the co-artistic directors
of 'Imaginary
Forces' who are professional actors, directors and writers
and who are also theatre teachers at the BRIT School; Imogen
Brodie, Simon Stephens and Sarah Niven.
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Festival of Words. Our very
own festival is on July 24th and runs from 10.00 a.m to
3.00 p.m. Tickets are £2 from our box office 0208
665 5242. The day is a celebration of words to end our year
of reading and writing. Dancers will be exploring Roald
Dahl, there will be mathematical puzzles to unravel, plays
telling the stories of our local community, innovative musical
theatre performances, art installations and media projects
all around the school. There will also be songs and story
workshops and BRIT FM 101.5 wil be playing all day long.
It should be a great end to a great year. There will also
be festival food, ice cream and plenty of books to buy to
raise money for Book Aid. Looking forward to seeing you
there.
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BRIT Art: Summer Workshop: This summer
holidays we are pleased to offer a week long course focusing
on fashion (T shirt printing) and textiles. This dynamic
and packed course will explore a variety of textile print
applications. The result being a series of swatches presented
in a sketchbook; alongside this students will design and
print a T shirt.
This course is aimed at children who wish to develop their
skills, experimenting with new techniques and who have an
interest in design and art.
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Imaginary Forces. Is a theatre company associated
with the BRIT School. They would like to invite you
to a theatre summer school. This is a week long course
which will develop your skills in acting and making
theatre. You will work on improvisation, character
building and physical theatre with actors, directors
and writers from Imaginary Forces to create performance
work which will be shared with friends and family
on Friday afternoon. There are three workshops available
depending on your age: 8-11, 12-14, 15-18. 28th July
to 1st August at 10 – 4 daily (£100 per
person). For further information please contact Imogen
Brodie on 07967709321 or click
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 Spinebreakers:
In
an attempt to engage young people to read cutting edge teenage
fiction, The BRIT School has become involved with a new website
called Spinebreakers,
run by Penguin Books, which is also put together and edited
by young people across the country. Spinebreakers involves
young readers with reviewing new books, interviewing the authors
themselves, and producing creative work either in the form
of short stories or video responses. Several BRIT School students
are part of the core editorial team, and as such are helping
form the agenda for youth fiction in the 21st century. Many
other students are also producing content for the site as
sub-editors and contributors. Continued
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Carousel: Huge success for the latest Musical Theatre
Production. There were four versions of the show performed
over four nights. Each cast had its own distinct energy;
 all
four were impressive, showing the whole year group’s
talent and enthusiasm for large scale productions. As usual,
we were lucky enough to benefit from the expertise and creative
brilliance of the Technical Theatre Department. We are also
extremely grateful to the Music Department for their wonderful
musicians who contributed so skillfully to our orchestra.
See the full news story and massive photo gallery here
 BRIT
KIDS Performing Arts Classes for Young People aged 8
- 15 Saturday mornings and Weeknights Classes in Theatre,
Singing and Dance including Street Dance, Ballet, Jazz and
Tap Contact The BRIT School on 0208 665 5242 and ask for
a BRIT Kids Prospectus
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The
Languages Department took 37 year 10 students on an activity
holiday to Normandy. They stayed in a Chateau and also
went on excursions to the Mont St Michel, the market in Dinan
and a zoo.
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'Watching'
Dance for camera has been a new and exciting project in the
musical theatre department. A dance for camera piece ‘Watching’
was filmed in April and first previewed in May this year.
It is based on the book Nineteen Eighty–Four by George
Orwell. We have downloadable video of this..
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From Academic Year 2005-06 |
'A
Divine and Bloody Mess' June 2006. Year 12 Musical
Theatre students  performed
'A Divine and Bloody Mess'. This innovative theatrical discussion
was designed to explore the wastefulness and decay inherent
in human nature. We used two set texts by Stephen Berkoff
as our main influences (Decadence and Metamorphosis). Extracts
from these plays were punctuated by student devised mask pieces.
More:
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Visual
Arts and Theatre collaborative project Specialist Schools
and Academies Trust newsletter highlights innovative BRIT
School and NMBEC 'Living Gallery' project Download
the pdf file (1.48Mb)
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Theatre students perform world premiere...
click here for details and pictures. BRIT School audiences
have been treated to the first ever premiere of a new piece
of musical theatre writing in the Obie Theatre. Cry November
was written by I T Werther specifically for the BRIT
School Musical Theatre students.
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The Languages Department took 37 year 10 students
on an activity holiday to Normandy. They stayed in a Chateau
and also went on excursions to the Mont St Michel, the market
in Dinan and a zoo.
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 Strawberry
Picking. The best in new, young playwriting
from the BRIT School. 3 days of vibrant, creative activity
guaranteed to inspire and entertain, celebrating the partnership
between the BRIT School and Warehouse Theatre in Croydon.
For a full program of dates, times and place, download the
pdf file from
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'Watching'
Dance for camera has been a new and exciting project in the
musical theatre department. A dance for camera piece ‘Watching’
was filmed in April and first previewed in May this year.
It is based on the book Nineteen Eighty–Four by George
Orwell. We have downloadable video of this..
More:
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'A
Divine and Bloody Mess' June 2006. Year 12 Musical
Theatre students performed
'A Divine and Bloody Mess'. This innovative theatrical discussion
was designed to explore the wastefulness and decay inherent
in human nature. We used two set texts by Stephen Berkoff
as our main influences (Decadence and Metamorphosis). Extracts
from these plays were punctuated by student devised mask pieces.
More:
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Visual
Arts and Theatre collaborative project Specialist Schools
and Academies Trust newsletter highlights innovative BRIT
School and NMBEC 'Living Gallery' project Download
the pdf file (1.48Mb)
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| Musical
Theatre students perform world premiere...
click here for details and pictures. BRIT School audiences
have been treated to the first ever premiere of a new piece
of musical theatre writing in the Obie Theatre. Cry November
was written by I T Werther specifically for the BRIT
School Musical Theatre students.
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A
visit by HM Inspectors of Schools took place in term
1. They were concerned with how the school addressed issues
of attainment within certain ethnic groups of students.
They said they were impressed with the detailed documentation
supplied on monitoring and attainment and found the school
had achieved higher than the average success for all sectors
examined. To read major extracts from the Inspectors written
report download the WORD
document here (31Kb)
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Jacqui
Smith MP writes to the Principal to congratulate the
school on their recent exam results especially in English
and Maths.
Download an image copy of this letter
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DFES
release full statistics on the BRIT School including the
summary of the increasingly high achievement since 2001
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BRIT
KIDS Performing Arts Classes for Young People aged 8
- 15 Saturday mornings and Weeknights Classes in Theatre,
Singing and Dance including Street Dance, Ballet, Jazz and
Tap Contact The BRIT School on 0208 665 5242 and ask for
a BRIT Kids Prospectus
More....
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