Kids Kabin - Junior Activities

WELCOME TO THE MUSIC SECTION

If you see yourself as a pop idol contestant, dancing alongside a celebrity on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, playing drums at a West African wedding feast or practicing for a career in the movies, then the music room is for you.

There are endless opportunities for all kinds of performance and music making. Activities young people have taken part in include:

Creating a 5 minute film, ‘Paper Jam’, which was nominated for a national award
Taking part in a Capoeira course with the Brazillian instructor ‘Pelicano’.
Making a shadow puppet theatre
Playing a short musical performance for the Board of Directors and guests at the 2003 Annual General Meeting
Singing thousands of songs
Creating and directing and filming a variety of short films
Acting any character you can imagine
Creating rhythms using Boomwhackers, South American, African and Middle Eastern drums and percussion
Freestyle dance
Music Technology
Song writing
Making musical instruments

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A great risk and a greater reward -

Kids Kabin’s history has been in visual arts and we noticed that when we started performing arts activities some young people found it difficult to build confidence in such a different area of art. Indeed taking part in a performance is intrinsically a group activity unlike much visual art which is individual. Young people take time to learn how to develop ideas together, tolerate different abilities within a group and show patience during the creative process. However this is all worth the wait when you see the satisfaction and group cohesion developed through a successful performance.