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Dateline: 6th July, 2006
A Woodland in the Theatre South Tyneside school children are to turn the gallery, foyer and stairs of the Customs House in South Shields into a woodland for this year's panto, Babes in the Wood. "Increasingly schools are looking to justify visits and see how visits can add value to the curriculum," said the venue's director Ray Spencer. "They have been enthused by the notion of not just seeing the pantomime but of being able to contribute to the experience of the children." Artists will work with the children for quite some time before the actually go to see the panto, looking at woodland settings and creating a woodland. Some of the schools' work will be in the gallery and the rest in the foyer and up the stairs, so that the whole of front of house will become the wood that the Babes are lost in. The aim is not just to involve the children in an artistic sense but also to look atsome of the issures surrounding the environment. "Many of the schools," Spencer added, "are, through Creative Partnerships (which is managed by the Customs House) and out Arts in Education work, already looking at the outdoor environment - indeed, the outdoor classroom. It's an example of our main programming neatly dovetailing with our Arts Development and CP work." The take-up among schools has been very encouraging, said Spencer. "There've been thirty or forty primary schools showing an interest in the project across the region, not just in North and South Tyneside. It shows that when you get the joined-up element right, it adds value to everything, not just to the schools but to this organisation too." Babes in the Wood runs at the Customs House from 4th December to 6th January. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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