Birthday parties, friendship groups, family get-togethers, corporate awaydays.
You can book 1-2 hour workshops in our Space for your event.
You can choose a Gamelan session with our experienced tutors. This could be a talk about the origins of the orchestra and the traditional music from Java followed by learning a short piece. Or a chance to explore the sounds of the Gamelan using easy games and call and response. Suitable for beginners, (people love the big gongs!) and adaptable for people who prefer to sit on chairs.
We can run a samba session for up to 20 players – we can mute the drums and/or provide earplugs to make it an enjoyable experience for people who don’t like loud sounds. These are really popular and people have joined our community samba groups after doing one!
We also host painting and drawing sessions in our Dragon Gallery – people can create a big mural together on a table or individual small canvases or greetings cards using our pens and paints.
If you have a larger group or people with different interests, often a joint painting and music session works very well. All our tutors are very adaptable, multi-skilled and used to working with different age-groups. Our last gamelan session morphed into a folk session as we produced BlueJam fiddles and accordions for the people who could play them!
Groups can park in our car park if choosing to dine out in Penrith after a session at the Space.
Groups can bring food (eg birthday cakes) – we have kitchen facilities.
Prices will vary depending on what is required but for example an hour long samba session for a group of 15 friends would be around £75.