Easter Wild Workshop and Wind on the Moor

An Alert for today, April 12, from the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

Easter Wild Workshops: Art and craft workshops for children (5 - 11 year olds) -
Brontë Parsonage Museum - £3.75 -
For further information/ bookings contact the Education Officer, 01535 640185 or susan.newby@bronte.org.uk.

We take this chance to quote from this article published in This is Bradford about the recent performance of The wind on the moor, the opera about the Brontës written by children.

Curtain-up on the first performance of The Wind on the Moor took place last Thursday afternoon, with a cast of about 100 children, at Haworth Parish Church.

The only disappointment for the production team, led by Brontë Parsonage Museum audience development manager Andrew McCarthy, was the non-appearance of children from Frizinghall Primary School.

The 30 children -- mostly from the chorus -- were hit by the quarantine orders imposed by Bradford Council on schools hit by the winter vomiting bug.
But the show went on, revised slightly and with some other children called in, said Mr McCarthy. "Considering all that, it was a fabulous show and the children did wonderfully well," he said.

Following the evening performance for parents, the development and production of the show is to be turned into an exhibition using photographs and a CD recording.

It is then to go on tour to the four primary schools which took part -- Frizinghall, Lees, Margaret McMillan, in Bradford, and Bingley's Myrtle Park.

Categories: Alert, Brontë_Parsonage_Museum, Music, Opera