Arts
The Arts at Dartington
The Barn, Dartington Hall
Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL
Email arts@dartington.org
Box Office 01803 847070
Shared Inventions
Shared Inventions is a four-term (Sept 2011 – December 2012) creative project working with young children in two schools in Torbay. It is led by musicians Hugh Nankivell and Ben Ballard along with trainee James Aldridge.
During term 1 they are working with reception classes making music, observing and playing. They are recording and filming the sessions and noting any interesting approaches to making music, as later they will also use these new approaches with older children to create new compositions.
Hugh is going to write a blog for each session that he leads during this term.
The project is funded by Youth Music and is managed by The Dartington Hall Trust supported by Torbay Council.
Concert
Sunday 19 February
5pm Great Hall, Seale Hayne
Tickets FREE
This concert is the culmination of a three day residency with South West Music School where their students have developed the music created by the schools.
Please note that this is an external event
Book in advance via 01392 460770
For more information visit: www.swms.org.uk
Shared Inventions Blog Posts
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 23
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… Three provocations/starting points today, from a mix of ideas from Sarah and me. read more
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Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… Chatted with Sarah before coming in and she keen to continue the idea of story incorporating music and song and to... read more
Concert in the hall - Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 21
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… Concert in the hall – the whole class looking beautiful (they had spent over twenty minutes discussing what we... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 20
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… Started with three songs and a quick chat with Sarah about how much music has taken over all of their work and... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 19
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… Today’s provocation was to introduce the idea of ‘chorus’ after I sang ‘K’s’ epic from the previous... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 18
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… We began by showing the group three films of teenagers playing the Homelands ‘pieces’ from the residential... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 17
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… The Shared Inventions buddy partners ‘Visible Thinking’ (Sandra Barefoot, Mike Akers and Sarah Moody – all... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 16
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… During the school half term holiday I ran two residential courses, both of which engaged with the Shared Inventions... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 15
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… This week was mainly about song writing. Individuals, pairs and small groups got on with making up their own new... read more
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Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… We did the ‘name game’ first off – for 2 reasons, my embarrassment at not being able to remember their names... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 13
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… I arranged the words about ‘Miss Chatterbox’ from T last week and composed a song called ‘Miss...
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 12
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… During the week I worked to create a new alphabet song (as Sarah had commissioned) and sang it to the group, but... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 11
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… A morning of experiments. At the start of the session I did ‘Two Little Dickie Birds’ and this intrigued them,... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 10
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… The final sessions of the year and real ‘Shared Inventions’ with reception classes, year 6 classes and...
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 9
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… Lots of visitors today, four other adults in the space in addition to James and I and the regular Homelands staff,... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 8
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… Full group together – I sang ‘Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho’ and taught it line by line to the group. We got the bit with the... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 7
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… A different kind of music play today – it was a session for parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and more.... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 6
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… Two ideas for today – to see what might develop with the lullaby and ‘Making a Band’. read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 5
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… More relaxed in my uprepared/preparedness today. Perhaps the persistent rain helped as I cycled up the steep...
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 4
Artist Hugh Nankivell writes… At home all morning and I spend all the time preparing and unpreparing, trying to prepare and then trying to... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 3
Hugh Nankivell writes… So what went wrong? I loved the way that Sarah Butler – the class teacher – gave me such a look as we were analysing the... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 2
Hugh Nankivell writes… We investigated the accordion and there were many comments about how to play it. I sang them the new song ‘Like’ with... read more
Shared Inventions - Homelands Blog 1
Hugh Nankivell writes… For Shared Inventions there are really two things we are uncovering, revealing, discovering and encouraging. On the one... read more

