workshops with people with learning difficulties
Wolf + Water offer a wide range of drama, music & arts sessions to suit all tastes & all ranges of ability. Some sessions are one off “tasters”, with some groups the Company has worked on an ongoing basis over a number of years.
Relaxation session: Barnstaple, Devon
Playing with parachute: Northern Ireland
Dancing with Sticks: Tiverton, Devon
Many Directions Theatre Company - Barnstaple & Westward Ho!, Devon - Ongoing
Comprising of four groups of adults with learning difficulties that take place on a weekly basis across North Devon
Pathfield Special School - Barnstaple, Devon
Regular weekly sessions with two groups of children with profound & multiple disabilities, using a multi sensory approach to interactive drama work.
“The inspectors” & “The return of the inspectors” - Devon - March – September 2005
Devised with the bideford “chapter” of many directions theatre co., this was an interactive theatre show designed to help people with learning difficulties and service providers work together to improve access and inclusion in the community. it visited community resource centres & arts venues across devon & was also performed for the learning disability partnership board.
British Institute of Learning Disabilities Annual Conference
(Blackpool, UK, 2000)
An integrated team of performers & artists with & without learning difficulties from Wolf & Water contributed to this 3 day national conference that took as it’s theme the “Past, Present & Future” for people with learning difficulties.
At the Gammaton Nurseries sessions
(1999 - 2000 Gammaton, North Devon)
Work centred on sensory experiences & drama & music activities designed to help the profoundly autistic adult males in this special unit inter relate.
Northam Lodge Sessions
(1999 -2000 Northam, North Devon)
A series of weekly sessions with adults with profound & multiple disabilities, all wheelchair users, all without speech. Sessions focussed very much on working with an excellent staff group on how to use multi sensory arts activities to work with this extremely “locked in” client group.
“We value your work enormously & admire its high standards & relevant content”
Manager, Northam Lodge
Silver Hill Lodge Special Care Group
(1994 - 1999)
an ongoing regular input into a fantastic group of adults with multiple & profound disabilities with sessions exploring such topics as communication, body awareness & coping with changing day centre as the whole group moved out of one building & into a new one.
Forest Hill Unit Anger Management
(1998)
A series of sessions using theatre one to one with a young woman with Downs Syndrome who was exhibiting often violent behaviour. Work focussed on exploring issues such as “not getting your own way” & impulse control work.
The Hawley Hostel Drama Group
(1989 - 1996)
The Hawley Hostel Drama Group were a great bunch of adults with learning difficulties who would meet weekly in their Barnstaple Hostel to use drama to do a whole variety of things. The group fed into a number of performances over the year, working in particular with a local youth theatre. They also produced street theatre, produced a limited edition hand made book written & photographed by the group on the life of Monet, & sometimes simply used theatre to explore the everyday tensions & problems in their lives.