GO Participate
Our GO Participate programme aims to enrich people’s lives through opera; sharing our passion and love of opera with a wider audience, and helping to demystify the wonderful and varied genre of opera for those who would not normally have access to it.
We provide a bold and ambitious participatory programme that engages with our diverse local community, providing access to Garsington’s high quality opera and challenging perceived barriers to cultural engagement. We use opera as a medium to improve emotional wellbeing and to champion the vital benefit of musical engagement.
We are so grateful to all our GO Participate supporters. If you would like more information on supporting this work, please visit our Support page here.
For the Community
Adult Company
We offer opportunities for adults from all walks of life to create and perform together in projects and performances both at Garsington Opera and further afield.
Community Opera
Our Community Opera productions see our Adult and Youth Companies come together – performed on the main stage at Garsington Opera and often featuring new works that have been commissioned.
Discovery Workshops
Our new Discovery Workshops will give you the opportunity to explore different areas of opera and theatre in a series of 1-day workshops. With everything from singing to set design, the workshops offer something for everyone in our local community.
For Young People
Youth Company
Garsington Opera’s Youth Company provides young people aged 9-18 with the opportunity to develop their creative skills and confidence through the exciting world of opera, whether that is on-stage through acting and singing or backstage as part of our Production Arts team.
Arts Award
We provide the chance for young people aged 18 and under who are a part of our Youth Company to participate in the Arts Award to develop their creativity and leadership skills based around a project.
Work Experience
Each year, we offer a week of intensive work experience for a limited number of young people between the ages of 16 and 18. It’s a great chance to find out how a producing theatre works and to highlight the many career opportunities in producing and making shows, in our case particularly opera.
For Schools
OperaFirst: Primary Schools
Our OperaFirst Primary projects aim to introduce the world of opera through an in-school workshop and a 1-hour interactive performance at Garsington Opera guided by a presenter, where the children can join in with the songs they have learnt.
OperaFirst: Secondary Schools
OperaFirst Secondary gives an exceptional opportunity to a new generation of young people to study musical and dramatic themes of an opera through an in-school workshop before experiencing a full-scale performance at Garsington Opera.
Resources
GO Create
GO Create is a new digital resource created to engage young people with opera in an inspiring, accessible and fun way. Aimed at ages 11-16, this short series introduces young people to the world of opera and everything that goes into making it.
Mind the Gap
Mind the Gap is a two-year international research project bringing together six European arts organisations to explore digital arts education and how educators can support and work with communities particularly affected by the digital gap.
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