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TEACH DRAMA, MUSIC AND DANCE IN KNYSNA
Teach Drama, Dance and Music in the schools in the
local community.
It's a fun way to really make a difference to the disadvantaged children
you'll work with, and it will
have a very strong impact on you as well. You won't want to leave.
South Africa is FANTASTIC!
Teaching is incredible. I've been excited every day to go to school. The
kids are so ready to learn music and drama. I've been doing a mix with
them. I bring my guitar to school every day and have taught most of my
classes four of my favorite songs. Two by a band called Old Crow
Medicine Show and the other two by The Grateful Dead. I've also been
teaching the older kids some stage combat. I find it a little bit harder
to get into serious drama with them but I am going to try later on this
week. All in all everything is wonderful. Thank you for this
experience!" Richard Adler
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►SUMMARY
FACTFILE |
| Start Dates |
All year round (subject to school
term dates) - you choose your
start and finish dates! |
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Duration |
From 2
weeks to 12 weeks or longer,
subject to visa
requirements. |
| Requirements |
No
qualifications or experience required, just lots of enthusiasm and
an active imagination! |
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Price |
From
£845 / US$1,270 for 2 weeks, ranging to £2,595
/ US$3,895 for 12 weeks.
Full Price List and other
Currencies |
| What's included |
►Accommodation
►Food
►Meeting you at the Airport
►Transfer to your accommodation
►Transport to and from your
project
►Full
pre-departure support
►Local in-country team support and backup
►24-hr emergency
support
►2 free T-shirts
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What's not included |
Flights, Insurance,
Cost of Visas (if a visa is required, but we'll provide necessary documents and
assistance),
Return transfer to airport. |
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Who can do this Project? |
All projects are
open to all nationalities.
You need to be aged between 17 and 77+ |
PROJECT OVERVIEW
WHAT YOU'LL GAIN FROM DOING THIS PROJECT:
The enormous satisfaction of helping disadvantaged children and
knowing that you made a difference to them.
New skills, more confidence, a greater understanding
of a different culture, invaluable personal and professional
development.
An entry on your CV or résumé that will put you head
and shoulders above most others in the job market
And best of all ... an unforgettable experience!
WORK CONTENT:
People from all backgrounds can
participate in drama, developing essential skills by learning to express
themselves and gain self-confidence. Theatre can be aimed at young people, old
people, disadvantaged people, sick people, homeless people
- to educate and
inform or simply to entertain.
This can take the form of productions for
schools, orphanages, old people's homes, plays for the education of local
children, theatre workshops for disadvantaged children.
You'll be able to do some or all of the
following:
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Organising and putting on drama workshops in various
local schools around George and Knysna. This would
involve energising warm-ups, improvisations, dance-drama and devising pieces
of theatre in small groups.
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Organising an after-school drama club
(and possibly even during lunch break) or drama sessions
during school-time for pupils.
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Helping the local school children to put on a small-scale
productions so that they can all been involved in some aspect of it
(either acting, creating costumes, masks, set or make-up).
Please note that these may not always take place during your project - it will
depend on what's happening when you're there.
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Devising
and performing educational pieces of theatre (on issues such as
bullying) for the school children at any available venues (town hall/school
yard/wherever!).
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Alongside the drama, volunteers
could also help out with conversational English
classes (and any other subjects where needed).
It may also be possible to incorporate drama lessons into the English classes,
perhaps once a week.
The project may possibly be
extended to involve local unemployed people, or street kids, or even elderly
people or children's orphanages. These are just a few ideas and it may be that
some volunteers will have more ideas that will help to make this project a
worthwhile one that will benefit the community for a long time to come.
Comments from
Sharon, Travellers Volunteer Liaison in Knysna, about what two of our
Drama Volunteers did in a class she went to observe:
I went up to day to sit in on a drama class at
Tembelitsha Primary School that two of our volunteers, Amy Powell and
Jack Gunner, were going to take. It was Grade 5B class which is made up
of children that are approximately 10 years old. The class started with
Amy and Jack teaching them about the different ways of using themselves
in drama, namely facial expressions, body language and their voices. How
to maximise and minimise their body movements and facial expressions and
then the different ways they could use their voices by whispering,
shouting, talking, singing and crying.
As you can imagine the
class got extremely rowdy and all the children had a lot of fun. The
noise levels then increased as Amy and Jack showed the class how to do
breathing exercises, and mouth warm-ups so they could make a ‘sound
collage’ by splitting the class up into groups and getting the different
groups to make one particular sound. Put together it was deafening but
all the children loved it with them all interacting.
They then where taught
how to create different effects with their voices by changing the pitch,
speed and volume of their voices. All they learnt was then put together
in character enactment and by volunteers from the class doing freeze
frame sketches. They then ended the class with a song.
The hour class went by
so quickly I actually had to check my watch to see if it was really
over! It was so great to see so many children in the class participated
and it was quite obvious to me that they all got a lot out of it as when
the class was over Amy and Jack where surrounded by children hugging and
kissing them! Well done guys!!
SCHOOL TERMS IN SOUTH AFRICA:
Dates for the 2009 school terms (semesters) are given
below.
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Term 1: 21st Jan – 3rd April
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Term 2: 15th April – 26th June
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Term 3: 20th July – 23rd Sept
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Term 4: 5th Oct – 11th Dec
Dates for the 2010 school terms (semesters) are
given below.
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Term 1: 13th Jan – 26th March
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Term 2: 12th April – 9th June
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Term 3: 13th July – 23rd Sept
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Term 4: 4th Oct – 10th Dec
Nervous about going somewhere new?
Read Ben Smith's Case Study on this
project
OPTIONAL ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO WHILE ON
THIS PROJECT:
- 5-DAY OR 7-DAY SAFARI from
Cape Town up the renowned Garden Route: taking in Dolphin and Whale
Spotting, visits to many tourist attractions, such as a visit to a
brewery(!), the Bloukrantz Bungy Jump (reportedly the highest in the world),
and a guided tour of the Cango Caves.
- 1 WEEK WHALES, SHARKS AND DOLPHINS
Project: This is
an extraordinary and exciting project in a beautiful location, surrounded
by white beaches and blue ocean. And two hours from the world's third
favourite city - Cape Town.
What more could anyone want?
- SURFING COURSES: In the buzz
city of Durban.
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PARAGLIDING COURSE: Soar over the impressively beautiful Drakensburg
Mountain. You'll get a licence at the end of the course which qualifies you
to do solo paragliding around the world.
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Volunteers Amy Powell and Jack Gunner in Drama class
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
OPTIONAL ADD-ONS
Volunteers Amy Powell and Jack Gunner in Drama class
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