Instrument Making Workshops
This hands-on workshop is designed to stimulate a passion for learning skills from other traditions. It develops their creativity by thinking about materials that could be used. With this workshop the students/participants explore instruments making process and making instruments in a fun and rewarding way. There is some preparation involved with collecting material. At the end the students/participants gets to play music with their own instruments.
Ideal for KS1 and above, format of the workshop can be customised to suit the curriculum and preference of the school. Below is an example of the format: ​
​Day 1
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Assembly performance/demonstration/talk
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From one to three workshops of 45 min with smaller groups to discuss which instrument to make and design it.
*Material gathering*​
Day 2​
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From one to three workshops of 45 min with smaller groups to make the instruments and practice playing them
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Performance by the students using the instruments they made.
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Enquiries are also welcomed from forest schools, after school clubs and universities.
We are thrilled to be working on a project with Cultural Spring and Autism Able to make peke instruments to be used in the South Shield's Summer parade on the 5th of July 2025.
Photo: Workshop, Peke instrument - by Davey Poremba - Fly Films UK