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DAY 1 : FRIDAY - LENNIE’S DAY
(KIDS’ AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S DAY)
We launched the weekend with a real rocket launch, live on BBC Somerset and took it from there.
We took our inspiration from the Pyramid Stage of Glastonbury Festival and showed everyone how to make their own to put their own art in.
Flick through the programme for the day below and check out the bits of the stream that take your fancy.
It’s all there, warts and all, so we’ll apologise now for the bloopers! ;-)
LIVE STREAM REPLAYS
Browse through the day’s films and click to replay those that take your fancy. We had copyright strikes on one or two from YouTube, many of which we are appealing, but this does mean that some may not play in a browser on your smartphone, so do use a desktop/laptop PC or the YouTube app on your phone.
10:00 It Might Not Work
STEAM Co. Co-founder Nick Corston unveils progress on our cardboard pyramid stage and discusses the day with Artist and Festival Producer Mulumba Tshikuka.
10:15 Drum Circle Preview
Rockstar Activator and Co-founder/Drummer of Scritti Politti, Tom Morley gives us a taste of what’s to come in his Co-Drum Circle on Sunday afternoon
10:15 Live Link AND LAUNCH ON BBC SOMERSET
We kicked off with a real dynamite rocket launch on BBC Radio Somerset (the audio is out of sync in video above due to the BBC delay system)
10:30 Art of Cardboard - Build a Pyramid
Who better to show us how to build our own cardboard pyramid stage than expert cardboard artist and engineer Will Alexander.
11:30 Making Theatre
What better thing to do in your new cardboard Pyramid Stage than stage a play. To help you, here’s the first of three theatre workshops over the weekend from Sharon Kanolik and Katie Turner
12:10 LUNCH
In which Nick nipped out to get some lunch and a few beers from the Co-op for the #BrewEdBeerFest they helped us with.
14:00 The Creative Apps You Need To Know
If you, your kids or your school need top advice on the use of technology, there’s no one better to ask than Mark Anderson. Here he gives us a whistle stop tour of his favourite creative apps. Brilliant!
14:30 The Drum Master
A wonderful session with young drummer Marlon Edwards, a Rock Star pupil at our host school Brookside Primary Academy
14:45 Rapping Science to Life
We’ve seen him do his thing at Camp Bestival a few times so it was great to get Science Rapper Oort Kuiper down from South Wales to our Pretend Pyramid in Somerset to do his thing.
15:00 Books, Reading and Children
Here Rumena Aktar, Librarian at Firs Primary in Birmingham talks to Alison Tarrant CEO of the School Library Association about the importance of reading to children and a few book recommendations for families.
16:00 Cracking The Music Business
He signed The Prodigy to XL Records, still manages Liam among others in his roster, ran Positive Records for EMI, is a top DJ and remixer so who better to ask about how to get into the music business than serial entrepreneur and artist Nick Halkes.
16:30 That 80 Percent with BrewEd
Ed Finch co-founded BrewEd to bring teachers together to discuss common ground, #That80PerCent we all have in common and disagree nicely so were the perfect partners not only for this weekend and the #BrewEdBeerFest but to discuss extreme views in education such as those by unschooling activist David Rodriguez who Skyped in from the USA.
19:00 Fire Pit Chats
The WAY WE WORE
The first of our #FirePitChats curated by impresario, artist, writer and DJ Chris Sullivan was with Robert Elms, Life style and fashion writer and broadcaster on BBC Radio London.
19:30 People Powered Publishing
Chris Sullivan chats with John Mitchinson , Founder and CEO of Unbound the crowd-funded book publisher for all.
20:00 Black Lives Matter Art
We were blown away when we saw Aasifah Haque’s artwork, inspired by images she saw on TV News coverage of #BlackLivesMatter Protests. Hear this Teaching Assistant from Bolton explain what this powerful symbol means to her.
20:15 A Piano Prodigy
A wonderful headliner performance from Lennie, a Sheffield school boy who puts his Cerebral Palsy and Hydrocephalus behind him when he sits down to play the piano which he loves doing.
20:30 My 40 Years at Glastonbury
The legendary Charlie Phillips came to West London from the West Indies as a young boy and went onto become the celebrated photographer of the Windrush Generation and the first Notting Hill Carnival. Here he tells us his stories of the first Glastonbury Festival with Arabella Churchill, Winston Churchill’s grand daughter.
21:00 A Jazz Suite for Windrush
An exclusive chat with Renell Shaw, composer and arranger of The Windrush Suite for Windrush Day, supported by the PRS for Music Foundation, in association with The Vortex Jazz Club/The Shape of Jazz to Come.
The pieces you will hear inspired by the men, women and children, who latterly became known as the 'Windrush Generation, photographed by Charlie Phillips above.
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