Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre opened in July 2019 with Dinosaur World Live. The auditorium and foyer resembled Jurassic Park as huge dinosaur puppets roamed at their leisure in the foyer and auditorium. To give the audience a chance to feel part of their world, we offered free dinosaur mask making workshops in partnership with Abundance Arts leading to the “discovery” of 900 previously unseen species. The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation also set up camp to discuss themes of extinction and to offer the opportunity for audience members to participate in the Pangolin Art Challenge.
community workshop
Join the Band
When The Wedding Singer came to Wembley Park Theatre it put us in the mood to make some music.
So, during February half-term we offered free songwriting workshops. These were suitable for the whole family and hosted by our in-house band. Before the matinees on 15th, 23rd and 24th February the foyer became a hub of creativity with participants choosing chord progressions, suggesting themes and telling the most diastrous wedding stories that they could remember or fabricate. The songs were then performed to the audience of the shows as they arrived, to put them in the mood for the musical stylings of Kevin Hart and Simply Wed.
You can listen to the songs here
Fame!
To celebrate and explore the set design and geographical location of Fame the Musical we worked with Abundance Arts to offer free street art workshops at Wembley Park Theatre.
Participants explored the aesthetic of graffiti using bright block colours and recurring motifs to represent themes of creativity, dance and music on large modular canvases. It was a great way to brighten up January and transport us to 80s New York for a few hours.
