Souvenir d'Anne Frank

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Collaborative painting workshops:

Practical, one-day workshops will be offered to schools, for young people (14+), exploring through music, painting and prose, their creative responses to how Anne's world meets their own. The education pack will be developed by Ensemble and the Anne Frank Trust UK, and the workshops will be led by Richard Aylwin and Elizabeth Mansfield.

'Landscape' image from a Souvenir d'Anne Frank collaborative painting workshop.

Feedback from a workshop participant:

“...We started very simply in a circle focusing on our breathing, then the breathing of the whole group, trying to see if we could fall into sync and breathe as one. We moved on to make sounds... all we had to do was create a sound as a group and we picked up sounds from each other and slowly changed them.

Then, we listened to the song 'Farewell' from Souvenir d'Anne Frank. It made me think of my mother & we began to paint. I was surprised by the range of emotions I was feeling. I began to respond with different colours and ideas in relation to what I was seeing and feeling... Colour and dynamics started to appear in front of me, this was very satisfying to stand back and look at. From this we were each asked to find a word... Our experiences were expressed through this list of seemingly unconnected words, which actually flowed... To finish Elizabeth sang 'Farewell' again, and I felt I had gone through a journey that left me inspired.

I feel this work is very important as it encourages you to respond to other people's work through breath, sound, music, art, colour, words and personal experience, in a trusting and creative space.

Keiron Craven-Grew

Workshop held during 'Development sessions' for Souvenir d'Anne Frank, at the Farnham Maltings

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Making the workshops happen:

Ensemble, together with the Anne Frank Trust UK, will work with the Education and Outreach departments at venues, well ahead of time, to connect with those schools and youth groups, or other community-based groups of young people, with whom the venues would like us to work.

We will also work through the 'Arts and Young People's Officers' (or equivalents) in the Local Authorities and Borough Councils, to support the education work at venues.

The workshops are aimed at 14+ and can be connected into the National Curriculum through PSHE and the Government's 'Every Child Matters' agenda, also through History, Citizenship, Theatre Studies, Music and Art.

Anne Frank is on the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3, and we believe that Souvenir d'Anne Frank will give young people a wonderful opportunity to re-engage, from a more mature perspective, with these powerful themes.

The workshops will have real value in their own right, but they will also serve to prepare the workshop participants for a deeper appreciation and understanding of the associated performance piece Souvenir d'Anne Frank, when they come to see it at their local theatre venue.

Where it is possible, photographs of the collaboratively-painted canvases and poems from the workshops will be displayed FOH, at the venues, during the run of Souvenir d'Anne Frank.

Post show discussions:

These will be offered after every performance, for those who wish to stay, so that every member of the audience has a chance to share their responses to the show. For our workshop participants, this will offer a chance to share their thoughts, feelings and responses to their experience of the whole project, collectively.

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Buddy Elias, President of the Anne Frank Fonds, and Anne Frank's cousin, has given Souvenir d'Anne Frank his blessing and full support, allowing the use of Anne's own words from her diary. The Anne Frank Trust UK, partnered with the Anne Frank House, in Amsterdam will be working with Ensemble to deliver the project.

Souvenir d'Anne Frank has been supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and Spelthorne Borough Council.

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