Walking on snowflakes through the seasons

Puzzled Up! #1
4 multi-arts opera workshops for Kensington and Chelsea Learning Disability Service (NHS)

How does winter feel? Like the soft cover of snow freshly fallen onto quite trees, for example. How does winter sound? Like a song about nostalgic memories, wood fires burning and winter wonderland, perhaps.

Our first Puzzled Up! workshop centred around winter memories and seasonal sensations. Together with the participants from Kensington and Chelsea’s Learning Disability Service, we explored the most wonderful season of all through the operatic art forms of music, voice and stage design. We sang and hummed our way through the seasonal cycle from April Showers to Autumn Leaves and were Walking and clapping on Sunshine right into our Winter Wonderland. Opera is also a visual art form. Therefore, we translated our tactile and musical associations into design elements – cut-out snowflakes – in a stage design workshop. You can see some impressions below. And the best thing: Our own unique snowflakes won’t melt away when spring comes, but will fall onto our first puzzle piece and stay there when Holland Parks’ opera season opens again in May.

You can share your winter memories with us through engaging with our snowflakes puzzle piece when having a wander through our multi-sensory 3D memory opera park installations.

Stay warm for now!

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Memories of Winter

Walking on snowflakes through the seasons

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