Phillippa Clayden: ‘Young Visions’ 15th July, 6 30pm in the Ballroom at the Royal Festival Hall.

In July this year at the Ballroom in the Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre, as part of a growing arts education partnership between Southwark EiC and the Southbank Centre’s learning & participation department, ‘Young Visions’ artists will be working with dancers and musicians towards a performance involving 400 children who will be designing and creating all their own props, backdrops and costumes. ‘Southwark Splash’ will celebrate 9 exciting years of bringing the best of Southwark’s outstanding performing & teaching talent to the stage with a performance of ‘The First Kiss Of Dawn’.

Young Visions was founded by Phillippa Clayden 28 years ago and currently has a team of 5 practising artists on the team. Previously based in North London, Young Visions has been working with Southwark’s Excellence in the City scheme for the past 3 years. EiC funding has enabled Young Visions to introduce their ethos and unique method of teaching the visual arts to young people and their teachers in Southwark through workshops, inset days and exhibitions. Their work with CLPE (centre for literacy in primary schools) and the Power of Reading project has focused on enriching the reading and writing skills of young people.