A photocall with Middlesbrough FC’s Brazilian midfielder Doriva and the young people and artists taking part in Soccer Samba will be held pitch-side at the Riverside Stadium at 2pm on Friday 20th August.
Boro star Doriva will be in attendance as a unique summer school combining football with Brazilian music and movement culminates in a performance by 120 young people at Middlesbrough FC’s Riverside Stadium on Friday.
Children from schools in Redcar, Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Darlington are this week taking part in Soccer Samba, a project that is aimed at demonstrating how sport and the arts can combine to promote healthy living. Soccer Samba is the brainchild of Creative Partnerships Tees Valley, a Government-funded programme that is giving school children the opportunity to develop their own creativity in learning. This is being achieved through partnerships with schools, LEAs, artists and cultural and creative organisations.
During the week, 120 young people aged between nine and 14 are attending sessions at Middlesbrough Football Community Centre in Eston, where they are being taught soccer samba skills by professional coaches. Professional artists are also showing them how to play Brazilian percussion instruments and how to move to the rhythms of Samba music. The training, which builds on sessions already held within schools, will culminate in an unusual performance, combining football, music and movement, on the pitch at the Riverside Stadium.
Coordinated by She’s Gott It! on behalf of Creative Partnerships Tees Valley, Soccer Samba features the talents of One Voice Music, an arts organisation established in 1996 to promote the teaching and performance of Afro Brazilian and Afro Cuban music.
The schools taking part are West Redcar School and Wheatlands Primary School, Redcar; Linthorpe Primary School, Middlesbrough; Mount Pleasant Primary School, Beaumont Hill School, Corporation Road Community School, all Darlington; Holy Trinity Junior School, Stockton; and English Martyrs School, Lynnfield Primary School, Grange Primary School and West View Primary School, all Hartlepool.
Boro star Doriva will be in attendance as a unique summer school combining football with Brazilian music and movement culminates in a performance by 120 young people at Middlesbrough FC’s Riverside Stadium on Friday.
Children from schools in Redcar, Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Darlington are this week taking part in Soccer Samba, a project that is aimed at demonstrating how sport and the arts can combine to promote healthy living. Soccer Samba is the brainchild of Creative Partnerships Tees Valley, a Government-funded programme that is giving school children the opportunity to develop their own creativity in learning. This is being achieved through partnerships with schools, LEAs, artists and cultural and creative organisations.
During the week, 120 young people aged between nine and 14 are attending sessions at Middlesbrough Football Community Centre in Eston, where they are being taught soccer samba skills by professional coaches. Professional artists are also showing them how to play Brazilian percussion instruments and how to move to the rhythms of Samba music. The training, which builds on sessions already held within schools, will culminate in an unusual performance, combining football, music and movement, on the pitch at the Riverside Stadium.
Coordinated by She’s Gott It! on behalf of Creative Partnerships Tees Valley, Soccer Samba features the talents of One Voice Music, an arts organisation established in 1996 to promote the teaching and performance of Afro Brazilian and Afro Cuban music.
The schools taking part are West Redcar School and Wheatlands Primary School, Redcar; Linthorpe Primary School, Middlesbrough; Mount Pleasant Primary School, Beaumont Hill School, Corporation Road Community School, all Darlington; Holy Trinity Junior School, Stockton; and English Martyrs School, Lynnfield Primary School, Grange Primary School and West View Primary School, all Hartlepool.