Name: Charlotte Arculus - Deep Play, Deep Listening
Start: 2025-09-14T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-14T17:00:00+01:00
Location: 26 South Quay, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2RG, United Kingdom

Charlotte Arculus - Deep Play, Deep Listening

Deep listening - Deep play
This workshop will begin by tuning into sonic worlds that are all around us through deep listening practices. We will reimagine how young children are experiencing sound and how this differs from the way in which our adult ears habitually listen.
The session will move onto playful practices of encountering each other through sound using voice and sound makers. We will reflect on how we might meet young children through sonic play.
Participants will be invited to wander around Great Yarmouth and collect sounds for a common piece. Finally, a set of improvised works will be created by the participants. Recordings from the workshop will be made into a festival soundwork.
About Charlotte
Charlotte Arculus is an improviser, musician, creative producer and audio-visual artist. She has been a freelance, socially engaged arts practitioner for four decades and is a founder member of Magic Acorns, a company that undertakes artistic exploration with very young children as research collaborators in creative thinking.
Improvisation, relationality and emergence are at the heart of Charlotte’s creative processes and common factors across the diverse projects she works on. Developing complicit relationships between spaces, objects and people of all ages in theatre, music, installation and workshops. She brings practice and theory of improvisation and wildness to the heart of what it means to be present.
Ripple Festival
This workshop is part of Ripple Early Years Arts Festival, presented by Magic Acorns. Ripple will bring together artists, educators, researchers, policy makers and arts organisations and funders for an Early Years Professional Symposium at St George’s Theatre on Saturday 13 September. This interdisciplinary gathering will explore extravagant ideas about art and people under three through discussions, presentations and practical experiences.