Museum Saturday XyloFun concert with Pedro Espi-Sanchis (Pedro the Music Man) and local Creative Arts teachers
Join us for an inspiring XyloFun concert with Pedro Espi-Sanchis (Pedro the Music Man) and local Creative Arts teachers.
A selected group of Creative Arts teachers from schools in the Cape Winelands will have completed their training at the Rupert Museum with Pedro.
This concert celebrates the knowledge, skill and confidence the training has offered them.
The 15 note xylophone designed for this course and teaching music in a fun and interactive way in the classroom is a cost-saving and effective instrument. Designed to accommodate multiple learners to create music simultaneously! The schools are in need of these instruments to put the teachers training into practice. A donation as small as R20 will assist in the crowd funding initiative for these instruments to be bought for the classroom.
Come join in the celebration and make a contribution to keep music alive in the classroom!
More on the XyloFun project:
Music is probably the most demanding discipline for teachers to implement. It requires years of experience, a lot of practice and good motor skills as well as having musical instruments to use. Yet music is one of the most exciting and creative disciplines.
The XyloFun approach takes into consideration the South African situation in which many teachers are required to teach music without adequate training. We follow an approach in which the teacher and the learners can learn together and within minutes be playing well-loved classics of the South African songbook, songs like Mbube, Meadowlands and Jabulani, and originals like Pedro’s Jive and Pedro’s Kwaito as well as traditional songs like Qongqothwane and nursery rhymes for the ECD and Foundation Phase learners.
XyloFun uses a playing technique inspired from traditional xylophones and one instrument is played by up to three players each with two beaters or six learners each with one beater in ECDs. Pedro wrote the music for the Oxford U.P school books now used in many SA schools and covers in this XyloFun manual many of the Theory of Music CAPS requirements for Foundation, Intermediate and Senior Phase in a practical approach.
Over the last two years at the request of various Creative Arts advisors and Departments of Arts and Culture – XyloFun has conducted week long workshops in schools in KZN (Losskop and Umlazi), in Gauteng (JHB and Randfontein), the Free State (Smithfield and Qwa Qwa) and the Western Cape (Atlantis, Mamre, Pella and Khayelitsha), Eastern and Northern Capes and the Limpopo.
Schools: Bruckner de Villiers Primary, Dalubuhle Primary, Groendal Primary, Ida’s Valley Primary, Kayamandi Primary, Pieter Langeveldt Primary, St. Vincent RC Primary, Simondium Primary
To date he has trained and resourced 340 teachers and supplied 250 xylophones.
Contact us at 021 888 3344 / denise@rupertmuseum.org