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Lets Fly Away With Shabang!
We are so super excited for the premier of Shabang’s latest ‘all inclusive’ film – Let’s Fly Away.
We have our boarding cards, do you?
Follow the link by clicking the poster below to get your FREE tickets. Then climb aboard Groove Airways for afternoon with Reenie, your cabin queenie and Captain Roland Groove – who knows where the journey will take us?!
Shabang 2014 calendar OUT NOW!
Shabang! Inclusive Learning is thrilled to launch its new calendar for 2014 with a difference. Shabang! is an arts charity working in Slaithwaite near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, specialising in designing and delivering creative projects for children with additional needs and their families.
This colourful 2014 calendar features children and young adults from their projects and its theme this year is “Passion for Fashion’. Each page is a mini fashion shoot showing fashion trends through the years and is accompanied by the appropriate Makaton symbols and signs courtesy of The Makaton Charity. Makaton is a language programme designed specifically for children with communication and learning disabilities and so the calendar will be a perfect educational tool for both schools and families.
More importantly Shabang! see the children featured in the calendar as much more than models – they are role models. Images of people with learning needs are few and far between in the media or in educational resources. “Raising positive awareness and celebrating our children is definitely the name of the game“ says Kim Reuter from Shabang! ” we aim to challenge perceptions and celebrate difference”
The calendar is also raising money this year for a cause very dear to Shabang!’s heart – “Team Rowan” and The SMA Trust (Spinal Muscular Atrophy). Rowan Poole was only 18 months old when she died from the condition. She regularly attended activities run by Shabang! and each calendar sold will raise money for the Trust.
Working alongside photographer Mike Barratt from Frogs Design, Shabang! has created richly designed backdrops for each month featuring a range of fashion trends –including a Mary Quant black and white sixties inspired page; a gothic tableau; and a rock ‘n’ roll pin up.
The calendar celebrates a range of models from 8 months to adults and all have additional needs including Down syndrome, autism and complex needs.
Local Huddersfield print firm Brooke and Learoyd are printing the calendar again and managing directors and brothers Tim and Dan are taking part in a marathon to raise money for Shabang!
SHABANG receive funding from The BIG Lottery Fund and Kirklees Council.
Contact Kim on 01484 848073 / shabang.info@gmail.com or visit their website to order your copy now!
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A morning with Singing Hands & Shabang!
On Saturday the 15th December, HDSSG & Shabang families got together to be entertained by the fabulous Betty Bone and Reg Rag along with special guests Suzanne and Tracy aka Singing Hands!!
The fun began with a Shabang original ‘Rag and Bone’ with plenty of audience participation on the family silver!!
The singing and signing shenanigans continued with the brilliant Singing Hands covering plenty of classics and some festive tunes too!!
The morning was topped off by a visit from a very talented rapping Santa, who treated all the guests to a gift too!
HDSSG would like to thank Kim, Russ, Ruben, Tracy and Suzanne as well as all the fabulous staff at the Watershed for such a super morning.
We wish all our members and their families a very merry Christmas!
Makaton Workshops in Huddersfield
Castle Hill School in Newsome are hosting Makaton taster & beginners workshops available in 2013. See below for more details –
For more information on Makaton training opportunities for parent or professionals in Huddersfield, click HERE
Shabang! 2013 Calendar featuring signs & symbols
COMING SOON – a fabulous unique calendar put together by Huddersfield’s Shabang! Theatre Adventures – a creative arts project working with families and children with additional needs.
The 2013 calendar features fantastic pictures of little stars in typical Shabang! style all supported by signs and symbols!
The calendar will retail at £9.99 with all profits going directly to fund the brilliant projects that Shabang! offer.
Here’s a sneak preview of some of our HDSSG stars in December….
That’s Christmas sorted then!!