Young Company Summer School 2024
Young Company Summer School is returning to Bristol Old Vic!
Places for both 7-10 and 11-14 year olds sessions will be available to book from Wed 3 Apr at 10am.
7–10 year olds
Dates: Monday 29th July to Friday 2nd August
Price: £175 per participant (incl. limited number of bursary places)
Times: 10am – 3pm every day
Venue: Bristol Old Vic
This summer, come join us to make and perform stories.
We will be exploring story making and how to create something from one tiny spark of an idea into making into something big and exciting!
Come and play in a fun filled days of games, stories and theatre making. We will be taking inspiration from classic stories and creating modern versions together. Together we will also explore character and acting techniques to allow us to share our ‘contemporary classic’ with our friends and family.
11–14 year olds
Dates: Monday 5th to Friday 9th August
Price: £200 per participant (incl. limited number of bursary places)
Times: 10am – 4pm every day Venue: Bristol Old Vic
Be a part of this year’s summer school and explore the eclectic genre of Cabaret!
We will be interrogating what cabaret is, was, and has the potential to become! If we could create our own, what would that look like?
We will create original music with a focus on choral singing and develop our own original choreography. We will explore drag performance and develop some characters/personas to explore what it means to ‘host’ a show. As a cabaret company we will decide which acts we put in our final performance and programme our own variety show to share at the end of our week together.
How to Book
- Young Company Summer School places are first come, first served.
- If you are booking for someone other than yourself online, please ensure you book under the participant’s name, not your own.
- When making your booking, if you are booking in multiple participants, you must book in each one as separate bookings. If you have a sibling attending another session, you can select the 'sibling discount' price.
- If sessions fully sell out, please contact the Engagement team to be added to the waiting list for that session.
Bursaries
We have a limited number of bursary grants that are available in cases of genuine hardship for anyone who will struggle to pay Young Company Summer School fees. Bursaries should be applied for when booking opens on Wednesday 3rd April at 10am and bursary applications close on Wednesday 22nd May.
In order to allocate bursary places as fairly as possible we will initially prioritise applicants who are in receipt of free school meals, please note that we will contact your school to confirm this information. Please visit the Fees & Bursaries page to download a bursary application form.
Applying for a bursary means we automatically reserve you a space for Young Company Summer School, so you do not need to make a paid booking in addition to your bursary application, and you will have the option to buy your reserved place if your bursary application is not successful.