| Main Performers | Teenage Cancer Patients,
Gill Hickman |
| Performance Notes | Art Workshops were held on the 25 and 26 March - Launched and run for the first time in 2009, this series of workshops aimed to introduce patients to the inspiring work and methodology of Gill Hickman, and to provide a nurturing and unlimited forum for expression using a variety of art media and materials. Through each workshop, patients gained new technical creative skills and insight into how others have dealt with illness in a positive and inspiring way. By the end of the week, each patient had created at least one piece of work that then went in to a TCT unit or the TCT Headquarters and eventually was exhibited at the Royal Albert Hall and seen by over 18,000 visitors to the Hall during the TCT concert series in 2011.
Music Workshops were held on 23-26 March and on Sunday 28 March - Teenagers with cancer were invited to London by the Teenage Cancer Trust to attend workshops organised by the RAH Learning and Participation Team. The teenagers (and in some cases their carers) arrived in the afternoon and were offered a tour of the Royal Albert Hall. Following that they worked with the workshop leaders and students from the Royal College of Music to compose, rehearse and perform their own song - usually in the style of the band appearing that evening at the TCT concert. At the end of the workshop they then invited the band and other members of the RAH and TCT staff to hear their composition. All the teenagers then have dinner back stage and are given tickets to attend that evening's concert. |