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Proms at Home

Below you will find weekly activities for you and your family. Each includes a specially selected Prom for you to enjoy with a linked creative activity that can be completed at home without any special materials or preparation! A perfect, simple and easy way to keep listening, enjoying and creating music at this time.

Send us your creative responses through our uploader and you never know, you could be featured here on the Proms website!

WEEK EIGHT

Join Handprint Theatre's Ruth Montgomery to explore Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and create your own drawing inspired by the music.

  • JOIN IN

    Watch Ruth as she shows you how she made her drawing in response to the opening movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

  • DISCOVER

    Discover the background and fascinating facts about the opening movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and watch a clip of Mitsuko Uchida performing the piece.

  • SHARE

    Upload your creative response to the BBC Proms website for a chance to feature in our online showcase

  • EXPLORE

    Watch the full Prom featuring Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata or perhaps watch some Family Favourites Proms!

WEEK SEVEN

Build a den in your own home with Oily Cart's Ellie Griffiths to create a sensory listening space and explore Aaron Copland's Quiet City.

  • JOIN IN

    Join Ellie as she shows you how to build your own listening space using blankets, cusions, lights and smells

  • DISCOVER

    Take an adventure through Aaron Copland's Quiet City, uncover fascinating facts and watch a clip of the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing the piece.

  • SHARE

    Upload pictures of your den to the BBC Proms website for a chance to feature in our online showcase.

  • EXPLORE

    Watch the full Prom featuring Copland's Quiet City or perhaps watch some Family Favourites Proms!

WEEK SIX

Join Heart n Soul's Ono, Craig and Meg for a hilarious ride through Arturo Márquez's Danzón No. 2. Download the Creative Pack and draw to the music whilst sketching your very own musical score.

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    Watch Ono, Craig and Meg creatively respond to Arturo Marquez’s Danzon No. 2. Draw to the music and then create your own musical score.

  • DISCOVER

    Find out about the background to Arturo Marquez's Danzon No. 2 then watch a clip of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela performing the piece.

  • SHARE

    Upload your drawings to the BBC Proms website for a chance to feature in our online showcase.

  • EXPLORE

    Watch the full Prom featuring Marquez's Danzon No. 2 or perhaps watch some Family Favourites Proms!

WEEK FIVE

Get moving with some body percussion with percussionist Beth Higham-Edwards, inspired by Anna Meredith's HandsFree.

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    Percussionist Beth Higham-Edwards shows you how to create Body Percussion inspired by HandsFree.

  • DISCOVER

    Find out about the background to Anna Meredith's HandsFree then watch a clip of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain performing the piece.

  • SHARE

    Upload your Body Percussion video to the BBC Proms website for a chance to feature in our online showcase.

  • EXPLORE

    Listen to the full Prom featuring Meredith's HandsFree or perhaps watch some Family Favourites Proms!

WEEK FOUR

It’s Lullaby week! Sing along with the BBC Singers or create your own lullaby in this special activity created with the Irene Taylor Trust and The Lullaby Project.

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    Lullabies from the Irene Taylor Trust, The Lullaby Project and Igor Stranvinsky’s lullaby from The Firebird.

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    Sing along with Nancy Cole and the BBC Singers and create your very own lullaby with Lucy Drever and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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    Upload your lullaby creation, a video of yourself singing along or other creative responses to the BBC Proms website for a chance to feature in our online showcase.

  • EXPLORE

    Listen to the full Prom featuring Stravinsky's Firebird, listen to more lullabies from The Lullaby Project or perhaps watch some Family Favourites Proms!

WEEK THREE

Create your own picture and poem with the Literacy Pirates, inspired by Hannah Kendall's The Spark Catchers and Lemn Sissay's Colour Blind.

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    Literacy Pirates' Tommy Bower shows you how to draw a picture and write your own poem.

  • DISCOVER

    Discover the background and fascinating facts about Hannah Kendall's The Spark Catchers then watch a clip of Chineke! performing the piece.

  • SHARE

    Upload your drawing, poem or other creative responses to the BBC Proms website for a chance to feature in our online showcase.

  • EXPLORE

    Take a look at the wonderful creative showcase, watch the full Prom featuring Kendall's The Spark Catchers or perhaps watch some Family Favourites Proms!

WEEK TWO

Choreograph a dance with Mousetrap Theatre Projects' Vicki Hawkins, inspired by Leonard Bernstein's Imaginary Coney Island from On the Town.

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    Mousetrap Theatre Projects' Vicki Hawkins shows you how you can create your own dance.

  • DISCOVER

    Uncover fun facts about Leonard Bernstein's Imaginary Coney Island from On the Town in this family-friendly programme note. Then, watch the piece being performed by the John Wilson Orchestra at the Proms in 2012.

  • SHARE

    Upload your window drawings, videos of your dance or other creative responses to the BBC Proms website for a chance to feature in our online showcase.

  • EXPLORE

    Take a look at the wonderful creative showcase, watch the full Prom featuring Bernstein's Imaginary Coney Island from On the Town or perhaps watch some Family Favourites Proms!

WEEK ONE

Write your own one-word song with Jessie Maryon Davies, inspired by Gerald Barry's Canada.

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    Jessie Maryon Davies shows you how to write your very own one-word song.

  • DISCOVER

    Find out fascinating facts about Gerald Barry's Canada and then watch his fun-filled clip of the piece.

  • SHARE

    Upload your one word song or other creative responses to the BBC Proms website for a chance to feature in our online showcase.

  • EXPLORE

    Take a look at the wonderful creative showcase, watch the full Prom featuring Barry's Canada or perhaps watch some Family Favourites Proms!

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