At the beginning of May, Selection BOCs spent a day at LIPA (The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts), travelling there by train.
Selection BOCs offers the people we support the opportunity to express themselves through sound and music; especially at its Music BOCs Group (meeting on Tuesdays) while having a strong ‘community engagement’ focus. Attendees had the fantastic opportunity to enjoy a ‘behind-the-scenes tour’ of the facilities, studios, theatre spaces and scenic workshops. One member of the group in particular said how it was superb and that they had seen loads of shows in the past, but had never had the chance to learn about all of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes.
LIPA opened in 1996 and has a new approach to performing arts training. It was co-founded by Sir Paul McCartney (from the Beatles) and Mark Featherstone-Witty (LIPA’s Principal). It is a state-of-the-art performing arts higher education institution that provides learning for the main skills needed for putting on a show (performers and those who make performance possible), uniquely blending specialist and generic skills. It offers degree courses in Acting, Community Drama, Dance, Music Theatre and Entertainment Management, Music, Sound Technology, Theatre and Performance Design and Theatre and Performance Technology.
