Doorstep Jamboree

Information about suitability:

Tailored

Audience feedback

"a wonderful theatre experience and just what we all needed during these difficult COVID times."
Audience feedback

Doorstep Jamboree was created in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and toured across London in Autumn 2020. Oily Cart received the 2021 Fantastic for Families’ Impact and Innovation Award, recognising innovation and adaptability to make a difference to families during the pandemic, which included Doorstep Jamboree.

About Doorstep Jamboree

The Jamboree travelling Balkan band are popping up across London on the doorsteps of families who are still shielding. The band, which includes a sousaphone, clarinet, and singers, will play some tunes from Oily Cart’s sensory gig Jamboree, in a colourful and joyful celebration of resilience. Each performance will be totally unique and responsive to the individual family, who pick from two options so that their performance is tailored to them:

  • A personalised zoom performance where the young person has a song dedicated to them. This is recorded and added to an album of songs from Jamboree that the family are sent afterwards
  • Three members of the Jamboree Band improvise outside their house for 30 minutes. Before the mini show, the musicians post a bespoke sensory prop, so they can ‘jam’ together through the window or letterbox.

There will also be a pop-up version that tours to hospices, residential schools and children’s centres.

As part of this tour, Oily Cart are proud to release Jamboree: The Album. This features tunes that were co-created with young people who are non-verbal, through a research process which embedded Jamboree band musicians in specialist schools around the country to collaborate with young disabled musicians (sometimes labelled as having complex needs) who are non-verbal.

The album is designed to be shared and enjoyed by everyone, disabled and non-disabled. It is Oily Cart’s way of making sure disabled young people are being listened to even if they are not being seen out in public spaces over the next year or so.

Doorstep Jamboree and the accompanying album are part of the We Shall Not Be Removed campaign. This is an alliance of the UKs disabled artists and disabled-led companies, coming together to campaign for an inclusive cultural recovery #WeShallNotBeRemoved

Behind the scenes

Watch short film Composing a Jamboree about co-creating the show’s music with disabled young people.

Find out more about our response to the Covid-19 pandemic, including Doorstep Jamboree, in our Uncancellable Programme Report.

At-home ideas

Watch Jamboree: The Sensory Sessions – three interactive, creative sessions inspired by the sensory moments in Jamboree, designed for families to try at home.

Check out these Jamboree: Sensory ideas to try at home.

Video trailer



Gallery

Show gallery

Four members of the band performing in a playground. Two of the band members stand on colourful podiums with their arms raised in the air. The singer is in a wheelchair infront of them, and a sousaphone player behind them. They are all wearing colourful festival costumes and smiling at the audience who are out of shot. Two members of the Jamboree band are performing under a tree in a residential street. A female singer in a dark top and skirt with flowery head dress and orange beaded collar smiles at the male clarinettist who is playing in the foreground. The clarinettist is wearing a multi-coloured shiny tasselled jacket and colourful hat. A boy sat next to a staff member in a school playground plays blue and red plastic percussion instruments. In the foreground is a musician in a colourful tasselled jacket with his back to the camera. Two members of the Jamboree band are performing in a plyground. A female singer in a dark top and skirt with flowery head dress and orange beaded collar sings. She is holding a flat basket. Behind her is musician playing a bass clarinet. He is wearing a multi-coloured shiny tasselled jacket and colourful hat. A boy sits with his head rested on a staff member's lap in a school playground. He is looking up at a colourful macaw puppet flying overhead. The Jamboree band, all wearing colourful costumes, perform in a playground. Colourful bunting marks out the performance space. On the left and right are the hosts standing on platforms waving flags. One is wearing a donkey mask. In the foreground is a bass clarinettist, behind him are singers and a musician playing the sousaphone. A boy sat in a wheelchair next to a staff member in a school playground, watching a musician who is playing close to them. The musician, whose back is to the camera, is kneeling. He is wearing a shiny pink and blue jacket with big colourful pom poms on the shoulder and playing a sousaphone.

Credits

Creative Team

Lead Artist Ellie Griffiths

Designer Flavio Graff

Music Director & Co-composer Max Reinhardt

Rehearsal Music Director Aaron Diaz

Movement Director Genevieve Say

Musicians Dunja Botic, Aaron Diaz, Daniel Gouly, Miss Jacqui (Jacqui Adeniji-Williams)

Hosts Griff Fender & Mark Foster

Co-composers Jovana Backovic, Dunja Botic, Aaron Diaz, Daniel Gouly, Miss Jacqui (Jacqui Adeniji-Williams), Robyn Steward

Thank you to all the student musicians, staff and audience at Linden Lodge School, Walton Leigh School, Gulbenkian Theatre

Production Team

Production Manager Gareth Howells

Stage Manager Marcus Roche

Head of Costume Amy Ford

Head of Construction Hannah Sharp

Costume Assistant Yunhye Choi

For Oily Cart

Executive Director Zoë Lally

Tours Producer Alison Garratt

Communications and Engagement Producer Flossie Waite

Placement Anya Winful

PR Binita Walia, The Space inBetween

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