Workshops & Facilitation

Over the past 10 years Lizzy has worked in community, education, theatre, and dance settings and had the privilege of working with vast amount of different groups of people.

Lizzy has training in a diverse pallet of theatrical styles such as devising, mask work, physical theatre, puppetry, improvisation, script writing and spoken word and has a breath of knowledge in dance specialising in the style of contemporary dance. She is a confident and vibrant practitioner with lots of energy and enthusiasm.

School's Workshops

In past and current positions, Lizzy has delivered innumerable workshops in schools. These have included working towards productions based on The Emperor’s New Clothes, Greek Myths and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has delivered workshops with the stimulus of local history, books such as Zog, Musicals such as Oliver and the Lion King.

She has run countless play-in-a-day workshops to support the National Curriculum such as internet safety, World War 2, the rainforest, the iron/stone age, Shakespeare, transition into secondary school, the ancient Egyptians and many more. She has also led after-school clubs focusing on different dance styles too.

Lizzy's Story

Lizzy did a Silver Arts Award while at doing her A Levels and a Gold Award with York Theatre Royal. Now a self-employed freelancer, Lizzy explains how Arts Award helped her to get to a head start in the arts industry.

Video made by Arts Award 2016.

Arts Award Discover Club at Festivals

Latitude is situated in the Suffolk countryside and is renowned for its diversity in arts and culture. Each year the Arts Award Youth network returns to run Discover Club and review the performances via Arts Award voice.

Video made by Arts Award at Latitude Festival 2015.

Arts Award Off The Shelf: Max and Ivan

Arts Award Off The Shelf: Luca Silvestrini

In this video, we got the chance to visit the Southbank Centre in London - a dedicated Arts Award Supporter centre offering young people a range of opportunities to engage with the world of the arts! Voice Activist Lizzy Whynes also had the pleasure of interviewing character comedy duo Max & Ivan about what it's like to be professional comedians and also getting some top tips on how to get started writing and performing comedy!

Video made by Arts Award 2016.

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Arts Award Off The Shelf: Luca Silvestrini

Lizzy, one of our Arts Award activists, interviews Luca Silvestrini about how his passion in dance developed into his role now as the Artistic Director of Protein Dance.

Lizzy also talks to Constance Gibbs from Greenwich Dance about the many ways in which they help young people who are completing their Arts Award.

Video made by Arts Award 2016.

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