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BBC Ten Pieces Concerts for Schools

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Schools and home educators only ● 
The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra performing
Date
9 Oct 2024
Venue
The Hall, Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester, M3 4JG
Tickets
All tickets £5.00 - To book a group of 10 or more, call 0161 817 4531 or email us at groups@factoryinternational.org

We have free personal assistant tickets available for wheelchair users and disabled visitors. We do not require proof to book a personal assistant ticket with your access ticket. 

To book access tickets please call 0161 817 4531 (Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm) or email access@factoryinternational.org.

To book in education groups of 10 or more, please call us on 0161 817 4531 or email us at groups@factoryinternational.org.

Concert 1: 11am - 12 noon

Concert 2: 1.30 - 2.30pm

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Running time: 55 mins

Please note this event is only open for schools and home educators to book.

Accessibility features available for this event: BSL Interpreting Wheelchair Access

Come and hear the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform LIVE at Aviva Studios as we celebrate 10 Years of BBC Ten Pieces!

The programme will include Laura Shigihara’s Grasswalk from the game Plants vs Zombies and Margaret Bonds’ Montgomery Variations, which was written in response to the American Civil Rights Movement and tells the story of what it means to stand up for your beliefs.

BBC Ten Pieces is a music education initiative for students aged 7-14, it launched in 2014 and is the biggest commitment the BBC has ever made to music education. Ten Pieces aims to open the world of classical music to a generation of children and inspire them to develop their own creative responses to orchestral and vocal music.

BBC Philharmonic Schools' Concerts are the perfect introduction to orchestral music for young audiences and can act as a springboard to cross-curricular activities when used in conjunction with the Ten Pieces classroom resources.

The concerts will be presented by award-winning saxophonist and broadcaster YolanDa Brown.

Image: Chris Payne / BBC

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Ticket information

Please note this event is only open for schools and home educators to book. To book in education groups of 10 or more, please call us on 0161 817 4531 or email us at groups@factoryinternational.org.

Access information

Our full address is Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester M3 4JQ and the what3words is chop.feeds.chase.

You can approach Aviva Studios along Water Street (coming from Quay Street) or along Liverpool Road (coming from Deansgate or Castlefield). Both entrances to the building have double sets of glass doors.

Once inside Aviva Studios, there is step-free access to all areas of the venue. The flooring throughout the building is smooth concrete.

The entrance to the Hall is by lift, escalator or stairs from one side of the Social beside the brick arches. There is only one escalator, and this will take you up to the Hall before the show, and will be reversed so that you can travel down at the end of the performance.

The Social has a range of seating, including those with arms and backs.

The bars in the Social and Hall Foyer have lowered accessible service points.

Our building is large. We have portable stools available to borrow if you would benefit from resting along the way during your visit.

We have wheelchair spaces and seats at standing events for all events.

There is step-free access to all areas of the venue, with lift access to the Warehouse from the Social, and lift and escalator access to the Hall from the Social. The escalator leading to the Hall foyers usually works in the direction of audience flow, so it will take you up before the performance, and the same escalator will bring you down at the interval or at the end of the show.

There are accessible toilets on all public levels of our building.

Accessible toilets are located inside the main toilets space in the brick arches of the Social.

Here you’ll find a mixture of accessible cubicles with left- or right-hand transfer, towards the back of the space, as well as ambulant accessible cubicles with grab rails, as well as a Changing Places facility.

The toilets in the brick arches of the Social are split into male, female and gender neutral – all of which contain accessible cubicles. There are shared handwashing facilities in each arch – they have soap dispensers under the mirrors to your left and dryers to the right. There are separate handwashing facilities inside the accessible cubicles.

There are additional single-room accessible toilets located in both Hall Foyers, at stalls and circle level.

There are additional single-room accessible toilets located in the Warehouse Foyer.

You do not need a key to use the accessible toilets at Aviva Studios.

Assistance dogs are welcome in our building, and we can provide mats and water bowls on request, just ask a host when you arrive. We can also take care of your assistance dog if you do not want to take your dog into the performance space. Please also refer to our assistance dogs policy.

If you are bringing an assistance dog to a ticketed event, please let us know in advance by contacting access@factoryinternational.org or calling our access phone number: 0161 817 4531 (phone lines are open 10am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday).

The performances will be signed live on stage by a BSL interpreter.

Assistive listening is available for this event. To request an assistive listening device please add the assistive listening preference in the ‘Other Preferences’ section of your online account, or contact us by email (access@factoryinternational.org) or phone (0161 817 4531, Monday to Saturday, 10am – 6pm). When you arrive, head to the Orange Box where a member of our Front of House team will be on hand to accompany you to the relevant pick-up point.

Travel information

Aviva Studios can be approached along Water Street (coming from Quay Street) or along Liverpool Road (coming from Deansgate or Castlefield).

Our closest stations are:

Salford Central station: 0.4 miles

Deansgate station and Deansgate-Castlefield tram: 0.6 miles

St Peter’s Square tram: 0.6 miles

Manchester Victoria station is approximately one mile from Aviva Studios

Manchester Piccadilly station is approximately 1.3 miles from Aviva Studios

Click on the links above to find detailed access information for each station.

Metrolink

Kids for a Quid - metrolink

Metrolink has a special offer for school groups travelling around the tram network. It's £1 return for each child and £2 for each accompanying teacher, from any stop on the network.

Offer only applies to school group bookings of ten or more students aged 5 to 16 travelling after 9.30am. Bookings must be made at least seven days in advance by calling TfGM on 0161 244 1000.

Train

Kids for a Quid - train

Kids for a Quid train tickets are a ticket type offered by several UK train companies. They allow up to four children aged 5–15 to travel for just £1 on a single or return journey when accompanied by an adult during off-peak times.

You can secure Kids for a Quid train tickets on selected Southeastern, West Midlands Railway, London Northwestern Railway and Chiltern Railway routes at Trainline. Just start a search for one adult and up to four children aged 5–15 in our Journey Planner at the top of the page, and if the offer is valid on that route, we’ll factor any £1 child tickets into the total price.

Avanti also offer School Groups Discounts.

By Bike

There are 40 bike parking spaces at Aviva Studios including space for two accessible bikes.

National Cycling Route 6 passes close to the venue and this TfGM webpage can help with route planning.

You can also hire bikes from on-street docking stations across the city centre. The closest docking stations to our venue are currently on Deansgate by Liverpool Road and (400m from the building) and by King Street (500m from the building). Take a look at Transport for Greater Manchester’s webpage for advice on cycle hire.

By Walking and Other Active Means

Aviva Studios can be approached along Water Street via Liverpool Road (coming from Deansgate or Castlefield).

If you're coming from Quay Street, the safest route to avoid construction works is via the cut-through opposite Gartside Street and past Booking.com.

All footways in the surrounding area are well lit and there are appropriate crossings across all main roads.

Pedestrians with visual impairment are recommended to approach the building via Water Street, from Liverpool Road. This route has traditional carriageway and footway design with fixed street furniture which should help with navigation to the entrance.

A footbridge at Left Bank in Spinningfields provides an accessible link across the River Irwell to Salford Central station, and a further footbridge also links Aviva Studios with the Salford area of Middlewood Locks.

Free bus services stop at all city-centre stations, and near to Aviva Studios along Deansgate, Bridge St and Quay St. Buses on these free routes are wheelchair accessible. For full details of the free bus routes, please visit the TfGM website.

There is a car park approximately 0.6 miles from Aviva Studios at Water Street Car Park, New Elm Rd, Manchester, M3 4JH.

There is also a NCP car park (Manchester Spinningfields) approximately 0.5 miles away from Aviva Studios at Spinningfields, New Quay Street, Manchester, M3 3BE. It has 35 accessible bays.

There are a small number of Blue Badge spaces along Water St and Quay St. Otherwise head towards Liverpool Road, Great John St and Lower Byrom St – close to our neighbours, the Science and Industry Museum where there are a small number of additional Blue Badge spaces.

For a list of other parking bays available in the area, visit Manchester City Council website.

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