What we can provide

  • Musical performance incursion
  • Workshops for primary school string ensembles
  • Workshops for classroom
  • Teacher packs

Flamingo Strings provide unique educational incursions and workshops for primary aged students. From Vivaldi to Mario Bros, the Flamingos take the students on a journey with the string quartet, learning about many aspects of music in a fun, hilarious and engaging way. The Flamingos interact with the students to help them really switch on their ears and imaginations, and even get them to help perform a special Flamingo Song and Dance.

There is nothing more engaging than a live performance by Perth’s best string musicians who are passionate about education and classical music.

The show is designed to be taken anywhere, as long as there is space for the students and the quartet. We provide everything needed and we like to be on the same level as the students so there is no need for a stage.

Educational pre/post show teacher packs are part of the booking, so you can either prepare the students for our arrival or use them to cement the content learned once we have gone.  

The workshops work with the level of your students, and if there is no instrumental program at all then we can do a fun Flamingos themed classroom style session (all with smaller groups).

The show helps cover or complement many of the Education Department of WA’s curriculum outcomes:

Responding to and interpreting the Arts:

  • Audience behaviour (being quiet during a performance; clapping after a performance)
  • Places and occasions where different types of music are experienced and performed
  • Personal responses expressing ideas and feelings about the music they listen to and make
  • Responses that identify specific elements of music and how they communicate mood and meaning

Developing Skills and Processes:
Development of aural skills by exploring the elements of music, including:

  • rhythm (sound, silence; long, short; steady beat)
  • tempo (fast, slow, getting slower, getting faster)
  • pitch (high, low; pitch direction)
  • Harmony (major, minor, dissonances)
  • dynamics (loud, soft, terminology)
  • timbre (exploration of sounds produced)
Suitable for: 
Kindergarten/Preschool
Primary
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Special Needs
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Physical Address: 
Flamingo Strings
Perth / WA WA 6000
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Phone Number: 
0416 279 731