Cultural Learning Directory
Find the right cultural partner to support your class’s learning objectives
English National Opera: HMS Pinafore ENO Relaxed Performance
All aboard HMS Pinafore for Gilbert & Sullivan’s hilarious musical tale of a nautical love triangle. The comic opera navigates the tricky waters of class, rank, patriotism and power, in their signature slapstick style. In ENO’s 2025/26 London Coliseum season, there is a Relaxed Performance of HMS Pinafore on Thursday 29 January 2026, 2pm.
Wigmore Hall: Imagine Series: Come and Create
Join us for a relaxed, multi-sensory concert experience. This concert is part of our Imagine Series: a series of afternoon concerts at Wigmore Hall designed for a neurodiverse audience. Wigmore Hall's Come and Create band, a music group for autistic young people aged 15+, have co-produced the concert and welcome you into the space.
Wigmore Hall: Imagine Series
Rihab Azar is a London-based, Syrian/British oud player. Performing internationally since 2008, in 2014 she became the first woman oudist to perform accompanied by the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music and in 2016 Arts Council England recognised her as a musician of 'Exceptional Promise'. Join Rihab for a low stimulus performance as part of Wigmore Hall's Imagine Series. Rihab will perform music without sudden or loud volume in this informal concert.
Wigmore Hall: Schools Concert: Ragas and Talas
Join us on a musical adventure through the Indian subcontinent as we explore and celebrate melodies (ragas) and rhythms (talas) from Hindustani (North Indian) and Carnatic (South Indian) classical music traditions.
Wigmore Hall: Family Concert: Toot!
Family Concert: Toot! In this thrilling schools concert, five playful musicians set off on an unforgettable journey through music and make-believe, with a little help from a magical dressing-up box! Hike through enchanted forests, explore mysterious caves, and soar to the moon in a homemade rocket! Perfect for kids ages 4 - 9, this action-packed concert brings the stage to life with creativity, imagination, and plenty of surprises. Watch as the music guides the way and discover where the next adventure takes you!
Go Live Theatre Projects: Education Matinees
Go Live regularly organises Education Matinees for West End shows whereby the entire performance is given over to state school pupils at a heavily subsidised price, enabling young people to enjoy a show (many for the first time) in the company of their peers.
Creative Futures: Musical Games
Musical Games is a vocal improvisation and body percussion project designed to build children’s self-confidence and resilience. It is delivered by two Creative Futures musicians who are respectively also a Speech and Language Therapist and Music Therapist. Participating children will work together to create rhythms, songs, collective movement and sound which will support physiological wellbeing.
Creative Futures: Sound & Symbol
Sound & Symbol is an early years music project designed to support social-emotional development, communication, language, and emergent literacy. The project is rooted in research and practice and includes child-initiated play, and group activities with story books, singing, instruments, movement and mark-making.
English National Opera: Finish This…
Finish This... is ENO's free* nation-wide music making programme for schools. We invite students to step into the role of composer and finish a purposely unfinished piece of operatic music.
English National Opera: School Membership
English National Opera offers a free membership for Primary, Secondary and SEND students. This includes access to free tickets to our Dress Rehearsals and School Ticket Nights.
Royal Ballet & Opera: Live Lessons
Bring the Royal Ballet & Opera LIVE into your classroom with these free, short, digital live lessons - held every term.
Live Music Now: Musician-in-residence
Participatory music performances by musicians to engage children with additional needs.
Royal Albert Hall: Future Makers
An annual music competition is back to inspire your students to create their own music and to become Future Makers.
DreamArts: EXPERIMENT Weekend Creative Labs
Multi artform on-site workshops fusing art and therapy.
 
                         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
