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The Enchanted Cinema is bringing their interactive cinema shows to the Horniman this winter. Help them create the sound effects to much-loved animations using instruments, hands and voices.

The Enchanted Cinema is coming to the Horniman and they need your help with the score!

You’ll use instruments, hands and voices to help create the soundtrack to well-loved animated films, expertly guided by The Enchanted Cinema’s musicians and multi-instrumentalists.

3 and 5 January

Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman (1982)

Magically re-create the sound FX of an owl, bauble, toothbrush, musical box, running tap, feet jumping through the snow, or tearaway motorbike before enjoying Dianne Jackson’s animated classic.

4 January

Orchestra of Seasons

A collection of clips from:

  • Lotte Reineger’s The Grasshopper and the Ant (1954)
  • My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
  • Seasons (1969)

Become dancing frogs, caterpillars, mice and squirrels from the lovely autumnal silhouette animation of The Grasshopper and the Ant. Capture the magical growth of spring in two much-loved scenes from Studio Ghibli’s most favourite animation, My Neighbour Totoro: come prepared with your loudest catbus Miaow! And finally, a beautifully crafted animation inspired by Tchaikovsky’s Seasons reveals a stunning stop-frame world layered in lace, with golden leaves transforming into fish or ice creatures bursting into snow.

Event information

This event is aimed at children aged 4-12.

Seating will be on the floor with chairs available for those who require them. The floor is wood and we advise bringing cushions or rugs for additional comfort.

Programme

3 January

The Snowman

  • 12pm
  • 2pm
  • 4pm

4 January

Orchestra of Seasons

  • 10am
  • 12pm
  • 2pm

5 January

The Snowman

  • 10am
  • 12pm
  • 2pm

The Orchestra of Enchanted Sounds Tour is supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery.

The stage set ready for the Enchanted Cinema performing ‘My Neighbour Totoro’
Children play instruments at an Enchanted Cinema screening
An Enchanted Cinema session in action

Lotte Reineger’s The Grasshopper and the Ant (1954)

Celebrating its 70th birthday, this fun, visually lovely silhouette animation of the Aesop’s Fable comes with a bluegrass fiddling grasshopper from us and dancing frogs, caterpillars, mice and squirrels from you as the foolish grasshopper ignores advice to prepare for the coming winter.

My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

Capture the magical growth of Spring and the rainy season of tsuyu (梅雨) in two much-loved scenes from Studio Ghibli’s most famous animation. Become popping seeds, rain drops on an umbrella, a rumbling catbus, a giant spinning top or the sound of book pages flapping in the wind. Come prepared with your largest catbus Miaow!

Seasons (1969)

This rare, beautifully crafted animation inspired by Tchaikovsky’s Seasons reveals a stunning stop-frame world layered in lace, golden leaves transforming into fish or ice creatures bursting into snow as a couple’s sleigh glides past colourful fairs and into the icy moons of winter.