‘Zig-Zag’:

our drama, craft and music workshop

Zig-Zag is a music, craft and drama workshop which takes place on Friday afternoons during University term in the St Clement's Family Centre.

Not long after KEEN began in 1988, a group of students were asked to visit Chicken-Shed, a London based group who matched children with special needs to aspiring drama students. The KEEN drama therapy group known as Zig-Zag was born.

The Zig-Zag volunteers are a varied bunch of students who contribute to sessions in different ways. The sessions are run by 'session leaders' who decide on a theme for the term, and work out ways to explore different areas of this theme through drama, songs, crafts and games. Recent examples of themes are: Fairytales, Horrible Histories, Children’s Stories and the works of Shakespeare. Other volunteers support our athletes to help them get the most out of the sessions.

At the end of every term we put on an end of term performance as a celebration of what we have done in the preceding weeks, which parents and siblings are more than welcome to come along to watch and join in with.