MAD about Waddesdon
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MAD about Waddesdon is an annual festival of Music
, Art
, Drama
and Dance
, involving young people from local schools and community groups. It is held in the grounds of Waddesdon Manor
in Buckinghamshire
over a weekend at the end of June, beginning of July.
It was first held in 2006 and attracted over 10,000 visitors, with over 3,000 young people performing across four stages.
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, Art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
and Dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
, involving young people from local schools and community groups. It is held in the grounds of Waddesdon Manor
Waddesdon Manor
Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. The house was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild . Since this was the preferred style of the Rothschilds it became also known as...
in Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....
over a weekend at the end of June, beginning of July.
It was first held in 2006 and attracted over 10,000 visitors, with over 3,000 young people performing across four stages.