Apollo, transforming lives through music

22/01/2026

This looks like it might be of interest to some of our fabulous early career musicians

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

14/01/2026

This looks amazing - get your applications in now! 🎉

If you’ve been thinking about applying for the Young Creatives mentoring program, but need that extra push, hear from Oliver who took part last year!

"Since the programme I have done a few events with my friend who has a sound and lighting business. I have done the sound for a few shows with more to come! And the clients from previous shows telling us that we will be being rebooked. I have also been taking producing and beat making more seriously, finishing up my little home studio thing. And my band are getting more bookings than ever, even well into next year."

Applications are open till the 30th of January to take part in this years program! You receive free mentoring from a professional local artist for 6 months and exclusive behind the scenes access to Lichfield Festivals.

Apply and find out more at lichfieldfestival.org/aspire/young-creatives

23/12/2025

Today was the last Apollo Health in Harmony 🎶performance of 2025 and we had the best day. Thanks to our wonderful team, the EnjoyArts and patient experience teams at Birmingham Children's Hospital and Charity and Birmingham Women's Hospital and Charity and to Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for supporting this project.

We loved visiting the amazing patients, families and staff on B*H Ward 18, B*H Waterfall House and Birmingham Women's today who showed us the real meaning of Christmas. 🎄🎁🎅🔔🎵🧡

Wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas filled with music, love and joy. We'll be back every Tuesday in 2026 🎵🧡🎵

20/12/2025

We can't believe it's been a whole week since our fabulous Christmas concerts! Our wonderful orchestra had the best time playing Wallace and Gromit's 'The Wrong Trousers' live to film 🎄 and our flute section excelled with the slapsticks in Sleigh Ride😂

Thank you so much to our wonderful audiences for helping to make it such an unforgettable afternoon, and we hope to see you again soon!

Clips coming over the Christmas break!



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12/12/2025

Final few tickets left to join us for our incredible Christmas concert - you don't want to miss this! Featuring Wallace and Gromit's 'The Wrong Trousers' and the festive classic 'Sleigh Ride', this is sure to get you in the Christmas spirit 🎁❄️🎄

Get your tickets now at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Apollo

🗓️Saturday 13th December at 3pm and 4.30pm
📍Sutton Coldfield Girls School, Jockey Road, B735PT

11/12/2025

This is so sad and so true 💔

Forty-three percent of children in Scotland are now identified as having some sort of additional learning need – the Scottish term for what is called special educational needs (SEN) in England.

If 43% of children have needs which are not met in the mainstream education system, I think it’s time to think about whether that mainstream system is fit for purpose.

We’ve created a system that does not consider the developmental needs of children, and which has an increasingly rigid focus on academics from an early age. We expect young children to sit when their bodies want to move, we expect them to focus on reading and writing when they are primed to learn through exploration and play. We send our teens to huge impersonal schools, where they move through the day without any connection with an adult who knows anything about them. We focus on test results at all costs, telling our children that if they don’t do well, a bleak future is all they can expect.

Then when our children show us that this doesn’t work for them, we say that the problem is them. We send them for assessments and get reports written on how they aren’t performing as we expect. We tell them that they are ‘badly behaved’ or ‘disruptive’. We identify them as ‘having ALN’ or ‘having SEND’. We behave as if the problem isn’t the system we’ve created, it’s the children who don’t fit it.

Unsurprisingly, the harder we look, the more children we identify who don’t fit the system. The more rigid the system becomes, the more children there will be who can't meet expectations. Children need flexibility, and our system doesn't provide it for them.

At what point will we realise that the problem isn’t our children, it’s that the system wasn’t built with their needs in mind?

10/12/2025

Only 3 days until our Christmas extravaganza - we're so excited! Get your tickets now to join us for an afternoon of fantastic festive fun 🎄

🗓️Saturday 13th December at 3pm and 4.30pm
📍Sutton Coldfield Girls School, Jockey Road, B735PT

Get your tickets now at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Apollo 🎟️

10/12/2025

📣Enter now at www.apollouk.org and make sure you have your tickets so you are there if you win!!!

10/12/2025

07/12/2025

📢‼️Don't Miss out‼️
For ONE DAY ONLY - 25% off all booking from 7pm Sunday to 7pm Monday using code GROMIT
🎥🎞️📽️🎬Wallace and Gromit 'The Wrong Trousers' 🐕🐧👖🧀Film (Rated U) with live orchestra 🎵🎻🪈🎹🎺🥁📯🎶
📆Saturday 13th December at 🕒 3pm and 🕟 4.30pm
📍Sutton Coldfield Girls School

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Come and see this family favourite - perfect for all ages (suitable from birth to 100+)
🅿️Free parking
🎨Free craft (30 minutes before each show)
☕🥤🍪 Free refreshments