Creativity is...singing in community
Are you looking for ways to creatively connect your community?
Are you interested in the power of song to tell stories?
Join us this March for a series of two FREE events with Voices Weaving - and find a fun creative prompt below to prepare for the 12th March!
Voices Weaving is a co-creation project for community choirs, vocal collectives, and singing groups. Participants collaborate through a series of workshops with a writer and composer to create their own new song and music video, exploring themes of identity and belonging, and revealing the joy of singing together.
"We work with a diverse range of people highlighting the width and breadth of community singing in England today. Our latest cohort includes LGBTQ+ people in Blackpool, young people in Rochdale, men who sing in Derby, and those seeking asylum in Bradford and Liverpool, amongst many others. We believe everyone should have a voice in creative processes and Voices Weaving allows for just that. Hundreds of singers, alongside professional creatives, seeing and hearing their experiences and stories in community song. We also believe that the music that people sing should reflect their own experiences, and the diversity of the UK today."
Listen and watch to Electric Pink Voices from Blackpool as part of Voices Weaving below!
Singing in Community: In Conversation with Voices Weaving
🗓 Wednesday 5th March, 1pm-1.45pm GMT, Online via Zoom
We’ll be joined by composer and co-director of Voices Weaving Michael Betteridge, performer and writer mandla, and choir leader of Asylum Link Merseyside, Ewan.
Learn more about the project and their methods, to get us thinking about how we can connect our communities through song. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A.
Singing in Community: Creative Workshop with Voices Weaving
🗓 Wednesday 12th March, 5pm-6pm GMT, Online via Zoom
We’ll explore creative ways of using and exploring our voices and songwriting methods to connect with each other and our communities. An opportunity to celebrate our collective imagination as we bring together your responses to the creative prompt below!
Let’s warm up!
We’re inviting you to get creative in the meantime with this prompt below, which we will bring to life in the workshop on Wednesday 12th March...
Do
Create 4 written lines of roughly 8-10 syllables, inspired by your community. Your community is the people and places that matter to you, at home, or work, in your local area or online.
Think about the words you might use to describe your community - what are the sounds, smells, tastes, sights and feelings you associate with your community? What parallels exist in nature, or in the animal world?
Think
What message does your community want to share with the world? How might you weave it into your lyrics?
Share
Share your creation with a member of your community and invite them to add some lyrics!
Share your creations on social media with #64MillionArtists
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