one world living
Bolney
Living Song exists to empower Young Artists and build communities through
singing. We challenge limiting assumptions about what all young people can
achieve, put young leaders centre stage and create innovative lifelong learning
opportunities for all, insisting on diversity and inclusion in their widest
sense. In August 2017, Living Song became a Community Interest Community (CIC)
to enable us to build wider partnerships with Newham Council and other
organizations, develop our funding steams and to create more opportunities for
young people and communities to shine through singing. An advisory board was
appointed, and we have continued to go from strength to strength. Who Are We?
The company is directed by an Executive Director, with a board of two
Non-Executive Directors and a team of advisors from across a wide range of music
performance and education contexts. We have a Youth Board of five young people
aged 16 – 25 who meet regularly to discuss and advise of relevant issues for
them. We work with a range of tutors, artists and music practitioners,
identified for their bespoke skills and experience for each project. Who Do We
Work With? We work with schools and pupil referral units, community
organisations, music education hubs, libraries, local authorities, commercial
organisations, businesses and a range of community singing groups and choirs.
What We Do Living Song has recently reviewed its work programme to see how it
can be streamlined to maximise our impact. During the next 18 months – two years
we will focus our attention on delivering three core programme areas which are:
A Young Artist apprenticeship /’future leaders’ programme Delivering workshops
in schools and the wider community A tailored Living Song Choral Music
Experience (CME) These work areas are outlined in more detail below. Although
distinct projects, the three areas of work overlap and reinforce each other, for
example, a core element of the young leaders’ programme is the delivery of
workshops in schools or for the wider community, and a handful of participants
will be chosen to join Living Song’s CME course. For further details about our
programmes, please contact us.
