SINGING AS A WAY OF MEETING LIFE
Episode 1 : Emma Bonnic
talk + song session
‘Climb inside my voice and I can carry you. We can sing notes and then we can sing life.’
Emma Bonnici speaks about how Singing as Life Practice came about, and the events that shaped it - the sudden death of her father, unpayable heating bills, and a moment in a theatre rehearsal.
LETTING VOICE CHANGE US (Part 1)
Episode 2 Part 1 : Joe Windley
‘Ironically, the aim of voice work is to get to a place we don't understand.’
Joe Windley speaks from his experience as a trained actor and leading Voice & Speech teacher, working across drama school, theatre, film, and business contexts.
LETTING VOICE CHANGE US (Part 2)
Episode 2 Part 2: Joe Windley
‘Ironically, the aim of voice work is to get to a place we don't understand.’
Joe Windley speaks from his experience as a trained actor and leading Voice & Speech teacher, working across drama school, theatre, film, and business contexts.
RITUAL & PERFORMANCE: WHY SING AND FOR WHOM?
Episode 3 : Mariana Sadovska
talk + song session
‘Singing is a tool for survival. It expresses what words cannot.’
Mariana Sadovska reflects on the function of song not only as entertainment, but as something that emerges as ritual, prayer, or resistance in times of war, uncertainty and fear.
VOICING OTHERWISE: DIFFERENT WAYS OF KNOWING AND COLONIALITY
Episode 4 : Caroline Gatt
‘Across the world, in different ways of life, songs are knowledge and singing is a way of knowing the world.’
Caroline Gatt explores how academic knowledge and language have been shaped by colonial histories - and how certain voices and ways of knowing have been valued while others have been silenced.
THE POWER OF THE LOCAL CHOIR: WORLD SONG AS A PATHWAY TO COMMUNITY
Episode 6 : Caroline Bithell
talk + song session
Caroline Bithell reflects on her research into the UK’s Natural Voice movement - a network of community choirs, singing workshops and camps, and an ever-growing international community of amateur singers.
Six conversations, with leading experts discussing the art, memory and life inside the human voice and where that might take us.
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What the voice knows
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The Power of the Local Choir: World Song as a Pathway to Community