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Vocalise
Vocalise is a unique new singing and signing project, based on our extremely successful Hands & Voices choir that has been set up in partnership with the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire branch of Live Music Now.
We have delivered this project twice, once in
a special school in Doncaster for a group with moderate learning difficulties
and disabilities, and once in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, where the
choir was an inclusive group of primary school pupils and special school
pupils. Over 10 weeks the choir develop their singing skills with the
professional musicians from Live Music Now, and their signing skills with
a learning disabled apprentice from Accessible Arts & Media and their
mentor.
This model of working has been recognised as a model of good practice within music education, and was short listed for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Education in 2009, alongside the Welsh National Opera and Liverpool Philharmonic. Patron of AA&M, Alan Hacker OBE said:
This model of working has been recognised as a model of good practice within music education, and was short listed for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Education in 2009, alongside the Welsh National Opera and Liverpool Philharmonic. Patron of AA&M, Alan Hacker OBE said:
"It has been wonderful to have seen and heard the
transforming and enlightening effect that singing and signing has had
on those disabled and with learning difficulties amongst us. It is also
good it is going further afield. I am so pleased, along with all our
helpers, that the profound work of Accessible Arts & Media has been
acknowledged - and shortlisted by the Royal Philharmonic Society".
Click on this link to see the performance.
Please contact us if you would like any further information.
Please contact us if you would like any further information.
Vocalise is supported by:
