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Young People’s Health and Wellbeing PHSE
In March we proudly launched our Young People’s Health and Wellbeing PHSE resource in Denton Festival Hall in Tameside in collaboration with Tameside Public Health. We created this resource through 6 workshops held at the end of last year with children from Tameside schools, who created songs based on health and wellbeing topics that they suggested which affected their lives. Alongside a Camerata musician, composer and producer, the young people created lyrics and melodies for songs which formed an album and will, along with the activity pack, encourage hundreds of children throughout... Read More
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Who Runs the World
On 5th March 2018, 30 young women from two local high schools, Loreto High School took to the stage to perform their very own piece alongside the orchestra, conducted by Jessica Cottis. The piece began the concert Who Runs the World, in celebration International Women’s Day and was met with rapturous applause from the audience. The piece called ‘I am - Who I am’ was composed during workshops led by Kate Pearson throughout January and February. The two groups discussed their role models and shared their own experiences and aspirations in their first session, which sparked the piece’s... Read More
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Cumbria composers create
As part of the ‘Tales of Eden’ project based in Cumbria, a group of local young composers met once again, this time at a weekend residential course at the Hawes End Centre, to continue creating a new song cycle to be performed by the Cumbria Youth Orchestra, Cumbria Youth Choir and a cohort of local primary schools. The young composers have created their own fable; ‘The Traveller’. Lost and with no place to call home, ‘The Traveller’ embarks on a journey to find his true identity. Although he finds friends along the way, he also encounters foes. Will he find the courage and i... Read More
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