Singing with the Voices of the World

Singing with the Voices of the World: A Day of Online Workshops on Singing, Health and Working with Global Voices.

This is a one-day introduction to singing, health and cultural inclusivity. It also introduces a five-week training programme on singing with diverse cultural groups which will take place in Spring, 2021, with Musicians Without Borders.

Singing with the Voices of the World features musicians, conductors, community and health workers who are passionate about the role of the voice in health and well-being, with a particular focus on cultural inclusivity and diversity. This day long series of online workshops is for clinical practitioners, researchers, community musicians, music therapists, music educators, performers, and anyone who loves to sing. It features expert facilitators from Musicians without Borders, Sing Up! UK, the American Institute of Music and Healing, as well as the well-known Irish conductor and media personality, David Brophy. 

The event, hosted by the Health Research Institute, PART-IM (Participatory and Arts-Based Methods for Involving Migrants in Health Research) cluster, at the University of Limerick, Ireland, is the second in a series of public events coordinated by the PART-IM cluster on singing and arts-based research with diverse cultural groups.

EVENT SCHEDULE:

10.00 – Welcome and Introduction to the Day from the PART-IM Research Cluster

10.30 – All Our Voices: An Introduction to the Human Voice with David Brophy (Respondent and Moderator: Ewa Zak-Dyndal) 

11.30 -  Songs from Around the World with Jane Wheeler: Sing UP! UK (Respondent and Moderator: John Nutekpor)

12.30-1.45  Lunch

1.45-2.45-How Lessons Learned by the American Institute of Music and Healing May Contribute to a Better Understanding of the Healing Attributes of Singing with Peter Shannon: American Institute of Music and Healing (Respondent and Moderator: Fran Garry)

2.45 -3.45-Singing Our Stories: music’s power for people on the move with Darren Abrahams, Amanda Koser-Gillespie and Laura Hassler: Musicians without Borders (Respondent and Moderator: Hala Jaber)

3.45-4.00 – Details on Future Training Opportunities

The event brochure can be downloaded here:

https://www.ul.ie/hri/news-centre/events/part-im-singing-voices-world

Main event image: Irish World Music Café, 2018, courtesy of Maurice Gunning