In this webinar, four guest speakers will share their experiences of creating impactful projects, including Teesside Music Society, Wolverhampton Symphony Orchestra, Vox Holloway, and Michael Betteridge of The Sunday Boys (original event 29/11/2024).
In member blogs, and at our annual awards, we are always inspired by the creativity and hard work of members who have embarked on special projects. When these groups tell their stories, we hear about all the benefits for audiences and for their participants, and about the huge amount of positive energy a project can bring to the organising group; the skills development, the personal journeys, the new friendships made. Practically speaking, there are also positive outcomes for groups in terms of recruitment or retention of members, and increased visibility and reputation.
At this event some of our member groups who have created projects over the last few years will share their stories with us – how they conceived the idea, the work of developing it to reality, the challenges of delivery and the positive outcomes they experienced.
Part 1 - Teesside Music Society
Teesside Music Society have been running Songfest, a weekend-long programme featuring a series of concerts and workshops for the local community, every two years since 2018. Find out more about Songfest.
Part 2 - Wolverhampton Symphony Orchestra
Wolverhampton Symphony Orchestra will describe their journey to connect with their local music education hub, and about the rewards for that hard work. Read more about via this case study.
Part 3 - Vox Holloway
Vox Holloway Community Choir whose project ‘Between the Bars’ won this year’s Making Music Best Project Award; the documentary follows the 14 month journey to create a new oratorio ‘The Sun Does Shine’ about and with a real life prisoner on death row. Read more about the project.
Part 4 - Michael Betteridge
Michael Betteridge, MD of The Sunday Boys, both on projects he has set up and run with that group and about his latest project co-creating new music with choirs, Voices Weaving. There’s some background on that project in this blog.
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