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Aims / Mission Statement

Our community work is about inspiring people. We use music, stories, and technology as a way to encourage participants to express themselves. We encourage hope and positivity about the future. And we use technology to get people engaged in the arts, from music theatre, opera to visual arts and dance.

It is important to us that our work reaches under-represented communities, and we are particularly interested in reaching LGBTQIA+ people, people from low-socioeconomic households, and people from rural areas.

 

Double Life Project

A workshop/video project for LGBTQIA+ young people in Lancashire to allow them to express themselves about their relationship with the internet through dance and devising.

Why? – We wanted to show how positive the internet could be in 'finding your community', and focused this in rural areas as being LGBTQIA+ in these areas where support isn't as good as in big cities.

“I am so glad that LGBT youth are finally getting heard.”
— Participant

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“I was truly so honoured to be a part of it, the song is so great and the concept is just so meaningful.”
— Participant

Double Life was a joint commission from More Music and Culture Co-op Lancashire.

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Cast and Choreographer of GUY

Out of the Earth

Step 1

Digital workshops and video resources for residents of the St Helens Burrough, where digital workshops and resources were developed by Joe Gilmour-Rees and Dan Mawson to educate and inspire over 100 people of St Helens to contribute their ideas about their hopeful visions of the future using the idea of solarpunk.

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Step 2

Residents of St Helens then submitted their vocals to be part of a virtual choir for the song Out of the Earth.

Highlight

We engaged people from the ages of 6 up to around 80 years old.

Step 3

The song by leo&hyde and VR art by Rosie Summers was all inspired by ideas and creative contributions from the workshop.

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Sleep Now

A song and music video inspired by the story of Chuck the Trucker, which was commissioned by Minerva Arts and Spare Parts Festival under the project title 'Sing a Story for Sandbach'.

We developed the song, created the learning resources and instructions for submission, worked with our partners on recruitment, and worked with local amateur soloists who featured in the video through 1-to-1 remote consultations.