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Caroline Heslop on Music & Renewal
Check out the contribution Caroline Heslop, NW Live Arts Artistic Director, made to the Bloomsbury Festival 2020's Festival blog. We're delighted to be partnering with Bloomsbury Festival for our upcoming Music & Renewal concert, live-streamed from Holy Cross Church on 23rd October 2020.
Reflection from a participant #AsYouSayIt
One of the contributors for our #AsYouSayIt project wrote a very interesting blog about participating. http://www.alistair-zaldua.de/asyousayit-project/ "...Around this time I was developing a playing technique on the violin using 2 bottle-neck slides for use during improvisation. The sounds consist of this technique of violin playing and my very high whistling... [...]
#AsYouSayIt
For the 2021 season, our theme is ‘Music & Place’ - we are planning three concerts and community workshops based on this theme. Prior to that, we have been realising Online Creative Projects as a way of recognising the importance of maintaining creativity and inspiration in daily life, especially [...]
Music & Body Concert
September 25th 2020 7.30pm Music & Body will be performed at Holy Cross Church 98 Cromer Street WC1H 8JU and also presented online as a Youtube premiere on Wednesday 30th September at 7pm. Youtube tickets - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-body-concert-tickets-117836294529 We originally presented this sell-out concert in 2019. Here's your chance to [...]
Music & Renewal Concert
October 23 2020 7.30pm Music & Renewal Holy Cross Church, 98 Cromer Street WC1H 8JU Tickets available from Bloomsbury Festival Eventbrite £12/10 NW Live Arts welcomes back supreme artists, Kuljit Bhamra MBE (Tabla) and the Alkyona Quartet who performed our first ever concert in November 2018. Exploring the idea of [...]
#AsYouSayIt
We have received an amazing response to our call for new work evoking the sounds of a particular sense of place. Thank you to fabulous creators - Henrietta Hill, Hugh Schulte, Ollie Taylor, Zina Melekki, Jessica Jakeman, Aryaman Natt,. Rhiannon Bedford, Will Frampton, Alistair Zaldua. These clips are now [...]
Song of the Waterfall
Take a look at our new music video of Song of the Waterfall by Tunde Jegede with beautiful images submitted for our #AsYouSeeIt project. Thank you to everyone who took part!
Thank you ACE!
We're very grateful to Arts Council England for awarding us emergency funding now. It will enable us to develop our online platform and continue to bring musicians and local communities together to explore important social issues creatively in cross genre concert programmes. Thank you! Caroline
Next up – Exquisite playing of JS Bach
Next up - Exquisite playing of JS Bach - Adagio from Violin Sonata No.1 in G minor by Sabina Rakcheyeva which was filmed at the Music and Body concert in November 2019
New video! – ‘Damlalar’
This week we offer an excerpt from the performance of ‘Damlalar’ (Semai Nihavent). This was played at the Music and Body concert in November 2019. We were tracing the migrant journey in music and words alongside the writers from Freedom from Torture’s writing group Write to Life. Hope you [...]