The CPD for musicians working on the TEN project is being provided by the Firebird Trust and so far includes:
A series of mentoring sessions developing musicians workshop practice and creative direction
Team building session with musician John Pawson (South Bank Gamelan)on the Lincoln City Gamelan
Opportunity for musicians to meet and play with the Slovakian Band 'The Ponitran's'
Percussion workshop with Leo Nolan, exploring a variety of ways of working with percussion given limited resources in a classroom space
Vocal workshop with Sian Crosse, exploring warm up techniques for the voice and body, group singing, harmonies and useful key songs for workshops
Monday, 21 July 2008
Musicians
Musicians working on the TEN project:
Kathy Berg - Early Music/Gamelan
Victor Gama - International musician/community music projects in Angola
Ling Peng - Chinese Erhu
Jim Walker - Violin
Liam Robinson - Accordion
Max Pompa - Violin
Njega - Gambian drums
Joseph Hoare - Guitar
Jane Pennock - Djembe drums/Percussion
Kayleigh Glasper - Flute/Vocals
Richard Lindsay - Early Music
Brian Pattenden - Irish tin whistle
Simon Hoare - Guitar
Satnam Singh - Indian percussion
Ruth O'Sullivan - Vocals/Gamelan
Nusantara - Gamelan performance group
Kathy Berg - Early Music/Gamelan
Victor Gama - International musician/community music projects in Angola
Ling Peng - Chinese Erhu
Jim Walker - Violin
Liam Robinson - Accordion
Max Pompa - Violin
Njega - Gambian drums
Joseph Hoare - Guitar
Jane Pennock - Djembe drums/Percussion
Kayleigh Glasper - Flute/Vocals
Richard Lindsay - Early Music
Brian Pattenden - Irish tin whistle
Simon Hoare - Guitar
Satnam Singh - Indian percussion
Ruth O'Sullivan - Vocals/Gamelan
Nusantara - Gamelan performance group
Sunday, 20 July 2008
Diversity Group
Diversity Group meeting 1
Date: Friday 18th July 2008
Time: 12.30 to 1pm
Venue: Breakfast Room at Monks Abbey School, Lincoln
This was the first meeting of parents in Monks Abbey School that represent the ten nationalities resident in the Abbey Ward area.
Liz Gray (EAL co-ordinator) and Ruth O'Sullivan (TEN Project Manager) worked to send a welcoming letter out to the parents of all nationalities. This invited them to attend this first meeting and discuss how they could support the project TEN with cultural research.
The response was fantastic! We were fortunate to have;
Malaysian parents - Li Shing Wong and Sek Pei Lim
Taiwanese community worker - Angel Jackson
4 Polish parents:
Aymeiszka Zieba
Aneta Bil
Barbara Slyz
Zuzanna Ihitton
Bulgarian parent - Zhiuka Rhadeva
TEN Project Manager - Ruth O'Sullivan
Community Musician - Liam Robinson
There were no obvious translation needs and it was relatively easy to discuss the ideas behind forming the group.
Bulgarian workshops
Bulgarian parent - Zhiuka Rhadeva offered to help with cultural research by connecting us with Bulgarian musicians.
Chinese workshops
Taiwanese community worker - Angel Jackson offered to connect us with a Chinese musician in Lincoln. Angel also offered to demonstrate Chinese lettering to children in workshops to compliment the project.
Diversity Group meeting 2
Date: Monday 8th September 2008
Time: 12.30 to 1pm
Venue: Breakfast Room at Monks Abbey School, Lincoln
Present at meeting:
Parent contact - Zhuika Radeva (Bulgarian)
Parent contact - Zuzanna Ihitton (Polish)
Musician - Kathy Berg (Bulgarian music workshops)
Musician - Brian Pattenden (Indian music workshops)
Liz Gray - EAL co-ordinator at Monks Abbey School
Angel Jackson - LCDP community worker (Taiwanese)
Ruth brought along a Christmas pass the parcel with images of traditions associated with an English Christmas. The group discussed what their cultures did at the same time of the year.
TEN book/music resource
Polish contact Zuzanna Ihitton offered to write a list of recipes used at Christmas to use for part of a book/music resource to be created by the project TEN. This will be a gift to the school and also for future fundraising.
Fundraising ideas
Parents from Poland were quite shy and unsure of how they could support the project. However Zuzanna offered to encourage their interest in the project again and see if they would help out in other areas such as baking cakes for playtimes - in order to encourage team spirit and provide a small amount of fundraising.
The Malaysian parent Sek Pei Lim also offered to provide some recipes and baking for fundraising purposes
Bulgarian workshops
Zhuika Radeva (Bulgarian parent) and musician Kathy Berg arranged a date to meet up and work on Bulgarian music research.
Indian workshops
Musician Brian Pattenden played Indian flutes and brought in some Sitar music books.
Liz Gray agreed to let the musicians know the ages of children signed up for the Indian workshops workshop’s and find an extra classroom - apart from the music room, so that the children have enough space to be separated into smaller groups to work on writing lyrics and fresh compositions.
Diversity Group meeting 3
Date: Monday 6th October 2008
Time: 12.30 to 1pm
Venue: Music room at Monks Abbey School, Lincoln
Present at meeting:
Parent contact - Zhuika Radeva (Bulgarian)
Parent contact - Sek Pei Lim
Taiwanese community worker - Angel Jackson
Musician - Kathy Berg
Photographer - Davina Galligan
Liz Gray (EAL) - Monks Abbey School
TEN Project Manager - Ruth O'Sullivan
Fundraising ideas - 'Cultural Cafe'
The group discussed working together on a 'Cultural Cafe' idea that involves parents in the baking of traditional foods and bringing them into a classroom to learn about and enjoy. Everyone felt this was a good way of motivating everyone to work together and a preliminary attempt at fundraising.
The group agreed to trial run the idea on Liz Gray's (EAL) class of 32 children and the date of the event will be at 10am on Wednesday the 12th November 2008.
Angolan workshops
Dates for Victor Gama's workshops were agreed with the school and the response has been excellent - 42 children.
Chinese workshops
Angel Jackson arranged a meeting for Ruth with Chinese Dr Hu (Erhu player) - who runs an acupuncture practice in Lincoln. He is self taught and has played since the age of seven years old.
Polish community
The group was informed that the local Baptist Church is having a 'Polish Christmas' celebration on Saturday the 20th December.
Diversity Group meeting 4
Date: Tuesday 11th November 2008
Time: 12.30 to 1pm
Venue: Music room at Monks Abbey School, Lincoln
Present at meeting:
Parent contact - Zuzanna Ihitton
Parent contact - Andrea Bartova
Taiwanese community worker (LCDP) - Angel Jackson
Manager of Croft Street Community Centre - Ray Longmore
Monks Abbey School - Liz Gray (EAL)
TEN Project Manager - Ruth O'Sullivan
Cultural Cafe
The ‘Cultural Cafe’ was discussed and the date has been changed to Wednesday 26th November 10am start. The group discussed what foods could be brought in and so far the arrangements are:
Zuzzana Inhitton - Poppy seed cake
Angel Jackson - Chinese Fortune cookies
Andrea Bartova - Slovakian biscuits
Ray Longmore - Orange cake
Zhuika Radeva - Bulgarian dish such as Barnitza?
Sik Lei Pim - Malaysian canapes
A list of local Christmas events was handed out including:
Amnesty International -Alternative Christmas Market - Saturday 29th November at 10am to 4pm - a community event with opportunities for musicians and creative artists
Dub Reggae - Saturday 6th December 2008 at 6 to 11pm - a fundraiser for the Community Larder
The Floating Market - Sunday 7th December at 12noon to 4pm - community event with opportunities for musicians and creative artists
Polish Christmas celebration - Saturday 20th December 2008 - Baptist Church (contact Liz Gray for times)
Christmas Market
The City Council have invited musicians, parents, staff and children to perform at the annual Christmas Market on Saturday 6th December 2008 at 4.30pm to 5pm.
So far suggestions for the half hour slot include Slovakian violinist Max Pompa playing 'Dzhore Dos' and some traditional tunes. Liz Gray agreed to ask Zhuika Radeva if she would be happy to wear her Bulgarian dress and teach the children a dance to perform. Ruth is going to have a map drawn of where the music stage is at the Castle and any times and contact details necessary for the event.
Slovakian workshops
Parent contact Andrea Bartova agreed to help with translating lyrics for the Slovakian workshops with local Slovakian violinist Max Pompa and Kathy Berg. We are also fortunate to be having visiting Slovakian band ‘The Ponitrans’ come and play in the school assembly.This has been provided by The Firebird Trust as part of the musicians CPD support for the TEN project.
Diversity Group meeting 5
Date Sunday 11th January 2009
Time: 2pm to 3pm
Venue: Polish Association @ Croft Street Community Centre
The Cultural Diversity meeting was held at Croft Street Community Centre in order engage further with Polish residents for the upcoming Polish workshops.
Present at meeting:
Artur Blazyk – Polish Association leader
Ray Longmore Croft Street Community Centre Manager
Ruth O’Sullivan – TEN project manager
Members of the Polish Association
Horace Squire – Abbey Ward Police
Davina Galligan – Photographer
Christmas Market - Saturday 6th December 2008 at 4.30pm to 5pm
Max Pompa performed on the musicians stage and played 'Dzhore Dos' and some traditional Christmas tunes.
Amnesty International -Alternative Christmas Market - Saturday 29th November at 10am to 4pm
Njega (Gambian drummer) and Max Pompa (Slovakian violinist) supported the community event.
Polish workshops
The Polish Association was invited to get involved in the Polish workshops. Artur Blazyk offered to ask around for local musicians and artists and advertise this in their Polish newsletter.
Cultural Diversity event in September 2009
Artscope has been invited to participate in this community event by Abbey Ward Community Policeman – Horace Squire, who is co-ordinating the event.
Diversity Group meeting 6
Date: Thursday 22nd January 2009
Time: 12.30 to 1pm
Venue: St Peter in Eastgate School
This was an initial short meeting of parents at the school, who live in the Abbey Ward of Lincoln.
Present
Parent contact - Emma Brown
TEN Project manager - Ruth O’Sullivan
African/Gambian workshops
Due to lack of space in the music room at Monks Abbey, it was agreed that Djembe drumming workshops would be held at St Peter in Eastgate to accommodate the workshops.
English Folk workshops
The English Folk workshops are also being held in the school hall. Musicians Kathy Berg and Richard Lindsay will be able to perform Medieval dances alongside their Early Music workshops and Liam Robinson will be teaching Morris dancing alongside his English Folk music workshops.
There was poor turnout for this meeting, however the school has been incredibly supportive of the project and have publicised all workshops in the school bags.
Diversity Group meeting 7
Date: Sunday 1st March 2009
Time: 2pm to 4pm
Venue: Croft Street Community Centre
The Cultural Diversity meeting was held at Croft Street Community Centre at in order engage further with Polish residents for the upcoming Polish workshops.
Present at meeting:
Ray Longmore – Croft Street Community Centre manager
Ruth O’Sullivan – TEN project manager
Monika Pilch – Polish community member
Daruisz Olwenski – Polish community member
Carole Daynes – Visual Artist
Helena Stylianides – Visual Artist
Joseph Hoare – Musician
Simon Hoare – Musician
Davina Galligan - Photographer
Polish workshops
Local Polish musician Daruisz Olwenski (guitar) and Monika Pilch (mural artist) helped direct the planning of the Polish workshops.
Monika brought in Polish folk stories and helped develop a theme for the mural art for the community workshops. Dariusz worked with the musicians and will be singing and playing guitar in the workshops.
Translation
Monika offered to translate posters for the workshops in Polish. Dariusz offered to bring in Polish children’s songs for the musicians to learn.
Rural touring
Monika and Dariusz’ were very enthusiastic and more than generous with their time. In discussion of future plans to sustain the project, they both expressed interest in being involved in future rural touring.
Date: Friday 18th July 2008
Time: 12.30 to 1pm
Venue: Breakfast Room at Monks Abbey School, Lincoln
This was the first meeting of parents in Monks Abbey School that represent the ten nationalities resident in the Abbey Ward area.
Liz Gray (EAL co-ordinator) and Ruth O'Sullivan (TEN Project Manager) worked to send a welcoming letter out to the parents of all nationalities. This invited them to attend this first meeting and discuss how they could support the project TEN with cultural research.
The response was fantastic! We were fortunate to have;
Malaysian parents - Li Shing Wong and Sek Pei Lim
Taiwanese community worker - Angel Jackson
4 Polish parents:
Aymeiszka Zieba
Aneta Bil
Barbara Slyz
Zuzanna Ihitton
Bulgarian parent - Zhiuka Rhadeva
TEN Project Manager - Ruth O'Sullivan
Community Musician - Liam Robinson
There were no obvious translation needs and it was relatively easy to discuss the ideas behind forming the group.
Bulgarian workshops
Bulgarian parent - Zhiuka Rhadeva offered to help with cultural research by connecting us with Bulgarian musicians.
Chinese workshops
Taiwanese community worker - Angel Jackson offered to connect us with a Chinese musician in Lincoln. Angel also offered to demonstrate Chinese lettering to children in workshops to compliment the project.
Diversity Group meeting 2
Date: Monday 8th September 2008
Time: 12.30 to 1pm
Venue: Breakfast Room at Monks Abbey School, Lincoln
Present at meeting:
Parent contact - Zhuika Radeva (Bulgarian)
Parent contact - Zuzanna Ihitton (Polish)
Musician - Kathy Berg (Bulgarian music workshops)
Musician - Brian Pattenden (Indian music workshops)
Liz Gray - EAL co-ordinator at Monks Abbey School
Angel Jackson - LCDP community worker (Taiwanese)
Ruth brought along a Christmas pass the parcel with images of traditions associated with an English Christmas. The group discussed what their cultures did at the same time of the year.
TEN book/music resource
Polish contact Zuzanna Ihitton offered to write a list of recipes used at Christmas to use for part of a book/music resource to be created by the project TEN. This will be a gift to the school and also for future fundraising.
Fundraising ideas
Parents from Poland were quite shy and unsure of how they could support the project. However Zuzanna offered to encourage their interest in the project again and see if they would help out in other areas such as baking cakes for playtimes - in order to encourage team spirit and provide a small amount of fundraising.
The Malaysian parent Sek Pei Lim also offered to provide some recipes and baking for fundraising purposes
Bulgarian workshops
Zhuika Radeva (Bulgarian parent) and musician Kathy Berg arranged a date to meet up and work on Bulgarian music research.
Indian workshops
Musician Brian Pattenden played Indian flutes and brought in some Sitar music books.
Liz Gray agreed to let the musicians know the ages of children signed up for the Indian workshops workshop’s and find an extra classroom - apart from the music room, so that the children have enough space to be separated into smaller groups to work on writing lyrics and fresh compositions.
Diversity Group meeting 3
Date: Monday 6th October 2008
Time: 12.30 to 1pm
Venue: Music room at Monks Abbey School, Lincoln
Present at meeting:
Parent contact - Zhuika Radeva (Bulgarian)
Parent contact - Sek Pei Lim
Taiwanese community worker - Angel Jackson
Musician - Kathy Berg
Photographer - Davina Galligan
Liz Gray (EAL) - Monks Abbey School
TEN Project Manager - Ruth O'Sullivan
Fundraising ideas - 'Cultural Cafe'
The group discussed working together on a 'Cultural Cafe' idea that involves parents in the baking of traditional foods and bringing them into a classroom to learn about and enjoy. Everyone felt this was a good way of motivating everyone to work together and a preliminary attempt at fundraising.
The group agreed to trial run the idea on Liz Gray's (EAL) class of 32 children and the date of the event will be at 10am on Wednesday the 12th November 2008.
Angolan workshops
Dates for Victor Gama's workshops were agreed with the school and the response has been excellent - 42 children.
Chinese workshops
Angel Jackson arranged a meeting for Ruth with Chinese Dr Hu (Erhu player) - who runs an acupuncture practice in Lincoln. He is self taught and has played since the age of seven years old.
Polish community
The group was informed that the local Baptist Church is having a 'Polish Christmas' celebration on Saturday the 20th December.
Diversity Group meeting 4
Date: Tuesday 11th November 2008
Time: 12.30 to 1pm
Venue: Music room at Monks Abbey School, Lincoln
Present at meeting:
Parent contact - Zuzanna Ihitton
Parent contact - Andrea Bartova
Taiwanese community worker (LCDP) - Angel Jackson
Manager of Croft Street Community Centre - Ray Longmore
Monks Abbey School - Liz Gray (EAL)
TEN Project Manager - Ruth O'Sullivan
Cultural Cafe
The ‘Cultural Cafe’ was discussed and the date has been changed to Wednesday 26th November 10am start. The group discussed what foods could be brought in and so far the arrangements are:
Zuzzana Inhitton - Poppy seed cake
Angel Jackson - Chinese Fortune cookies
Andrea Bartova - Slovakian biscuits
Ray Longmore - Orange cake
Zhuika Radeva - Bulgarian dish such as Barnitza?
Sik Lei Pim - Malaysian canapes
A list of local Christmas events was handed out including:
Amnesty International -Alternative Christmas Market - Saturday 29th November at 10am to 4pm - a community event with opportunities for musicians and creative artists
Dub Reggae - Saturday 6th December 2008 at 6 to 11pm - a fundraiser for the Community Larder
The Floating Market - Sunday 7th December at 12noon to 4pm - community event with opportunities for musicians and creative artists
Polish Christmas celebration - Saturday 20th December 2008 - Baptist Church (contact Liz Gray for times)
Christmas Market
The City Council have invited musicians, parents, staff and children to perform at the annual Christmas Market on Saturday 6th December 2008 at 4.30pm to 5pm.
So far suggestions for the half hour slot include Slovakian violinist Max Pompa playing 'Dzhore Dos' and some traditional tunes. Liz Gray agreed to ask Zhuika Radeva if she would be happy to wear her Bulgarian dress and teach the children a dance to perform. Ruth is going to have a map drawn of where the music stage is at the Castle and any times and contact details necessary for the event.
Slovakian workshops
Parent contact Andrea Bartova agreed to help with translating lyrics for the Slovakian workshops with local Slovakian violinist Max Pompa and Kathy Berg. We are also fortunate to be having visiting Slovakian band ‘The Ponitrans’ come and play in the school assembly.This has been provided by The Firebird Trust as part of the musicians CPD support for the TEN project.
Diversity Group meeting 5
Date Sunday 11th January 2009
Time: 2pm to 3pm
Venue: Polish Association @ Croft Street Community Centre
The Cultural Diversity meeting was held at Croft Street Community Centre in order engage further with Polish residents for the upcoming Polish workshops.
Present at meeting:
Artur Blazyk – Polish Association leader
Ray Longmore Croft Street Community Centre Manager
Ruth O’Sullivan – TEN project manager
Members of the Polish Association
Horace Squire – Abbey Ward Police
Davina Galligan – Photographer
Christmas Market - Saturday 6th December 2008 at 4.30pm to 5pm
Max Pompa performed on the musicians stage and played 'Dzhore Dos' and some traditional Christmas tunes.
Amnesty International -Alternative Christmas Market - Saturday 29th November at 10am to 4pm
Njega (Gambian drummer) and Max Pompa (Slovakian violinist) supported the community event.
Polish workshops
The Polish Association was invited to get involved in the Polish workshops. Artur Blazyk offered to ask around for local musicians and artists and advertise this in their Polish newsletter.
Cultural Diversity event in September 2009
Artscope has been invited to participate in this community event by Abbey Ward Community Policeman – Horace Squire, who is co-ordinating the event.
Diversity Group meeting 6
Date: Thursday 22nd January 2009
Time: 12.30 to 1pm
Venue: St Peter in Eastgate School
This was an initial short meeting of parents at the school, who live in the Abbey Ward of Lincoln.
Present
Parent contact - Emma Brown
TEN Project manager - Ruth O’Sullivan
African/Gambian workshops
Due to lack of space in the music room at Monks Abbey, it was agreed that Djembe drumming workshops would be held at St Peter in Eastgate to accommodate the workshops.
English Folk workshops
The English Folk workshops are also being held in the school hall. Musicians Kathy Berg and Richard Lindsay will be able to perform Medieval dances alongside their Early Music workshops and Liam Robinson will be teaching Morris dancing alongside his English Folk music workshops.
There was poor turnout for this meeting, however the school has been incredibly supportive of the project and have publicised all workshops in the school bags.
Diversity Group meeting 7
Date: Sunday 1st March 2009
Time: 2pm to 4pm
Venue: Croft Street Community Centre
The Cultural Diversity meeting was held at Croft Street Community Centre at in order engage further with Polish residents for the upcoming Polish workshops.
Present at meeting:
Ray Longmore – Croft Street Community Centre manager
Ruth O’Sullivan – TEN project manager
Monika Pilch – Polish community member
Daruisz Olwenski – Polish community member
Carole Daynes – Visual Artist
Helena Stylianides – Visual Artist
Joseph Hoare – Musician
Simon Hoare – Musician
Davina Galligan - Photographer
Polish workshops
Local Polish musician Daruisz Olwenski (guitar) and Monika Pilch (mural artist) helped direct the planning of the Polish workshops.
Monika brought in Polish folk stories and helped develop a theme for the mural art for the community workshops. Dariusz worked with the musicians and will be singing and playing guitar in the workshops.
Translation
Monika offered to translate posters for the workshops in Polish. Dariusz offered to bring in Polish children’s songs for the musicians to learn.
Rural touring
Monika and Dariusz’ were very enthusiastic and more than generous with their time. In discussion of future plans to sustain the project, they both expressed interest in being involved in future rural touring.
TEN - support musician posts
TEN
COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT
This project explores the musical culture of TEN of the nationalities represented in the Abbey Ward area of Lincoln.
Training opportunities for local musicians
Establish and develop your workshop practice and gain free mentoring support
Freelance work on the ‘TEN’ cultural diversity project working alongside specialist musicians
For more information and a freelance job description contact:
ruth.artscope@googlemail.com
07989 160602
This project is funded by
Youth Music
The Firebird Trust
COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT
This project explores the musical culture of TEN of the nationalities represented in the Abbey Ward area of Lincoln.
Training opportunities for local musicians
Establish and develop your workshop practice and gain free mentoring support
Freelance work on the ‘TEN’ cultural diversity project working alongside specialist musicians
For more information and a freelance job description contact:
ruth.artscope@googlemail.com
07989 160602
This project is funded by
Youth Music
The Firebird Trust
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