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Three heads are better than one

06/09/2011 //
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Ardwick

Well that was an interesting meeting: Nick, Gurdeep and I met at Manchester Camerata to discuss their recent foray into Ardwick, where they met Jenny Wong at Manchester Chinese Centre (MCC) and Alison Kershaw who works for Pool Arts and St Luke’s Art Project. WEA already works with MCC, and after listening to Nick and Gurdeep describe the inspirational creativity in evidence at Pool Arts and St Luke’s, I will definitely get in touch with Alison and invite her along to the Cornerhouse event. Apparently, they have a project called Creative Conversation, whereby people are recorded talking about all sorts of things, with the resulting audio clips being stored in The North West Sound Archive.

By the way, The National Archives is a fascinating site which could be used as a great teaching resource.

Courage, adversity and identity

We also discussed Peripheral Vision further with Gurdeep suggesting I contact the staff at the Museum of Science and Industry to see if their project MOSI Along would fit in with this project. Gurdeep would like the exhibits at PHM to be used as a resource to examine participants’ notions of courage, adversity and identity. Rousing stuff.

Nick then told us about his fabulous idea for a separate project, which shall remain under wraps until it is written up as a new bid.

What I enjoyed most about our get together today was the table tennis tournament of ideas pinging and ponging across the table. We could have chatted some more, but Bob came in to remind Nick that he had another meeting. So Gurdeep and I walked down the stairs to the RNCM café and had soup and a roll for £2. Bargain.

To Do:

Nick:

  • email me his costings for the musical workshops
  • email me Manchester Camerata info for my presentation, as he can’t attend (13/09/11)

Gurdeep:

  • send me and Nick the details of the wellbeing workshop & discussion kit  (no need as already had email, but can’t attend training as I’ll be on leave. Sent email to Fiona Parr asking if anyone can go in my place 07/09/11)
  • send me and Nick info about Memories, The Cheetham Hill project (16/09/11)
  • email me Alison’s contact details (07/09/11)

Me:

  • send Gurdeep the online questionnaire with the well-being addition (07/09/11)
  • invite Alison to the PV event on 16 Sept (07/09/11)
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Manchester Camerata

31/08/2011 //
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Manchester Camerata

Take the Learning to the Learners

It’s only fitting that as I write this I’m listening to some music and singing along to Bjork’s It’s Not Up To You. I’m sure Nick Ponsillo, Head of Learning and Participation at Manchester Camerata, would approve (although thankfully, he’s out of earshot). I have to thank Gurdeep Thiara from the People’s History Museum for suggesting that I meet Nick. She thought we would work well together, and she’s right!  Our meeting this morning, went really well. Manchester Camerata have a very similar educational ethos to WEA: take the learning to the learners. They deliver workshops on all kinds of music-making for children and adults and pride themselves on providing the best musical learning opportunities for a diverse range of people.

Admission of an omission

Today’s meeting was rather handy for me, as I had made an omission in the bid. I completely neglected to mention, or factor in, the need for some specially commissioned short musical scores for the film soundtracks. Oh dear.

You see, if you want to put short videos on You Tube and you inadvertently use music that is copyright, even if it’s on the radio in the background for example, You Tube will state “There are no honors for this video”. This means that there will be no stats: no countries map, no viewer numbers, no web analysis etc. This is what happened to Liam Norcott’s engaging video about his front room. He had a song from Monkey Journey to the West playing in the background, so You Tube removed all of his viewer stats. Shame.

Anyway, Nick and I are going to think of ways in which we can work together to provide one or two of the films for the festival with bespoke musical scores. The learners will make and compose the music themselves with the expert guidance of freelance musicians and composers supplied by Nick.

Manchester Camerata is based in the Royal Northern College of Music. Nick can see my office from his, and vice versa. Handy for meetings.

It was really nice meeting Harriet Findlay too. She is the new intern and will be working with Nick for the next year as part of her degree placement. She plays cello and the double bass. Nick plays the trumpet.

To Do:

  1. send email to Julie Ballantyne re: Manchester Camerata delivering workshops in Cumbria. (31/08/11)
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