Music in the community workshop
Keele Music and Music Technology and Community Animation and Social Innovation Centre (CASIC) organised a workshop held in the New Vic Theatre on 8 March 2017. The workshop was entitled ‘How Does the Hunger Sound Like’?
The main organiser and host of the event was Susan Moffat, Artistic Director of New Borderlines at the New Vic. The multi- and trans-disciplinary event involved a group of Music students co-ordinated by Dr Fiorella Montero Diaz and Prof Miroslav Spasov. They were joined by another group of people from the local community and all walks of life. The co-creative community engagement workshop was intended to encourage new relationships between academia and the community.
This was a very unsual and powerful experience for our Music in the Community students to co-create with people from the community and through on-site arrangements to produce and perform music theatre works. The event will open a lot of possibilities for future collaborations.