Cargo.
Field, Paul (United Kingdom)
Contemporary music
English

We have scheduled this workshop as follow:
A series of 4 workshops (total number of workshops) in 4 days, so each day is 1 workshop hour).

This workshop has been placed in the following category:
Contemporary music.

Maximum number of participants:
40.

The needed artistic level for this workshop is:
All levels - reading music will be helpful but not essential.

The skills criteria for participants to follow this workshop are:
All levels - reading music will be helpful but not essential.

You will have learned after doing this workshop:
Skills for choral singing - also information regarding the Social Justice issues, Christian perspective on contemporary slavery.

What materials/equipment you need to bring to be able to do this workshop:
Voices.

Other important things you should know to be able to do this workshop:
Cargo has been an ongoing project in the UK throughout 2007 with over 70 performances. It uses the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the UK slave trade as a platform to raise awareness of contemporary slavery using music, words, poetry, images and dance.

The content of this workshop is:
Learning 5 songs for performance at the end of the week in a full Cargo presentation.
Also learning some background information on the project and slavery in general.