"The world is changing faster than ever in our history. We need to evolve a new appreciation of the importance of nurturing human talent along with an understanding of how talent expresses itself differently in every individual. We need to create an environment - in our schools, communities, workplaces and in our public offices - where every person is inspired to grow creatively."

Sir Ken Robinson, All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture & Education
(The Robinson Report)

Click here for a 20 minute talk by Sir Ken Robinson.

16th - 24th October 2010

A unique 10 day celebration of singers and singing in
venues and locations across the city.

Launching Bristol as the UK's first 'City of Song'

For more information go to www.festivalofsong.org.uk

If you have a singing group and would like to perform - get in touch! If you'd like to book a ticket online please go to either www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk or www.colstonhall.org If you'd like more information please contact us at info@festivalofsong.org.uk

Welcome to Gathering Voices
 

Gathering Voices (est. 1985) is a highly innovative arts charity, working primary with young people and their adult educators/facilitators, in the areas of music, performing arts, mentoring and youth leadership.  We see our role as synergists and creative producers, able to work in partnership with individuals, community groups, educational bodies and organisations to help build dynamic, sustainable, integrated and creative cultures.  The words we would use to best describe our approach are:
 

Innovative  . Creative . Collaborative

Inclusive . Integrated . Responsive . Transformational

Gathering Voices has a long and proven track record as independent fundraisers, creative producers and managers of music, performing arts, youth leadership and creative skills training/coaching projects and in effective cross-discipline partnership work. In addition to working extensively across the South West, we have worked in collaboration with a large number of UK based and overseas aid agencies, developing innovative and creative models of delivery and training projects around issues such as health education, wellbeing and advocacy.

Gathering Voices is seeking to engage individuals and organisations, across the business, statutory and voluntary sectors, who are interested in creative approaches to social change. Our work is inclusive, dynamic and strategic - allowing people to engage in diverse ways - both as participants and as supporters/funders. There are significant investment opportunities for people who wish to support our work, be that financially, through skills sharing and /or as patrons. Our charity has a long and proven track record of efficient and successful project management and of raising money through grant making bodies and is now seeking to make strong and sustainable relationships with Bristol's business community - for mutual gain.

LATEST NEWS... SoundWorks is Bristol's newest centre for creativity and wellbeing and is the new home for the work of Gathering Voices. Visit the SoundWorks website at www.soundworks.org.uk

SoundWorks - 2,000 sq ft of inspirational space which hosts workshops, courses and mentoring opportunities to enable young people to not only gain technical and practical skills, related to the highest quality music and performing arts practices, but also assimilate key transferable life, analytical, citizenship and creative thinking skills - the theory of 'learning by doing'.