Same Difference Festival was run for a second year curated by Wolverhampton CEP (Cultural Education Partnership) working with the #YES youth board. The festival is led by young people for young people aged 11-18 years and included a range of […]
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Windrush Carnival at National Arboretum August 6th
Black Voices curated a programme of community choirs, carnival dance and glorious musical offerings, including a commissioned ‘Across the sea’ for massed choirs composed by Ken Burton. This piece was sung by all choirs assembled to honour the Windrush pioneers […]
Veniece Patel Birmingham Festival 23: 5th August
ACE Dance & Music: Soca Ram-Jam Birmingham Festival 2023, Soca Ram-Jam, was an event filled with vibrant colour and was eye-catching to say the least. Live steelpan drummers engaged the audience with carnival dancing and costumes, encouraging all participants to […]
July 23rd Community Spirit 2023 in Symphony Hall Birmingham
What can I say, it was an event full of bright smiles through singing, reminding us of all the importance of being kind to our earth. B Music in partnership with Carol Pemberton from Black voices worked extremely hard to […]
Carnival is Colour New Art Gallery July 14th
Our producers, Shireenah Ingrem and Veniece Patel had their first opportunity in a work placement to assist children and young people perform their Carnival dances in front of each other. 7 school groups from Walsall (Key Stage 2) performed in […]
Producer development opportunity for two early career project managers in outdoor arts & carnival events
As advertised with Outdoor Arts: https://outdoorartsuk.org/members-listing/moving-souls-dance/ Freelance contract: June to September 2023 Starts: 12th June Deadline: Thursday 1st June Reports to: Virginia Wollaston: ginnie@movingsouls.dance Fee: £5000 Details of Route 34 and summer events here Moving Souls Dance is an […]
Round Up Of The Year
With Christmas on the horizon and New Year around the corner, Nicholas and I have been reflecting on everything we have witnessed and achieved in 2017. We can confirm that all our projects this year have been successfully completed or […]
Daksha Sheth Dance Company Residency Week – PT2
The Daksha Sheth Dance Company Residency Week consisted of various workshops for Primary School Pupils and for Youth Dancers from the MAC. This blog will focus on the aerial and rope workshop with Young Dancers from Rogueplay which were conducted […]
Daksha Sheth Dance Company Residency Week – PT1
The Daksha Sheth Dance Company Residency Week consisted of various workshops for Primary School Pupils and for Youth Dancers from the MAC. This blog will focus on the workshops which took place in Primary Schools, across the Midlands between the […]
Birmingham Weekender Festival 23rd and 24th September 2017
Birmingham Weekender Procession 11am – 1pm Saturday 23rd September starting High Street moving down Birmingham New Street to Victoria Square I am so excited to finally see this amazing procession Utsav come to Birmingham New Street as a unique celebration of the […]