LIBERATED
VOICES
Create your own spoken word album in collaboration with live musicians.
January-May 2025
To apply submit your video application to info@poeticunity.org.uk
Applicants must be 18 - 30 years old
Liberated Voices is a unique project where young people aged 18 - 30 years old get to create their own collective spoken word album in collaboration with live musicians.
Participants will take part in a series of lyric writing, music composition and studio recording sessions to create their own track on a limited edition multi genre spoken word album, and perform their created masterpieces live to a public audience.
You will:
Explore themes such as mental health, identity and growing up in London.
Learn and develop poetry, spoken word, lyric/song writing, vocal techniques, and live and recorded performance skills.
Gain studio recording and music production experience.
Collaborate with multi-genre musicians and orchestral instrumentalists.
Create a track for a collective spoken word album.
Perform the album to a live audience.
Gain access to business knowledge and understanding (i.e. copyright, distribution, marketing)
Improve your confidence, music leadership, creative entrepreneurialism, communication and collaborative skills, problem solving and decision making.
Sessions
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Poetry, Lyric Writing & Performance Skills
Tuesdays,
21st January - 25th February6:30pm - 9pm
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Intro to Studio & Music Production Processes
Tuesday & Thursdays,
4th March - 13th March6pm -9 pm
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Studio Recording & Music Development
Tuesdays & Thursdays,
18th March - 3rd April6pm - 9:30pm
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Music Industry Masterclass (Copyright & Branding)
Tuesday, 24th April
6:30pm - 9pm
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Live Performance @ Theatre Peckham
Saturday, 3rd May
5pm - 10pm
N.B. Dates and times may be subject to slight change.
This is a rare and limited opportunity to develop your poetry/spoken word skills, create your own professionally recorded, mixed and mastered track (in a genre/musical style of your choice); have your work produced, recorded and distributed on a collaborative album; work with professional musicians (inc. Brixton Chamber Orchestra, City of London Symphonia and more); gain industry knowledge and access to professional standard equipment and expertise; and meet, network, collaborate and learn from like-minded peers and professionals working in the industry.
10 PLACES ONLY!
To sign up, apply by 22nd November 2024.
We will be prioritising applicants that can attend all sessions and commit 100% to the project.
All ability and experience levels are welcome.
Applications can be made by submitting a video recorded personal statement (Max. 3 mins) outlining:
Who you are and your interests?
Why you would like to join the Liberated Voices project?
What you hope to get from attending the project?
Any previous poetry or spoken word experience you have, and what this involved.
What you feel you could bring to the project?
Confirmation of your availability to attend ALL the sessions dates.
To apply submit your video application to info@poeticunity.org.uk
Send video submissions to info@poeticunity.org.uk with the title ‘Liberated Voices’ via WeTransfer.com for ease.
Application Deadline: 22nd November 2024
More about the organisations below
Poetic Unity is a Brixton based charity that provides support and services for children and young people aged 10 - 30 years old across the UK. Their vision is to help young people find their voice, feel valued in society and to empower them to reach their highest potential. They use poetry as a tool to support young people's mental health, education, personal development, physical health, and community cohesion.
Raw Material is a community music and creative arts centre, based in Brixton, dedicated to supporting the creative and personal development of young people and adults from disadvantaged, excluded and vulnerable communities.
Our purpose-built, 3-storey building houses recording studios, a digital audio production suite, DJ and video equipment and a live room for performance, workshops and ensemble work. All of this we make available to our community through our award-winning Raw Sounds Arts and Wellbeing and Young Creatives skills development programmes. Our mission is to ‘make a creative life a tangible reality’ for the communities we serve.