Liberated Voices

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…

  • Exploring 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

  • 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.

About the organisations

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. www.PoeticUnity.org.uk

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.