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CAN & North-West Cluster projects for 2009-10 ‘Give Yourself A Voice’ The objective of the GYAV project is to enable greater understanding across communities divided by sectarianism and reduce the impact of interface and segregated communities among participating youths 12-18 year of age, engaged in the project. Target areas have been selected impacted on by the past conflict, high deprivation and disengagement.The Making Music Workshop Limited use music as a vehicle to challenge existing values and identities creating an understanding and respect and positive long term relationships. Making Music Workshop intends to develop and work closely in Partnership to ensure that communities and participants benefit from the project. The Making Music Workshop Limited delivers a number of music learning activities that are project led and target driven, with central to its core the opportunity to improve lives by making issues that are real to the participants central to the song writing process. The Making Music Workshop Limited has a socially-conscious impact dimension which has demonstrated successful outputs and outcomes through projects carried out in Peace II by improving the understanding of different communities political and value systems and establishing empathy, respect and the reduction of fear, ignorance and distrust; Neighbourhood Renewal by dealing with social exclusion, anti authority perceptions and the issues affecting specific areas suffering social and financial hardship; and finally, Extended Schools by providing a vehicle of expression for young primary and secondary pupils, using the existing buildings to provide a safe and inclusive opportunity for self expression and learning. The Making Music Workshop team are experienced in working with young people from challenged backgrounds and community environments.
Give Yourself A Voice is a project, which the MMW have devised to engage young people through the medium of music. The main objective is to tackle issues which are relevant to young people and impact on them directly and indirectly, to give those young people a voice, and to use music as the vehicle that gets them together to express themselves and voice their opinions. Facilitation workshops led by Making Music Workshop Limited and supported by professional mediators will see issues discussed, a notice-board set up and agreement found on how to present the opinions that come out of that process. This musical element is to involve Youth Groups, from within the Peace 3 CAN cluster of Glengormley, Antrim, Carrickfergus and Newtownabbey, and also from within the Peace 3 NW cluster of Derry, Omagh, Strabane and Castlederg. . The Making Music Workshop Limited in conjunction with CAN & North-West Cluster Partnerships, financed by the Special European Union Programmes Body, announced a major new initiative called ‘Give Yourself A Voice’ which commenced November 2009. It was staged in four locations in each area and was open to anyone over the age of fifteen. The course ran for a period of two evenings, plus three weekends. This initiative was a real learning experience in composition, recording and group performance. Participants will be leaving with a CD and useful industry advice. Over the duration of the course participants:
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