{"id":13361,"date":"2017-01-05T05:40:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T05:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13361"},"modified":"2017-01-05T05:40:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T05:40:48","slug":"free-sessions-to-help-visually-impaired-to-make-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/free-sessions-to-help-visually-impaired-to-make-music","title":{"rendered":"Free sessions to help visually impaired to make music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new project by Waveney and Blyth Arts has been given an arts grant to help people who are visually-impaired, to make music and connect with nature. &#8216;Sensing Nature&#8217; is the initiative being launched, with a series of 4 free taster sessions, to be held across Norfolk and Suffolk. The first of the workshops is on 6<sup>th<\/sup> February(2017), to run from 10am to 3pm, at the Eye Community Centre (Suffolk).<\/p>\n<p>Muscicians and singers who are sight-impaired are being encouraged to join in the sessions which are being funded with the help of a grant of \u00a315,000 from the Arts Council. The initiative has been created with the goal of exploring &#8216;nature of sound and sound in nature&#8217; in association with a group of professional musicians and the Norfolk and Norwich Association for the Blind.<\/p>\n<p>The project will culminate inJuly with a bespoke public performance outdoors in Eye, at the Thornham Walks woodland, plus a new &#8216;sound trail&#8217;. The scheme will be led by Jackie Walduck, a composer and vibraphone player and by composer Adrian Lee, also one of the visually-impaired musicians. Jackie set up Tactile of London, with half of its members visually-impaired.<\/p>\n<p>The Sensing Nature initiative&#8217;s project manager, Jan Dungey, said they hoped the musicians and singers will have a good time in the workshops and carry on to perform this new music outdoors, to make Tornham Walks come alive with the sound of music and nature.<\/p>\n<p>A Waveney &amp; Blyth Arts spokesperson said they were working for keen singers and musicians with some experience but did not expect standards of professionals or semi-professionsls. Enthusiasm for playing with top-class musicians and exploring new ways to make music is more important, the spokesperson added. For more information and details on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissexpress.co.uk\/news\/waveney-arts-project-aiming-to-inspire-blind-musicians-1-7739373\">free taster sessions<\/a>, call up Waveney &amp; Blyth Arts by phone to 01379 852501.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new project by Waveney and Blyth Arts has been given an arts grant to help people who are visually-impaired, to make music and connect with nature. &#8216;Sensing Nature&#8217; is the initiative being launched, with a series of 4 free taster sessions, to be held across Norfolk and Suffolk. The first of the workshops is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13362,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13361\/revisions\/13362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}