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Each session culminates in an intimate harmony circle, participants with limited mobility become central, and the limitations of movement are dissolved in a resounding vocal finale. A participant is then invited to signal the end of the session.
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JOS started running inclusive workshops at Lambeth Walk Day Centre in 2000. Since then over 12,000 sessional attendances have been facilitated and more than 600 volunteers have taken part in creating music and art together.
Facilitators use a variety of techniques; listening, watching, mirroring, reacting and reflecting, searching for the slightest sound or gesture to be the seed of an improvisation. This may be a rhythm from someone blinking, dancing, or beating a drum, the sound of a voice, the squeak of a chair, or the plucking of a string. A group orchestration is built by amplifying and developing the initial seed, then introducing and interweaving new themes offered by other participants.
We collaborate with all participants, engaging with everyone and demonstrating that it is in playing collectively that we can more readily experience the ‘joy of sound".
The workshops present a novel and beneficial method of group interplay and can have an immediate cathartic effect on all; co-learners, staff, carers, musicians, facilitators and families. Empowerment, enablement, communication and integration through joyful and equal participation are at the root of our practise.
JOS sessions bring benefits for everyone; for the students – overcoming frustration, improving motor and social skills and gaining fresh motivation, and for the carers and staff – enhancing professional practice and personal development.
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