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October Outreach
Kingston Environment Centre - Open to all comers Edinburgh - Collaborative Inclusive Arts Day - Open to all comers Part of our celebration of VolontEurope Year of the Volunteer, activities will include participatory workshops, presentations and exhibits. Follow this link for more information. Friday October 21st. Barclay Viewforth Centre, Edinburgh International Work Guide Us Into Arts JOS will host the first events of a groundbreaking venture in international development, a series of international visits for developing best practice in inclusive arts provision. During October visitors from 9 European countreis - Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, Turkey, Germany, and Romania will visit London for cultural exchange and skill sharing sessions, including attending a JOS workshop and combined arts training day, and investigating accessible approaches to Gamelan. Main Events Thursday 27th - Saturday 19th October - only some events are open - contact us for details - Prague Building on previous links with Slovakia, and following last year's visits to Warzaw and Sarajevo, this November a group of five JOS facilitators visited Inventura in the Czech Republic Based in the The Meet Factory Arts Centre in Prague, Inventura runs inclusive, participant led theatre and video projects. A small team went to Brussels in February 2011 to set the agenda for developing a collaboration between the groups we have visited. Training in February 2011 We ran our 1-day training course again in February with another varied group of trainees, including care staff, care managers, therapists and musicians. We'll be running it again during the summer, date to be confirmed - but. click here for full details and contact us to reserve a place. The training is hands-on, practical and experiential, involving working with the regular Joy of Sound workshop group, exploring JOS's innovative approaches to accessible music playing, instrument adaptation, and the role of music in promoting well- being and personal / social development.
Training June 2011 We held a special training day on 24th June 'An Introduction to Inclusive Music and Dance Workshop Facilitation'. Run by Anita Van De Watering, this time our training will include dance and movement and promises to add another dimension to our approach - pics and video coming soon. Follow this link for more details, and see the Media and Events page for pictures of dance work at last year's Sensorium event.
Fundraising and Volunteering
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who sponsored Katia Hadaschik, who heroically completed the London Marathon to raise money for Joy Of Sound. Katia is building instruments for the JOS Bespoke Instruments project and her efforts have raised over £1,000 towards new research and design, If you would like to support Joy of Sound with a donation Please visit our Just Giving page where you can donate safely and easily on-line, making use of Gift Aid tax relief. JOS is very much a volunteer based organisation - thanks toall - around 700 over ten years, and we have recently gained funding from Access to Volunteering to support our work. Any Old Instruments? We are always on the lookout for instruments - perhaps you have an old guitar or fiddle stored in an attic or garage? If so, please contact us - any type, age or condition considered! If you would like to volunteer for Joy of Sound please email volunteer@joyofsound.net. Joy of Sound is an inclusive arts project that provides workshops and equipment to enable everybody, regardless of their abilities and dexterity, to enjoy taking part in music making and other arts activities.
We are now in our 10th year of development, and our team of experienced inclusive workshop facilitators is skilled across the spectrum of creative arts practice and delivery. We maintain an ongoing program of research into bespoke and adapted musical instrument design and inclusive workshop techniques. We offer
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JOS workshops were run at several locations connected with the Normalni Festival. More picures at the
The group also took part in a workshop by Koert Decker, a leading theatre practitioner and founder of the 
A group of around 20, including JOS team members and associates, plus pupils from Prendergast School,.enjoyed a taster session at the Southbank Gamelan. This form of communal musicking has several elements in common with the JOS inclusive approach, and we are currently planning a return visit to investigate the possibilities of improvisation
Our Mayday Celebration 'Sensorium' took place April 29th - May 1st . It featured workshops, exhibits, music of all kinds, dance, international quisine and much else, including the Mayor of Lambeth who made presentations to JOS trainees and co-learners. Many thanks for the generous support of Lambeth Community Services and Communities for Health. 
Thanks to the Capital Community Foundation who have awarded us Grassroots funding. This has enabled JOS to appoint it's first paid worker - our administrator - and supporting two trainee posts
