Creative Sound Workshops
Calling on people with lived experience of mental illness or complex trauma who do not work in creative fields.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST DUE 30 June 2022
In these workshops you will be collaborating with sound artist Thembi Soddell to create a new sound composition. This composition will be presented in concert at The Big Anxiety festival in October 2022.
You will be guided through this process by Thembi alongside extended vocalist and experiential therapist Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, media and performance artist Vanessa Godden, trauma counselor and researcher Lydia Gitau and peer support worker Rebecca Moran.
You do not need any experience in sound, music or art making.
For full information and expressions of interest please visit this webpage or contact Mofiz Ul Haq at …
Accessibility
- The workshops will be taking place online
- The concert venue is wheelchair accessible (although attendance at the concert is not compulsory)
- Childcare costs may be covered if required
- These workshops are designed by and for people with complex trauma, mental illness or madness – however you wish to identify it.
Unfortunately this series cannot cater to d/Deaf, intellectually disabled or non-verbal participants.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. The concert is part of “New Kinds of Archives: Trauma, Knowledge & Feeling”, an RMIT Design Hub Gallery project. It is a part of the RMIT Culture program and The Big Anxiety Festival 2022. Thank you to Liquid Architecture and Yamaha for workshop equipment supply.