This is a short outline of range of learning programmes and performances developed by Big Bang Lab
CREATIVE PEACE: INTERFAITH AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE (http://musicandpeace.ning.com) Film and music project to raise the views of young people about the Palestine and Israel conflict. The programme establishes links with a local cinema, schools and a media centre. Workshops leading to the production and live music performance for a new digital film made by young people from Muslims and Jewish communities in London using historical archives. A final screening of documentaries made by Israel and Palestinian filmmakers and key people invited for an inclusive debate will be included in the learning programme which includes a DVD and further resources.
Helen Hutchinson Web Producer Creative Choices° Creative & Cultural Skills
¨Unseen Voices, a moving experience¨
ORAL HISTORY TO SONGWRITING This is an intergenerational oral history project with the objective of engaging young people and the elderly members of the community in a common creative project in order to use the real stories and bring them alive. The material is used in a number of ways, from podcasting to song writing as well as for film and music projects using external resources such as archive films or photographs provided by Big Bang Lab.
BALLOON ORCHESTRA http://www.balloonorchestra.org A series of workshops for organizations as a team building and fun workshop using balloons as a percussion instrument to create rhythmic soundtrack for silent films, to accompany singing or as a standalone musical and creative experience.
TRANSITION TO SECONDARY To explore how music can support young people at risk of becoming disengaged at the time of transition between primary to secondary school. This project involves the use of original music, audio recording and film. The transition process to the unknown (the future / secondary) from the past (primary) is used as a starting point to elaborate the project from the concept of heritage and legacy. The project involves audio recording and songwriting workshops.
KARAOKE PIANO workshop and performance with one piano, eight hands at once playing different parts and a backing track to perform new compositions live to selected silent films for young musicians from 5 to 9 years old.
GLOBAL CITY SYMPHONY is Big Bang Lab’s Cultural Social Responsibility programme looking to contribute to social inclusion and urban regeneration looking a the past, present and future of the city. Deprived communities will express their views on the future of the city whilst becoming the changemakers as the future creative-social entrepreneurs. We are connecting communities across age, religious and cultural background through music, video documentaries and silent film production.
BIG BANG LAB HEALTH, ARTS AND SCIENCE PROJECT - workshops and performance - Intergenerational oral history and inclusive creative project. Film and music project around the senses and memory working with a group of neurologists, a group of Alzheimer’s patients and two group of young people aurally and visually impaired will take it as a starting point to make a digital silent film and the music using exclusively archive images. The collective film will be screened with live music together with other films to make a programme and debate at a key London venue(s)