The Diversity Music Community project aims to equip young people aged between 14-24with the knowledge and skills which are essential in dealing with the effects of violence. Our music activity aims to direct youth away from crime and/or knife crime by providing positive role models and tutors to mentor them.
Our workshops/projects focus on developing their knowledge and understanding of music and its benefits, but also by helping them to build their confidence and effective communication and life skills in a supported environment. For a duration of five weeks, we ran three study-based workshops at Ormiston Academy.
We made conversation stages pointed toward building trust fortitude and certainty to console well-being on exposures on issues that affected them or circumstances that have prompted helpless decision making.
These sessions ended up being ground-breaking and interesting for the young people.
Working collaboratively with the City of Wolverhampton Council, Diversity Music Community 1st produced several short informative videos aimed at reducing the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 virus on local communities.
Working collaboratively with City of Wolverhampton Council, Diversity Music Community 1st used video/ music clips to raise awareness of Covid-19 pandemic effects, as well as promoting and encouraging BAME communities to take up vaccines.
The Diversity Music team delivered music workshop in the Wolverhampton and Bilston areas as part of a community partnership with local residential homes. The residents engaged with percussion instruments, sing along songs and dancing, which reduced social isolation and encouraged them to get active.
Diversity Music 1st delivered an energetic, lively workshop to a group of older people with various challenges. The participants engaged in percussion and rhythmic exercises, sing-alongs, and group performances which inspired some dancing as well as promoted confidence while reducing social isolation.
Introduction to creative arts – Bethel HAF programme 2021 – 2022. In summer/Autumn 2022 in Walsall, children aged between 8–18 years old gathered at the Bethel Lighthouse Centre in Walsall to participate in a creative arts programme. Diversity Music Community First delivered a varied music performance workshop where the children had fun while practicing and learning to play guitars, drums, keyboards and explored their singing skills. At the end of the summer break, the sessions were concluded with a final solo and group performances to friends, family and the wider community.
Children were encouraged to use their creative writing and music skills to write their scary stories and performed them. All had great fun experimenting with music sounds on the keyboards and practicing reading and performing their stories to each other.
Wolverhampton’s Blakenhall Community Centre hosted a workshop provided by the Aspire and Reach programme. The HAF funded (holiday activities and food) programme engaged local 5 – 13-year-olds in social and recreational activities. These included games, sports, cooking, martial arts, and music. Diversity Music community 1st delivered the musical segment of the program. Children had the chance to learn and explore how sounds generated on the keyboard, combined with their own stories, could develop their emotional expression by learning verbal structuring, vocalisation, reading confidence and storytelling skills. They then shared their new skills with their peers allowing them to build their self-confidence.
Diversity music community first delivered a series of intervention workshop ‘Music Without Walls’ a programme aimed at young people aged 18 we need to be challenged and pointing to the direction funded by Wayne Griffiths at the heart of England Community Foundation young people took part in learning to play various medical incidents such as keyboard drums vocal creative arts finishing with grammar forms to the community
We received funding through a Trailblazer grant to carry out an intervention workshop, creating opportunities to empower young people through the power of music. We have used music as an intervention and learning tool to develop transferable skills to encourage positive behaviours which will support young people considered to be at risk of being excluded from education. We are working across the wards of deprivation in Wolverhampton and the West Midlands to help reduce youth crime and anti-social behaviour. Starting in local secondary schools, we are hoping to make a difference also within the community with young people been engaged in a positive activity.
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