This workshop has limited numbers and is intended for people who identify as trans+* and disabled**
Join us for a 90-minute online workshop led by Orion Isaacs and Greta Sharp, for the second in a two-part workshop series exploring the voice.
How can physical relaxation and our breath support us in activating our voices? How can engaging the voice enable us to anchor to the present moment? How do we cultivate a vocal practice that is rooted in trusting ourselves?
This workshop aims to create a supportive environment to lean into the calm joy of activating your voice. We will draw upon useful singing techniques for maintaining vocal health and muscle development. Through this, we will also discover the connections between the breath, voice and body, exploring what it feels like to bring different parts of our body into relationship with our voice. This workshop will introduce you to simple but effective tools that can help you to check in with your voice on a daily basis.
We encourage you to use headphones for this workshop, and to join from a space where you feel comfortable and safe to make sounds. The session will be broken into two 40-minute sections with a 10 minute comfort break. If you can, please make sure you are warm and well hydrated, and have room temperature water handy.
Due to the technicalities of Zoom, you will be encouraged to join in the exercises with microphones off, but there will be opportunities to share and reflect with the group.
*Trans+ is a shorthand to include those who identify as transgender, non-binary, agender, gender questioning, two-spirit, and anyone else who identifies as part of the trans+ community.
**Disabled, neurodivergent, deaf, chronically ill, long term health condition, mental health condition
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Please note: we can only offer refunds within 72 hours of the event. This event will take place online.
About Greta and Orion:
Greta Sharp (they/them) is a transqueer disabled artist, writer and researcher, who works across multiple disciplines, mainly publications, workshops, collage, and academic research. Their research is located in the intersection between transqueer identities and disability, focussing on the voice and embodied forms of healing within community and in relation to the natural world.
Orion Isaacs is a multidisciplinary artist and musician working across live performance, voice, immersive installation, creative direction and writing. Isaacs’ work centres live connection through raw, intimate experiences that are rooted in personal cultural politics and its complex relationship to social realities. They gravitate towards stories of survival, often related to Jewish and queer/trans+ lives - past, present, future. They find inspiration in the perspectives of children, and draw upon their own vivid recollections of childhood as a source of dreaming and imagining with boundlessness.
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Access information for this event:
This event is for ages 16+ and will be held online. You will need a good internet connection and a laptop/computer/mobile device to join us.
There will be 15 attendees maximum, and the event will feature comfort breaks. During this event, attendees will participate in: breakout rooms, sound/music, small group discussions.
If you have any questions or access requirements, please get in touch with us via glasgowzinelibrary@gmail.com.
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How to access the event:
After booking a ticket, you will be sent several reminder emails from Eventbrite leading up to the event. We will also send emails that share any resources that attendees will need access to, including any required materials.
Please email glasgowzinelibrary@gmail.com for any queries or issues.
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