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GIVING YOUTH A VOICE SONGWRITING/CD RECORDING PROGRAM

Giving Youth A Voice teaches the basic elements of songwriting. Through hands-on experience, youth learn to rhyme, fit meter, and choose colorful and descriptive words by creating their own song.

Giving Youth A Voice offers experiential workshops and artist residencies for elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, hospitals, health centers and community organizations.

There are three songwriting programs:

• Songs For Class Study
  4-Day Residency, 2 hours each day
  A curriculum enrichment songwriting workshop taught in schools as a residency or after-school setting. Songwriting can be used as a creative tool to explore curriculum-based themes, while focusing on the fundamentals of songwriting as an art form and means for self-discovery and expression. Combining class studies and song will enhance participants understanding of lessons, as well as foster community and commonality amongst their peers. Robin will collaborate with teachers and students within a framework of academics.
  • Students will learn to express their feelings through writing songs.
  • Students will bring personal experience and feelings into their writing through processing them with group.
  • Students will take an active, creative role in their own learning process.

  The group will write two songs the first 2 days of residency and record the songs the third day. There will be a CD of recorded songs for the school and a performance if there is time. The workshop can be lengthened to fit the time frame of your site and for summer programs. This program can also be an after-school fun songwriting class, separate from academics, dealing with with peer relations, youth conflicts and concerns, emotions, etc.

• Stories and Songs
  Target participants will be youth ranging in ages 8-11. Children will contribute lyrics for a song we will write together based on the short story we read together. We will sing the song we have created several times and then will either perform or record the song.
• The Power of Healing Through Music
  For Special Needs Youth
  This songwriting and singing workshop can be facilitated in schools, hospitals, assisted living communities, clinical support centers, or wherever there is need.