Young Learning-Disabled Adults
About this Event
Zone Club is a multi-arts community project founded by Music Therapists Pete McPhail and Bob Heath in 2004, primarily in response to the lack of provision for learning-disabled adults, who have left school or further education. Music therapy has represented the heart of the approach to this multi-arts project, which includes music, dance, filmmaking, and performance. Over the last 15 years Zone Club has also offered experiential training opportunities for music therapists attending the Masters course at UWE and continues to promote music therapy approaches.
Based at Wiltshire Music Centre (WMC) in Bradford-on-Avon, we regularly meet over 25 participants and, even throughout lockdown, we have given a creative voice to this marginalised group, resulting in two albums and a recent commission for BBC Wiltshire. Reaching out to other institutions we have created other opportunities for learning-disabled adults, including workshops in schools and concerts in other settings.
The multi-arts environment offers a safe, creative and collaborative space in which mutual support and friendship is just as important as the music. We use Intensive Interaction across all participatory sessions with the team of practitioners, which includes Music Therapists, Animateurs, Musicians, Movement Specialists, volunteers and students. During our workshop at Conference, and as part of Zone Club’s 20th Anniversary Celebrations, we expect to share our experiences of inclusive participant-led delivery as well as showcase some of the recent fantastic songs that have been created. Delegates would also experience some collaborative song-writing first-hand, alongside this award-winning participatory arts project.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Curve Theatre, 60 Rutland Street, Leicester, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
