Children Sing for Water, Melbourne
At the same time as the adult choirs are learning their Sing for Water songs, five hundred primary school children in nine Melbourne schools and one regional school are working with professional musicians, a writer, and a filmmaker towards their own concert Children Sing for Water. Over an intensive ten week period, they will create songs, spoken word, music and moving images as well as learning songs from around the world connected to the theme of water.
This concert will first be performed at the Melbourne Town Hall in October during Childrens Week as part of The City of Melbourne's Community Cultural Development Program. The Community Cultural Development Program produces major Children's Week project each year. These projects give children the opportunity to engage with contemporary artists, learn new skills and share their creativity with a wider audience through public performance or exhibition in a key city venue. Children Sing for Water combines the process and philosophy of the Community Cultural Delvelopment Children's Week programming with the Sing for Water concept.
Children's Week Sing for Water Concert
Tues 25 October 2005 1pm
Melbourne Town Hall
Cnr Swanston and Collins St Melbourne
Admission free
Festival Melbourne 2006 as part of The Commonwealth Games Cultural Program
Saturday 18th March 2006 at 2pm Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne CBD Admission free
Participating Children Sing for Water Schools include: Carlton Gardens Primary, Debney Meadows Primary, Holy Rosary Primary, North Melbourne Primary, Footscray Primary, Holy Rosary, St Michael's Primary, Mooroopna Park Primary, Port Melbourne Primary, Stonnington Primary, Yarra Primary.
About Children Sing for Water
Sing for Water is a Reiser Productions Pty Ltd and City of Melbourne co-production as part of the Commonwealth Games 2006 Cultural program in association with WaterAid Australia.
Sing for Water, Melbourne is central to The Community Cultural Development, CCD Program as part of the City's Arts and Culture Branch of City of Melbourne and has embraced the project wholeheartedly.
One of the aims of Sing for Water and the CCD Program is to strengthen social inclusion and community building through arts practice. The CCD program initiates and supports opportunities for communities to engage with the arts through creative projects such as Sing for Water and Children Sing for Water.
Sing for Water has invited choirs and singing groups from a wide range of cultural, social and musical backgrounds, with varying degrees of experience, to participate in the project. The more experienced choirs will work alongside those groups that are new to this kind of project, resulting in new friendships, new alliances and new music being forged along the way.