Voices Unheard Roma Music Workshop

A post event spoken word & music Fusion

Location address: Beatsabar, Wolverhampton
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Ages: 9 - 16 years

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Voices Unheard Roma Music Workshop block mentored by Beatsabar Music Project CIC
What we'll do
Provide young people from the Romani community (ages 9-15) a space to express their identities, challenges, and strengths through storytelling, music, and digital media. Held over four weeks (Sundays, 2 hours per session). Participants will transform quotes, pictures, and event experiences into a digital magazine (zine) fused with music. Sessions will explore themes of resilience, identity, and belonging. This project stands as a model for bringing communities together, inspiring continued efforts across Wolverhampton to build a more connected, compassionate, and confident society.
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Beatsabar Music Project CIC
Record...Rehearse...Learn
Beatsabar Music Project is equipped with two recording studios and a rehearsal space. We offer enrichment activities to young people facing complicated situations, host music-based workshops for various age groups and abilities during holidays, and provide commercial bookings for professional recording artists. Over the past 10 ½ years, Beatsabar has been a prominent community recording studio in Wolverhampton, collaborating with schools, PRUs, youth intervention groups, charities and probation services. We've played a vital role in helping talented individuals acquire new skills, training, and employment opportunities.
Timetable
WEEK 1: Identity & Belonging – "Who Am I?" Key Themes: Self-expression, cultural pride, breaking stereotypes Activities: Welcome Circle & Icebreakers Guided discussion: What makes me, me? (culture, language, music, family) Workshop: Create "I Am" poems using collage and drawing Introduce the idea of spoken word + music fusion Begin creating short audio recordings Creative Output: Identity poems, drawings, intro voice recordings WEEK 2: Understanding Hate & Prejudice – "What Hurts, What Heals" Key Themes: Hate crime, bullying, racism, and how to challenge it Activities: Group conversation: What is prejudice? What is a hate crime? (age-appropriate language) Real-life scenario roleplay: “What would you do?” Expressive art: Draw or paint what prejudice feels like and what healing could look like Guided free-writing: “A time I felt judged” Collaborative music session: creating background beats for spoken word Creative Output: Art pieces on prejudice, short poems/stories, beat production WEEK 3: Resilience & Strength – "My Voice Matters" Key Themes: Courage, speaking out, community strength Activities: Guest speaker (Roma youth leader or anti-hate activist) Writing activity: “Letters to my future self” or “This is how I stay strong” Continue refining spoken word/music projects Photography station: take expressive photos to include in zine Creative Output: Voice recordings, zine material, photography, lyric drafts WEEK 4: Celebration & Sharing – "Our Voices Together" Key Themes: Unity, performance, legacy Activities: Showcase rehearsal: practice readings and performance skills Final zine page design session: combining text, art, and music Group reflection circle: What have I learned? What do I want others to hear? Record final versions of spoken word pieces Creative Output: Final audio/zine content; rehearsal for showcase
Learning aims
Aim 1
Guided discussion: What makes me, me? (culture, language, music, family) Workshop: Create "I Am" poems or song Creative Output: Identity poems, art, intro voice recordings
Aim 2
Group conversation: What is prejudice? What is a hate crime? Guided songwriting session: “A time I felt judged” Collaborative music session: original beat production
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Where we'll be
Beatsabar, Dunkley Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 4AN
WHAT’S PROVIDED
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Enhanced DBS
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First Aid Kit
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