Sunday 28th September
10.30am – 1pm
Workshops will run 10:30am – 11:30am and will be repeated 12pm – 1pm. Each workshop is limited to 30 places, which are allocated on a first come first served basis. Please note that workshop attendees need to be 18 or over.
Visiting band members please sign up here.
HONK! band and everyone else please sign up here.
1. Play That Groove! Kirkgate Batteria FULL
Location: Ginger Goose Pub – Top Floor, 71 Market St, Bradford BD1 1LH
The Kirkgate Batteria is a recently formed Afro-Brazilian percussion group based in Shipley, open to all and led by experienced percussionist Alex. This workshop will enhance participants’ knowledge of different percussion instruments and how they fit together to create different rhythms.
2. What role does music play within social change movements? Commonweal Trust
Location: Sunbridgewells The Rose and Crown, Millergate, Bradford BD1 1SD
Commonweal is a unique collection of over 14,000 books, pamphlets and journals on social change and activism including peace and disarmament, climate crisis and the green movement, nonviolent philosophy and practice, human rights, anti-racism and identity. This seminar will showcase items in the Commonweal Collection around music, songs, community activism and explore what role music can play in nonviolent social change movements.
3. Corridor Parade: Cecil Green Arts
Location: Sunbridgewells Wallers Bar, Millergate, Bradford BD1 1SD
Cecil Green Arts is an artist led organisation based in Bradford that works with communities to create street theatre and events specialising in large scale lanterns and puppets. This workshop will showcase Cecil Green Arts and how puppets can be incorporated into parades. This is an active, fun session making very simple puppets to then parade around the corridors/spaces around the building.
4. GO LARGE: Bradford Belles
Location: The Bradford Playhouse Rehearsal Room 4-12 Chapel St, Bradford BD1 5DL
Exuberant, celebratory street performances by women of a certain age …growing older…audaciously! A playful, interactive session bringing in theatre skills and movement – participants will explore methods / strategies to develop ensemble cohesion and consider the role of the individual within the ensemble.
5. Song and Protest: Commoners Choir
Location: The Bradford Playhouse Studio 4-12 Chapel St, Bradford BD1 5DL
The Commoners Choir is dedicated to singing about the world around them, its inequalities and injustices, and their (4-part vocal harmony) opposition to such injustice. An active session where you will have a chance to sing with the Commoners choir about opposition to inequality and injustice.
6. Instruments of Rage and Joy: Tim Hill
Location: The Bradford Club Top Floor, 1 Piece Hall Yard, Bradford BD1 1PJ
A charity promoting street bands, running festivals and education projects. This is a presentation on outdoor music and sound in protest and celebration, and the rise of the street band movement in the UK.
7. Growing the next generation of Street Bands: Helen Minchell and the Lancashire Youth Street Band CANCELLED
Location: The Bradford Club Dining Room, 1 Piece Hall Yard, Bradford BD1 1PJ
Lancashire’s street band run by Lancashire Music, Service and More Music, Morecambe. This workshop focuses on demonstrating teaching skills and discussing the development of a youth band.
8. Interactive Art for Environmental Justice and Social Change at HONK! Somerville: Cecily Miller
Location: The Bradford Club Piano Room, 1 Piece Hall Yard, Bradford BD1 1PJ
Independent curator and past member of the Organising Committee for the HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands, Somerville, MA, USA. This seminar will present images and stories from the Elm Street Interactive Art Making Area – a part of the HONK! Festival in the USA. Elm Street offers a platform for artists who are working to raise awareness of urgent issues and enlist the public in taking action through participatory artmaking.
9. Creating an activist street band festival: The History of HONK! with HONK! Somerville organisers Trudi Cohen, Reebee Garofalo and John Bell
Location: The Bradford Playhouse Bar 4-12 Chapel St, Bradford BD1 5DL
This seminar explores the HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands initiated 20 years ago in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Three organisers of the Somerville HONK! Festival, discuss how and why the event began and developed.
The Peace Artistes Street Band 