Sounds Like Home: One Song Family Day
What’s a song that reminds you of home? How can music tell stories of people? Join us for a day of storytelling, music and making inspired by the power of music and stories in connecting us to our roots.
© Hayley Madden 2021. © Orly Orbach 2022
Artist Kadir Karababa’s One Song video installation is about how songs are carried across borders and continents and yet remain firmly rooted in the places they were first sung. Join us for our family days that are full of singing, music, film-making and storytelling, all inspired by One Song. This is a free event, with suggested donations of £3.
Tuesday 25th October
Children’s choir with Ellen Muriel
Nursery rhymes, lullabies, carols or birthday greetings; which are the songs that remind us of home and connect us to the people and places we know and love? Children, their parents and guardians are invited to join us for a relaxed workshop, to share songs and learn rhythms, celebrating the diversity of sounds that accompany our daily lives, wherever we call home.
Mixed Tape Museum
In this session, join Orly Orbach to illustrate songs that remind you of home, and turn them into short films. Draw the sounds, words and stories in your song, and transport yourself into your drawing using our live-feed projector. We will be recording your songs, making a mixed tape for the museum that transports visitors to different landscapes, home languages and sonic memories. Participants are encouraged to return to the Museum to see these films displayed in our galleries after the One Song Family Days.
Friday 28th October
Telling Tales with Sandra Agard
Come and play tales using stories, drama, books, songs and games. Join storyteller and children’s author Sandra Agard for Telling Tales: Interactive Storytelling from Africa, Caribbean and The World. From Creation to Anansi Tales these stories will weave a magical spell or two on you.
One-Drum Djembe workshop
How can rhythms and beats tell a story and create a community? Learn the basics of traditional Ghanaian Djembe drumming techniques with Abass Dodoo of One-Drum to find out in this fun and relaxed session.
Mixed Tape Museum
In this session, join Orly Orbach to illustrate songs that remind you of home, and turn them into short films. Draw the sounds, words and stories in your song, and transport yourself into your drawing using our live-feed projector. We will be recording your songs, making a mixed tape for the museum that transports visitors to different landscapes, home languages and sonic memories. Participants are encouraged to return to the Museum to see these films displayed in our galleries after the One Song Family Days.
Saturday 29th October
Telling Tales with Sandra Agard
Come and play tales using stories, drama, books, songs and games. Join storyteller and children’s author Sandra Agard for Telling Tales: Interactive Storytelling from Africa, Caribbean and The World. From Creation to Anansi Tales these stories will weave a magical spell or two on you.
One-Drum Djembe workshop
How can rhythms and beats tell a story and create a community? Find out in this hands-on workshop by learning the basics of traditional Ghanaian Djembe drumming techniques with Abass Dodoo of One-Drum in this fun and relaxed session.
Mixed Tape Museum
In this session, join Orly Orbach to illustrate songs that remind you of home, and turn them into short films. Draw the sounds, words and stories in your song, and transport yourself into your drawing using our live-feed projector. We will be recording your songs, making a mixed tape for the museum that transports visitors to different landscapes, home languages and sonic memories. Participants are encouraged to return to the Museum to see these films displayed in our galleries after the One Song Family Days.
© Orly Orbach 2022
About the facilitators
Ellen Muriel
Ellen is a freelance community theatre director, natural voice choir leader and solo performer. She recently completed a Master’s in Applied Anthropology and Community Arts at Goldsmiths University, and directed her first children's opera 'Red', with Barefoot Opera. She collaborated with Museum of the Home's One Song project as workshop facilitator, vocal support and project assistant.
Sandra A Agard
Sandra A. Agard is a professional storyteller, author, tutor, playwright, literary consultant, editor and cultural historian. She has worked for over forty years in libraries as a literature development officer. She has worked in educational, cultural institutions, organisations and literary festivals throughout the UK and in the United States.
Her published works include numerous books, poems, and short stories. Her plays have been performed in London and Northampton.
Orly Orbach
Orly Orbach is an artist and social anthropologist who makes narrative environments, collaborative books and museum interpretations. She is interested in finding alternative means of assembling and disseminating stories, creating objects, environments, workshops and interactive performances through which stories are experienced.
One-Drum
The One-Drum Foundation is made up of a collective of London-based African master drummers, dancers, musicians and performers emanating from the diversity of Africa’s rich ethnic traditions. One-Drum Foundation’s authentic African drumming and dance is the beat of the heart, the pulse of the blood and the rhythm of life. A celebration of the spirit as old as humankind.
Date
Tuesday 25 October, Friday 28 October, Saturday 29 October 2022
Time
10am-4pm
Cost
Free
Location
Studio & Learning Pavillion