By Lottie Parsons | Marketing and PR
Dear friends and supporters,
We’ve had an abundance of music-making opportunities and performances at all three of our venues –Kimber Road, World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, and, since the beginning of this year, from a container in Trinity Buoy Wharf, Newham (more on this later).
Our World Heat Beat Embassy Gardens summer programme showcased a range of live music performances from the worlds of jazz, contemporary, classical and Asian music genres. A mix of international musicians performed as well as our emerging musicians. Our new venue is also being utilised by local creatives and musicians for recording studio hires, workshops, a performance venue for local schools (part of our First Beats music programme), company away days, and anything else in-between!
Earlier this year, Wigmore Hall selected World Heart Beat as their Charity of Support for 2023. Our fundraising concert in July enabled funds to be raised for our bursary programme and showcased some incredible artists, as well as our own emerging talent to an audience of over 500+. It was a hugely inspiring night, and we were so proud of our young musicians playing alongside such recognisable talent. We wanted to share with you a YouTube performance from J. Wade, who with your kind donations of support has really flourished over the last few years.
Regarding local community outreach, our musicians performed at Battersea Power Station for the King’s Coronation Weekend celebrations, in front of a crowd of 800+, as well as Heart Beat performances at Shillington Park and Tooting Common.The annual, family-friendly Happy Streets took place earlier this month in our local stomping ground, Nine Elms and Battersea, where we showcased some of of our emerging talent and contemporary gig band once again. We’ve also performed at opening launch events for local retailers Apple and Wagamama at their new stores at Battersea Power Station. Not forgetting the annual Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival (WAF), The Oracle Collective in conjunction with World Heart Beat showcased Endz Jazz Soul, a concert with some of London’s best jazz, soul and R&B talent, as well as providing workshops for those wanting to get ahead in the music industry.
Now, back to our third venue, a container in Trinity Buoy Wharf, Newham. Trinity Buoy Sounds is a three-year programme which launched earlier this year which sets out to transform the lives and outcomes of young people who live around Trinity Buoy Wharf (Tower Hamlets and Newham). Its vibrant music and creative focus, coupled with specialised coaching from World Heart Beat artists and teachers, aims to help young people find their passion and voice. The project helps equip them with self-confidence, skills, knowledge, networks, and a community of support in which to thrive, whilst building a strong creative community hub for young people and families at the Wharf. This pilot year, we have focused on recruiting young people, building local partnerships and developing a strong understanding of the needs and interests of the local community. We have reached over 275 young people in Tower Hamlets and Newham alone! To date, we have run 48 workshops in three local secondary schools – Bow and St Paul’s Way in Tower Hamlets and Eastlea in Newham, focusing on song-writing, production and tabla. We have also produced two community concerts and showcases at Trinity Buoy Wharf.
Finally, last week we staged a flashmob at Battersea Power Station. We combined forces with a similar project to World Heart Beat in Brazil that supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, called Orchestra Maré do Amanhã. We will be releasing the flashmob on YouTube in a few weeks' time and we look forward to sharing this with you (please follow our socials to find out more).
Thank you again for your kind and incredible support. It’s much appreciated and helps us to provide life-changing opportunities for young people to thrive and find themselves in music.
With very best wishes!
By Lottie Parsons | PR and Marketing
By Lottie Parsons | Marketing and PR
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