Hands and Voices Concert, 7 April @ York St johns Uni

On Wednesday 6th April 2011 at 7.30pm, York’s very own award winning Hands
& Voices choir are joining forces again with York St. John University and their
Big Band and Gospel Choir for an ‘Out of this World’ concert at the
University Chapel of St. John the Evangelist.

Hands & Voices is run by local charity Accessible Arts & Media (AAM) and they
use a unique form of singing and signing to support communication with adults with
learning difficulties, and disabilities.

In true Hands & Voices style there will be a unique blend of well-loved classics and
new works written by the choir themselves. The evening promises to be a real
‘blast-off’ of songs and music from this world and beyond. So get on our rocket ship
and get lost in space, walk on the moon, dance round the planets and experience
our final countdown. And if that wasn’t enough the performance will also feature a
devised interpretation of the universe created by members of the choir and Applied
Theatre students from the University.

Completing the line up will be another AAM group, the Sound Weavers – a small
group of musicians and composers with learning difficulties, and disabilities. Sound
Weavers will be performing a number of musical soundscapes exploring space and
other themes of galactic proportion using accessible/ assistive music technology.
So strap in and prepare to be woven with sound to another nebular!

The Out of this World concert has been sponsored by The Rotary Club of York
Vikings with additional funding and support from the City of York Council, York St
John University, York Common Good Fund, The Calmcott Trust, The Key Fund,
The Norman Collinson Charitable Trust, Donald & Patricia Shepherd Charitable
Trust, York Rose Singers, Haxby Players, York Associates, Alan Graver and Susan
Hartshorne.

So why not make a date in your diary for the 6th April for you (and your alien, of
course!) to hop aboard the Hands & Voices rocket ship.

You can also catch Hands & Voices and SoundWeavers on Saturday July 2nd, 2pm
in the Tower Gardens (by St George’s Field) as part of AAM’s Picnic in the Park.

For more information call: 01904 626965

E-mail: rose.kent@a-arts-media.org Web: www.a-arts-media.org