By Jessica Durston – 23 January 2023
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The non-profit organisation, Sounds Like Girls, will likely be holding its subsequent free neighborhood music occasion this weekend, in Park South.
The non-profit which helps ladies and women, will likely be internet hosting ten totally different music occasions throughout ten months, happening in ten totally different venues.
Sounds Like Girls is an organisation, which goals to empower ladies, women and households by means of music and music associated actions – particularly these affected by home abuse, racial biases and gender primarily based inequality.
It is Higher With Music cafe occasions are being supported by the Nationwide Lottery Fund, and purpose to supply a secure and heat house inside area people centres, with reside music, and open community-therapeutic music workshops.
The subsequent BWMC will likely be held on 28 January, on the Park South Group Centre in Swindon.All through 2023, the cafe occasions will likely be regularly reappearing on the final Saturday of each month in a distinct space of Swindon, till July.
The January occasion can even embrace a efficiency from particular visitor Marina Avetisian. She is a Russian-British singer songwriter. A hyperlink to a tune she recorded with the Sounds Like Girls group will be discovered at https://youtu.be/WDBOHSiHGQc
Luiza Staniec-Moir, founding father of Seems like Girls mentioned: “Serving with music and kindness probably the most deprived communities, these music supporting cafe occasions had been designed to empower those that suffers probably the most. Particularly, home abuse victims and their households affected by it in many various methods.”
The cafe occasions are open to everybody who would love to spend a day listening to reside music, making an attempt new devices, and taking part in collectively throughout the open neighborhood workshops.
There will likely be a chance for native individuals to spend a while amongst others, and luxuriate in desserts or home made soup.
By this new initiative from Sounds Like Girls, the group say they needs to create a secure place for a neighborhood, the place they may also help empower individuals by means of music and lift consciousness about urgent points.
Luiza added: “We remind individuals of regionally accessible help, and create a secure and pleasant surroundings to fulfill, to be listened and to attach, or just to calm down and have enjoyable.
“The café is at all times stuffed with reside music, refreshments and home made meals, top-table sale with second hand items, as nicely present neighborhood music workshops run by music therapists, open mic and exercise for all neighborhood.”
In addition to the Higher With Music Cafe occasions, Sounds Like Girls additionally increase consciousness about points which are vital to them and their service customers, by means of specially-written songs primarily based on survivor’s tales.
These songs are sometimes co-written by the service customers themselves, and Luiza Staniec – Moir. Luiza is a singer/songwriter, music producer and music therapist, and he or she, together with the Sounds Like Girls group, gives a spread of aftercare actions, with music at the core for victims and their surrounding communities.
Luiza explains: “We work by means of traumas brought on by issues, or empower ladies and women to stop these points, by means of particular person and group music classes, voice empowerment workshops, songwriting for restoration workshops, to construct confidence, shallowness, and to present a voice to all that issues to them.
“This all performs an enormous position in constructing a secure and wholesome life for our service customers, and it helps to helps their wellbeing.”
Extra data will be discovered on the organisation’s web site and social media pages:
Sounds Like Girls’s YouTube channel will be discovered at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6befOCalkIjkN_CxPvBhpw/movies
Fb: https://www.fb.com/soundslikewomen
Sounds Like Girls web site: www.soundslikewomen.com
