Keep Calm and Zoom On - Tips and Tricks to Keep Your Online Gatherings Dynamic!
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Starling Arts share some thoughts, ideas and insights into our approach to online facilitation, all of which can be adapted across all sectors!
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Exciting News from Starling HQ!
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We are having an exciting restructure and Starling Arts is now officially a Community Interest Company (CIC).
We’ll be making more of a song and a dance (quite literally!) about this change in the coming months with exciting project news and website updates, but check out this post if you want to understand CICs a bit more!
Singing, Joy and a Global Pandemic
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Sing Happy is all about the way we use our voices for joy. In this month’s blog post we address the unique experience of singing, joy and a global pandemic.
“When I started a new, playful relationship with singing in a world of Covid-19 by pushing the boundaries and reconnecting with the essence of raising our voices together, I was able to expand my horizons and restore some joy to my singing and group facilitation too. Now I relish the challenge…”
Read MoreIntroducing... The Sing Happy Mail-out
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Introducing our brand new Sing Happy blog posts! Featuring content about singing, wellbeing, what’s happened in the last month, and tips and tricks for running singing groups and choirs!
The new monthly newsletter and blog post is a tool to grow an extended choir leader community to enable us to support each other as we start the new year. Posts will talk about things we’re all experiencing as choir and singing leaders and the newsletter will keep us up to date with what’s happening in the singing world.
Read MoreThe Sing Happy Mail-out
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We’re launching a new mail-out all about singing for wellbeing. Find out how you can get involved!
Read MoreA Student Placement in a Pandemic
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Hear from our brilliant placement student Alice as she muses on what it’s been like to do an online placement as part of her degree this Autumn 2020.
Read MoreA New Choir Leader Community!
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Learn more about our first Choir Leaders’ Network ‘chat’ that was open to any choir or singing leader that wanted to share, learn and talk about running their groups online, and how we plan to keep in touch with those in the choir world as we move through this pandemic.
Read More100 days of lockdown
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As we mark 100 days of lockdown in the UK, we reflect on what Starling Arts have been getting up to in that time.
Read MoreChoir in a Time of Covid-19
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As this year has gone on, it has become clear that the Coronavirus, Covid-19, has become an insurmountable obstacle to our original plans. Unfortunately, in light of on-going developments and the current climate, Starling 10 will no longer take place on April 4th at Cadogan Hall. While we are nothing short of bereft, we also remain optimistic that our singing community will be strengthened by the coming challenges, and we go forward knowing that we all have the support of each other. We also know that right now, keeping everyone safe and minimising the spread of this virus must come above everything else. Here, we reflect on the coming months as choir leaders, and share the message that we remain, at heart, about community.
Read MoreDecade: Ten Years of Starling Arts in a Changing World
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As we approach the end of the decade and our own ten year anniversary, we look back at the changes in the world during the time we’ve been running Starling Arts
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