Winter through the Ages

On Friday 5th December, the inspirational Hands and Voices (the first ever singing & signing choir) will be bringing you their annual Christmas performance – ‘Winter through the Ages’.

We are delighted to be performing again at the National Centre for Early Music, and during the evening we will take you on a journey of winters throughout history, from the 13th Century to the modern day. The choir will be entertaining you with a wide range of music, from haunting Medieval Melodies to modern day hits, and as normal, you can expect a mix of well known & loved songs, and new works written by choir members themselves.

Hands and Voices will be joined in this performance by Creative Sound & The SoundWeavers, two music technology groups who will be performing their own multimedia pieces using an exciting range of live performance and pre-recorded sounds. All three groups are run by Accessible Arts & Media (the newly merged charities of Accessible Arts and Cube Media).

Tickets for the performance are £7/ £4 and are available from the National Centre for Early Music Box office: 01904 658 338 / box-office@ncem.co.uk. Carers accompanying members go free.

For any other enquiries, please call: 01904 626 965 or e mail: info@a-arts.org

You can also catch Hands & Voices Busking in Coppergate
on Sat 13th December from 11am – 1pm

INFORMATION WEBSITE

Cube Media will train up to 8 adults with Learning Difficulties in York to help make a fully accessible website.

The website will give information to people with learning difficulties in York about what opportunities that are available to them.

This will be the first website in York and North Yorkshire that will be run by people with learning difficulties.

The group will learn new skills so they can help run the website alongside professionals at Cube Media and eventually run the website themselves.

The jobs the group will be doing:

► Interviewing and talking to people


► Filming and Recording


► Writing and Editing.


► Using a computer


► Updating information and uploading it
onto the website.


Workshops will happen every
Wednesday morning from 10 to 12
starting on the 23rd of April 2008


The workshops will take place at
The Melbourne Centre

If you want to know more about this project ring Gráinne

(01904) 6 2 6 9 6 5

or email

grainne@cubemedia.biz

Melbourne Filmmakers: Kidzround

This is who we are:



There are ten of us on the project and we have had nine sessions, each one is an hour and a half. We have been working on interviews and editing and camera work. We all had a part to do in making the films which you can see on this Blog..


This is what we thought of the project:


The latest videos from the Melbourne Filmmakers!




Here is KidzRound




In our latest News reports:

A strange story involving a chair...





Umbrellas and such...

Listen up all you cool cats and chicks!!!

The word from the bird is that on Saturday 15^th March, The Melbourne Centre will be hosting its first ever Rock and Roll Night! They’re hoping to raise some bread for Accessible Arts - the charity that runs the Melbourne Centre.

With not a square in sight, those Hipsters from Hands and Voices (the first singing and signing choir) will be rocking and rolling some top tunes from all your favourite artists. Expect to be Rocked all around the clock, through the jailhouse, not to mention shaken, rattled and rolled!

Then for all you movers and groovers out there, we’ll have some of those greasers along to show you all the latest moves, and get you up and dancing with the best of them – so no excuse to be a wet rag and keep off the dance floor.

So why not get decked out in your best 50s threads, and come join us?!

We’ll be rocking round the clock from 7.30pm until 11pm – get your tickets on the door only (£4/ £2)

Don’t waste your time in Nowheresville – get over to The Melbourne Centre make the scene!!!

For more information or directions, give us a ring on 01904 626 965 or email workshop@cubemedia.biz

Lights, Camera, Action!

Melbourne Film Makers 2008

The Melbourne Film Makers is back with even more fun packed filming activities!

The Melbourne Film Makers was established in August 2007 as a pilot project after requests ‘reeled’ in from local youths for a film and media club to take place at the Melbourne Centre.

With generous support from the Fishergate ward-City of York Council and Screen Yorkshire, The Melbourne Film Makers 2008 is a free and exciting opportunity, for young people between the ages of 8-13 years old, who attend Space 109, Fishergate and St.George’s Primary Schools to learn new skills that are required for filmmaking by working alongside professionals.

The Melbourne Film Makers have the unique opportunity to creatively engage with their local community along with learning about camera work, editing, storyboarding, script writing, sound recording, making a soundtrack, interviewing, acting and directing.

The weekly workshops will take place every Thursday at 4pm until 5:30 pm from January the 17^th until March the 20^th 2008 (excluding half-term), at The Melbourne Centre.

Short films by the Melbourne Film Makers Coming Soon!!!

To have a look at the films created by the Melbourne Film Makers during the August 2007 pilot project click on the link below:

www.melbournefilmmakers.blogspot.com

Hands and Voices present... The Good Old Days!

Hands & Voices is the group that brought you a Viking pantomime, an Elizabethan romp and a medieval pantomime quest, so its no surprise that for their 10 year anniversary production they have come up with something extra-special! So join us and step back in time to 'The Good Old Days'!

On Friday 30^th November & Saturday 1st December 7.30pm with a matinée performance on Saturday 1st at 2pm, Accessible Arts own inspirational Hands & Voices Choir will be presenting an exquisite extravaganza of magnificent musical meanderings at The National Centre for Early Music (for your delight and delectation of course)!

Jugglers and Magicians, Strongmen and Lion Tamers, Laurel and Hardy – prepare yourselves for a teaming torrent of tempting talent all brought to you by your own, your very own Hands and Voices (the first ever singing and signing choir)!

The focus of this year’s performance is to showcase the decidedly diverse and distinctly different talents of our choir members, ensuring that each member has the opportunity to take centre stage in the performance. As always, ‘The Good Old Days’ has been devised by the performers themselves, and will feature a unique multimedia blend of music, theatre, dance, live electronics and film, during which, absolutely anything can (and probably will) happen!

A seductively sonorous soundtrack has been devised by Cube Media's own SoundWeavers (professional musicians with learning difficulties), assisted by Dean St. John, Chris Bartram and members of Hands & Voices, with mind-boggling multimedia moments created by Andy Burns.

And on Friday 30^th November, for one night only, we are honoured to announce that Alan Hacker OBE, internationally acclaimed Clarinetist and Conductor, will be joining forces with the SoundWeavers in a proficient, praiseworthy and palpitation-raising performance. Alan has been a patron of Accessible Arts for 15 years now, providing support and encouragement throughout this time.

Tickets are on sale now (£7/£4) from the National Centre for Early Music Box Office on 01904 658 338 Email boxoffice@ncem.co.uk

If you wish to avoid the amateur attentions of our inexperienced and irritable knife-thrower (don’t say we didn’t warn you!) please come in costume best befitting The Good Old Days!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Pick & Mix sessions in October half tem!

Following on from the success of the first 'Pick & Mix' Music Taster Days, Cube Media is pleased to be able to offer three more Pick & Mix sessions!

Pick & Mix is an exciting new initiative for aspiring young musicians in North Yorkshire. The scheme is for 14-18 yr olds who are interested in working in music, and want to find out more about the different possibilities open to them.

Each Pick & Mix day consists of a number of taster workshops to show different ways musical skills can be used in a community and educational context. The taster sessions include:

• Using music technology in an accessible way
• Singing & Signing
• World Drumming
• Using Warm-ups & games

Following on from the Pick & Mix days, young people will have the opportunity to work with a mentor to continue their professional development. Mentoring sessions will take place January - March 2008.

In October Half Term, Pick & mix sessions will be running on the following dates:
Thursday 25th October 10 -5 Northallerton College
Friday 26th October 10-5 HYPeR, Harrogate
Saturday 27th October 10 - 5 The Melbourne Centre, York

Thanks to funding from Youth Music, we are able to offer these sessions completely free!

This is a chance not to be missed for all young people interested in taking their music further. Places are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.

For more information, or to book onto any of the sessions, please call 01904 626 965 or email workshop@cubemedia.biz

This programme has been funded by Youth Music and is being run by Cube Media (North Yorkshire's foremost Community Media Centre) , in association with Tune in (The North Yorkshire Youth Music Action Zone) and Connecting Youth Culture/ 6k Vision (a project which supports Young Musicians and Bands in North Yorkshire)