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Songs of Empowerment Workshop
Songs of Empowerment Workshop
October 19 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm IST
Songs of Empowerment is a workshop conducted by Colm Quearney, a workshop facilitator and Development and Outreach Officer with Fighting Words. At this workshop, participants have the opportunity to look at the history of songs that empower and will draw on these themes to create their own songs relevant to today’s generation.
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Colm Quearney, Workshop Facilitator and Development and Outreach Officer
Full Event Details
Songs of Empowerment is a workshop conducted by Colm Quearney, a workshop facilitator and Development and Outreach Officer with Fighting Words. The workshop is conducted onsite at Fighting Words, Behan Square, 12-16 Russell Street Dublin on Saturday 19 October from 11am to 1pm.
Songs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements, giving a universal voice, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality. At this workshop, we will look at the history of these songs that power, and will draw on these themes to create our own songs relevant to today’s (your) generation. No previous song writing experience is required. However, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have!
Speaker Biographies:
Colm Quearney has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer.
Fighting Words
Our aim is to help children and young people, and adults who did not have this opportunity as children, to discover and harness the power of their own imaginations and creative writing skills. At its core, Fighting Words is also about something much broader and more inclusive. It is about using the creative practice of writing and storytelling to strengthen our children and teenagers – from a wide range of backgrounds – to be resilient, creative and successful shapers of their own lives.
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