CO - Lab: Creative Online Collaboration and Youth Music

We are very pleased and excited to announce the launch of a new project and platform for aspiring musicians and creative practitioners, that we have entitled CO - Lab: Creative Online Collaboration. The funding that we have received from Youth Music, Arts Council England, Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, and Tesco: Bags Of Help is enabling this large-scale project platform to run for the next 6 months. We are reaching out to young musicians, makers, creative practitioners, poets and songwriters.

The CO - Lab project aims to deliver 3 outcomes to align with the Arts Council England's 'Let's Create' strategy, they are:  1. Developing personal creativity, though online workshops and meet-ups 2. Connecting people and communities through music and creativity using online and offline platforms to encourage collaboration and showcase work 3. Creating a new culture of musical and creative artists by nurturing and promoting there works and devising their platform for exposure to national and international levels.

1-2-1 distance focus sessions and Zoom Lyric Writing workshops have already begun.  We are already working with Youth Inspired Peterborough and plan to work with other young people charities, 3rd Sector organisations, and SEN schools during the course over the next 6 months. For creative practitioners in the city, we plan to hold some collaborative gatherings both online, to begin with, and eventually offline too. So we can be in a room, making, playing, researching and developing ideas, and just hanging out! 

Keep your eyes peeled and ears to the ground for more info and activities for CO - Lab.

P.S If you have an idea or can see this project working with your ideas please contact us - it's about the collaboration after all.  info@beatthis.org 01733 873014 www.beatthis.org @beatthiscic