Constella OperaBallet is providing free, virtual and interactive performances for care homes. Delivered by some of the UK’s most exciting musicians and dancers who also work with the Royal Opera House, English National Opera and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Their innovative model provides high-quality performance and well-being support for care home residents. They use an optimised Zoom setup enabling an easy-to-use setup and a Covid-secure environment for performance. This enables their artists to interact with your residents, including performing requests, engaging in conversation and encouraging participation by clapping, singing and even dancing!
To see their work in action, please watch their short
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To set up performances for your home, please email info@constella.org.uk.
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Connecting Stars
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Together with Music (TwM); our aim is to connect all care homes in the UK with their local schools, community groups and choirs through music and creativity. We started out in January of this year, and thanks to our partners
Care England and our sponsors, membership is completely
FREE, we already have over 600 organisations signed up!!
In addition to providing this safe, virtual, sharing platform to facilitate intergenerational and community connections, we also offer a wealth of tools and resources to support activity and wellbeing staff in care homes, including regular live shows on zoom!
We recognise that everyone needs a bit of joy and positivity right now and our aims are simple:
- To tackle loneliness and isolation amongst some of the most vulnerable in our community
- Support mental health and wellbeing across the generations
- Ultimately, to encourage community connections both now, in this new virtual world and in the future when we can be together in person once again
We are so excited and encouraged by the success of this programme so far and the uptake of organisations and schools across the country. We are seeing momentum growing by the day, in fact our Project Manager, Charlotte Miller, recently featured on Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston & Amanda Holden. You can listen to the interview here.
Together with Music
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Contact: Jeanette Hague, TwM Connector
Phone: 07710027379 or email:
jeanette@togetherwithmusic.org.uk
The
BBC Music Memories
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