{"id":34909,"date":"2025-03-22T03:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/my-singing-bird\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T03:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:03:22","slug":"my-singing-bird","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/my-singing-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"My Singing Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">My Singing Bird is a community-based arts project that will involve singing, story sharing, song writing, music making and visual arts. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">It will take the theme of birds as the jumping off or taking flight point. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The project takes its title from My Singing Bird, a Munster folk tune with words by Irish poet, Edith Wheeler, popularised by the Clancy Brothers. &nbsp;Artists Leisa Gray and Andy Spearpoint will work work in partnership with Silver Arch Family Resource Centre in Nenagh. The 5sessions will begin by learning and sharing popular songs about birds. From there, we will explore human relationships with the world of birds through song-writing, soundscape making, singing, creative writing and image making. There will be a series of five sessions at the Tyone Community Centre in Nenagh. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The planned session dates are April 2nd, 9th, 30th and May 7th, 14th, from 1.30pm to 3.30pm at Tyone Community Centre in Nenagh. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Artist Biographies:<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Leisa Gray is a textile and visual artist, maker and singer. She has worked extensively with museum and gallery collections as well as coordinating large scale community projects. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Andy Spearpoint is a musician, sound artist and songwriter who has worked in community music and music education for over twenty year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;F<span>or further information or to book a place please contact Catherine Power on \ud835\udfce\ud835\udfd6\ud835\udfd1-\ud835\udfcf\ud835\udfd4\ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfd7\ud835\udfd0\ud835\udfd3\ud835\udfd1<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34910,"template":"","class_list":["post-34909","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My Singing Bird - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My Singing Bird is a community-based arts project that will involve singing, story sharing, song writing, music making and visual arts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/my-singing-bird\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Singing Bird - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My Singing Bird is a community-based arts project that will involve singing, story sharing, song writing, music making and visual arts. 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