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Joy of Sound Workshops Outreach Edinburgh - Collaborative Inclusive Arts Day As part of our celebration of VolontEurope Year of the Volunteer, a team of 12 volunteers and facilitators from JOS spent a week in Edinburgh during October. We hosted a day of activities including participatory workshops, presentations and exhibits at the Barclay Viewforth Centre. International Work Guide Us Into Arts JOS hosted the first events of a groundbreaking venture in international development, a series of international visits for developing best practice in inclusive arts provision. During October visitors from 9 European countreis - Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, Turkey, Germany, and Romania will visit London for cultural exchange and skill sharing sessions, including attending a JOS workshop and combined arts training day, and investigating accessible approaches to Gamelan. Click here to read the report on the events. A team of JOS mmbers visited Brussels in March for the next phase of this project. Prague Building on previous links with Slovakia, and following last year's visits to Warzaw and Sarajevo, this November a group of five JOS facilitators visited Inventura in the Czech Republic Based in the The Meet Factory Arts Centre in Prague, Inventura runs inclusive, participant led theatre and video projects. A small team went to Brussels in February 2011 to set the agenda for developing a collaboration between the groups we have visited. Training 2012
click here for more information on the training
A new Dance Film and Performance project BETWEEN will be laucnhed. It will be recorded and included in the documentary "Hannah's Dance" a film about Hannah Adams life as the vibrant person and performer she is. Fundraising and Volunteering
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who sponsored Katia Hadaschik, who heroically completed the London Marathon to raise money for Joy Of Sound. Katia is building instruments for the JOS Bespoke Instruments project and her efforts have raised over £1,000 towards new research and design, If you would like to support Joy of Sound with a donation Please contact us... Any Old Instruments or Equipment? We are always on the lookout for instruments - perhaps you have an old guitar or fiddle stored in an attic or garage? If so, please contact us - any type, age or condition considered! If you would like to volunteer for Joy of Sound JOS is very much a volunteer based organisation - thanks to all - around 700 over ten years - please email volunteer@joyofsound.net. Joy of Sound is an inclusive arts project that provides workshops and equipment to enable everybody, regardless of their abilities and dexterity, to enjoy taking part in music making and other arts activities.
We are now in our 12th year of development, and our team of experienced inclusive workshop facilitators is skilled across the spectrum of creative arts practice and delivery. We maintain an ongoing program of research into bespoke and adapted musical instrument design and inclusive workshop techniques. We offer
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JOS workshops were run at several locations connected with the Normalni Festival. More picures at the
The group also took part in a workshop by Koert Decker, a leading theatre practitioner and founder of the 
New Dance Piece
Thanks to the Capital Community Foundation who have awarded us Grassroots funding. This has enabled JOS to appoint it's first paid worker - our administrator - and supporting two trainee posts
