A creative music session with James Moriarty, one of our Music Leaders Action For Refugees in Lewisham. Here James presents 20 mins of music for 4-6 year olds. These are songs for the kitchen, and can be enjoyed by anyone - you don't need an...
Music for Waking Up, an activity aimed for 4-7 year olds. Join James our Creative session leader in Lewisham, for a fun music activity about waking up. A nice and exciting way to start and get you ready for your day. What Shall I Do...
An interactive Fife, Flute and Pringles Shaker activity with Fairbeats session leader Arjun. Arjun Jethwa who leads fife and flute classes at Action for Refugees in Lewisham leads a 20 minute session including rhythm games and a fife and flute tutorial. Happier Instrumental https://soundcloud.com/fairbeats-music/happier-final-video/s-Nsebksax5CX ...
A fun and creative musical activity for 7-11 year olds from Fairbeats Artist in Residence Holly Khan. Holly has been working at Love to Learn in Wandsworth and was about to begin working at Refugee Action Kingston. Join in with Holly's session and create...
I’ve now been working at Fairbeats for around 4 years and that time seems like it’s flown by! Fairbeats has always proved different in comparison to the other learning institutions as there is an emphasis placed on musical enjoyment as opposed to grade exams or...
I worked with Fairbeats as a trainee workshop leader for 6 months. This role was perfect for me as I had always desired to work for a music charity and with young people. As a singer/songwriter I found that I could balance my music work...
In the relatively short time I've been teaching at Fairbeats I've been exploring a very different approach to the previous decade or so of music teaching. I come from a predominantly whole class wider opportunities setting and more recently small group KS1 rhythm work as...
Fairbeats exists to build communities: musical communities, diverse communities, welcoming communities. Through our work we try to create space for young people from new communities across London to feel accepted and valued. Music is the tool we employ to create these communal connections, but rarely...
Introduction In this piece of writing, I hope to shed light from my perspective on the experience I have had with Fairbeats. For some context, assuming someone who may read this won't know who I am, I would like to briefly introduce myself. My name is Daniel...