Life Is A Song workshop program

Wild At Heart Community Arts presents Life Is A Song, a songwriting workshop program in the City of La Trobe for people with lived experience of mental illness or disadvantage.

The program consists of 3 x 8 week series of half day weekly songwriting workshops over one year beginning in early 2019. Participants will work with professional facilitating musicians to learn how to write and record their own original songs based on stories from their lives.

Participants will present their songs in public performance in the local area, on community radio and through social media.

Life Is A Song will provide a friendly and creative space for some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of the community.

It offers participants a chance to build self confidence through skill development and creative expression, establish friendships, and have their voices heard within their local community.

For those who live isolated lives, whose weekly schedule consists mainly of health-related appointments, this program provides the social inclusion, inspiration and self-expression essential for wellbeing.

By reaching outside the workshop space through live performance and radio, the group will also enrich their community through advocacy and education around mental health.