Free live-stream tracing migrant journeys through music & readings

NW Live Arts are premiering their first ever full-length, online concert: Music & Body. It promises to be an extraordinary evening of words and music tracing migrant journeys from Africa and the Middle East to Europe. 

Featuring musicians and writers from Freedom From Torture's Write to Life scheme, Music & Body presents music and readings ‘exploring the body as saviour and burden’.

This concert was first presented to a sell-out audience in November 2019, but you have a chance to catch it again for free - including some new pieces and improvisations - on Wednesday 30th September at 7:30pm.

Freedom from Torture are a charity which work with survivors of torture, providing therapy and support, and fighting for change together. Their Write to Life scheme is the longest running refugee writing group in Britain, and the only one to focus on survivors of torure. You can read more about it here.

Alongside the refugees' readings of poetry and prose, virtuoso musicians will blend folk, classical and contemporary music from Europe, Africa and the Middle East with Bach and Schubert.

Access to the online concert is free, but spectators are encouraged to donate a suggested £5 to the NW Arts Live charity here.

NW Live Arts believe everyone should be able to experience a live classical music event - their vision is to share live music with a wide audience and for the arts to have a positive impact on our communities. You can read more about them here.

Check out the Facebook event, and where you can stream the performance here.

Read the digital programme here.