Donate to our crowdfunder here: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/how-to-survive-and-thrive-with-a-piano
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We need your help!
We're delighted to announce our new project - How To Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World - with a piano! - will be happening this spring/summer.
We're going to create a new show with new music, working with and supporting NHS staff and those on the frontline: part show, part therapy, part workout, part community celebration.
As Bruce Springsteen said, "The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with", and we're going to make the best music and the best show we can, to provide masses of entertainment, but also tools for emotional and psychological support, a renewed sense of resourcefulness and wellbeing, for a community who have been on the receiving end of a tough time and, doubtless, traumatic few years.
We'll base it on Steve Bonham's liberating new book, How to Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World. The show will be funny, wise, entertaining and very, very different!
And we need your help to make it happen!
To complete the project, we need to be able to back the show up with a website, and also a special printed programme for everyone who attends, that provides ongoing support and ideas, and ways of remembering the messages from the show.
So, can you chip in today? Every little bit will help us reach our initial goal of £500.
Donate here:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/how-to-survive-and-thrive-with-a-piano
Says Steve Bonham, "I can't actually think of a single word to describe this performance, but I know it taps into what an acclaimed academic once said are the universal salves for healing: dancing, singing, storytelling and silence."
We'll have a livestream of the final show later in the summer, so you'll be able to see what you helped make happen.
Expect to laugh, think, be challenged and perhaps never look at yourself the same way again!
Supported by Arts Council England and Air Arts.
We're delighted to announce our new project - How To Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World - with a piano! - will be happening this spring/summer.
We're going to create a new show with new music, working with and supporting NHS staff and those on the frontline: part show, part therapy, part workout, part community celebration.
As Bruce Springsteen said, "The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with", and we're going to make the best music and the best show we can, to provide masses of entertainment, but also tools for emotional and psychological support, a renewed sense of resourcefulness and wellbeing, for a community who have been on the receiving end of a tough time and, doubtless, traumatic few years.
We'll base it on Steve Bonham's liberating new book, How to Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World. The show will be funny, wise, entertaining and very, very different!
And we need your help to make it happen!
To complete the project, we need to be able to back the show up with a website, and also a special printed programme for everyone who attends, that provides ongoing support and ideas, and ways of remembering the messages from the show.
So, can you chip in today? Every little bit will help us reach our initial goal of £500.
Donate here:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/how-to-survive-and-thrive-with-a-piano
Says Steve Bonham, "I can't actually think of a single word to describe this performance, but I know it taps into what an acclaimed academic once said are the universal salves for healing: dancing, singing, storytelling and silence."
We'll have a livestream of the final show later in the summer, so you'll be able to see what you helped make happen.
Expect to laugh, think, be challenged and perhaps never look at yourself the same way again!
Supported by Arts Council England and Air Arts.
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Solace and resilience for a Covid-19 world.
At the heart of this project is the passionate belief that art can heal and renew. Indeed, at its best, it may be the most powerful way of helping groups of people who, in these difficult and troubled times, have been on the frontline in coping with a world turned upside down. How To Survive And Thrive In An Impossible World (with a piano!) is a unique entertainment of great songs, wild stories, jokes, amazing characters and much thoughtfulness. Off the wall it may be, but at its heart is a powerful message about wellbeing, resilience and positivity. Based upon award-winning psychologist and adventurer Steve Bonham's book of the same name, this is a unique way of helping us all feel better about ourselves and less confronted by the world which many of us find ourselves living in.
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And in amongst the tales of spirit dogs, eccentric parents, world long-distance minibikers, trainee stuntmen, and 12th-century German abbesses, the latest insights from neuropsychology, psychotherapy, and evolutionary biology are subtly woven in. The power of song and story to engage the human mind at a conscious and unconscious level is increasingly understood and this makes How To Survive And Thrive In An Impossible World (with a piano!) potent and potentially transformational.
With over 70% of the UK population reporting high levels of anxiety within a 12 month period it is time to: take first step; be wild; be strong; travel with companions and be experimental. |
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We're thrilled to be partnering with Air Arts, based at University Hospital of Derby and Burton, for this pilot project.
Look out for performances coming your way! |
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We're thrilled to have received Arts Council England support for stage one of this project. Thank you making this a reality! |
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Western Requiem, from Steve Bonham and the Long Road, features Steve's brilliant lyrics and songwriting, and Chris (the Bishop's) super piano style.
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Find out more about Steve and Chris in their documentary, Rise of the Artisan, created during lockdown with the support of Arts Council England
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Photos from recent performance at Lighthouse, Poole.
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