Coda Summer Holiday Newsletter
We hope you are all enjoying a relaxing Summer break. There are exciting developments at Coda so we are keen to keep you updated on everything that is happening and what’s coming up in September.
The Coda (music) term starts back on Monday 2nd September with our new creative programme launching the following week (w/c 9th September). On 14th & 15th September you are all invited to join us at our Welcome Weekend event, where you will be able to explore your creativity with a range of FREE taster workshops - full details below!
NEW AUTUMN PROGRAMME
Things rarely go to plan! Especially when building work is concerned. We were hoping to provide a taste of our new programmes to come and introduce you to our brand new barn development over the Summer holidays, but we had to hit pause because of delays and we want you to experience our brand new buildings at their best so our new creative programme of classes and workshops is now scheduled to start in the week of 9th September and will include:
EMBRACING THE SEASONS with Rakhee Jasani
Gentle creative movement
Tuesdays 10 – 11.15am
Starting Tuesday 10th September 2024
£40 for 5 weeks
VILLAGE HALL DRAW with Tracey Dovey
For adults of all ages & abilities
Tuesdays 7 – 9pm
Starting Tuesday 10th September 2024
£15 per session PAYG or £90 for 7 weeks
WILD WEDNESDAYS with Maddy Collymore
Creative Family Workshops for families with pre-schoolers
Wednesdays 10.30am -12pm
Starting Wednesday 11th September 2024
£10 PAYG (per family) or £60 for 7 weeks
SCULPTURE CLUB with Emily Stracey
After-school, creative, mixed-media workshops
Thursdays 4.30am - 6.30pm
Starting Thursday 12th September 2024
For 8-14 years £60 for 7 weeks
Visit coda.org.uk/whats-on for full details
WELCOME WEEKEND
Saturday & Sunday 14th & 15th September
10.30am - 3pm
at Coda Music & Arts Centre
Visit Coda’s brand new facilities and explore your creativity with a range of FREE taster workshops for everyone at our Welcome Weekend event.
Start the day with a Qigong session (gentle movement related to Tai Chi) then enjoy some free drop-in creative activities including sewing, drawing, sculpture, print-making and nature-based workshops.
With music provided by The Folk Orc.
This is a free weekend of creative activities - all ages & abilities are welcome: children & families, beginners to experienced makers, crafters & artists.
Save the dates and come along to try something new!
TALBOT VILLAGE TRUST
We are hugely grateful to Talbot Village Trust who have given £20,000 to Coda Music and Arts Trust to transform the old grain store barn on our site into a wonderful new asset for our local community. These grants are designed to boost wellbeing across communities and drive positive social change in the region.
This grant is helping Coda to build a new rehearsal and workshop room. which will enable children, young people and adults of all abilities to learn, play, enjoy and benefit from music.
With the Trust's support we are providing a unique space for creative therapies, wellbeing and lifelong learning.
NEW CODA WEBSITE
Some of you may have already noticed that we have launched a new-look website to complement our new building development. Please be aware that this is still very much a work in progress and will be undergoing additional development work and refinements over the Summer. We hope that the new website will reflect all aspects of Coda Music and Arts Trust in a more cohesive way than the previous site, which served us well for almost a decade, but no longer fully reflected the organisation we have now become.
You can find out all about Coda on the website as well as view all of our upcoming programme of events in the What’s On section - you can even book activities online!
We would like to extend enormous thanks to James, Kelly and Kierney of The Onle Network who have worked with us to create the new site and who have so kindly given their time and expertise free of cost. We are so appreciative of their skills and generosity.
CAFE CONUNDRUM – CAN YOU HELP?
You will be aware of all the changes at Coda and we are really excited to welcome you all back to introduce you to our new site in September. Our main stable block project is just about complete including a new kitchen and café space.
With the changes to our site and to our work we would like to explore different options for our current cafe offer and would like to appeal to you for ideas.
To date, the café has been run by volunteers on a very part-time basis, but we believe it could be much more - and we are looking for inspiration and proposals.
Might you have a dream to run a café or know someone that would fit the opportunity here at Coda? Would you be willing to speak to us about your ideas?
If so, we’d love to hear from you, so please drop a line to Phil on phil.hallett@coda.org.uk
NEW FOREST TURF SUPPLIES
An enormous thank you to Vicky and of Kellie of New Forest Turf Supplies who have installed the beautiful wildflower turf which you can now see alongside our car park and barn development.
This has very generously been provided to Coda free of charge and New Forest Turf Supplies are now working with us to be part of another outside space within our site.
END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL
We are delighted to have been chosen (for the eighth year running) as a partner charity for the wonderful End Of The Road Festival, who will be supporting Coda through guest-list donations (and has now raised over £10,000 for the charity in the years since the partnership began!).
We are so grateful that End Of The Road choose to support us in this way. Guests are always incredibly generous and the contributions genuinely help Coda to make a difference to those in need of our help.
Thanks to support from EOTR, this year we are running DJ training sessions for young adults with learning disabilities alongside some music workshops for neuro-divergent young people, which will allow them meet and play music together.
End of the Road takes place from 29th August - 1st September 2024 at Larmer Tree Gardens and there are still tickets available!
To find out more about this fabulous festival or to book tickets, visit their website: endoftheroadfestival.com
FREE CLASSICAL GUITAR TASTER SESSIONS
We have some availability for instrumental tuition in September, so if you are thinking about learning an instrument - or would like to go back to learning - we are welcoming new students for the Autumn Term. In particular, we would love to encourage some more Classical Guitar students to join us and we are offering FREE taster sessions for lessons in September.
Stephen Kenyon is our highly qualified and experienced Classical Guitar tutor. If you'd like to know a bit more about Stephen's background, experience and approach to teaching, click here
If you would like to try a taster lesson, we are offering a limited number of FREE taster sessions (specifically for Classical Guitar, limited to one per person and subject to availability).
Taster sessions are also available for all other instruments for £5.
If you would like to take up our free taster session offer or book for any other instrument, please contact Coda to arrange - call 01425 276161 or email contact@coda.org.uk
NEW FOR SEPTEMBER: ADULT BEGINNERS PIANO COURSE
Wednesdays 2.30 – 3.30pm
Starting Wednesday 11th September
in The Piano Room, Coda Music Centre
£125 for 10 week courseAdult Beginners Piano is a 10-week course specifically designed for beginners with no prior knowledge of music. The course introduces the basics of playing the piano and the foundations for learning to read music and understanding the theory of music.
For full details, click here
To book contact Coda on 01325 276161 or email contact@coda.org.uk
CREATIVE WELLBEING
A reminder that our regular Creative Wellbeing sessions continue to run throughout the Summer in New Milton, Pennington, Hythe, Somerford and Fordingbridge.
Delivered by local Art Facilitators and designed to support mental health in adults, these open-studio style drop-in groups offer a range of creative activities.
If you think you would benefit from joining us at a Creative Wellbeing group, please come along - we would love to see you.
If you have any questions about Creative Wellbeing, contact Martin Pettett on martin@coda.org.uk
SINGING MAMAS - COMING TO CODA IN SEPTEMBER
Wednesdays 10.30am - 12pm, starting 4th September
£8 per session
A new local group for women's wellbeing is coming to Coda, starting 4th September 2024. Mums, carers, grandmothers, and women without children are all welcome. Bumps and babies too! As children we sing freely and joyfully, but many voices get shushed or told they're not good enough. Singing becomes scary and we forget how to do it. Well, this is your invitation to find your voice again. Singing together is clinically proven to improve wellbeing and treat postnatal depression and anxiety. Shy singers, loud singers, all welcome. No experience needed and no wrong notes!
Singing Mamas will offer a welcoming singing circle sharing beautiful, simple songs from around the world, taught by ear.
If you would like to know more or book a place, contact elaine.cullinane@gmail.com
or visit www.singingmamas.org
CHRIS HOPGOOD TUITION & GROUPS W/C 2nd SEPTEMBER
A reminder that Chris Hopgood will be away for the first week of Autumn Term (week commencing 2nd September), which means that there will be no one-to-one tuition with Chris (your invoices will be adjusted accordingly), Monday Beautiful Sounds, Folk Orc or Campfire Sessions that week.
Enjoy the last few weeks of the Summer holidays and we look forward to welcoming you all back in September.