We have named this workshop ‘Finding Your Voice’, but the real story is a little more complex. In the journey towards authenticity and self-actualisation the voice is more often like a living, breathing animal than a solid object. You might see it and find it out of the corner of your eye, but in foraging to looking for it, you lose it again. 

In this session, we will explore ways to glance aside for your voice. This will include exploring your experience of your own speaking voice, both physical and emotional, the space you are speaking in, and accessible in-roads to your singing voice.

We will be creating and sharing personal responses or ‘translations’ of a piece of text that we will work on during the session.

The workshop will be an informal, sociable space which may be of interest to artists in any medium, writers, musicians, and improvisers looking to explore vocal approaches to material. However, no artistic experience is necessary.

This workshop is open to trans, non-binary, and otherwise gender-diverse folk, and those who have faced barriers to their voice due to gender. It is devised and led by trans folks. Led by composer Rufus Isabel Elliot and singer/composer Rylan.

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This workshop has been generously funded by Wharf Chambers.

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OVER / AT is a trans music-making world, woken from its slumbers by composer Rufus Isabel Elliot. It is a world with big dreams of imaginative, unmedicalised approaches to trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse voices – whether speaking, singing, or howling.