MUSEUMS, HERITAGE & HISTORY 

Through sound, music and listening-skills, sQuarish projects are a great way to focus children’s interest in time passing, history, heritage and cultural change, in a fun way. This often involves close collaboration with museums, galleries, special-interest associations, audio-visual suppliers, public-venues, festivals and cultural organisations. Here’s a selection of partners and collaborators: 

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Groups, schools and families have taken part in many sQuarish music-workshops, site-specific events and performances combining specially-composed music with dance, theatre, narration and the visual arts to highlight children’s sense of time passing, historical dimensions and heritage on the doorstep.  

In some of these projects, imaginative sound-elements and recordings are experienced via sound-installations, audio-tours, audio-trails, sound-walks, CDs and podcasts for children and families.... sometimes hidden-speakers, headsets and headphones are linked to visual and tactile elements. These different approaches develop curiosity and can create all sorts of exciting multimedia “virtual worlds”.

In addition, numerous sQuarish BBC radio-programmes, podcasts, music-tracks, events and publisher-projects enable children to discover time-territories through enjoyable music and sound-worlds appropriate for each era and age-group. Here’s a timeline of some sQuarish time-periods explored so far: 

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To hear some music-snippets and soundscapes from across time and place, try: 

[LINK to Themes and subjects/History and Themes and subjects/Around the world] 

For more details of some previous live events see: 

[LINK to Live-music events and workshops]. 

For organisers who’d like to enquire about possible new projects, please make contact here: 

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