In this episode, we talk with Gwenna Fairchild-Taylor about her work as an Opera Omaha Holland Community Opera Fellow and about community music making. Gwenna holds an M.M. in Opera (University of Toronto) and a B.M. in Voice Performance (Western University) and is a first year Holland Community Opera Fellow. She has spent time as a Musician In Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and is a four-time recipient of Government of Nunavut Culture & Heritage Grants in support of her music and drama programs in communities in the Arctic. She also wrote the curriculum for "Learn English Through Song," a program in Toronto that facilitates language learning and community building for newcomer women through singing. She has also worked as a teaching artist and consulted on curriculum development for education programming at the Canadian Opera Company.

 

To contact Gwenna:

 

Gwenna Fairchild-Taylor: Website, Instagram, Twitter

 

Opera Omaha - Holland Community Fellowship

Opera Omaha Creativity Prompts

Canadian Opera Company

Regent Park School of Music

LETS - Learn English Through Song

Crow Winter

 

Connect with Omaha Children's Choir - OCC Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

 

Omar Martinez - Instagram

Amanda Stevenson - Instagram, Twitter

 

Voices Creating Change presents stories of social change initiatives through the arts. Our conversations open possibilities beyond the limitations that underrepresented populations face daily, specifically in the arts. 

Hosted by Amanda Stevenson & Omar Martinez. New episodes release each Friday. Voices Creating Change is a production of Omaha Children's Choir.

 

View show information at omahachildrenschoir.org/podcast.