About Wren Music

Mission

Wren’s mission is to work with traditional music to inspire creativity and celebrate cultural identities.

We go out to people of all ages and abilities, and work with them in places where they feel comfortable to develop skills and to address the issues that they care about, and together we make things happen.

Wren works mainly in Devon, and over the five years between 2003 and 2008 participation in our activities has more than doubled.

Wren has relationships with organisations and artists throughout Great Britain and strong overseas connections in mainland Europe (Germany, France, Italy, and Hungary) Canada and South Africa.

We are always looking for partners to help us achieve our vision: a world where every voice is heard and look forward through this business plan, to going out to more people and making more things happen.

Core values

Wren operations will be informed by our core values.
As an organisation we will relate to all our clients, audience, participants, staff, stakeholders and members of the public with:

• Integrity
• Openness
• Honesty

Our arts programme will be delivered through:

• Participation
• Learning
• Collaboration
• Respect for prior knowledge

The outcomes of our arts programme will be identified by

• Excellence
• Creativity
• Fun

Workshops

Workshops are Integral to any project, workshops are a valuable part of the Wren program.
They are tailored to a group's specific needs and can be for training purposes
as well as encouraging participation and the passing on of skills.
Wren tries to make it's workshops as "hands on" as possible.
We provide all materials needed for a workshop and these will be discussed when a workshop is booked.

• Music workshops with Instruments provided
• Song writing and arranging
• Choirs and choral
• Musical composition and arranging
• Digital recording
• Oral history
• Setting up community events
• Project evaluation
• Training for trainers
• Training for teachers
• Special needs education

All workshops are available as either a one off or as a longer series of sessions.
Feel free to contact us for details or to talk through a workshop idea.

Open Access Groups

These Open Access Groups enable people to make music and sing together in informal settings.
No audition or qualification is necessary to be part of these groups.
Some are age specific and others are made up from across the age groups, all are inclusive of all abilities.
The groups aim to be fun, creative, challenging and accessible.
Developing performance is a part of the ongoing role of these groups.