Dear supporters and readers, As many of you will have already heard, there is an all-girls youth orchestra coming from Kabul, Afghanistan for a week’s residency in Oxford (12-19 March) with the Orchestra of St John’s. The orchestra, Ensemble Zohra,...
- March 8, 2019
Ensemble Zohra, the Afghan Womens Orchestra, comes to Oxford 12 – 19 March Hear them at the Sheldonian Theatre on Sunday 17th at 5pm Look at their wonderful website www.zohra-music.org/ Marvellous and inspirational videos.
- March 5, 2019
We are delighted that Cayenna’s perspective on our Ensemble Zohra project has been published on the Oxford Arts Blog. In Afghanistan, young women making music in public is a bold political act. To been seen, to be heard — particularly through...
- February 18, 2019
“Last Friday I had the rather strange experience of watching my students perform in my old college. Under the memorial plaques to writers Dorothy L Sayers and Winnifred Holtby and to Margaret Thatcher, GCSE and A level students from Oxford...
- February 3, 2019
We’ve just heard that we have been awarded a significant grant by Arts Council England towards the costs of the Afghan Womens Orchestra visit in March 2019. This is our second grant in six months, and is testament to the...
- January 31, 2019
Composer Toby Young has been involved in the Displaced Voices project very early on. Ahead of the concerts and events taking place in Oxford on 18 January and in London on 19 January he talks about his experience in a...
- January 10, 2019
