Make Messy Music with Mil's Trills: A Beginner's Guide to Songwriting

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Cost: $15.00
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Part of the Surrey SPARK Stages series of year-round performances and workshops for kids and families, Messy Music is an introduction to songwriting is a fun, hands-on and accessible way to make your own songs.

In this parent participation workshop you'll learn creative and unexpected ways to make music with your kids with absolutely no previous music experience required. Using voice, movement, and stories, you'll gather on the Main Stage with Grammy nominated Mil's Trills who will guide the group toward creating your very own original piece of music. Walk away with a simple, catchy song that just might debut at the afternoon performance Let it Out! With Mil's Trills.

For ages 6-10, but siblings outside that age range are welcome!

About Mil's Trills
Amelia “Mil” Robinson is a community leader, educator, composer, and performer born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Trained in Suzuki for piano and voice from the age of three, Amelia’s affinity for building community propels her work towards creating collaborative songwriting experiences via her Family Music project, Mil’s Trills, and pedagogy called Messy Music Method.

With 25+ years of experience in the family music space, Amelia has been recognized for an excellence in bringing joy to children (Jubilation Foundation Fellowship ’18-’19), has received multiple grants (Brooklyn Arts Council 2020-21), and is an award-winning recording artist (Parents’ Choice GOLD,  NAPPA, International Songwriting Competition, BRIC B-Young, Jamie Oliver’s Big Feastival).

She is certified in Responsive Pedagogy from Teachers College at Columbia University, has trained with Lincoln Center Education, and has worked under great composers such as Michael Nyman (The Piano) and Evan Lurie (The Lounge Lizards, The Backyardigans). As an educator, Amelia created early childhood music programs and curriculum at Stephen Gaynor School and Avenues: The World School in NYC. Amelia’s music has appeared in partnership with Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Initiative, Target’s Coffee and Crayons, the London Symphony Orchestra, and with the East End Film Festival where she composed and conducted a multi-media interactive orchestral piece, The Cycle Symphony, incorporating 500+ bicycle-bell playing participants (Time Out London #1 Critic’s Choice).

About Messy Music
The Messy Music Method is an arts-based, play-centred, social emotional learning approach to music-making that activates creativity free of standards, judgement and criticism. Through collaborative music-making experiences, we focus on process over product and interpret emotions through a lens of curiosity and improvisation. It helps students identify, process and accept emotions in positive and affirming ways. The vision is to encourage everyone to engage in a life-long and loving creative practice!
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