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Home > Riverhouse Barn: The Open Fund for Organisations

Riverhouse Barn: The Open Fund for Organisations

Riverhouse Barn: The Open Fund for Organisations

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Bridging Communities

Riverhouse is a community arts center in Walton on Thames. In recent years our community, and the wider community of our borough Elmbridge, has been enhanced by the arrival of many Polish families. Together with our partners, the RC Sherriff Trust, we hope to enrich the whole community through the sharing of music, literature, art, dance and food.

At the heart of the project is the creation of a dramatic work for piano trio and narrator lasting around one hour. Composer Joseph Phibbs is commissioned to write about 30 minutes of original music in a contemporary idiom but inspired by Polish folk-music. The text is written by the story-teller Kevin Graal who has woven together ideas from several Polish folk tales. The work will provide the focal point of a Performance and Education project led by the Barbican Piano Trio which will take place in four Primary schools in the Spring and summer of 2018. The schools will contribute creatively by adding their own soundscapes, percussion and/or vocal effects. The first performances of the complete piece will be in the schools during May 2018.

During the summer Riverhouse will premier a Suite for Piano Trio extracted from the work by Joseph Phibbs. The center will also promote an exhibition of contemporary Polish art; concerts of music played by Polish jazz musicians; a festival of Polish and British folk dance; and a day of Polish food.

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