Educational Outreach

The Whispering Dome is a flexible performance concept allowing both local music groups, choirs and local schools to be involved in both workshops and the performance itself.

Children, for instance, get to experience up close high quality professional training in the music of the piece and learning about the musical instruments and traditions found on the path of the nightingale’s journey south including:

• History and culture of medieval Europe and pilgrimages

• La Convivienca in early medieval Spain and the multicultural court of Don Alfonso de Castellano

• Berber / Gnawa culture and rituals from Morocco and North Africa

• The Sahara and the Sahel, history, peoples and ecology

• History of trade and cross-cultural connections between west Africa, North Africa and Europe through the ages

• The culture of the Griot and courtly music in West African kingdoms

• The extraordinary phenomenon of long distance bird migration. Looking at current threats to vital habitats and the conservation work being undertaken to protect migration routes today.