Olivia Preye
Olivia has been working as a composer, writer, performer and music facilitator since graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Much of her work is experiential: she helps people find their voice and use it in a way that is fulfilling for them and their audience.
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Olivia’s work for the stage has focused on collecting and representing documentary material to create cross-disciplinary theatre. In 2012 she formed the Unhidden Collective and developed a narrative language which mixes sound design, storytelling, recorded interviews, choral harmony, movement and live projections. Pieces in this vein she has written, directed and performed in are: The Fish Tales of Alaska (2012), ACE-funded Finding Frank (2013) and Becoming Cicely (2016).
In 2019 Olivia was commissioned to compose the score for Hush Now, an ACE funded theatre piece by Feral (Hereford).
She has over 10 years’ experience leading creative workshops in a range of contexts from concert halls to psychiatric units worldwide (Barbican; Bethlem Royal Hospital; HMP Leicester; Tokyo College of Music; The Blind School, Sarajevo, The Guildhall, Londonderry, ECCO Gambia, Rabindra Natya Mandir, Mumbai).
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She recently co-lead the Pentabus Young Writers programme.
Olivia has received commissions for experimental vocal compositions from: BBC Radio 3 the Verb (Baroque Spring), I-D online (Sonnet 18), Gagglebabble (We Are Here).
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In 2020 she received a commission from Pentabus and Paines Plough for Walking with Mum a solo short film about grief and walking shot in my local lanes in rural Herefordshire (see below).
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Olivia is a Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher.
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Emma Margetson
Emma Margetson is an award-winning acousmatic composer and sound artist based in the Midlands, UK. Her works have been performed nationally and internationally, and she was recently awarded first prize in the prestigious L’Espace du Son International Spatialisation Competition by Influx. She has extensive experience in multichannel composition, sound diffusion and interpretation to create highly immersive 2D & 3D sound worlds.
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Alithea Waterfield
Grief feels like a heartbreak that never heals.
5 years ago in 2016, my sister suffered a catastrophic head injury. All medical and family support rallied around her offering great love and great care. Despite every effort, after two agonizing days, we made the heartbreaking choice of turning off her life support.
We all suffer loss and this loss can come in many different forms, the end of a very precious life, a marriage, a job, a time of life. Death and endings are a natural part of our very human lives. Along with the very real suffering that death brings, it can also create an opportunity for us to come together in a community of care that is both healing and deeply supportive. Creating this space in nature, where the natural unfolding of life and death is all around us can support us in processing the pain of loss and help us continue living in a more conscious and connected way, knowing that we are part of a greater life cycle. By honouring what has passed away, we can more fully embrace the life that is here.
A broken heart is a heart that can grow...
Alithea Waterfield - Mindfulness, and Mindfulness in Nature therapist.
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Being mindful in nature offers a unique way of experiencing nature more intimately and directly. Using the skills that Mindfulness teaches us we cultivate a receptive, open quality of presence which allows a rich sensitivity and connection to the natural world. Softening into nature we begin to sense a belonging where we are held and accepted in a non-judgmental and healing way.
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When we are mindful in the natural world using all of our senses, nature generously supports us into a larger life.