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Small Voices Louder

What does the World need to Hear?

From the mouths of babes we have all heard innocence, raw opinion, honesty, and the importance of that very moment right now in time. Children teach adults many things, but life is busy these days, are we really listening to them?

The Small Voices Louder project by Alex Desebrock and Maybe_Together in partnership with Performing Lines, offers the opportunity for grown ups to stop and listen. Because sometimes Children's voices are exactly what the world need to hear.

Small Voices Louder is a two part project. Firstly, in partnership with Hopetoun Primary School and Ravensthorpe District High School, children were invited on an excursion to the Hopetoun Hall. The Hall was filled with an installation of tents which individually contained a micro-world of sorts - an alien, a cloud, a fish, a crystal, a beating heart, a portal, the world and an egg. Each tent also presented a question, and the children's answers were audibly recorded. These recordings will be weaved into sound works.

Part two of the Small Voices Louder project will be a "sound experience" where the soundtracks will be broadcast to adult ears. This part of the project will be moving into production phase shortly. We absolutely cannot wait to hear the sound tracks, and we can't wait to share them so keep your ears to the ground! Stay tuned to our Facebook page for updates.

A special thank you goes to Lotterywest for funding the school bus which brought the children in from Ravensthorpe DHS to the Hopetoun Community Centre. Also much thanks to First Quantum Minerals Ravensthorpe Nickel Operations for their ongoing support with supplying accommodation for our artists.

Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council receives core funding from Country Arts WA, which receives funding from the State Government through the Department of Culture and the Arts and Lotterywest.