Songs of Hope
Saturday 1st March, 10-4pm, Gorbals Parish Church, Glasgow.

Join experienced song-leaders Penny Stone and Ryan O’Riordan for day of singing to lift your spirits and fill you up with that thing we all find hard to find sometimes…. HOPE! Penny and Ryan write and teach songs for a better tomorrow, so please come expecting beautiful harmonies, uplifting themes and community connection.

This workshop is for anyone who wants to come, even if you have never sung before. All songs are taught by ear and you don’t need to be an experienced singer to take part.

Teas, coffees and biscuits will be provided on the day. Please bring a packed lunch or head out to one of the several local shops and cafes to buy something.

We plan to relocate after the workshop to The Lauriston, a fantastic nearby pub, for an informal social. More info on that to come!

TICKETS:

Ticket prices are on a sliding scale. Please pay as much as you can, as this allows us to offer subsidised tickets to people who need them and after this the profit from ticket sales will support two songleaders who largely give their time and energy to many causes for no income.
If the cost of a ticket is a barrier to you attending, please get in touch and we will do our best to get you in the room!
Email us at Glasgowsings@gmail.com

Penny Stone:

Penny stone is a songleader, composer and hopemonger based in Edinburgh. She co-leads radical choir Protest in Harmony, as well as open community singing groups and singing for health groups. Penny believes that we can start to build the world we want to live in, cultivating community and connection through singing together, and that we can share comfort and joy together whilst also using these songs to help challenge the status quo.

Find more at Penny’s Website

Ryan O’Riordan:

Ryan leads many weekly choirs in London, including the UCL Jazz Choir, the Greenpeace Workplace Choir and the Islington Community Choir and many more! Ryan also leads weekend workshops and residentials and has developed a style which is high-energy and fun loving. His original songs are funky and soulful, and are incredibly joyous, rhythmically infectious and fun. Ryan’s written songs for many occasions, and his song Dirty Water has been used up and down the country to raise money for Surfers Against Sewage. Ryan really believes in people power; the only way we can achieve anything meaningful is connecting and collaborating. So in any project he runs, he always tries to make sure it’s contributing to lifting people up, making people happy and bringing people together.

Check out more at Ryan’s Website

The Venue
Gorbals Parish Church
1 Errol Gardens, Gorbals, Glasgow G5 0RA

Please note, if you are struggling to find us using satnav/Google maps, you can use the Co-op address 190 Crown St, Gorbals, Glasgow G5 9ZR, we are the building to the left of the Co-op as you drive into the car park.

By subway: 9 mins walk from Bridge Street subway
By train: 22 mins walk from Glasgow Central Station
By bus: 4 min walk from bus stop at the Citizen’s Theatre
Parking: There is limited parking outside the venue including disabled parking. The Co-op car park next to the venue will charge you for parking so avoid this! There is free on-street parking in the surrounding area.

Accessibility:
There is disabled parking outside the venue and the venue is wheelchair accessible. The nearest dropped curb to access the front door to the building is by the disabled car parking places in the car park.