Bee Vocal Choir along with the BridgeWater Hall are looking to enter into discussions with a Mental Health organisation/charity/ social enterprise to develop a long-term partnership with. Bee Vocal are a Manchester based Mental Health Choir that tackles mental health challenges through song. Bee Vocal was set up for anyone who has previously, or is currently experiencing or supporting loved ones through mental health difficulties.
Bee Vocal launched in Easter 2018 and to date, have over 250 members with between 50-85 attending regularly. Prior to lockdown, the choir met every Wednesday evening during term times. Bee Vocal plan to re-launch in the same format from April 2022 with confirmed partners BridgeWater Hall and, as mentioned, a new Mental Health organisation.
Rehearsals are led creatively by Musical Director Dan McDwyer along with Administrator and marketing manager Adam Blease and supported by Psychologist Elaine Craig who oversees the wellbeing and safeguarding of the group.
Bee Vocal aims
The choir aims to use singing to:
- Help relieve suffering caused by mental health challenges and to aid prevention through increased wellbeing, support, resilience and help seeking behaviours
- Promote and increase individual and collective knowledge and understanding of mental health challenges
- Engage a community in raising awareness of, and tackling the challenges caused by mental ill health in a non-pathological model
- Engage amateur singers and promote professional singers in local and national arenas that are ambassadors for mental health
If your organisation would like to discuss potentially partnering with Bee Vocal and Bridgewater Hall in the next phase of impacting wellbeing through the arts email: [email protected] by 30 November 2021.