Soma Sessions #13: Unlocking Choral Chiron w Hannah Catherine Jones

~ Please note: These sessions are open to People of Colour only ~

Peaks of Colour's Soma Sessions are monthly spaces that invite global majority communities to deepen their connection with themselves, each other and the land.

Set in the Peak District, these informal and intimate sessions will offer an introduction to embodied and nature-allied practices that can assist in our healing from gendered and racialised trauma.

A space of repetition as Black Feminist practice (Foluke Taylor), and rehearsal as an abolitionist priority (Ruth Wilson Gilmore), Soma Sessions will support us to build capacity and resilience for a future in which the boundaries between our human bodies and our more-than-human landscapes are decomposed.

Session #13: Unlocking Choral Chrion w Hannah Catherine Jones

Hannah’s broad interdisciplinary praxis is connected by a central spine of decolonisation – each intertwined strand of creativity seeks to ask: How can diasporic folx utilise vibrations-frequencies-sound-music as part of individual and collective healing practices? How can these practices be sustained – with regularity and longevity, within late-capitalism?

Together we will activate healing through voice as an antidote to the condition of being perpetually wounded as diasporic subjects. To explore this, Hannah will lead us through a series of collective vocal exercises, call & response, and simple improvisatory songs.

Date: Sunday 31st May

Time: 10:30am

Meeting location: Flying Horse Lawn, Lodge Lane, Sheffield, S6 5SP

Accessibility: There is a short walk over grass from the carpark to the session location.

Duration: 2-3 hours

Additional details: There is free parking at Flying Horse Lawn along Lodge Lane.

We reccomend organising car shares via our closed Facebook group: .

The Sunday bus is now back running. We recommend getting the 120 at 8:54am (arriving at 09:46am) in case of delays.

What to bring/wear

• Walking boots / Comfy footwear
• Plenty of water
• Weather appropriate clothing/items eg Waterproofs/sun cream
• Blanket, sit matt, yoga matt or something comfy to sit on
• Any self-soothing items that you find helpful eg fidget toy or scented oils

About

Peaks of Colour is a Peak District-based nature-for-healing club, by and for People of Colour only. Founded in 2021 by Evie Muir, Peaks of Colour offers creative and holistic Walkshops, that explore alternative routes to healing and justice. Grounded in a Black Feminist, abolitionist, and nature-allied practice, our spaces invite communities to heal from gendered and racial trauma through an informal and intimate introduction to our local landscapes.

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About Hannah Catherine Jones

Hannah Catherine Jones (aka foxymoron) is a Doncaster-born, Bajan-diasporic, London-based artist, researcher, multi-instrumentalist, broadcaster/DJ (BBC Radio/TV, NTS - The Opera Show),composer, conductor, founder and creative director of Peckham Chamber Orchestra – a community project established in 2013 and founder and creative director of Chiron Choir - a queer diasporic choir established in 2022.

In performance, Jones conjures transcendent soundscapes, building layers from a live multi-instrumental set-up including theremin(s), voice, synthesisers, strings, samples and utilising fx and multiple looping systems simultaneously, to transport audiences into interdimensional sonic portals.

Jones completed her AHRC DPhil scholarship at Oxford University in 2021 for which the ongoing body of work The Oweds was presented as a series of live and recorded, broadcast, audio-visual episode-compositions, using disruptive sound as a methodology of institutional decolonisation.

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