Wild Singing Weekend

Name: Wild Singing Weekend
Start: 2025-05-10T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-05-11T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Borrowdale Institute

Schedule

Sat, 10 May, 2025 at 10:00 am to Sun, 11 May, 2025 at 04:00 pm

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Location

Borrowdale Institute | Keswick, UK

A joyous non-residential weekend of wild singing in the Borrowdale valley, with Dave Camlin, Helen Chadwick and Roxane Smith.
With the Borrowdale Institute in the heart of the valley for our base, we will have two days of morning singing workshops led by Dave, Helen and Roxane, followed by some low-level wild singing around the valley (or in / near the institute if wet!) each afternoon.
Our collective approach to singing is very inclusive, with a shared belief in singing as a birth-right, whatever your previous experience might happen to be. We’ll mainly teach songs by ear, so no need to be able to read music, although scores may be available for some things if you find them helpful. The focus of the weekend will be about using our voices to HAVE FUN in nature! We want everyone who shows up to feel part of a strong (albeit temporary) singing community, and to use the experience of singing together in nature as a resource to sustain and nurture us in the busy-ness of our everday lives.
The weekend is non-residential in the sense of sorting yourself out with somewhere to stay. Borrowdale has lots of lovely campsites, two youth hostels, plenty of BnBs and some majestic hotels - choose your own level of comfort! Hot drinks and snacks will be provided, but make your own arrangements for meals, or bring food to share with others, Jacob’s Join style.
How much walking is involved?
We’re not planning any strenuous summit hikes, but the afternoon wild singing walks are likely to be between 3 and 6 miles with some ascents, so you need to be reasonably fit. We'll travel like a wolf pack, with our strongest walkers leading from the back, so no-one gets left behind! We’re spoilt for choice in terms of places we can go for a wild sing in the afternoons.