A workshop with people sitting on chairs on a wooden floor - they are moving and making sound and singing

Date

Oct 07 2026
Expired!

Voice Workshops – The Peaceful Crystallographer

Workshop 1
1.30 – 3pm Wednesday 7th October 2026

A workshop with people sitting on chairs on a wooden floor - they are moving and making sound and singing

Warming Up – Sitting Down!

The Lounge
Whittington Park Community Centre
Yerbury Rd, N19 4RS

FREE ENTRY JUST DROP IN

Singing for Health and Well-Being, find your voice, improve your breathing
give your heart and brain a boost and have fun!

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Frances M Lynch

Join Singer and Storyteller Frances M Lynch

Wed Oct 7th   1.30 – 3pm      Workshop 1
Tues Oct 13th 1.30 – 2.30pm Workshop 2
                             2.45 – 3.30pm Performance

 You are welcome to come to one or both Workshops
and/or just the Performance.

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Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971) Image with the kind permission of Stephen Lonsdale provided by The Royal Society

Together we’ll explore voice and breathing techniques you’ll really enjoy and can try at home, while learning songs by women composers. The 2 sessions end with a mini Performance by Frances with some help from any of the willing workshop participants. It will be a singing celebration of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971) – the first female professor at UCL and the first female Fellow of the Royal Society. Defying all odds, her pioneering science led to breakthroughs in organic chemistry and medical treatments. Beyond science, Lonsdale spent a month in Holloway Prison during WW2 as a pacifist and went on to fight for prison reform, women’s rights and world peace, warning of the dangers of nuclear physics and wealth inequality in her book Is Peace Possible?

The music reflects Lonsdale’s eclectic life from her arrival in Essex at the age of 5 as an immigrant from Ireland to her worldwide recognition as an eminent scientist. Ranging through Irish folk song, music-hall, stirring anthems and ethical hymns the performance features works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Lonsdale’s contemporaries like Elizabeth Maconchy and Clara Novello Davies (the mother of Ivor Novello) and Conway Hall’s radical thinkers, Eliza Flower and Josephine Troup.

 

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