A local project begins tomorrow to create a lullaby for Crawley through a series of online workshops. 

Murmuration Arts is running The NightLight Lullabies project, a free online six-week programme especially for parents.  Participants can join the Zoom workshops to share and reflect on their journeys to parenthood.  They will then collectively write a lullaby for Crawley over the six weeks. 

The project is run in partnership with Leonardslee Gardens and Crawley Museum and is funded by Heritage Lottery.  Once it’s been produced, there are plans for the new lullaby to have a wider audience when it will be presented at Crawley Museum throughout April and May as part of an exhibition.

Shan Robins found out more about the project from Marion Duggan, Artistic Director at Murmuration Arts:

 

The lullaby you can hear in this feature is the Lullaby for Leonardslee which the Murmuration Arts team arranged and produced last year.  It was commissioned by Leonardslee Gardens and Leonardslee Illuminated and funded by Heritage Lottery and Arts Council England in partnership with Crawley Museum.

This lullaby was co-written in collaboration with local mothers:

Carmen Ballestas

Hannah Sutton

Christina Money

Lydia Prentice

Nevelina Rousseva

Pareveen Khan

Composer: Laura Wright

Workshop facilitators: Laura Wright and Marion Duggan

Singers: Cate Ferris, Faye Houston, Laura Luard

Instrumentalist & Music Production: Cate Ferris

Videography: Rosie Powell

Producer: Laura Wright

Artistic Director: Marion Duggan