My current work includes:
Project Producer Durham BRASS Festival, Emerging Artists and Community Engagement
The Cornshed Sisters live and recorded work
Choirs Sage Global Services (Staff Choir), St Martin’s Centre, Recovery College, Ashington YMCA.
Previous Work:
Project Manager (Choirs), National Trust – Blossomise Coordination of Community/Youth choirs to perform with Simon Armitage (Poet Laureate)/LYR commission by The National Trust.
Project Manager/Composer, Queen’s Hall Hexham Composing a song for Animating Hexham ‘It’s Home Isn’t it?’ Recruiting and selecting artists to deliver found sound workshops. Collaborating with musicians and composing a musical piece for Animating Hexham.
Project Producer, New Writing North, Hexham Book Festival (Deception Island), Ionic Events (Let’s Meet..Music Industry Masterclasses), Generator (Winter Songwriting Residency), The Social Lectures (Music and Society Lectures) Taking a creative, flexible and adaptive approach to managing and tracking creative projects.
Songwriting Facilitator, New Writing North (Young Songwriters), We Make Culture (Singing Your Stories), Newcastle City Council (St Mark’s Primary, Galafields centre) The Word (Songwriter in Residence) , The Sage Gateshead (Community Musician Tees schools) Planning and delivering songwriting workshops in a variety of settings with a diverse range of participants
Choir Leader, East Boldon Library, Back On the Map, We Make Culture, Useful Vision, Cultural Spring, The Twisting Ducks Arranging and facilitating singing sessions for participants with a diverse range of needs including visually impaired Children and adults with learning disabilities.
Lecturer FE (Btec,) Newcastle College, Durham New College Songwriting and Vocals, Popular Music History/Contextual studies
Actor, Facilitator, Director, The Twisting Ducks Development of performances for a theatre company of adults with learning disabilities
Get in touch if you would like to discuss the work I can do for you or your organisation.
“Inspiring, lively, inclusive, fun, caring choir leader, Jennie Brewis. She’s really helped us all enjoy learning together.”
“A lovely, friendly group. Jennie is very professional, helpful and patient.”
Choir members East Boldon and Cleadon