"Six Words" Youth Writing Workshop registration form
"Six Words" Youth Writing Workshop
Saturday, May 7, 2022 from 2-4pm CST
McLean County Museum of History
200 N. Main St.
Bloomington, IL 61701

Using archival research, community dialogue, and collaborative music-making, “Six Words” will engage directly with Central Illinois residents to reflect on our collective experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conceived by artist Edward Breitweiser, “Six Words” will take the McLean County Museum of History’s “COVID-19: The McLean County Experience” as a starting point to ask local residents about their pandemic experiences and to preserve them for future generations. Breitweiser will collaborate with local non-profits and youth organizations to create a communal space for telling and hearing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Bloomington-Normal area. These diverse experiences will be shared in a concert-length public performance at the Museum of History, featuring music and words by area residents who contributed to the project.

On Saturday, May 7, 2022 from 2-4pm, Breitweiser will facilitate a free public workshop in partnership with the McLean County Museum of History and local youth organizations. Local youth will be invited to participate through these organizations. McLean County residents between the ages of 13-18 are welcome to participate.

The workshop will use resources from the Museum’s “COVID-19: The McLean County Experience” project and will ask participants to write brief reflections on their pandemic experience. Together, the group will select six shared themes to unify their writings.

The workshop is free and will be held in-person. Breitweiser will provide all materials, but participants are encouraged to bring a tablet or smartphone to record their writing samples.
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Use this form to register for the workshop.

All are welcome to register. The workshop is suitable for ages 13+. If the workshop attendee is under 18, a parent or guardian may join, as well.

Workshop is limited to 20 participants, with priority given to local youth organizations in Bloomington-Normal. If we exceed 20 sign-ups, we will keep a waitlist and consider hosting future workshops.

We will notify you via email once we know who will participate.
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Please contact Edward Breitweiser at eddiebreitweiser@gmail.com
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Workshop documentation and materials (writing samples, text, photographs, etc.) will be included in a new musical work (written by Edward Breitweiser) and documented in the "COVID-19: The McLean County Experience" (stewarded by The McLean County Museum of History). All workshop participants will be credited for their contributions. By selecting "Yes" and participating in this workshop, you grant workshop facilitators the right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display these materials. If you select "No", we will NOT reproduce your work.
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About "Six Words"
Edward Breitweiser recently received a commission from NON:op Open Opera Works’
“Viral Silence” project to create a new musical work that captures local responses to COVID-19.

“Six Words” will have three stages: Community Input; Synthesis; and Public Performance.

1) COMMUNITY INPUT
On Saturday, May 7, 2022 from 2-4pm, Breitweiser will facilitate a free public workshop in partnership with the McLean County Museum of History and local youth organizations. Local youth will be invited to participate through these organizations.

The workshop will leverage resources from the Museum’s “COVID-19: The McLean County Experience” project and will ask participants to write brief reflections on their pandemic experience. Together, the group will select six shared themes to unify their writings.

2) SYNTHESIS
Following the workshop, Breitweiser will compile themes and writings as the foundation of a new musical work. During this time, Breitweiser will compose a concert-length piece inspired by the writings.

3) PUBLIC PERFORMANCE
On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 7pm CST, Breitweiser will present a performance of “Six Words” in a free public concert at the McLean County Museum of History. This performance will include workshop participants, who will recite their writings to live music. This performance will be livestreamed via Experimental Sound Studio. Performance attendees will be encouraged to submit written responses to “COVID-19: The McLean County Experience”.

In conjunction with the performance, Breitweiser will participate in public discussions hosted by NON:op.

Following the June performance, Breitweiser will explore recording “Six Words” and releasing copies of the composition and accompanying texts. Workshop and performance materials will be donated to “COVID-19: The McLean County Experience”.
About "Viral Silence" and NON:op
NON:op Open Opera Works presents "Viral Silence: Community Portraits in Response to COVID-19", a statewide collaborative community commissioning and virtual touring program that captures local experiences and responses to COVID-19. This second year of programming partners three new artists and Illinois communities: JoVia Armstrong, composer and sound artist, with Chicago’s Austin neighborhood and Saint Martin's Episcopal Church; Edward Breitweiser with pt.fwd and the McLean County Museum of History; and X, an indigenous futurist, who will create a geolocated augmented reality soundscape app.

Creative artists and the cultural sector have been especially adversely affected economically by the pandemic. Viral Silence strives to address the needs of these accomplished individual artists and offers hope and support to a wide and diverse audience of viewers who mourn the closure of cultural and performance institutions. The project’s participatory processes and resulting portraits help to heal and bind communities around memory, loss, and rediscovery.

NON:op seeks to foster community, collective responsibility, and mutual respect and well-being; to this end, it is offering attendees two options to choose between. Individuals may gather in person in Chicago and Bloomington, in which case they must comply with COVID-19 protocols, or they may attend via live streaming. For more information on NON:op’s COVID-19 protocols, visit https://www.nonopera.org/WP2/covidattestation/.

Performances are FREE for both in-person and live-stream attendance! Reservations are encouraged and may be made at https://nonopera.ticketleap.com/vs/ or by calling 773-418-0119 for more information.
About Edward Breitweiser
Edward Breitweiser is an Illinois-based artist, musician, and writer. Incorporating models from various intellectual traditions and bodies of knowledge, Breitweiser organizes particulars (custom software, handmade electronics, audio/visual signals, text, networked distribution channels, improvisational music, performative activities) into arrangements whose products are the macro-result of the emergent interactions of all components at once.

His works have been presented at Festival MusicAlp (Courchevel, France); Network Music Festival (Birmingham, UK); the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago); Illinois State University Galleries (Normal, IL); MobileHCI (Stockholm); Salle Cortot (Paris); threewalls (Chicago); the Giorgio Cini Foundation (Venice); Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL); the Fuse Factory (Columbus); the McLean County Arts Center (Bloomington, IL); and Sixty Inches From Center (online). Breitweiser is the founder and Director of pt.fwd, a non-profit program that presents performances of contemporary music and sonic arts in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. Breitweiser studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA ‘12), l’École Normale de Musique de Paris (‘08), and Elmhurst University (BFA ‘09).

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