Congratulations to our now seasoned mini writers for a remarkably productive year!!!
The kids first suggestion was to tackle the plastic epidemic with a magnificent song and after a number of educational tunes about planets, our health, colours, food, the people who help us... we eventually wrote our way to a dancing duck named Flossy.
A massive thank you goes out to Margaret and Mr Coulson for having us!
We have now come to the end of a 12 month, weekly residency, our kids have their very own sound track to go with their primary school days, a load of laughs and life lessons to look back on and I dare say the Library will never be the same again!

Thank you so much for having us at your amazing festival!!
Again we got to experience some truly soul inspiring stuff and of course... we wrote a song! An even bigger thank you to Edwina for being brave enough to  turn her back on the Terrafractyl stage to come write with us!!
The result was an amazing individual session and what a random experience... recording vocals from the car to try and escape the stage noise, a whole heap of laughs and a mantra worth singing about-
​'A Vast Inconceivable Space'

Thank you so much for having us come to write a song for this beautiful festival. So many challenges!.. all overcome, to create a truly magical piece of audial honey butter. Love and blessings to all!

Well that was fun and challenging!! Try writing and recording a song with a group of kids in under an hour at a music festival with a band playing next door! What a great experience and surprisingly great results.
What else do you write about when you're... 'Hangin' in the Bush'.
Thanks to the Skermers and Stephanie Gaffric for organising this wonderful event!

What an adorable performance from our tiny Thespians at Natyadarpan Theatre Company. 
Reflecting on an historical Indian legend, this new story was cultivated about friendships, loneliness and how perspective can change so much!

Congratulations to the Manningham council on winning the award for cultural diversity following this touching event. I was honoured to be asked to write a song compiled from thousands of welcome messages, sent out to Australian refugees, with love from our local school children.
​The title of the song is appropriately one of the most prominent messages our kids have for those seeking refuge here at our home... 'Welcome Home Mate!'

I had the pleasure of penning a song for the Peace Run which I got to perform live along side dancer Sarah Hadley for the closing ceremony in Doncaster.  

A big thanks to councillor Dorothy Haines for providing this fabulous opportunity.

Another big thank you to Mandar Vaidya and the Natyadarpan Indian Theatre Academy for this huge effort and a fabulously entertaining performance.
This was a lot of fun! Getting to rework the original Cinderella story into couplets, with just a couple of sneaky twists for these tiny seasoned performers to work their magic with.

A very big thanks to the Whittlesea council for kicking off our children's group Write On sessions with your all girls 12-16yo youth group.
We all had a great time and the result was an always timely reminder to appreciate the good stuff with a song called 'The Good Life'.

Thank you so much for this fabulous feedback-

​Testimonial
 
"Baseline Youth Services ran a series of workshops during National Youth Week 2016, and approached Roy to help facilitate one, as a consultation for young people asking them “what makes a good life”. Using the ‘Write On’- song writing experience, Roy worked enthusiastically alongside the group of secondary school aged young people using their own experiences and ideas to compile the lyrics and song to ‘The Good Life’. The session quality and level of professionalism was exceptional, and was thoroughly enjoyed by all participants and staff! Over the two hours, participants displayed an improved level of confidence, as well as personal growth and development.  At the end of the session, the group described it as the “best experience" they had this year! The feedback from the youth services team and other departments on the song and lyrics have been extremely positive and we look forward to working with Roy in the near future!"
 
-Youth Worker, Local Government 

Here's the video of my latest song 'Be' to give you an example of what you can do through my new business "Write on - Song writing experience.
I hope you enjoy!