Helping Hands

London scores — from more than human mapping conference — April 2025

Collecting and listening in Limerick

Sonic maps for Listening at the Edge of the Staff Lines Workshop @starling__starling

Magic left over scores from Listening at the Edge of the staff Lines workshop at @starling__starling

Helping Hands workshop in Limerick at @starling__starling 💜

Looking forward to sharing a new iteration of Listening at the Edge of the Staff Lines workshop starting next week. April 25th 9-10.40am more-than-human-mapping conference in London senate house. April 30th @starling__starling from 6-8pm! About the workshop: Listening at the Edge of the Staff Lines draws from the text score of Pauline Oliveros Native mediation. Working with observations through listening in our environment the workshop asks participants to map sounds. Moving into exploring collective cartography making and mistranslating and translating the maps / scores created. Finally responding and listening to archived performance work At Night the Whole World Hums by @thea.lucia . No music/ sound/ visual art experience needed just a willingness to listen, respond, mark make in a way that suits you. No sound making required if not desired.

Upcoming workshop announcement: Listening at the Edge of the Staff Lines Wednesday April 30th, 6pm The workshop is free to attend, please register your interest by emailing us at [email protected] ​Listening at the Edge of the Staff Lines is a workshop focussing on participatory, embodied listening through sound-making, text scores, verbal notation and visual map-making. Working with the sound meditations and practices of composer Pauline Oliveros, participants will go on a sound walk exploring collective cartographies, as well as engage in improvised listening / response exercises to sonic compositions. This workshop is created and facilitated by Helping Hands @helpinghands.workshop / Gabrielle Stoddard in collaboration with Thea Martin. No musical or visual art experience is required for the workshop, just an openness to exploring mark-making, listening and invitational sounding. The listening and mapping exercises may offer new ways to begin a creative practice, such as music composition or choreography. * Gabrielle Stoddard @gabstoddard (MACAT, BVA) is an artist, arts facilitator, and creative arts therapist practicing in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is currently a student at Tamalpa Institute, working with concepts and methodologies drawn from Anna Halprin’s life practice. She is the director of the initiative Helping Hands workshop, hosting happenings which invite communities into multi-modal creative processes that often revolve around mapping practices and deep listening to the senses. Thea Martin @thea.lucia is a violinist, teaching artist and writer/composer practising on Kaurna Land/Adelaide. They are an Artist in Residence in two public primary schools, play in the bands Twine (noise-rock) and Any Young Mechanic (art-folk).They facilitate the art/activist reading group On Listening through improvised art/extended domains organisation MUD, and are a Co-Director of Connecting the Dots in Music, whose work in community arts has been commissioned by Carnegie Hall (NYC), the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and a range of local schools, libraries and community centres.

Looking forward in sharing Listening At The Edge of the Staff Lines at the More-than-human-mapping conference held at the senate house university of London. 9am - 10.40am on the 25th of April 2025. Listening at the Edge of the Staff Lines is a workshop working with sound meditations by Pauline Oliveros’ listening practices. During the workshop, participants will collect noticings through their listening experience to form their own sonic maps, which will influence a collective translation and mistranslation of the maps. This will all come together through listening and responding to At Night The Whole World Hums, a recorded performance by Thea Martin. No musical or visual art-making experience required for the workshop just openness to explore mark-making, listening and invitational sounding. The listening and mapping practices may offer new ways to begin a creative practice, such as music composition or choreography. Sign up via the link in the bio ❤️

Articulation workshop 4/4 is SOUND — Saturday 15th of March 10.30-12.30 at @aesiummusichouse The workshop involves: Deep listening practice, meditative and simple listening prompts to grow relationship to sound. A sound walk prompting tuning into the environment. We will play with field recordings and drawings ( sound scores of your experience listening ) Working with the drawings together we will invite a collaborative sound production merging sounds we have collected. Invitation to bring Instruments, objects that makes interesting sound to be apart of the experimental sound layering. Come experience what it’s like being in a music studio space. Lastly, our workshops are created to collaboratively create resources through the senses that may aid and accompanying us through times of our lives where large, unknown, or powerful emotional live. We hope these workshops are a space for you to rest, feel, develop a knowing of these emotional and most importantly deepen your awareness of your senses as an incredible tool!

Articulation workshop #4 15th of March 10.30am-12.30pm @aesiummusichouse Milly @bit.morbid and I are hosting our final workshop of this initial series this Saturday. We will be focussing on sound as both an internal and external portal of connection. We will be using a variety of tools to build our own sound-maps. As always no experience is necessary and everything offered is invitational. Our hope is to create an environment to play and practice being in the reciprocity of both making and receiving of sound. DM us with any questions. There is more information and a sign up page in the link in our bio. Milly & Gab x

Sight the 3rd workshop in the Articulation series is this Saturday from 10-12 at @studioone.toitu — working with printmaking, map making and ink as well as being guided by mindfulness practices by @millytaylor__ @bit.morbid . We will be thinking about site and place creating gestural landscapes. No art-making experience required. These workshops came from a space of wanting to work with the senses and art modalities to process grief- to us grief means the evolving changes we encounter and emotions that lurk at the edges of those thresholds. We offer these workshops as a place to be with self reflection but always invite you to stay on the surface and be with the art making if that’s what you wish. Everything is invitational, use the workshop in anyway you see fits you.