Go check out the I’m not okay but… Podcast, featuring our very own music mentor Kieron Morris as he speaks on mental health and music. Kieron explores his vision to encourage youth to express themselves and the growth he has witnessed through his record label, REZON8.
Joshua Hunt aka POV1SM performing his track Welcome to South at Alchemy’s ‘Your Silence Will Not Protect You’ event at Goldsmiths in December 2022. The track features Kocoa ‘The Power’ Brown and Taiwo on backing vocals, Chevelle Frazer-Rose on bass, Devantai on drums, TBoy on piano, Andrés Peña on guitar and featuring Y.A Poet! Filmed by Azulible.
Alchemy had the opportunity to record with engineer Tomáš Kašpar at the Goldsmiths Music Studio today. Many of the young people recorded tracks for songs that they have been creating recently. Keep your eyes out as some of these artists may be releasing new music in the near future!
YOUR SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU
a live music experience
by Alchemy Artists
Goldsmiths University Recital Room RHB167
Saturday 3rd December 2022 1.30pm
Book your free tickets here
Inspired by the vision of the writer, poet and gender and race activist Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You is about our young generations not only being heard, but listened to. This show will feature original new spoken word, song and rap created over the past few weeks at Goldsmiths Alchemy, a collective of 13-18 year old artists from Lewisham who meet weekly to develop their professional and creative music skills.
The event is open to all ages and there will be refreshments provided.
The legendary poet and writer Dzifa Benson joined Alchemy for an afternoon to run a workshop for her Lines of Dissent project at the Orleans Gallery in Richmond. With decolonising galleries at the heart of the conversation, new music and writing was created in response to a series of paintings. This work will be included in the exhibition at the gallery and the Alchemy Artists will perform at the closing event on 14th January… more info on this soon!
Alchemy is growing! We a thrilled to announce our partnership with Youth First as we deliver our first series of music studio sessions at the Woodpecker Youth Club and the TNG Youth and Community Centre. ‘Whether you are a beginner, or looking to improve your craft, you are invited to collaborate with professional music mentors from Goldsmiths Alchemy to learn how to create, produce, perform, record and mix your own tracks to a professional standard’. Find out more and sign up here!
Join us for a free showcase of spoken word, poetry and music written and performed by the Alchemy Lyricists at 5pm on Saturday 25th June at the CCA Gallery, Goldsmiths. You can find directions to get to the gallery here: https://goldsmithscca.art/visit/.
The first performance as part of the Alchemy x Unit 137 project took place in Deptford Market Yard on 29th May, part of the Lewisham Sound System Trail. You can read a detailed blog post by Sonic Street Technologies researchers Natalie Hyacinth and Brian D’Aquino here. The event was a great success, and featured an incredible and inspiring 45 minute set of performances of original music by Alchemy artists. Video footage coming soon! Thank everyone who came along to support!
IBZ MULLAH performing his track STEP STEP
Alchemy’s director Mikey Kirkpatrick cooks up an anti-racist playlist on his weekly Friday night radio show ‘Crookit Dreams’ – dedicated to the Alchemy family and beyond, inspired by seeing Linton Kwesi Johnson talk at The Albany and the start of the Alchemy x Unit 137 Sound System project and collaboration.
You can listen again here:
