At Barefoot Opera our community engagement is paramount.
We have built up strong relationships with various community groups and charities in the East Sussex area – running workshops and performances and linking groups together. This is all interactive – our aim is to encourage everyone to get involved: breathing, singing, moving, and creating together. The culmination of these relationships is our people’s opera Bloom Britannia which was performed in October 2021 in Hastings, featuring over 100 community members alongside professional singers and musicians.
Barefoot Opera’s Founder Jenny Miller inspired the birth of a choir at the Seaview Centre (a local charity who work with vulnerable adults) in 2010 and we now regularly perform and create with them.
Groups we work with in East Sussex
- Seaview Centre
- MSL Projects
- De La Warr Pavilion
- Battle Festival
- Rye Arts Festival and Rye Arts Gallery
- Coastal Currents Festival
- Arts on Prescription
- East Sussex Music
- Create Music
- Hastings Chamber of Commerce
- 18 Hours
- Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra
- The Refugee Buddy Project
- Education Futures Trust
- Hastings Contemporary
- Eggtooth
- Red Kite
- Audiotrope
- Isolation Station