Alchemy is an evolving collective of professional artists, youth workers and Goldsmiths university student ambassadors and placement students working with Lewisham organisations and schools to offer a wide range of professional music skills training, mentoring and performance opportunities to local 13-18 year olds. The project was founded by musician and associate lecturer in music and education Mikey Kirkpatrick and made possible by Goldsmiths (Widening Participation, Music, Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies Departments) in partnership with The Albany, Deptford and the CCA Residents Programme.  

Over the past year, Alchemy used the CCA Residency space as a place for young artists to dive deep into language, exploring its power to change perspectives and craft new realities for ourselves and others. Over the coming year they will be focusing more closely on ‘worlding’, drawing on lived experience, creative collaboration with each other, and the work of a range of artists, to use multi-modal arts practices as tools for change, with a strong emphasis, as always, on well-being. This work will be shared through physical and digital publications and events throughout the year.

Website: sites.gold.ac.uk/alchemy/
Instagram: @goldsmithsalchemy 

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