22 - 26 October 2025
WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER
Recital Room, Foyle Arts Building, Ulster University Magee, 10:00 – 11:30
FREE ENTRY, OPEN TO ALL
In partnership with Sing Ireland, the 2025 Festival Forum will take an in-depth look at the SWAN project (Singing with Additional Needs), an international project that seeks to draw on best practices from multiple European countries to include people in collective singing who have additional needs due to disabilities and/or physical or psychological health issues.
The SWAN project aims to:
• collect, scale and promote best practices in collective singing for people with additional needs
• provide transnational opportunities for collective singing professionals to engage with the best practices of other countries
• develop and make use of digital tools to support people with additional needs in participating
• make knowledge internationally accessible.
Presentations by Daniel Clements (Sing Ireland), Bríd Cutliffe (Ardnashee School and College, Derry) and Siobhan Heaney (Hive Cancer Support Choir, Derry)
