Wednesday 22 October 2025 – Ulster University
In partnership with Sing Ireland, the 2025 Festival Forum took 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.
Presentations by Daniel Clements (Sing Ireland), Bríd Cutliffe (Ardnashee School and College, Derry) and Siobhan Heaney (Hive Cancer Support Choir, Derry).