Sing Freedom:
In 2007 Kainé Management Group were awarded £16,000 from the Heritage Lottery fund as part of a partnership bid with Leicester African Caribbean Arts Forum, Leicester City Council Arts & Museum Service and Library Service commemorating the abolition of slave trade. The award has enabled Kainé Management Group to co-ordinate a year long project called Sing Freedom.
The Sing Freedom project was based on Negro Spirituals, sang by African Peoples as a result of being enslaved. These songs not only overtly sang of a better land and way of living but contained instructions about escape routes and safe houses and eventual freedom. The project included research into the songs, a touring exhibition, song writing workshops and two performances.
Click here to visit the Sing Freedom website http://www.singfreedom.org.uk/
Kainé is currently working on an education pack for use in schools and can offer a Sing Freedom package of performances, song writing workshops and loan of the exhibition for use as part of Black History Season and the history of slavery topics in schools and the community. Please contact us for further details.
