For the past seven years Opening Doors Association has been engaged in encouraging the active participation of adults with learning disabilities towards creative and artistic opportunities in order to become active and confident performers. It will now embrace a new arm to its members – that of music.

Since inception Opening Doors members, who have grown twofold, have participated in festivals in Malta and travelled extensively, taking part and instilling a sense of collaboration with other disabled artists across Europe and also in Asia. Moreover, such collaborations have also fostered new friendships and a common sharing of inclusion on a global level.

On a weekly basis its members take part in theatre sessions, which offer a good mix of elements of performing. The sessions also provide a good platform for expression as well as a tool to enhance communication skills on various levels. Members are also encouraged to enter the world or rediscover new levels of imagination.

Always striving to reach out and explore various mediums of expression which could interest its valued members and its growing audience, Opening Doors also launched a dance group which followed a pilot project in the summer of 2013. Dance, as well as theatre, offers wonderful opportunities for those on the disability spectrum.

Since its Dance-arm inception, Opening Doors has also encouraged its newer members to participate in various performances, including Dance Jams as well as seeking out collaborations on active outreach projects which have included none other than Żfin Malta.

And then there was music! This is the latest in Opening Doors’ exploration into the creativity of adults with learning disabilities.

Opening Doors Association is very active in the creative arts scene on the disability front. And it goes from strength to strength

Thanks to the financial support granted by Voices Foundation, this project is now possible and will run from a creative hub that is called The Box in Mosta. It will offer its members a chance to create rhythms, explore sounds and learn the basics of music and how it can create and bring various populations together.

This new project will be launched through a free percussion session at the St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity Studio Shop, Valletta, on October 3 from 10.30am to 12.30pm. This taster session and the project’s future sessions will be tutored by the young, dynamic percussionist and musician Luke Baldacchino.

Only 30 places on a first-come-first-served basis are available for this initial session. Booking may be done on openingdoorsmalta@gmail.com or by calling on mobiles 7799 9562 or 7993 8584. Applications are open until September 28.

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