Blog
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March 21 News
Hi everyone! Have you missed us? We've been laying low the last few months but busying away behind the scenes preparing for TODAY! Big day today - we're announcing the launch of our first album, 48 Hours. This is a
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August 20 News
The end of August has been a really significant time for us here at VC. We saw the end of our Online Mindful Miniatures project, publishing our 12th response to complete the set. We have loved working on this and sharing
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July 20 News
Welcome to our July edition of our blog. July still continues to reveal its challenges during this strange time but we are delighted to share the success of our project Online Mindful Miniatures, funded by Arts Council England. In July we
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June 20 News
Welcome to June edition of our blog. June has been a month of shifting sands… lockdown still in force, but with little freedoms creeping in here and there. It’s been a very meaningful time for us all to reconnect (albeit distantly)
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MAY 20 News
As we continue in lock-down, we are really happy to bring some good news about VC: Adès/Rennie - 48 Hours We were delighted to find out in May that Tullis Rennie received his grant from PRSF to complete his work for Adès/Rennie
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April 20 News
This month has been a strange one for us all. It's the first full month in lock-down and no concerts for our members for the first time in many years. It has meant that there has been lots of time
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March 20 News
This is going to be a rather different update, as halfway through March like so many others, our work had to stop and we squirrelled ourselves away to safeguard from the Covid-19 outbreak. This unsettling time of disquiet can of
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February 20 News
This month, our founders Gemma and Gary have been busy meeting with our brilliant board members and planning ways in which to bring more New Music into the year of 2021. We did manage to squeeze in a few wonderful
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January 20 News
Happy New Year! January has been the start of an exciting year for Vonnegut Collective, so please read on… We were delighted to achieve our crowd funding target for 48 Hours – Adès/Rennie – Sponsor an Hour! Now, thanks to all
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December 19 News
Welcome to our December News, we hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas in 2019! Take a look at what we got up to… At the beginning of the month, we launched our Crowdfunder, 48 Hours - Adès/Rennie - Sponsor
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November 19 News
Welcome to this month’s news – we've some exciting stuff to tell you, so please read on
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October 19 News
As the nights draw in, we have been doing our best to continue with our mission of bringing new music to more people! Take a look at what we got up to in October… NMM Our main focus this month was geared
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September 19 News
Welcome to this month’s news! As we begin our next exciting season of 2019-2020, we have plenty to share with you already: MCYO At the beginning of September, we completed a two week residency with MCYO (Manchester Contemporary Youth Orchestra). Our role
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August 19 News
August has provided a bit more time to rest after a very busy few months for the Vonnegut Collective. Our founders, Gemma & Gary had a little well-deserved time off (after playing in the Proms with the BBC Philharmonic first
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July 19 News
Hello and welcome to our July news! Take a look at what we’ve been up to this very warm and wet month… Kinetic At the beginning of July, we did our second Kinetic performance at the incredible Victoria Baths. Kinetic #2 was
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June 19 News
What a busy and brilliant month it’s been for us at the Vonnegut Collective, we have a lot to tell you about, so without keeping you waiting any further, let’s dive straight in…! At the very beginning of this month, we
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May 19 News
This May we celebrated our 4th Birthday (the 22nd May just in case you need to remember for next year!) and we want to say a big thank you to everyone who has been a part of the journey so
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April 19 News
Happy post-Easter to you all…April brought us all a little well-deserved sunshine and many more happenings with the Vonnegut Collective! Take a look at some of what we’ve got up to this month: We received brilliant news that Kinetic were successful
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February 19 News
Sadly February got away from us a bit and we didn’t manage to have a Monthly Meet as such, but it has been a really exciting month nonetheless and we have some pretty wonderful bits of news to share with you.
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December 18 Meet
Gary recently discovered a really great place - the brilliant Pop Up Bikes near Victoria station. Good coffee, cakes, bikes to ogle and an exciting acoustic to mess about with - we were keen to get in there and have
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November Meet
November saw the start of our 4th Manchester University project. This time we are working with postgraduate composers who will be writing pieces inspired by ‘breath’. It got off to a speedy and exciting start and we’re looking forward to
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October 18 News
October saw our second collaborative project with Seed studios draw to a close, culminating in a wonderful performance and installation at Mantis festival and the Old Trafford Wellbeing centre. The contributors from the centre created wonderful electroacoustic pieces that made
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September 18 Meet
Our first ever Monthly Meet! A new initiative giving us the chance to explore parameters in improvisation. In future months we'll invite musicians from within the collective and collaborating artists to join us for these research and development/training sessions. For this