MDBrunch #MultiCultural Event Series
May 13th with Eurovision WatchParty
Presenters Svetlana Riadchenko and Nikki Forova
!! UKRAINE !!
5-8pm (with optional remain to watch Eurovision live till 11pm)
The Lab E20, 3-4 East Park Walk, East Village, E20 1JB
£12 in person / £10 online for the 6-8pm vocal session (plus recording)
Explore various cultural musics with MDBrunch throughout this year and feel confident to teach them to your own groups, thanks to the authentic native practitioners that MDBrunch is working with, to deliver each of these exciting live music events. Learn about the history and culture of Ukraine through both song and some dance performances, exploring the music, it's features, the language and how to approach teaching the pronunciation of it from an authentic master practitioner and finally sing some songs to experience the culture first hand.
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On this very specially targeted #MultiCultural, we are very excited to host an optional WatchParty of Eurovision in honour of the should be hosts, Ukraine. You are welcome to stay with us and watch it on the big screen, but there is no obligation to stay after the live singing and cultural exposure to Ukrainian music.
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www.mdbrunchuk.com
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A little more about our wonderful guest practitioners:
Svetlana Riadchenko
Svetlana Riadchenko is a choirmaster and a vocal tutor in ”Odessa’s Choir School by Krizhanovsky,” and a conductor, founder of professional modern choir "Voice of the Sympho-rock".
She was a participant at the International Competition of Choir Art in Spain, Italy, and Hungary. She worked as a choirmaster at the big symphonic show Game of Thrones, Oscar Music Collection, Star Wars, Pavarotti and Friends and as a vocal coach at the production studio “Basso” (Odessa, Ukraine). Presently, Svetlana is practicing as a vocal tutor at Leeds Beckett University Music Performance department.
Svetlana Riadchenko
Nikki Forova
Anastasia Nikki Forova is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter, recording artist, and a composer. She was classically trained as a pianist. Throughout her childhood she participated in various choirs, won several awards as a solo-singer and a composer and had some TV appearances. Nikki had an MTV appearance and from 2010 to 2023 released four albums and toured around the world numerous times. Her song “White Dandelions” was a finalist in UK Songwriting Competition. In the recent years she wrote music for several short films, modern dance theater and TV Trailers including Bridgerton Season 2. She is one of the leaders at the “Woven Gold” choir in London.
Nikki Forova
Venue - We'd like to thank our partners Get Living for hosting all our training events in the highly sophisticated and stylish 'The Lab E20'. The venue programming and design is curated by artist, Christopher Raeburn.
The Lab E20 is fully accessible.
Getting to The Lab E20 - walking route video from Stratford Station
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