Example of an Early Years Session

Here is a video of our education space ready for an Early Years session. Much like our sessions for the general public, we invited families to sit in a circle to play instruments together, as well as placing toys and instruments more widely around the room for participants to engage in.

For very young children, heritage is often experienced before it is understood – through rhythm, voice, movement and early memories. 

Drawing from our successful Early Years programme for the community, we created similar sessions where families living in temporary accommodation could reconnect with these early forms of cultural expression. Through singing, playing instruments and sensory play, children were introduced to sound worlds shaped by many cultures, while parents shared in familiar and new music traditions. 

At the same time, these sessions created opportunities for families to meet and form connections, allowing cultural practices to be shared between communities. 

Here, heritage was not presented as something fixed but as something living – passed between generations through everyday experiences of music and play.