Voice Workshop: Call for Applications

                                         Toto Funds the Arts

in association with Our Theatre Collective

 is inviting applications for a four-day workshop on

 Finding Your Voice 

by Anmol Vellani

Venue: Our Theatre Studio, #298, 3rd floor, 8th A Main Rd, 4th Block- Koramangala,

Bengaluru, 560034

Dates: August 12 & 13 and August 19 & 20, 2023.

Time: 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. 

This four-day voice workshop, conducted by Anmol Vellani, is intended for performing artists, teachers and others who use their voice extensively in their professional lives. The workshop will explore the whole physiological apparatus of voice production. It will focus on how breathing and the use of the palate, resonators and muscles in the torso influence the quality and fullness of the voice.

Among the questions the workshop will address are: How do you protect your voice from strain and damage? How do you set your voice and discover its natural pitch? Which vocal habits inhibit the quality and fullness of your voice? How should you breathe and use your muscles and resonators to ensure effortless and strong voice projection? The workshop is designed to enable participants to experience dramatic improvements not only in voice production but also in speech.     

 Eligibility and deadline

The workshop will be restricted to 20 participants between the ages of 18 and 40.

To apply, please send a bio-note and a short statement of interest, especially a few lines on what you see as the challenges and problems you have with your voice. Applications should be sent latest by Tuesday, 1 August 2023 by email to Sarita Vellani at sarita.tfaindia@gmail.com

Selected participants will be expected to memorise a few lines of a text for the workshop, preferably an excerpt from a speech or a play, in a language which they are most comfortable speaking.

Please do not apply unless you are able to attend all four days of the workshop and also able to devote time to practicing the exercises during the days between the two weekend sessions. 

Fee:  Rs 6,000 (inclusive of tea/coffee and snacks; participants are responsible for their own lunch)

About the facilitator:

Anmol Vellani is the founder and former executive director of the India Foundation for the Arts, an independent philanthropic organisation. He has directed theatre productions in different languages and locations in India and abroad. He has designed courses on theatre design and the arts and management. Anmol works with performing artists on such subjects as voice, character building and script analysis, and conducts creativity workshops for corporate executives and management students.