Culture, lived experience, identity and inquiry can be powerful sources of creative inspiration, spiritual uplift, and bringing people together. When we sing or recite together, we can come to know a deep sense of unity and harmony. This feeling of connection, in turn, can be a fantastic container for sharing our multiple identities, stories, and songs. Add to that tools that help us unleash our creativity, and amplify our unique strengths, gifts, and perspectives, we can surely co-create a new emergent community culture of belonging and hope.

Hussein Janmohamed

Services

I offer a variety of services, workshops, and consultations to help build teams, transform paradigms, and have fun.

Participants make connections through singing and creating music, regardless of their musical background. In fact, for most levels, no music experience is required.

Speaking engagements and programs integrate meaningfully with your group’s goals on:

• Breaking down barriers
• Responding to diversity and cultural bridge building
• Interfaith and intercultural dialogue
• Inclusivity and creativity mindsets
• Foundations of shared human values
• Collaboration and co-creation

Choral Clinics & Adjudication

I bring energy, joy and kinesthetic dynamism to enrich the already amazing work your choirs do. 1 hr to full day or weekend retreats.

Collaborative Creation

I introduce collaborative approaches for your choir, group, or class to create music regardless of their background or musical knowledge.

Unleashing Group Creativity

I use simple techniques to unleash your group’s creativity through sound, music, rhythm and singing. No experience is necessary.

Teambuilding

I create transformative experiences for group creativity, collaboration, and team building through music. Half day, full day, or multi-day workshops are available.

Educational Consulting

I help teachers and schools to harness musical knowledge that enable students to explore identity, connect with their own and each others’ traditions, and co-create cultures of belonging.

Integrated Music Inquiry

I use music, singing and creativity as tools for integrated curriculum learning, inquiry, and intercultural knowledge development.

Professional Development

I provide professional development for general and music teachers to facilitate music and creativity activities that help students explore identity, connect with learning, and use musical tools for individual and collective expression.

Curation and Artistic Direction

I offer music curation and artistic direction for choirs, communities, schools and music organizations inspired by Muslim cultures and pluralism.

Arts-based Muslim Youth Development

I work with your community to assess needs and through a community-centred approach, guide strategies for arts-based development and musical partnerships.

Work with Hussein

  • Sparking Curiosity (Workshop A)

    In this introductory package, Hussein creates a safe space for open and lively dialogue about how choral music can reconcile and transform the negativity of racism into something beautiful. He engages groups in an interactive choral singing exercise that consists of four-part intercultural chants. He closes by teaching collective reflection techniques followed by a Q & A session.

  • Forming Connections (Workshop B)

    This session builds on the elements from Workshop A.

    Vocal warm-up exercises incorporate activities designed to focus the gathering. The musical material is taught through interactive group singing. Small group collaborations take place intending to create a musical arrangement. Connections between music-making & responding to diversity are explored.

  • Reflections (Lecture)

    Themes include:

    • Why Choral Music: Interactive group singing and activity to demonstrate the connection between choral music and shared human values.

    • Inspiration for Composing: Audio-Visual demonstration of other cultural choral pieces.

    • Intercultural Dialogue: Discussion & Demonstration

    • Music as an expression of life: Discussion & Demonstration

    • Contemporary composition Inspired by faith sources: Demonstration

    • Concluding remarks, Q & A, Reflection/Assessment

  • Finding Harmony (Retreat)

    • Ice-Breaker: Music sharing and critical listening

    • Large Group Singing: Learning to sing in harmony and multiple parts; intercultural chant

    • Small Group Activities: Collaborative music creation (interspersed throughout retreat)

    • Thematic Inquiry: Customized to meet needs of participants

    • Personal Story: Hussein's story; participants invited to share stories

    • Musical Inspiration: Audio-visual demonstration of musical fusions (customized); Discussion and critical analysis

    • Artist Lecture and Demonstration: Artistic process, inspiration, techniques

    • Vocal and Choral Techniques: Posture, breath, sound production, phrasing, musicality, listening, unified singing

    • Making Connections: Between thematic inquiry and musical ideas

    • Dress Rehearsals: Peer to peer teaching and learning

    • Presentations: Peer to peer

    • Evaluation: Debrief/Assessment; individual and collective reflection

  • Choral Intensive

    Vocal knowledge & experience are necessary

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Hussein’s work exists to unlock and amplify each human's inherent voice and creative power to thrive and to live authentically.

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