Charlie Wells
Co-Director
Composer
Arts & Heritage
Community Engagement
Workshop Facilitation
Charlie has a BA (hons) in Performing Arts - Music, from Middlesex University. She is a creative producer, musician, composer & music-educator who takes commissions from a variety of groups and funders, and offers individual & group music making sessions for people of all ages, skills & backgrounds; creating groups from junk batterias to vegetable orchestras and everything in between.
Charlie was creative producer at Faceless Arts for over 11 years, during which time she delivered a range of music, arts & heritage projects, including developing & composing for HACA’s 1st vegetable orchestra; delivering Youth Music Funded rock school and world music projects; and creating soundscape installations and interactive musical storytelling adventures for under 5s.
As an individual, she is currently working on a DYCP project for Arts Council England, and has just finished developing two commissions for Wakefield Council's Word Fest. Charlie is a member of the Oral History Society and is particularly interested in community engagement and Arts and Heritage projects. She has a keen interest in using verbatim testimony to tell stories with modern relevance & is always interested in ways of collaboration & expanding her musical vocabulary; exploring human stories by setting both her own & the writing of others to sound & music.
Charlie's soundcloud can be found here...
Charlie is also a founder member and Co-Artistic Director of community arts organisation Edgelands Arts.
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Email her on charlie@edgelandsarts.co.uk