​Singing Singing Singing will be a long weekend of singing beautiful harmony songs composed by Helen within a skilful and supportive group of singers in the beautiful and peaceful environment of Hill Cottage Retreat Centre.

Helen’s workshops are focused and fun, challenging without pressure, joyful and committed, empowering yet relaxed. Some of her songs have lyrics by inspiring world poets, some are based on testimonies taken from Helen’s song theatre shows, and others draw from her own life experiences and passions.

Everyone will need the ability to sing in tune and to blend with other voices for the workshop need to support us to create a glorious sound through the weekend.

The Whole Weekend
As we will build a balance of the different harmonies and develop a blend of our voices during the weekend, we ask that residential participants arrive at Hill Cottage Retreat Centre by 5.00pm and non-residential participants by 7.00pm and commit to the whole weekend of singing.

Please confirm that you are able to be present from arrival on Friday evening to Monday at 1pm when you book. There will be lunch at 1pm-2pm for those who can stay for it on Monday.

On Monday we end with lunch at 1.00pm so that rail travellers can make the Knighton train.
The weekend will end after lunch by 2.00pm.

About Helen
Helen has been leading choirs and singing workshops since 1981 and has written around 400 songs for theatre, concerts, recordings and communities.

Solo song theatre performances have toured to Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, the US and the Ukraine.

Her group song theatre shows, created with Olivier Award winning Steven Hoggett, are Dalston Songs (commissioned by the Royal Opera House), War Correspondents and Truth.

Helen has created site specific song theatre for Greenwich and Salisbury festivals as well as for the Royal Opera House.

Commissions to create songs include for choirs and English Touring Opera, the BBC, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

In 2023 she created Songs of Returning, a surround sound concert, featuring five women singers from the Southwest and toured the trio concert THE BRIGHT FIELD. The feedback has been extraordinary.

Over 20 years ago she dreamed up Sing for Water to raise money for water projects and is the co-founder of this mass choir charity project with Thames Festival.
helenchadwick.com

Feedback from other workshops with Helen
…a heartfelt thank you for a wonderful workshop last weekend. Beautiful songs, and so wonderful to work with so many amazing singers.

Such a generous, encouraging, focussing teacher of song from a deep profound, joyful river of song

Thank you so much for a superb weekend at Hill Cottage. It was a real eye opener & I so enjoyed the workshop … great fun in a beautiful location and with great company.

Helen, of course, was magical - I just love her work - she is so authentic and her soul just shines through. Wonderful.’
 

​Cost
Workshop, full board (vegetarian/vegan) and accommodation.
Single Room including Crog Lofts – £320
Twin Sharing, only if two people are booking together – £275 pp

Non-residential £170 – Workshop, lunches, Saturday and Sunday dinner (if requested) and refreshments.
The deposit of £100 residential and £70 non-residential will be payable at the time of booking.
£15 of this deposit will be non-refundable as a contribution to our fixed admin costs. The remainder of the deposit is refundable if you cancel up to 8 weeks before the event. After that time, it also becomes non-refundable unless we have to cancel the event and then your whole deposit will be returned.
In certain circumstances we are happy to work out payment by Instalments. Please contact Zarine if you would like to talk about this.
The balance becomes due two weeks prior to the start of the event which is non-returnable. If there are circumstances that create a risk of cancellation for you, we recommend that you take out cancellation insurance, in case you are unable to attend.

In the unlikely event that we need to cancel or postpone, a full refund of what you have paid to us will be offered. Our liability is limited to what you have paid for the retreat or the workshop, therefore travel insurance is recommended, if you have booked tickets to get to Hill Cottage.

Booking: please contact Zarine for a booking form or more information using the email address below.
Thank you.
hillcottageretreats@gmail.com