Collaborative Vocal Improvisation - A 6 week experimental lab series

Welcome to La La Lab!

A playful and embodied space to explore your voice through movement, improvisation, and collaborative sound-making.

This is an opportunity to free your voice through a series of experimental workshops exploring Collaborative Vocal Improvisation techniques. We'll play games, improvise, and connect through our voices and creativity.

Each session is an invitation to:

• Play with your voice without judgement

• Connect with yourself and others through sound, breath, and grounded movement

• Collaborate spontaneously to create improvised music

• Express whatever wants to emerge

• Discover confidence, ease, and joy in improvising together

You don’t need any musical training or experience — just a willingness to explore and play.

By the end of the six weeks, you may find yourself:

• more connected to your voice, singing and music making

• more comfortable improvising

• more open, expressive, and trusting of your creative instincts

• nourished by the experience of creating with others

• slightly addicted to creating new songs using only your voice!

There’s no performance, no pressure, and no “right” way to sound.
Just a supportive group, a playful atmosphere, and space to discover whatever wants to unfold.

What to Expect

• A warm, welcoming environment

• Embodied movement woven with vocal exploration

• Structured prompts, games and exercises

• Moments of group sounding, circle singing, solo exploration, and collective improvisation

• Freedom to follow what feels alive in the moment

Each workshop will follow a loose theme, but the emphasis will be to let the session be shaped collaboratively — by you, the group, and the energy in the room.

Who Is This For?

Anyone curious about voice, improvisation, expression, connection, presence, or creative play.

Everyone is welcome. Whether you're a beginner or experienced singer, this is a space to play, learn and explore.

Your Facilitator

Katie Rose White

Katie is a Play Artist and founder of The Best Medicine; with a specific interest in encouraging adults to play and be playful. Katie has trained in Collaborative Vocal Improvisation as well as clowning, fooling and therapeutic laughter exercises. Facilitating workshops across the UK; she has begun to fuse her love of playfulness with vocal improvisation and is excited by the rich potential of this fusion.

Katie co-founded La La Lab with artist and singer Briony Bird. La La Lab was born from a desire to create safe and playful spaces where voices can meet, explore, and surprise!

Testimonial

'Learning improvised singing with Katie was an absolute joy. It's a powerful, playful practice that fills the heart to the brim. Katie is great fun and an excellent teacher. Our sessions were relaxed, welcoming and full of encouragement. They really boosted my confidence with singing and improvising harmonies - something I never imagined I'd be able to do. It was a genuinely uplifting experience, and I'd encourage anyone to give it a try.'

Kimberly Bright - previous participant

Dates

The sessions will run on consecutive Tuesdays from 7-9pm

27th of January, 3rd of February, 10th of February, 17th of February, 24th of February, 3rd of March 2026

Venue

The Convivial,18 Lower Market Street, Penryn, Cornwall

'The Convivial is a civic learning space for imagination, ecology and place-based research & arts.'

https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/

Fee

We want to make our workshops affordable to people who are unemployed or on lower incomes, so we have created a three tier system.

Prices below are for the full 6 week course.

£30 - Supported tickets are for individuals who are unemployed or have a significantly low income.

£48 - Standard ticket

£75 - Supporter tickets are for individuals who have a higher income and want to help us make the workshop more affordable for others.

If you're unsure about signing up to the whole 6 weeks, you'd be welcome to drop in. Prices range from £5-£12.50 per session. Please get in touch with me via bGFsYWxhYmludGhlbG9vcCB8IGdtYWlsICEgY29t.

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