GREENLAND MUSIC
About Us
Greenland Music exists to build an inclusive, fertile ecology around early and contemporary music linked to a sustainable environment and the celebration of nature.Greenland Music and two of its founding trustees, composer and musician Stevie Wishart, and improviser, educator and academic Maureen Wolloshin, will instigate and facilitate collaborative projects with partners in the UK, Europe and further afield using professional connections within the music, education,academic and environmental fields.Local partnerships will include a special relationship with our schools to provide primary and secondary school children with the opportunity to connect to King’s Lynn’s mediaeval history, making new music with nature and especially birdsong.Its first year is concerned with building relationships and connections to ensure that it is well connected across King’s Lynn and West Norfolk in order to deliver targeted and appropriate support in and for its global and local community.
Trustees
Stevie Wishart and Maureen Wolloshin are part of a team of four founding trustees.
Dr Carolyn Williams is a specialist in diversity, equality and inclusion. She will work with the Greenland Music team to develop and regularly review a clear DEI strategy and policy that will guide Greenland Music’s philosophy, culture, outreach and activities, taking into account the local and regional context of King’s Lynn and the East of England.
Carolyn currently works as a consultant for the Gender Justice team at UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development) - specialising in gender and diversity and Spanish to English translations: UNRISD unrisd.org
In 2021 she wrote the theoretical framework for an online training course on Gender and Intersectionality in International Cooperation for Development for UNRISD, funded by the Spanish Government. At the 2022 UN-SWAP Annual Conference, this course was voted as one of the two initiatives to be prioritised for cross-entity adoption:
Carolyn has worked for many years in West Africa and Latin America/Caribbean for British charities such as Voluntary Service Overseas, the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) and Christian Aid before completing her PhD in Gender at the LSE in 2009. She was a trustee and deputy chair of the CIIR Board of Trustees for eight years until 2017.
For a full CV see www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-h-williams-a017ba5
Veronica Sekules is the owner and founder of Groundwork Gallery in Kings Lynn.
https://www.groundworkgallery.com/