Readers’ Bloc: Held in a Note

The Reader’s Bloc is an online/IRL group of readers taking part in reading, listening and sharing exercises around texts that help us learn more about ourselves, the identities we share and the communities we live in.

For this edition of Reader’s Bloc, we’re thinking of the space music occupies in our lives. Transcending time, it reflects personal and universal human experiences while knitting together emotions, identity and thought.

We are reading two texts — Virginia Woolfe’s short story The String Quartet, a reflection of the depth of music and the way it intertwines itself with the lives of individuals and The Music Room by Namita Devidayal, her relationship with her teacher, the inheritance of musical traditions and lessons its effects on multiple generations.

This programme is exclusively for 18–25 year olds.

This session is conducted as part of our engagements for the MAP Youth Collective. The MAP Youth Collective is a community for young people (18-25 year olds) to engage with the arts and culture sector. The collective is for, of and by young people — to explore our shared identities and interests through art.

Image credits: 

A Dog playing the Cymbal, late 19th-early 20th century, Chromolithograph, Japan, H. 19.2 cm, W. 13.4 cm, POP.02391