In 2024, Fast Track Cymru partnered with WNO, the Cardiff Curriculum Unit, and the Vale for a “Three Letters” legacy project, curating a series of creative arts resources on the theme of HIV education which have been made available to all school learners in Wales.
The resource features a new song, ‘Cofio (What It Means to Be Living)’, composed and performed by students from Ysgol Plasmawr and Cardiff West CHS, in collaboration with Mercy Shibemba, Nathaniel J Hall, Dan Perkin (composer), Andrew Loretto (writer), and Jenny Walker (soprano).
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The Three Letters Project
Designed and delivered in collaboration with Fast Track Cymru, Welsh National Opera’s Three Letters uses music and performance to tackle societal stigma around HIV in support of Wales’s ambitious journey towards achieving zero HIV transmissions by 2030.
Drawing inspiration from the AIDS Quilt Songbook project which began in America in 1992, Three Letters is a musical chronicle of Wales’s HIV past, present, and future, working with school groups, local communities and artists to raise public awareness of the contemporary realities of HIV.
Read more about the Three Letters Project here.
Sarah Maslen-Roberts (she/her) Fast Track Cymru Manager said that:
“At Fast Track Cymru we are extremely passionate about the powerful weapon that is education in dispelling myths around HIV whilst ensuring young people are aware of how HIV has changed and that there is now effective treatment and prevention medication that saves lives.
We were grateful and honoured to partner with Welsh National Opera to create a range of bilingual resources that allow teachers to use creative stimuli as a tool to engage young people in classrooms and beyond about HIV.”
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